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George M. Robeson, William E. Chandler, and John Roach sit on the hull of a ship resting on its side with patches labeled “Repairs” partially covering holes. Caption: A historical picture.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1885-07-01
Two crooks labeled “Robeson” and “Roach” walk down a sidewalk, whistling. They are being trailed by William C. Whitney, Secretary of the Navy, as a policeman. Caption: “Cheese it!”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1885-06-24
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
Uncle Sam implores a man labeled “ISCC,” sitting on a railroad bridge, to throw a life preserver labeled “Permission to Raise Freight Rates” to a man labeled “The Railroads” drowning in a river labeled “Increased Fixed Charges.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1913-06-25
Vignettes show a country woman harvesting canned fruits and vegetables from “The Quaint Old Kitchen Garden,” surrounded with scenes of a young boy catching canned “Salmon” from a stream filled with other canned fish, an old man trying to catch cans of chicken running about the farm yard, a man loading a wagon at the “Freight Depot” with food products shipped from New York, and a milkmaid at a dairy opening a can of “Condensed Milk” at “Milking Time.” Caption: “Table stocked daily with an abundance of eggs, milk, fresh fish and vegetables.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1906-07-25
Uncle Sam, as Rip Van Winkle, returns from his tariff sleep to discover that other countries now dominate foreign trade. His old rifle labeled “Monopoly Tariff” is outdated. John Bull sits with other representatives of foreign countries outside the “Inn of South American Trade.” In the background, steamships with flags of many nations unload freight. An insert shows a map and “The North Americans Idea of the Western Hemisphere.” Caption: Sam Van Winkle finds a lot of hustling strangers in his place at the inn.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1911-02-08
Governor Roosevelt informs General Johnson that he is in the process of tracking the book he shipped to the General as it has yet to arrive.
1900-06-06
Extract from an unknown work on the importance of international trade and how it can be disrupted through blockades and naval warfare.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-09-07
Secretary of the Treasury Gage introduces Thomas D. Foster of Ottumwa, Iowa. Foster is a packer and shipper of food products and would like to inform President Roosevelt about transportation methods.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-11-16