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The fin de siècle newspaper proprietor

The fin de siècle newspaper proprietor

A newspaper owner, possibly Joseph Pulitzer, sits in a chair in his office next to an open safe where “Profits” are spilling out onto the floor. Outside this scene are many newspaper reporters for the “Daily Splurge” rushing to the office to toss their stories onto the printing press, including “A Week as a Tramp!! Wild and Exciting Experiences of a Daily Splurge Reporter,” “A Reporter of the Daily Splurge Spends a Thrilling Week in an Asylum!” “An Organ Grinder’s Life,” “Life in Sing Sing – a Splurge Reporter in Disguise,” “Divorce Court Details,” “Private Scandal,” “A Night Around Town” by a woman reporter “in Men’s Attire,” life on the streets “As a Flower Girl,” “Thrilling Exposé,” “How beggars are treated on 5th Ave. by Fanny Fake,” and “High Spiced Sensation.” A notice hanging on the wall of the office states, “The Motto of the Daily Splurge – Morality and a High Sense of Duty.” Caption: He combines high-sounding professions with high-spiced sensations, and reaps a golden profit thereby.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1894-03-07

“Blowing” himself around the country

“Blowing” himself around the country

William Jennings Bryan stands on the back of a railroad caboose using a bellows labeled “16 to 1” to blow paraphrased fragments from speeches at rural citizens as the train passes. Some of these include, “[Our people] do not need the lessons of history!”, “They know it all!”, and “The popular intuition is better than reasoning and what the people say goes.” Traveling with Bryan are several newspaper reporters.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1896-09-16

How the “Herald” does it

How the “Herald” does it

Nicholas II and General Obruchev look over a “War Map” spread on a table, with “Russia” on one side, “England” on the other, and “Afghanistan” between them. Beneath the table, having come through a “Nihilists’ Private Trap Door,” is “the Herald’s Special Correspondent” with an over-sized right ear, listening and holding a notebook labeled “N. Y. Herald.” Caption: Instantaneous sketch by Puck’s special artist of the Herald’s special correspondent getting his important information about the Czar and Gen. Obrutscheff.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1885-05-06

For decency’s sake!

For decency’s sake!

Several reporters for disreputable newspapers, such as “Reporter of the ‘Daily Sewer'” and “Reporter for the ‘Daily Garbage Barrel,'” are barred from entering a courthouse. Caption: The reporters of incorrigible scandal-mongering journals must be kept out of the criminal courts, or we shall have to keep the newspapers out of our homes.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1885-06-03

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Edward Sandford Martin

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Edward Sandford Martin

Vice President Roosevelt is obliged to Edward Sandford Martin for sending him the note about the furriers though it did irritate him. They were not to advertise the collection of skins. Roosevelt succeeded in keeping press agents away while he was hunting and John Kendrick Bangs informed Roosevelt that Martin has written denials to any rumors to the contrary.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1901-04-23