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A well-dressed Robert Green Ingersoll carries two large bags of money labeled “Counsel Fees” as he departs the “Washington Court House.” Exiting on the right side, wearing tattered clothing, are defendants Thomas Jefferson Brady and Stephen Wallace Dorsey.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1883-06-20
Robert Green Ingersoll, attorney in the Star Route trials, pumps Montfort C. Rerdell, depicted as a pump, for more “Evidence” as Thomas Jefferson Brady and Stephen Wallace Dorsey stand in the “Prisoners Box.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1883-03-07
Print shows a full-length portrait of Thomas L. James, Postmaster General, standing, facing left, among papers emblazoned with stars littering the floor, holding a stamp labeled “Indicment” [sic] in his right hand.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1881-10-19
Print shows Wayne MacVeagh wearing a workman’s apron and holding papers labeled “Wayne McVeagh Resignation,” standing in front of a brick wall with a large star on it labeled “To be Bricked up for Star Route Jobbery,” with an opening showing Stephen W. Dorsey and Thomas J. Brady. Bricks and mortar labeled “Retribution Mortar” are at the base of the wall, and a pile of “Investigation Sand” is to the left. Caption: McVeagh “Good bye, my brethren; you thoroughly deserve to be bricked up; but I’m afraid I can’t wait to finish the job!”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1881-10-05
Print shows the interior of the “N.Y. Sun Editorial Rooms” where “Political Scandals [are] Promptly Attended to,” also “Post Mortem Scandals Especially Desired”, with elderly editor Charles A. Dana sitting at a desk, listening through an earhorn to Stephen W. Dorsey who is labeled “Public Contempt,” wearing tattered clothing, and with his left arm in a sling labeled “Acquitted by a Washington Jury.” Dana is transcribing “Dorsey’s Own Statement”; an inkpot on the desk is labeled “Gall.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1883-07-25