Never too late to run
Octogenarian Henry Gassaway Davis, as a runner, is attended by Arthur P. Gorman who is putting a bandage on Davis’s right knee.
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1904-07-27
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Millionaires
The home-life of the millionaire’s family
The vacant home of a millionaire appears at center, surrounded by vignettes showing the whereabouts and activities of the millionaire’s family members. His wife and a daughter are on the golf course, a son is cruising on a yacht, another daughter is at the seminary, and another son is marking time on a ranch, while “Papa [gambles] at Monte Carlo” and the pets spend their days in the kennel.
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1903-03-18
The crabbed millionaire’s puzzle
An old man labeled “Millionaire” sits in a chair atop a pile of moneybags, bemoaning the fact that he now has little time to give away his money in a satisfactory manner. On the left are the church and the university looking for contributions and on the right are the hated “Relatives” looking to inherit new found wealth. Caption: “If I had begun earlier I might have had some fun in giving it away. Now I must leave it either to relatives whom I hate or to churches and colleges in which I have no interest.[“]
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1901-08-07
Creator(s)
Another of our exports; – the American fortune
An “Absentee Millionaire” stands on land labeled “Europe” spraying money from a hose connected to an “American Hydrant source of income,” suggesting that wealthy Americans spend more money in Europe than in their own country.
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1901-08-28
Creator(s)
Pity the poor millionaire; – a sound stomach is rather to be chosen than great riches
Illustration showing a rich, frail old man sitting in a chair attending to his numerous social invitations while servants bring him medications for his health.
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1900-03-28
Creator(s)
Letter from James B. Milam to Theodore Roosevelt
Due to a severe drought in Austin, Texas, James B. Milam has suffered a pay cut as a Baptist missionary and is struggling to provide for his family. Milam has written to the “rich men” in New York asking for money, but has either been rejected or ignored. He wonders if Theodore Roosevelt will send $500 to help the Milam family.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1911-05-18
Creator(s)
Letter from Florence Bayard Lockwood La Farge to Theodore Roosevelt
Florence Bayard Lockwood La Farge lets President Roosevelt know that she is pleased that he had a luncheon with Franklin MacVeagh.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1907-05
Creator(s)
Letter from Richard Watson Gilder to Theodore Roosevelt
Richard Watson Gilder thanks President Roosevelt for his kind words about Gilder’s anti-Hearst letter. Gilder notes that Jacob Riis has procured the printing of his own fierce letter in the New York East Side Jewish papers on a daily basis until the election. Gilders says the Republicans have the millionaire back roads well-beaten.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1906-10-27
Creator(s)
“Step up to the captain’s office and settle!”
Uncle Sam stands in a cashier’s window labeled “U.S. Treasury” next to a notice that states, “Pay Your Income Tax Here – No Escape for Millionaire Tax-Dodgers.” Russell Sage, Hetty Green, and George J. Gould stand in line, looking forlorn and crying as they pass their “Check for Income Tax – Russell Sage, Check for Income Tax – Hetty Green, [and] Check for Income Tax – George Gould” to Uncle Sam. In their pockets are papers labeled “Taxes Evaded.” Caption: Uncle Sam–I’m sorry for you, my unfortunate friends; – I know the Income Tax is “inquisitorial and oppressive;” but I’ve got to meet the one hundred and sixty million dollars of pension appropriation, somehow!
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1895-02-06
Creator(s)
A puzzle for the Populists
John Jacob Astor, wearing a military uniform and carrying a flag that states “On to Manila. Astor’s Mountain Battery” and a sword, holds the reins to many mules carrying cannon barrels, as he leads the way to Manila in the Philippines during the Spanish-American War. Caption: The war is proving that even millionaires can be patriots.
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1898-06-22
Creator(s)
The Supreme Court, – “as it may hereafter be constituted”
A trial is taking place at the U.S. Supreme Court where the regular justices have been replaced by hayseed justices. In the foreground is a “Waiting Pen for Gold Bugs and Millionaires” where “W. Rockefeller, J. Rockefeller, J. P. Morgan, Astor, Sage, Vanderbilt, [and] Gould” are waiting. Caption: If the silverites ever get a chance to put their populistic and revolutionary platform into force.
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1896-09-09
Creator(s)
The American millionaire at home and abroad; or, why a great many of our rich men ought to refrain from “crossing the pond”
A millionaire is shown, at center, in familiar surroundings at home, “Dignified, important and respected.” Surrounding vignettes show him while traveling through major European cities, where he is ignored, ridiculed, laughed at as the butt of practical jokes, and sometimes prone to boorish behavior at the gaming tables in Monte Carlo.
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1897-05-12
Creator(s)
The monopolists’ may-pole
Several wealthy men, “Gould, W. K. Vanderbilt, W. H. Vanderbilt, Sage, Cornell, [and] Cornelius Vanderbilt,” some dressed as women, hold ticker tape and dance around a may pole. Cyrus W. Field, dressed as a woman, sits on a safe next to the pole. Sitting on a bench to the left are Chauncey M. Depew playing cymbals labeled “Monopolist Music” and Whitelaw Reid playing a horn labeled “Tribune.” Behind them is William M. Evarts looking out a window in a building labeled “Millionaires Snug Harbor,” and in the background is a “Monopoly Mill” labeled “Stocks” and “U. S. Bonds.” Lambs gambol nearby. Includes verse.
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1885-04-29
Creator(s)
Our merciless millionaire
Puck hangs onto the coat-tails of William H. Vanderbilt, who is holding a money bag labeled “Donation of $500,000 to Build a New Medical College,” as he climbs the steps to a building labeled “N. Y. College of Physicians & Surgeons.” At the top of the steps are trustees and men with surgical instruments eagerly awaiting the donation. On the right, in the background, is a man standing in the doorway of a building beneath a sign that states “Crape & Plantem. Undertakers.” He is waving a white cloth. Caption: Vanderbilt – “The public be – doctored!”
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1884-10-29