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President Roosevelt tells Charles Emory Smith that he was told Judge Hosea Townsend has certain physical and mental “peculiarities” due to his age that cause others to view him as “obnoxious,” and he is not ready to make up his mind yet about the matter in question.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-01-22
Thomas Collier Platt and Chauncey M. Depew appear in 16th century theatrical costumes in a scene from a Shakespearean play. Caption: Falstaff Depew (to Prince Hal Platt) — I would to God thou and I knew where a commodity of good names were to be bought.–King Henry IV.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1906-01-10
Octogenarian Henry Gassaway Davis, as a runner, is attended by Arthur P. Gorman who is putting a bandage on Davis’s right knee.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1904-07-27
An elderly woman labeled “Tariff Revision” angrily shakes her umbrella after being left standing on the railroad station platform as the “Republican Special” departs in a cloud of dust. Two men standing on the back of the last car are laughing at her.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1904-07-06
William Jennings Bryan rides on a horse fashioned out of “The Commoner” newspapers, through a town, announcing that representatives of the reorganized Democratic Party were coming, drawing out old men brandishing weapons labeled “Populism, 16 to 1, Free Riot” and a drum labeled “Dead Issues.” An old man leans out a window waving a flag that states “Free Silver or Bust.” Includes verse based on “Paul Revere’s Ride.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1904-05-18
Thomas Collier Platt, with his young bride, passes through the gates to the “Oldboys’ Hymeneal Paradise” where they are greeted by a “Reception Committee” of several old men labeled “Depew, Potter, Dewey, Flagler, [and] Woodford” and their young wives.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1903-10-28
Two old farmers talk on the platform at a train station. They are concerned about farm boys leaving the farms for the city, as well as mortgages being held by banks outside the local community. Caption: Uncle Josh — The boys won’t stay on the farms no more. / Uncle Silas — No; an’ you can hardly expect ’em to. Nowadays, even the mortgages don’t stay on the farms.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1903-09-16
A young man wearing a robe sits in a chair by a window, reading a book. A young woman nurse is attending to him and an old man, the doctor, has arrived for a check-up. There are medicines on a table in the foreground. Caption: The Nurse — The Doctor has come to take your temperature. / The Convalescent — I suppose it’s all I have left.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1903-08-26
An old woman labeled “Democratic Party” stands in the “Democratic Intelligence Bureau” managed by “J.K. Jones” who is sitting behind a desk. She is “looking for help” and taking a good look at several prospective candidates, from left: David B. Hill “No objection to dirty work,” William Jennings Bryan “Used to waiting,” Richard Olney “Old but regular,” Edward M. Shepard “Will do anything,” Alton B. Parker “Neat and quiet,” and Arthur P. Gorman “Willing and obliging.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1903-05-20
A crowd of people wearing colonial dress gather around an old man who is firing off a cannon during the Fourth of July celebration, 1903.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1903-07-01
Outside a church, an old woman labeled “Democratic Party” stands between William Jennings Bryan as a friar labeled “16 to 1” and Arthur P. Gorman as the devil. She is smiling as she looks toward the devil. Caption: Mephisto Gorman — You’ve been fasting long enough with dull Friar William. Follow me. I’ll lead you to -.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1903-04-08
An old woman labeled “Democratic Party” turns a wheelbarrow to dump politicians labeled “Bryan, Olney, Gorman, Hill, Shepard, [and] Johnson” into a sandpit labeled the “Democratic Dumping Ground” where only the feet of other, previously discarded, Democrats are visible.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1903-01-07
President Roosevelt informs Representative Gaines that he does not like to appoint judges over the age of sixty. He would like to make an exception for Judge John Allison, but believes it is unwise.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-04-14
President Roosevelt asks Justice John Marshall Harlan if he thinks Judge Alfred S. Moore is too advanced in age for the position in question.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-10-22
President William H. Taft, as a young boy, kneels on the arm of a rocking chair and leans over to put his arms around the shoulders of an elderly woman, labeled “Ultimate Consumer,” who is knitting a large sock.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1909-06-09
An old woman sits on a bench, holding a purse labeled “G.O.P.,” with Benjamin Harrison on the left and William McKinley on the right, vying for her attentions. Caption: Old Party (coyly)–Oh! you presidential aspirants are such flirts!
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1894-06-13
An old man kneeling on a sack labeled “182,000 Majority in Pennsylvania for Galusha A. Grow” is proposing to an elderly woman sitting in a chair and holding a fan labeled “Republican Party.” Caption: Republican Party–After all, it might not be so bad to be an old man’s darling!
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1894-03-14
Uncle Sam flirts with a young woman labeled “The New Tariff.” She is holding a bouquet of flowers tied with ribbons labeled “Prosperity and Good Times” and “Increased Wages.” An elderly woman labeled “Republican Party” is sitting in the background. She appears shocked by Sam’s behavior.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1895-08-21
An old woman with a traveling bag labeled “Miss Democracy” sits alone by the side of a road. The United States Capitol is in the background, flying a flag that states “March 4th.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1897-03-03
Emilio Aguinaldo stands at center, wearing military uniform, and holding a flag and a sword. Around him are many old men dressed as women, supplicating themselves and tossing roses at his feet. Among them are Carl Schurz, John P. Jones, Charles A. Boutelle, Edwin L. Godkin holding a paper labeled “N.Y. Evening Post,” William B. Cockran, Eugene Hale, George G. Vest, Donelson Caffery, George F. Hoar playing a lyre labeled “Sen. Hoar,” William Lloyd Garrison Jr. reading his “Ode to Dear Aguinaldo,” George F. Edmunds, Joseph Pulitzer, Oswald Ottendorfer, [and] William Jennings Bryan. A bundle of “Editorials” lies on a rock in the left foreground.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1899-05-10