Schwab, Charles M., 1862-1939

President Theodore Roosevelt stands on a reviewing stand, holding hat in raised right hand as a large group of capitalists, industrialists, and financiers wearing the tattered clothing of tramps, march past the stand. Some carry placards with such statements as: “Irrigate the Trusts,” “No place to go but the Waldorf,” “We want the earth,” “Free quick lunches,” “Pity the poor banker,” “Dividends or we perish.” At the front of the group, J. P. Morgan carries a wooden bucket labeled “The full water pail.” Caption: “Aggregated wealth largely represented among Parker’s Supporters”–New York Tribune.

comments and context

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1904-09-14

The wreck of an airship labeled “High Finance” appears at the leading edge of storm clouds labeled “Investigation [and] Merger Decision Law.” The crash has ruined the blades that lifted or propelled the airship, labeled “Over Capitalization, Manipulation, Ship Building Trust, Steel Trust, [and] Northern Securities,” and has brought down six men (“Morgan, Schwab, M’Cook, Harriman, Schiff, [and] Hill”) with the wreckage and two men (“Dresser [and] Nixon”) in a swamp labeled “Ship Trust Receivership.” A lightning bolt labeled “Publicity” flashes from the clouds.

comments and context

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1904-04-20

At center a group of six men, including John D. Rockefeller and E. B. Thomas, warm themselves by a stove labeled “Standard Oil.” At bottom left Andrew Carnegie burns “U.S. Steel Bonds” and Charles Schwab attempts to burn “Steel Common” stocks. On the right Chauncey Depew burns speeches. On the middle left a tramp rests against a haystack in the warm sun. On the right William Jennings Bryan generates hot air while speaking to a group of farmers. On the top left a family burns the furniture in a fireplace. On the right E. B. Thomas sits in front of a fireplace where a lump of “Radium” is warming the room.

comments and context

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1904-06-22

Charles M. Schwab, as Napoleon, sits on a rock in the middle of the ocean, looking back at the setting sun labeled “Business Reputation.” He is holding in his right hand papers labeled “Investigation Ship Building Scandal,” and other papers labeled “Steel Trust” are in his coat pocket.

comments and context

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1904-03-09

Leaders in the areas of business and finance, as military officers labeled “Morgan, Dresser, Perkins, Schwab, Frick, Nixon, [and] Gates,” ride on horseback through the snow of a bitter winter and financial downturn in the shipping industry. To the far right are foot soldiers carrying the flag of the “Army of Stock Holders.”

comments and context

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1903-11-11

A schoolboy stands outside a “Public School.” On the left is Charles M. Schwab sitting atop a large money bag labeled “Manager of Steel Trust $1,000,000 yearly salary,” resting on a steel factory; and on the right is Chief Justice Melville Weston Fuller holding a balance scale in one hand and a tiny money bag with the label “Chief Justice of U.S. $10,500 yearly salary,” sitting on a large book labeled “Law and Constitution.” Caption: “Shall I be wise and great, or rich and powerful?”

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1901-06-12

Creator(s)

Dalrymple, Louis, 1866-1905

Charles M. Schwab, holding a moneybag labeled “Schwab,” stands next to Andrew Carnegie who is sitting on the ground, holding a moneybag labeled “Carnegie” and with a basket labeled “$10,000,000 for Scotch Universities” overflowing with money next to him. Schwab gestures toward factories on the left as he addresses Carnegie. In the background, on the right, is a line of old men wearing caps and gowns and carrying “Diplomas” under their arms, emerging from a building labeled “University.” Caption: Schwab (to Carnegie). — This is the school most people must go to, and the one that has always turned out the biggest men. That other school is for the few and is already turning out too many doctors, ministers, lawyers and clerks. Don’t you think we ought to improve conditions in our school rather than in that other one?

comments and context

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1901-06-19

Nathan T. Folwell invites Theodore Roosevelt to a dinner put on by the Manufacturers’ Club of Philadelphia in honor of Charles M. Schwab. Folwell hopes Roosevelt will attend and give an address, suggesting the topic of Constructive Legislation. Folwell also refers to Oscar W. Underwood’s assertion that the future of the textile industry depends on competition in the world’s markets, which Folwell vehemently refutes.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-12-18

Creator(s)

Folwell, Nathan T. (Nathan Thomas), 1847-1930

Ambassador Meyer informs President Roosevelt about the unsatisfactory conditions of the Caucasus and Poland. He also tells the President that Russia suffers from poor government administration, roads, and lack of preparation of the army for the war as examples. There is talk about building ships for the Imperial Navy, but nothing concrete as of yet.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-05-05

Creator(s)

Meyer, George von Lengerke, 1858-1918

Scrapbook containing an array of newspaper clippings of articles and photographs relating to the 1912 presidential campaign of Theodore Roosevelt.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site

Creation Date

1912

Creator(s)

Unknown