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Shade of A.T.S.– “Oh, if I could only find my body!”

Print shows the spirit of Alexander Turney Stewart pulling out his hair as Henry Hilton posts “For Sale” notices on Stewart’s commercial enterprises, including the “Grand Union Hotel,” the “Windsor Hotel,” the “Woman’s Park Hotel,” the “Chicago House,” Stewart’s Garden City,” and his main building at “10th St. & Broadway,” after his widow transferred control to Hilton. Joseph Pulitzer pokes Hilton with a closed umbrella. There is an empty sepulchral monument labeled “Sacred to the Memory of A. T. Stew[art], with a sign that states “To Let” in the right foreground.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1882-04-26

Creator(s)

Gillam, Bernhard, 1856-1896

Hyenas at work

Print shows a pack of hyenas labeled “N. Y. Commercial, N. Y. Sun, N. Y. Herald, Washtn. Post, The Rosecrans Letters, [and] 306” crowded around a sepulchral monument to James A. Garfield labeled “Fame.” Those hyenas labeled “306” are pulling on a rope that spells “Slander” tied to the top of the monument. A lightning bolt labeled “Public Contempt” has severed the rope, spilling the hyenas into an abyss labeled “Oblivion.” The number “306” represents the number of delegates who supported Ulysses S. Grant for a third term at the 1880 Republican Convention.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1882-03-22

Creator(s)

Gillam, Bernhard, 1856-1896

The living president’s tribute to the dead president

Print shows a statue of Roscoe Conkling, with cloven hooves, seated on a bench labeled “Supreme Bench” atop a monumental tomb labeled “Sacred to the Memory of J. A. Garfield”; the monument is signed “Guiteau sculpt.”

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1882-03-08

Creator(s)

Graetz, F. (Friedrich), approximately 1840-approximately 1913

They will have to come to it

James G. Blaine and John Logan stand next to a grave as Whitelaw Reid places a wreath labeled “To the Memory of Discord” on the grave. The tombstone states, “To the Memory of Sectional Strife Buried Nov. 4th 1884.” Caption: This decoration day will give our Blainiac friends a good opportunity to recognize an established fact.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1885-05-27

Creator(s)

Gillam, Bernhard, 1856-1896

Portrait and grave of ex-President Roosevelt

Magazine photographs of Theodore Roosevelt’s funeral procession, his headstone, and portrait.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site

Creation Date

1919

Creator(s)

Unknown

“It’s comin’ after us!”

The ghost of the Republican elephant rises from behind a tombstone that states “Sacred to the memory of a united Republican Party.” President “Taft” and “Teddy” Roosevelt believe that it is coming after them and are fleeing in fear. Caption: A graveyard is no place to be on Hallowe’en.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1912-10-30

Creator(s)

Keppler, Udo J., 1872-1956