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A large elderly man labeled “Life Insurance” holds a cornucopia filled with documents labeled “For the Beneficiaries.” Next to him sits a large dog with collar labeled “Supt. Insurance,” and in front is a group of diminutive figures, a woman in mourning, an elderly man holding the hand of a young child, and a nurse holding an infant. In the background are a group of businessmen labeled “Corruption.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1905-10-04
President Roosevelt grieves the recent assassination of President William McKinley and proclaims a national day of mourning.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-09-14
Theodore Roosevelt, wearing a mourning armband for his son Quentin, delivers a speech from a covered platform to a large crowd gathered in an open area of what appears to be a factory and surrounding area.
Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound
1918
A view of what appears to be downtown Oyster Bay, New York, with what may be a municipal building and stone gazebo visible beside a flag, which is flying at half-mast. The ground is snow-covered. The occasion may be the mourning period following Theodore Roosevelt’s death on January 6, 1919.
Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound
1919-01-06
After William McKinley’s death, Mayor Weaver ordered the flag at city hall to be lowered to half-mast, called upon the churches to hold memorial services, and requested a general suspension of business.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-09-14
Uncle Sam reclines in a chair with his feet resting on a foot stool. On a table next to him are medications labeled “Tariff Reform Tonic” and “Repeal of Sherman Silver Law Elixir.” Benjamin Harrison stands at center holding a large “Certificate of Death – Died of Democratic Rule.” He is attended by several men with their mourning hats, including Thomas Collier Platt, Charles A. Boutelle, Whitelaw Reid, George F. Hoar, and Thomas B. Reed. They have come to pay their last respects.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1893-09-06
A group of Democrats, identified as “Hill, Murphy, Vest, Bland, Matthews, Morgan, Harris, Crisp, Tillman, Altgeld, Campbell, [and] Stevenson,” stand near a bier labeled “Dem. Free Coinage Platform” on which lies the expired “Democratic Party” donkey. A ladder labeled “Chicago Convention” has been placed against the bier and the “Chicago Nominee,” wearing the black shroud of a widow, climbs to the top. Benjamin R. Tillman places more straw on the bier with a pitchfork, while John Peter Altgeld and James E. Campbell use torches to ignite fuses to burn the donkey. David B. Hill and Edward Murphy console each other.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1896-07-08
William McKinley, Benjamin Harrison, and John Sherman are pictured as old women in mourning among gravestones labeled, “Here lies our dear McKinley Bill. Ruthlessly assassinated in the flower of its youth by the tariff reform bandits of the 53rd Congress,” “Sacred to the memory of the Federal Election Law, annihilated by the guerrillas of the 53rd Congress. R.I.P.,” and “Here lies the Sherman Silver Law. Cruelly done to death by G. Cleveland. We bear our loss with fortitude.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1894-09-12
Brother Cornelius Roosevelt has passed away and Theta Xi members should wear the badge of mourning for fourteen days.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-04-07