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Checks donated to Tammany Hall for the election of the organization’s candidates are made payable to Richard Croker, who has been the finance committee chairman for several years. Croker admitted to not having any records for the money donated to Tammany. Croker appears to have a large income and has extensive real estate and expensive racehorses.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-10
Rip Van Winkle educates himself about the events of the past twenty years, surrounded by newspapers referring to William Jennings Bryan, the Evelyn Nesbit and Harry Kendall Thaw scandal, hostilities with Mexico, President Roosevelt’s clashes with Speaker of the House Cannon, and Roosevelt’s attacks on the Tammany Hall political machine. Van Winkle exclaims, “Shucks!! I’m going back to sleep!”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1913
Mayor William L. Strong is depicted as St. Patrick standing outside “N.Y. City Hall,” holding a long crosier labeled “Power to Remove,” driving away snakes and frogs labeled “Tammany Office-Holder, Tammany Heeler, Office-Holder with a ‘Pull,’ Tammany-ite, [and] Heeler.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1895-03-20
The Tammany Tiger sits at a table, holding a knife and fork, and crying over the tiny turkey labeled “Patronage” on a platter labeled “20,000 Majority for Tammany.” Next to the platter is a mug labeled “No Sunday Beer.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1895-11-27
“Dr. Schurz” holding a large carving knife and sharpening tool, “Dr. Grace,” and “Dr. Parkhurst” holding a saw examine a sick tiger labeled “Tammany.” A medicine case in the foreground contains a drill, pincers, and a bottle of “Giant Powder – Reform Brand.” Caption: Cut him up into small pieces; – don’t let any of his nine lives get away!
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1895-11-06
David B. Hill is a golfer trying to play a tough lie. His club, labeled “Peanut Politics,” is broken; his ball, labeled “Presidential Hopes,” is in a hole; and the flag is at the top of a hill with three bunkers labeled “Dishonest Methods, Snap Conventions, [and] Petty Tricks” in the way. Charles A. Dana, carrying a golf bag labeled “N.Y. Sun,” stands nearby as the caddie. In the background is a large building labeled “Tammany” and on the green is the White House. Caption: A hard and hopeless game for Davy.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1895-11-13
A tableau painting, with Whitelaw Reid subduing the Tammany Tiger with a broken knife labeled “Straight Rep. Ticket,” is being displayed on a stage. Thomas Collier Platt, standing on the left, is admiring the painting. Caption: Platt’s “living picture” – an awful fake.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1894-06-27
David B. Hill labeled “Hill-ism,” Richard Croker as the Tammany Tiger labeled “Croker-ism,” and Roswell P. Flower, wearing a tall stove-pipe hat, labeled “Flower-ism,” stand on “Condemned Row” in the “Prison of Public Condemnation.” They are watching a group of men, on the left, construct a guillotine labeled “Reform Movement.” Puck is standing on the left with “Parkhurst, Grace, Lexow, Godkin, Ottendorfer, [and] Goff,” who is posting a notice on the wall of the prison that states, “Notice! On Election Day, Nov. 6th 1894. Execution of Hill-ism, Croker-ism, and Flower-ism. By Order of the People.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1894-06-13
The Tammany Tiger, wearing tattered clothing and a patch over the left eye, sits on the steps outside the entry to “Tammany Hall.” A sign on his lap states, “Please Help a Poor Tiger Until This Reform Wave Subsides,” and he holds a string attached to a small dog with the face of Charles A. Dana who has a small cup attached to his collar. A notice on the side of the building states, “Notice. Tammany Treasury Empty!!! Funds Badly Needed!”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1895-09-11
Richard Croker sits at a table, sharpening a large knife. On the table is a large turkey labeled “Patronage of Greater N.Y.” on a platter. A small dog labeled “Platt,” sitting on a hassock next to the table, is begging for scraps. A portrait of Mayor Van Wyck hangs on the wall behind Croker.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1897-11-24
A fashionably dressed young woman with long ribbons labeled “Greater New York” stands on a floating shell on “Political Waters” with Thomas Collier Platt and Richard Croker as mermen.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1897-11-10
The Tammany tiger, well-dressed and sitting on top of a scale model of a building labeled “Tammany Hall,” has made a puppet by tying a stick labeled “Platt’s Dummy,” with the head of Benjamin F. Tracy, to the end of its tail.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1897-11-03
Thomas Collier Platt stands next to a sign labeled “N.Y. State” and holding “N.Y. City Offices” under his arm, which he is planning to swap with Richard Croker, who is standing next to a sign labeled “N.Y. City” and is holding “N.Y. Legislature” in his left hand. Caption: Boss Platt is getting ready to swap the city for the state.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1897-10-20
Thomas Collier Platt kneels on the right, praying, as a bolt of lightning labeled “Citizens Union” strikes at his feet from a storm cloud showing the face of Seth Low. He is back to back with Richard Croker, on the left, who is struck by a bolt of lightning labeled “Henry George Party” coming from a dark cloud showing the face of Henry George. The jolt knocks off Croker’s hat.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1897-10-27
Father Knickerbocker, labeled “Greater New York” with a “Vote” in his pocket, is deciding between the “Tammany” Tiger on the left, representing “Spoils Gov’t” and kneeling on its “Record” of “Tweedism, Crokerism, Sheehanism, [and] Free Silverism,” and Seth Low, on the right, representing “Non-Partisan Gov’t,” standing on his record of an “Upright Public and Private Career.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1897-10-13
Richard Croker as the Tammany Tiger holds a measuring tape up to Charles A. Dana, Oswald Ottendorfer, and A. Oakey Hall. Caption: Tammany ought to seek among its oldest and staunchest supporters for a mayoralty candidate who will come up to Seth Low’s measurements.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1897-09-29
The angry countenance of Father Knickerbocker looks down from storm clouds on a flood that has broken up “Tammany Hall” with the Tammany Tiger sitting on a partial building labeled “Tammany” and a group of Natives sitting on a ladder resting against the other half of the building labeled “Hall.” Other Natives are treading water. A bolt of lightning is labeled “Popular Condemnation.” Among those depicted as Natives are Richard Croker, Roswell P. Flower, William B. Cockran, James J. Martin, and Hugh J. Grant. Also shown are Charles A. Dana, Edward Murphy Jr., and George B. McClellan, and the top hat of John J. Scannell.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1894-05-09
Richard Croker, a Tammany Hall boss, is pictured as Hamlet, exiting a castle labeled “Tammany Hall,” carrying a moneybag labeled “Pickings” and papers labeled “Deed $90,000 House, Ranch – Racing Stable, [and] Investm[ent] – Stock Farm.” He encounters the ghost of Boss Tweed who stands at the edge of an “Abyss for Smashed Bosses,” holding in his arms a moneybag labeled “Stealings” and papers labeled “‘Diamond Wedding’, Erie Deal, [and] 5th Avenue House.” Croker is headed for the abyss. Caption: Hamlet Croker (to Ghost Tweed)–I’ll follow thee!
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1894-04-11
A prisoner labeled “McKane” sits on a bench labeled “Reserved for Bosses who Steal Elections” at Sing Sing prison. McKane is holding a large pair of scissors, a measuring tape, fabric and thread. He is looking back at the new arrival, Edward Murphy Jr., sitting in a chair labeled “U.S. Senator,” that is being lifted over the wall of the prison by a pair of hands labeled “Justice.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1894-04-04
Richard Croker is pictured as a large dog standing over a smaller dog labeled “New York Police.” They are looking at a cat with its back, labeled “Investigation,” arched and tail raised, and wearing a ribbon labeled “New York Senate.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1894-03-28