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A ship labeled “Republic,” flying a banner labeled “U.S.A.,” navigates storm-tossed seas with a whirlpool labeled “Socialism” and cliffs labeled “Plutocracy” nearby.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1906-05-16
William Clark Russell sends Theodore Roosevelt the gift of a book of sea ballads, and comments that while Roosevelt is younger than him, he is old enough to remember the great sailing ships built at American ports.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-06
Ambassador Meyer writes to Acting Secretary of State Loomis acknowledging receipt of a cablegram message which he shared with Russian diplomat Lamsdorff. Meyer then discusses the plenipotentiaries’ meeting involving Russia and Japan, and he expects Russian plenipotentiaries to land in New York in the coming weeks. Meyer mentions the arrival of Russian official Muravieff, who became ill.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-07-11
Postcard showing various scenes of the city and surrounding areas of Albany, Western Australia.
1908
F. E. Morgan; Myers, Charles C. (Charles Cleveland), 1879-1942
Elizabeth E. Roosevelt reminds readers that the Cove Neck peninsula on Long Island, New York, was not the exclusive domain of Theodore Roosevelt and his family. She describes the many Roosevelt families who had estates in the area, and she highlights the frequent gatherings of these clans and the entertainments they enjoyed such as tennis, swimming, and sailing. Roosevelt provides biographical snapshots of some of these family members, including the children of Theodore Roosevelt, and she notes which family members made their homes in the same area where they were raised, including the president’s sons, Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., and Archibald Roosevelt, and his daughter Ethel Roosevelt Derby.
Two photographs of Roosevelt cousins and two photographs of sailing ships supplement the text.
This souvenir, issued by the Holland Society at its twenty-fourth annual dinner, consists of a medal of a sailing ship pinned to a ribbon.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-01
Benjamin Harrison stands on the deck of a ship labeled “Republican Party,” under sails labeled “Prohibitory Protection.” He is holding a rope that leads to a rowboat labeled “McKinleyism” with William McKinley standing in it, holding up a diminutive man labeled “Ex-Subdizied Sugar Planter.” To the right of the rowboat, President Cleveland is standing on the deck of a ship labeled “Democracy,” under sails labeled “Tariff Reform.” Caption: Capt. Cleveland–Subsidies were the price of his party allegiance! Take him, – you’re welcome to him!
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1894-10-31
William Jennings Bryan, as a pirate on a ship labeled “Popocracy,” stands on a barrel, playing a violin, attempting to lure a nearby ship labeled “National Prosperity” close enough so that his band of pirates can board it. Among those pirates identified are “Tillman, Altgeld, Lease, St. John, Sewall, Watson, Peffer, Sulzer, Waite, Debs, Bland, Wm. Stewart, Hill, Blackburn, [and] Coxey.” The men are armed with guns, knives, and rifles. Blackburn has a patch labeled “1895” over his right eye. Caption: Trying to lure a rich prize, in good old buccaneer fashion.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1896-09-23
The bow of a ship approaches a waterspout labeled “80ct $” and “$2,000,000 a Month,” and a shark labeled “Panic.” Along the side of the ship are President Cleveland as captain, and several men, all unidentified, but may include George F. Edmunds, William M. Evarts, William F. Vilas, Edward L. Hedden, John Sherman, and Augustus Garland, among others. They are about to fire a gun labeled “Repeal of Silver Coinage Act” to break up the waterspout. Caption: Captain Cleveland “Fire that gun, boys – it’s the only way to break it!”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1885-12-16
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
Secretary of the Navy William C. Whitney carries a large book labeled “Navy Yard Investigations,” and confronts George M. Robeson, William E. Chandler, and John Roach, who are cowering at his approach outside the “U.S. Navy Ya[rd] Office.” Whitney is gesturing toward sailing ships that are being repaired, among those identified are “Shenandoah: for Building – $463,866, Repairs – $906,481; Ossipee: for Building – $407,064, for Repairs – $1,197,391; Kearsarge: cost – $286.918, Repairs – $1,123,416; [and] Mohican: Repairs cost $900,000.” Caption: Secretary Whitney – “It seems to me, Gentlemen, that you have been repairing a damaged party out of a decaying navy.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1885-06-03
President Cleveland, as Gulliver, has a rope labeled “Good Policy” tied to the ships of the “Republican Party,” and pulls them toward the opposite shore where a group of men, including Ambassador Samuel S. Cox, Thomas A. Hendricks, Samuel J. Randall, and Charles A. Dana, wait beneath a banner labeled “Democracy” with the United States Capitol on a hill behind them. On the Republican shore are William M. Evarts, Whitelaw Reid, James G. Blaine, John Logan, and others.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1885-06-17
Charles F. Murphy is proudly sitting on the bow of a ship with an albatross labeled “Tammany Rule,” its wings labeled “Graft” and “Patronage,” that he has shot with an arrow labeled “Murphyism.” Caption: And I had done a hellish thing, / And it would work ’em woe.–Coleridge “The Ancient Mariner.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1913-11-26
Theodore Roosevelt did not enjoy the voyage to England as there was not much to do. He learned how to tell time by the bells and the names of the sails. Roosevelt met his cousins after arriving and thinks that they kiss too much. He finds Liverpool to be a “very funny place.”
1869-05-29
Aboard a ship carrying cotton are several people – a man labeled “McAdoo,” also identified as “St. Clair,” a young girl labeled “Miss Columbia,” also identified as “Little Eva,” the figure of a man with a large coin for a head, labeled “National Currency,” also identified as “Uncle Tom,” and a large man labeled “Wall Street Banking Interests,” also identified as “Slave-driver Haley,” holding a whip labeled “Credit” and the chain labeled “Control” that binds to servitude the “National Currency.” Caption: Little Eva — Oh, Papa, won’t you buy him for me?
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1913-10-22