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Make him harmless!

Make him harmless!

A youthful Theodore Roosevelt clips the long claws labeled “Confirming Powers of the Board of Aldermen” on the “Tammany” tiger with scissors labeled “By Act of Legislature.” He has disabled the tiger’s jaws with a piece of wood labeled “Public Uprising.” The tiger is in a cage labeled “N.Y. Legislature.” Franklin Edson and William R. Grace stand on the left, both with injuries inflicted by the Tammany Tiger, and with them is an unidentified man.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1884-02-20

Creator(s)

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

Solid for another year

Solid for another year

John Kelly, wearing a tuxedo and winking, stands next to a large safe labeled “N.Y. City Treasury,” turning the combination labeled “Bargain Offices Spoils Steal” (BOSS). A notice at the bottom of the safe states, “$35,000,000 in here to be distributed this year.” Caption: John Kelly “I hold the combination – and what are you going to do about it?”

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1884-01-30

Creator(s)

Keppler, Joseph Ferdinand, 1838-1894

The Tammany Fagin and his pupils

The Tammany Fagin and his pupils

John Kelly stands at the far end of a room, as Charles Dickens’s character Fagin, wearing a robe with a “Tammany Fund” money bag in a pocket. He is rubbing his hands together as a show of satisfaction. In the center of the room hangs an effigy labeled “N.Y. Tax-Payer” with three men labeled “Register, County Clerk, [and] Sheriff” who are learning to be pickpockets and have their hands in pockets filled with money. A notice hangs on the wall on the left, “Graduates of this School are sure to make from $50,000 to $80,000 a Year.”

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1884-02-06

Creator(s)

Opper, Frederick Burr, 1857-1937

A new declaration of independence in the year 1885

A new declaration of independence in the year 1885

President Cleveland stands at a table, his right hand on a long document labeled “Declaration of Independence July 4th 1885” that trails off the table, stating “When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for a President to dissolve the political bands which the machinery of his party has imposed upon him, he must speak in unmistakable words…” He is facing a group of men, one labeled “Tammany” and others labeled “Boss” and “Rural Boss.” They are standing near a passageway labeled “Exit.” Behind Cleveland are members of his cabinet, William C. Whitney, Daniel Manning, Augustus H. Garland, William F. Vilas, L. Q. C. Lamar, and Thomas F. Bayard who is holding a paper that states “The Cabinet ‘Solid’ on Reform.” On the wall in the background is a painting showing the presentation of the “Declaration of Independence July 4th 1776”.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1885-07-01

Creator(s)

Gillam, Bernhard, 1856-1896