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Secretary of War William H. Taft holds “the big stick” and wears President Roosevelt’s Rough Rider uniform as he looks in the mirror. Roosevelt holds scissors and thread as he watches Taft. Caption: “When first I put this uniform on/I said, as I looked in the glass,/it’s one to a million if any civilian/this figure or face can surpass.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-05-26
Charles W. Fairbanks, dressed as a Rough Rider, stands in front of a mirror and sees himself as Theodore Roosevelt. Caption: Fairbanks — De-light-ed!
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1904-07-13
Columbia is adjusting her bonnet, which is a battleship labeled “World Power” with two guns labeled “Army” and “Navy.” It is spewing thick black smoke labeled “Expansion.” She is inserting a tiny sword as a hatpin to hold it in place.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1901-04-06
Aug Schulze shares his business idea to extend daylight hours in San Francisco, California, by installing mirrors in New York, New York with Theodore Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-03-31
This postcard shows the Hall of Mirrors in the Palace of Versailles, a long hall lined with windows on one side and mirrors on the other. The hall is richly decorated with paintings on the walls, as well as on the ceiling.
1910-12
President Roosevelt looks in a mirror and shakes hands with himself.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-08
President Roosevelt points to two pictures on the wall—one of which is the pirate Blackbeard, and the other depicting highwayman Dick Turpin—as Uncle Sam looks in a mirror, having exchanged his top hat for a pirate’s hat and bandana, brandishing a pistol and cutlass, and wearing a scroll reading “recognition of the insurgent government of the new ‘Republic of Panama'” tucked in his sash. Caption: Uncle Sam, costume maker, to the customer Roosevelt: Sir, do you want this pirate costume?
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-11-14
President Roosevelt wears a cape and holds a mirror and a candle. In front of him is a “muckrake.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-12-13
A young couple stands near a mirror, and as the young man declares his love for her, the young woman gazes on her reflection in the mirror and wonders how it would be possible not to love her. Caption: “I love you” … as he made the vow they near a limpid mirror stood. She gazed within and mutely said, “Well really, I should think he would.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1910-03-09
Uncle Sam stands before two mirrors that distort the reflected image. One mirror is labeled “Seeing is Believing – the Republican Minority” and shows Uncle Sam as a tall, thin, gaunt figure. The other mirror is labeled “Seeing is Believing – the Democratic Majority” and shows Uncle Sam as a happily rotund figure. A man labeled “Underwood” is directing the viewer’s attention toward the Democratic image and a man labeled “Mann” is directing the viewer’s attention toward the Republican image.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1913-05-28
A woman holds Cupid in one arm while plucking and arranging Cupid’s feathers in her hair and admiring herself in a mirror held by a faun who is mostly hidden by tall grasses.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1911-04-26
A beautiful young woman holding a mirror sits on the floor next to containers of cosmetics.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1911-09-27