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J. R. Breanan informs President Roosevelt about the immoral behavior of John S. Leech, who served as Public Printer in the Philippines. He hired George A. Tracy as foreman in Manila, and then seduced Tracy’s wife, Elizabeth A. W. Tracy. Tracy divorced his wife, who now lives in Washington, D.C., and was recently the victim of a jewelry theft.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-11-17
Partial newspaper article summarizing the Pollock diamond robbery and suggesting the involvement of Frank Schercliffe and Tom Dennison.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904
William L. Wilson stands in the street outside the White House, holding open a large carpet bag labeled “Wilson’s Free List” which contains papers labeled “Free Wool.” He has an umbrella labeled “Income Tax” under his left arm. Sitting next to him on the street is the donkey labeled “Dem. Party” that he had been riding. Several men, four of them identified as “Gorman, Brice, McPherson, [and] Faulkner,” have robbed him of papers labeled “Free Iron, Free Sugar, Free Lumber, [and] Free Coal” and are walking up the street toward the U.S. Capitol, visible in the background. Caption: “Gee whiz! And it’s a wonder they left that!”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1894-06-06
On the left, Grover Cleveland tips his hat as he leaves office in 1889, after passing the key to a large safe labeled “U.S. Treasury” with a “Surplus $100,000,000 Dollars” to incoming president Benjamin Harrison. On the right, President Cleveland, returning to the presidency in 1893, gestures toward the safe as Benjamin Harrison departs. The door to the safe is broken off its hinges and labeled “Looted,” and the safe is now empty. Harrison tips his hat on his way out.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1893-08-23
James G. Blaine tries to climb over a wall labeled “National Garden Post No Bills” and “No Admittance to Lobbyists, Jobbers & Other Objectionable Characters.” He is carrying a bag over his shoulder containing fruit labeled “Jobs, Little Rock, [and] N. Pacific Bonds,” some of which are falling out labeled “Tribune Sponge” and “Mulligan Letters.” A guard dog on a leash labeled “Cleveland Machine” has chased Blaine to the wall and is standing on Blaine’s plumed hat labeled “Brag” and “Bluster.” Outside the wall is Puck’s figure for the “Independent” voter. Annotation: “After a well-known picture.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1884-07-23
Several rogues, including Jay Gould labeled “R. Road Monopolist,” William H. Vanderbilt labeled “Corporations,” Cyrus W. Field labeled “Telegraph Monopoly,” Russell Sage(?) labeled “Stock Jobbing,” and George M. Robeson labeled “Congress,” rob a “Tax Payer” of his “Income” (Robeson/Congress strangling him with “Unjust Tax”). In the right foreground the tools and “Cloth” the “Tax Payer” needs are “Taxed” as others help themselves to his “Products of Honest Labor.” Vanderbilt directs some carrying bags labeled “Plunder” and “Gains” up steps labeled “Tax Steals, Land Grants, Friendly Judges, Lobbyism, [and] Public Apathy” that lead to a large building labeled “Castle Monopoly” atop a mountain. In the background, on the right, are buildings labeled “Manufactory Closed [and] Foundry Closed” and other industrial buildings “Closed.” A chain labeled “Protection” blocks the harbor, preventing ships with products for export from departing.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1882-06-14
Chester Alan Arthur closes a door labeled “Good Administration” to a stable labeled “Political Record Barn.” On the ground is a lock with a key in it. In the background, a group of men labeled “The New York ‘Boys'” and “Jim, Mike, [and] Pat” are getting away with a white horse labeled “Arthur’s Good Name.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1884-05-07
James G. Blaine, wearing a top hat with three plumes, a sack labeled “For the Plunder” hanging from his neck, and a paper tied at his waist that states “20 Years on the Make,” attempts to break into the “White House” through an open window. He is being supported from below by Benjamin F. Butler who is sitting on the back of Charles A. Dana who is holding “The Sun” newspaper dated “June 16, 1884,” on which is written “Turn the Rascals Out!” Puck’s figure for the Independent Party has just come around the corner carrying a stick labeled “Independent Vote.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1884-10-22
“Policeman Puck” and Uncle Sam investigate a robbery at the U.S. Treasury. A safe has been broken into and a barrel labeled “150,000,000 $ Surplus” is empty, and there is a hole in the floor which leads to the Congressional chamber, below. A crumpled notice on the floor of the chamber states, “Congressional Theatre – The Hit of the Season!!! ‘The 40 Thieves’ – Keifer manager, Robeson property man.” The robbery happens to coincide with the end of the first session of the 47th Congress. A ladder labeled “Adjournment of Congress” leans against an open window, supported by John A. Logan and John Sherman, as Horace F. Page and two other Congressmen descend. Other Congressmen, among them George M. Robeson carrying a sack labeled “Navy Appropriation” and James D. Cameron dragging a sack labeled “River & Harbor,” are headed for their home states carrying sacks with “$” on them. Caption: Policeman Puck to Uncle Sam–“This is the work of Professionals!”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1882-08-16
Santa Claus points a handgun at the viewer. Caption: As Santa Claus looks to some of us.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1912-12-11