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A St. Bernard rescue dog, with a blanket labeled “Tariff Reform” strapped to its back and a small barrel labeled “The Wilson Tariff Bill” under its chin, approaches a man labeled “Labor” caught in snow drifts labeled “McKinley Tariff.” Nearby, Grover Cleveland, as a monk with a hand to his ear, responds to the dog’s bark. At the top of a hill, in the background, is the U.S. Capitol.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1894-01-10
A beautiful, partially nude, winged woman rescues an airman who has fallen out of an airplane, and gives him a kiss. Caption: An airmaid to the rescue!
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1910-12-14
The Republican elephant lowers President Taft from a window in a burning building to Theodore Roosevelt as a fireman on a ladder. Billowing clouds of smoke labeled “Consumers Revolt” engulf the building.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1910-05-04
Bluebeard, wearing a hat labeled “Bankruptcy” and holding in his raised left hand a clock labeled “Obligations,” holds a sword in his right hand and confronts a woman labeled “Railroads” who begs for mercy, just as a knight labeled “Increased Freight Rates” enters from the left.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1913-12-17
A woman labeled “Dem. Party” reclines on the rocky coast of a deserted island. Nearby is an empty jug labeled “Bourbonism the Only Subsistence for 16 Years (1860-76)” and a broken cask labeled “For 8 Years (1876-84) Sustained Life on the Fraud Issue.” She has sighted a ship labeled “Independent Republicans” headed her way. John Kelly, dressed like an Indian, is creeping over rocks on the right. He holds a bow labeled “Tammany” in one hand and an arrow labeled “Deal” in the other, and he wears a medallion around his neck labeled “J.K.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1884-07-02
A ship founders at sea during a storm, with many passengers on deck, but the sailors, bowing to pressure from “anti-vivisectionists,” are rescuing the dogs first. Caption: “Women and children first” would cease to be shipwreck etiquette if the anti-vivisectionists had their way.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1911-04-05
President Roosevelt fires a cannon to send a lifeline to a ship in distress on rough seas with dark clouds labeled “Prejudice” forming overhead. The rope spells out the word “Tolerance.” A rainbow shines on the left with the word “Liberty.” In the lower right corner is a quotation from “The President’s Reference to Immigrants.”
President Roosevelt’s “reference” to immigrants, and a welcoming, reasonable, national policy, was contained in a note to Secretary of State John Hay, not identified by depicted in this bold cartoon.
The era of Roosevelt’s presidency — that is, the first decade of the Twentieth Century — was to that time the high-water mark of immigration to America. Unlike previous “waves” of English, Irish, Scots-Irish, Scandinavians, and Germans, this decade saw many immigrants arriving from Italy, Poland, and Russia. And unlike earlier influxes many of these newcomers settled in urban areas. (1910 was also the first census year when urban Americans outnumbered rural Americans.)
A. M. Corwin heard that taxidermist Carl Ethan Akeley is in Africa with a fever. Akeley’s condition is serious. Corwin is contacting Henry Fairfield Osborn, the American Museum of Natural History president, to help get Akeley out of Africa. He asks Theodore Roosevelt to contribute to the endeavor.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-04-06