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At center, Father Knickerbocker, a symbolic figure for New York City, welcomes Santa Claus to the underground of New York City. The surrounding vignettes show Santa distributing Christmas presents and planning for next year. The “Angel of Peace” is hoping for an end to the hostilities between Japan and Russia.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1904-12-21
A customs official ushers a titled member of the nobility on board a steamer, as a wealthy American woman, with thoughts of a royal wedding, holds up a bag full of money. Caption: Deport the vagrant nobleman as we deport other vagrants.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1900-12-05
George B. Cortelyou expresses that President Roosevelt would be pleased to receive Count A. Quadt on Thursday morning, February 19. Mrs. Roosevelt is out of town but upon her return, Cortelyou will communicate when she can receive Count and Countess Quadt.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-02-17
Ambassador Reid informs President Roosevelt he has heard from Sirdar F. R. Wingate, who is gathering information for Roosevelt regarding his African trip. Believing it will amuse Roosevelt, Reid shares “the queer transmutations” that the third modus vivendi on the Newfoundland fisheries underwent. Roosevelt’s perplexity about journalist Edward Dicey amuses Reid, who shares the same opinion of him. Reid details the seeming ill-luck of British statesmen and their families. Ogden Mills Reid, Reid’s son, plans to return to the United States to participate in the presidential election.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-08-22
J. J. Jusserand encloses a telegram to President Roosevelt and sends under separate cover the memoirs of Dutch Baron de DeDour. Jusserand and de DeDour enjoyed a delightful evening along the Potomac.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-06-27
Ambassador Meyer writes to President Roosevelt describing a crisis situation in Russia and a need for reform. Meyer mentions that he is sending Roosevelt a report and other documents concerning the matter.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-05-01
A group of women in a gallery “Reserved for American Wives of English Lords” hold strings attached to crowns on the heads of their husbands in the House of Lords. Caption: A sure guarantee of peace between America and England.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1895-12-18
A wily, destitute, European noble, with papers extending from his pockets labeled “Laundry Bill, Hotel Bill, Livery Bill, [and] Tailor Bill,” seeks a fortune among young American heiresses, as he “hypnotizes” them with the crown of his nobility and they, in their weakened state, kneel before him offering bags of money, to the chagrin of young, well-to-do, American men.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1895-10-02
John Bull stands in the “House of Lords,” looking over a curtain at an old man wearing a crown and robe, clutching a large book labeled “Mediæval Traditions of the British Peerage” and a large scroll of paper labeled “Hereditary Right to Obstruct Popular Legislation.” At his feet are papers labeled “Peoples’ Measures.” Caption: John Bull–Roseberry [sic] says he can be mended, but I guess he’d better be ended!
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1894-12-12
Queen Victoria holds up an infant labeled “Little New Duke of York. Christening Robe Cost £300.” She presents the baby to John Bull who is holding a paper that states “Heavy Expense Account – Royal Family.” In the background is a castle labeled “Royal Nursery.” The baby is probably Edward VIII, later the Duke of Windsor.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1894-07-25
Print shows a vignette cartoon with scenes of colonial men and women working at domestic and blue collar chores and jobs, leading to a scene with upper class women, each clutching an approved “Family Tree.” At center is a poem of four stanzas describing the pride that the upper class take in their ancestors, working men and women though they may have been. The final stanza encourages the “farmers’ wives who tend the Western garden rows” not to despair, because they may yet find themselves to be “some blue-bloods forebears, too.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1899-09-27
In the “European Matrimonial Market,” wealthy American women preview European men of nobility who have fallen on hard financial times.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1884-02-27
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Print shows Chester A. Arthur as King Henry IV on a cobblestone street, with Jay Gould and William H. Vanderbilt holding his cape, and accompanied by John P. Jones; he is accosted by Roscoe “Sir John” Conkling who proposes to speak on behalf of Thomas C. “Master Shallow” Platt. Behind them are Thomas J. Brady and Stephen W. Dorsey. Ulysses S. Grant and John A. Logan are standing on the left, at the head of Arthur’s entourage. Includes text for brief exchange between Arthur and Conkling from “(2nd Part of King Henry IV, Act V – Sc. 5)”. Caption: (Which we have but little hope of seeing on the stage of the National Capitol).
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1881-10-05
Print shows an American cowboy talking to a British nobleman who is standing on papers labeled “Brutality, Vulgarity, Insolence, Arrogance, Selfishness, [and] Boorishness”, with an “Invitation N. Pacific R.R. Opening – Villard” extending from a pocket. In the background is a railroad car labeled “Parlor Car Villard Excursion.” Caption: American Cowboy to British Nobleman (Villard Variety) “Methinks, thou art my mirror!”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1883-10-10
A woman labeled “Republican Party” sleeps in the background, while members of her court, some dressed as women, also sleep in the foreground. Depicted are Whitelaw Reid, Murat Halstead, Russell Sage, John Roach, Jay Gould, Benjamin F. Butler, James G. Blaine, William H. Vanderbilt, John Logan, Cyrus W. Field, two dogs labeled “Phila. Press” and “Chicago Tribune,” Chester A. Arthur, Rutherford B. Hayes, William W. Phelps, John Sherman, Simon Cameron, George F. Hoar, Alonzo B. Cornell, Stephen W. Dorsey, Thomas J. Brady, William M. Evarts, George M. Robeson, William E. Chandler, and Joseph W. Keifer. Caption: She bungled with the civil-service reform distaff, and she and all her court were condemned to sleep for __ years.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1885-08-26
The ghost of Winfield Scott Hancock sits on a throne in a banquet hall. Samuel J. Tilden pushes a frightened Charles A. Dana, as Macbeth, toward Hancock. Dana makes wild statements while waving around a note for $5000.00. A chalice has fallen to the floor, spilling “Harmony.” Samuel S. Cox, as a court jester, sits on the floor next to the throne with “S.S. Cox’s Joke Book” at his knee. The room is filled with courtiers, among them Thomas A. Hendricks, Grover Cleveland who has fallen backwards onto John Kelly, Thomas F. Bayard, Samuel J. Randall, David Davis, Henry Watterson, Abram S. Hewitt, Hubert O. Thompson, George Hoadly, and Benjamin F. Butler. All seem to be sitting in judgment of Dana. Caption: MacBeth-Dana–“Never shake thy gory locks at me! I’ll bet you Five Thousand Dollars thou canst not say I did it!!”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1883-08-29
Former Governor of Massachusetts, William L. Douglas, appears as a courtier, gesturing toward a woman labeled “Democratic Victory” on a bed “Asleep Since 1892,” and asking Oscar W. Underwood, Woodrow Wilson, Champ Clark, and Judson Harmon which has “a better chance of waking her.” Douglas holds a shield with the message “Record: Tariff reform Democrat. Elected Governor of Massachusetts by 35,995 when Roosevelt carried that state against Parker by 92,076.” A lady-in-waiting, the Democratic donkey, has fallen asleep at the foot of the bed. The room is filled with cobwebs labeled “Defeat in 1896, Defeat in 1900, Defeat in 1904, [and] Defeat in 1908,” and is becoming overgrown with tree roots.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1912-06-19