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Marcus Alonzo Hanna, in a small sailboat with sail labeled “Under no circumstances will I consent to become a candidate,” sails past a rocky coastline. Two female sirens with the lower torso of chickens, one playing a lyre labeled “Wall Street Interests” and the other holding a paper labeled “Trust Influence,” try to lure him onto the rocks.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1904-02-17
Seth Low, possibly as Odysseus, raises a sword labeled “Nonpartisanship” to strike a sea monster labeled “Misrule,” as a woman labeled “Greater New York,” standing on rocks and chained to a rock labeled “Tammany,” tries to get away from the monster.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1901-10-30
A galley labeled “Government Of, By, and For the People” sails past rocks labeled “Bossism” where other ships have wrecked, drawn by “Party Solidarity” sung by Republican sirens “Connors, Aldrich, Cox, Penrose, Woodruff, [and] Lodge” and “Partisanship” sung by Democratic sirens “Mack, Conners, Murphy, [and] Taggart” sitting on rocks above the crashing seas. Caption: The old stuff doesn’t go any more.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1910-06-01
A siren wearing a scarf labeled “Get Rich Quick” sits on a rock ledge labeled “Margin Gambling” and plays a lyre labeled “Stock Market” with strings labeled “Erie, Union Pacific, Northern Pacific, U.S. Steel, Amal. Copper, American Ice, Brooklyn R.T., Reading, [and] Inter. Met.” On rocks below is a wrecked ship labeled “Exploited Bank” and on nearby rocks are the bodies of victims.
Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site
1908-02-19