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Postcard showing several individuals and animals walking along a street in Tripoli. The Islamic Arts and Crafts School is located on the left side of the street. Charles C. Myers notes the presence of a water peddler on the street.
In Charles C. Myers’s own words, “On one of the best streets of Tripoli. Showing an Arab with his load on a burro and a native water peddler with water kegs on the camel.”
This postcard has two views of peddlers as they appear in Rio de Janeiro. One man carries a very large pack on his back, while another draws a cart stocked with bottles behind him.
In Charles C. Myers’s own words, “Here are a couple more. One has a wine cart with all kinds of wine and other beverages while the other has short pieces of sugar cane which the natives are very fond of chewing for the juice.”
Uncle Sam is pictured as a peddler offering “Bonds Sold For Gold” on a snowy street where he encounters a diminutive figure labeled “Canada” holding a paper labeled “Sound Currency System.” She points to Uncle Sam’s bag of “Silver.” Standing on balconies labeled “England – Sound Currency System,” “France – Sound Financial System,” “Austria – Sound Financial Policy,” “Russia – Sound Financial Policy,” and “Germany – Sound Currency System” are the Prime Minister of Great Britain, Lord Salisbury; the President of France, Felix Faure; the Emperor of Austria, Franz Joseph I; the Emperor of Russia, Nicholas II; and the German Emperor, William II; and standing on an unmarked balcony is the King of Italy, Umberto I.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1896-02-05
Presidential hopeful John Sherman, wearing a tall stove-pipe hat, stands in the middle of a village street, operating a grinding wheel labeled “Nomination” and sharpening a large knife labeled “Law-Breaking Strikers.” Papers in his pocket are labeled “Speeches,” and a sign attached to his wheel states, “Please help a poor perennial aspirant to get to the White House.” Just up the street, leaning against a fence, is a man labeled “Striker.” Along the street are buildings labeled “Silverites, Womans Rights, Populists, [and] Protectionists” with people standing in windows or at the door, holding large knives to be sharpened.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1894-08-15
A man wearing a sash labeled “Harvey,” with a horn attached, stands on a platform with stacks of books, pointing to a board that states, “Coin’s Financial School – Declare fifty cents Silver to be Worth One Dollar in Gold and You will Make Two Dollars of One Dollar, therefore Silver has Twice the Purchasing Power of Gold. Figures Never Lie. If You Don’t Believe This, Buy My Book and Be Convinced! (Only 50 cents a copy).” Standing in front of the platform are several hayseed farmers.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1895-06-12
A peddler labeled “D. B. Hill,” selling “Fresh Roasted (Political) Peanuts,” stands outside the gates to the White House, where a sign has been posted that states, “Notice! No Peddlers or Suspicious Characters Allowed on These Premises.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1894-10-31
Print shows a large group of political peddlers trying to sell their goods to Columbia as mistress of the house. Among those shown are Samuel J. Tilden selling “Tribulation Toys”; Benjamin F. Butler with “Elastic Politics” suspenders; Ulysses S. Grant, “306” on his watch chain, with a sack of “War Record” and “Old Clo’s”; Roscoe Conkling with a bag of “Stalwart Stationery”; James Gillespie Blaine offering his card “J. Blaine Fancy Goods” with a bag of “Southern Policy [and] Fancy Notions”; Thomas Hendricks; Chester Alan Arthur; David Davis peddling “D. Davis’s Soap will Scour Both Parties”; Abram S. Hewitt; William Evarts; Allen Granbery Thurman with a sack of “Rag Babies”; John Alexander Logan peddling “Logan Bombast”; Grover Cleveland with a sack of “Clean Shirts”; Thomas F. Bayard peddling “Dodge Salve” and “Bayards No Policy”; John Sherman with “Honest Hosiery”; and Winfield Scott Hancock with “Clean Gloves.” Dashing up in the background are “Johann Kelly & Co., Samuells Randall & Co., [and] Gen. Sherman U.S.A.” Uncle Sam is sitting, in the upper left, with his feet on the railing of the second floor porch. Caption: Columbia – “Not to-day – some other day!”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1883-07-25