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Bad for business

A band of street musicians is comprised of yellow journalism newspaper editors/publishers. Two men are playing “The War Wave” on horns labeled Daily Sensation (Joseph Pulitzer) and Morning Exciter (possibly James Gordon Bennett, Jr.). A man (possibly Charles A. Dana) is playing a tune labeled “Rumblings of War” on a bass drum labeled Daily Brawler. Two other men are playing tunes labeled “War Talk” and “War News.” A man with one hand over his right ear is standing at the entrance to a building labeled “Business Interests” and “Commerce and Manufactures”; with his left hand he gestures toward the musicians to stop or move on.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1896-03-25

No rest for the wicked

A man beating a large drum and a woman playing the cymbals in a street in the middle of the night disturb the sleep of everyone in the neighborhood. The drum is labeled “Salvation Army.”

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1897-06-30

A played-out tenor – from star to street-singer

Roscoe Conkling is a street musician singing in the street outside the “Washington Senatorial Opera-House.” With him is a small dog labeled “Howard Carroll” who is holding a hat into which Puck, shedding a tear, drops a coin, and two street urchins, one recognizable as Ulysses S. Grant. Caption: Signor Conklingini (singing) – When Grant slipped up upon his nomination, / And failed to reach the presidential station, / Ten long years back it put this luckless nation. / And hence I sing – I sing – in lonely – lo-ho-honely degradation!

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1883-05-16