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Photograph showing three-quarters portrait of Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt seated in a chair with Quentin Roosevelt standing on her left.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1903-02-16
Portrait of Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt seated with Quentin Roosevelt standing on her left.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1903-02-16
Dewitt Wise extolls the divine and virtuous nature of mothers in poetic verse.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-01-01
Sheet music for the song “Dear to my Life” by Bessie Cooper Cundy.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906
Sheet music for “Are You Half the Man Your Mother Thought You’d Be,” a sentimental song about growing up. The cover features images of famous men who made their mothers proud, including a number of American politicians such as Theodore Roosevelt.
Dr. Danny O. Crew Theodore Roosevelt Sheet Music Collection
1916
Williams Jennings Bryan, dressed as a mother, protects infant Oklahoma Governor Haskell, whose bottle is an oil can labeled “Standard Oil,” from the menaces of President Roosevelt. Bryan says, “You shall not touch the che-e-ild!” Roosevelt replies, “Have a care! You will rue this day!”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1908-1911
High society women with big hats, dogs, a doll, and a chimpanzee, are startled at the prospect that one of their own would desire to become a mother. A young woman holding an infant is sitting at center in a rocking chair.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1910-12-21
A mother sits on a porch with a searchlight trained on her daughter and her boyfriend as they fly overhead in an airplane. Caption: The Maid-in-the-Air (to her Steady) — I think it’s awfully mean of Mamma to keep that searchlight on us wherever we fly!
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1910-11-16
A woman appeals to a man holding a cane labeled “Allopath” and topped with a skull who has turned his back on a sick child lying in a bed. On the far side of the bed is another man with papers labeled “Homoeopath” and “Apothecary” extending from a pocket. Caption: Dr. All. O’Path – “Very sorry, madam, if your child must die; but you ought not to have called in a Homœopath first.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1883-06-13
A young woman stands in the snow with two young children in a sled. One is holding an American flag.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1914-12-26
An old woman labeled “Monopoly Tariff” sits next to an old shoe labeled “Special Privilege,” around which a number of children are playing. The children all represent a “Trust” and are labeled “Tool, Steel, Copper, Lumber, Sugar, Rubber, Beef, Coal, Tobacco, Clothing, Watch, Leather, Paper, [and] Linen.” Caption: There was an old woman who lived in a shoe, / Whose progeny here are presented by Pughe. / She petted and pampered and coddled the brats, / And guarded her brood from the bad Democrats.
Puck‘s turn on the traditional nursery rhyme could have been published a quarter-century earlier — and was, in variant forms — so standard were the realities and criticisms, with allowance for satirical hyperbole, through the years. In 1908 the trusts surely were in retreat, or at least defensive mode, thanks to awakened public attitudes, revelations by muckraking journalists, and the effect of governmental lawsuits, regulations, and legislation.
If this cartoon contains differences from traditional attacks, many of the “progeny” are overfed brats, hardly innocent children; and readers are given a clue about the pronunciation of the cartooning Welshman’s name. Most of the children are generic, but J. S. Pughe did not resist making the “clothing trust” kid look like a Jewish tailor.