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Newly elected New York City Mayor William L. Strong and newly elected Governor Levi P. Morton sit on Tammany boss Thomas Collier Platt who is wearing a crown labeled “Plattism” and has a cat-o’-nine-tails labeled “Boss.” Strong and Morton confer over a paper labeled “Plans for Reform Administrations.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1894-12-19
The Tammany Tiger lies on its back on a bed, apparently dead. A notice on the wall states, “The Tammany Tiger Executed by the People, November 6, 1894.” Archbishop Michael Corrigan kneels at the bedside, cranking “Corrigan’s Battery” which is connected to the front paws of the Tiger by wires that spell “Church Influence.” Thomas Collier Platt stands at the foot of the bed, cranking on a battery labeled “Headquarters of the Republican ‘Boys'” which is connected to electrodes in the back paws of the Tiger by wires that spell “Political Deals.” A bucket of water and a sponge lie on the floor at the foot of the bed, and the New York State Capitol at Albany is in the background. Caption: Despite the efforts of prelate and politician the cat will not come back.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1894-12-12
In the aftermath of a battle, David B. Hill is draped over a cannon, while Charles A. Dana and many New York politicians, identified as “Croker, Grant, Hinckley, Sheehan, Gilroy, Murphy, McLaughlin, Smyth, [and] Divver,” as well as the Tammany Tiger, appear to have some wound or injury. Puck is standing on the right holding a military standard that states, “The Principles We Fought For. Free Raw Materials – Civil Service Reform – Honest Money – Economical Government.” Caption: Puck–It is for the benefit of any party to be purified of its baser elements!
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1894-11-21
Charles H. Parkhurst holds a sword labeled “Evidence Against Tammany” and waves the tail he has cut off the Tammany Tiger labeled “Lexow Investigation Exposures,” lying dead at his feet. In the background, holding rifles and spears and waving their hats, are Charles S. Fairchild, William R. Grace, Joseph Larocque, and Oswald Ottendorfer.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1894-11-07
At center, Uncle Sam and President Cleveland shake hands, with a portrait of Liliuokalani, Queen of Hawaii, in the background. The surrounding vignettes feature a cast of characters, identified or referred to in the text as “Croker,” “Parkhurst,” and “Tammany” reform, “Iago Manley” and “Othello Reed,” “Peffer, Lease, Dana, Pulitzer, [and] Depew,” Harrison sitting in his over-sized top hat, and Thomas Collier Platt turning a crank that manipulates George R. “Malby” as “Speaker” of the New York State Assembly, David B. Hill sitting in an over-sized “Senatorial Chair N.Y. State,” and “McKinley” dressed as Napoleon I, riding a “War Tariff” rocking horse. Each scene includes “Valentine” text, such as this for “Peffer” and “Lease,” each holding papers labeled “Speech”: “From bleeding Kansas’s wind-swept plains, / Where whiskers take the place of brains, / You come with all your verbose strength / Of speeches of unending length. / Here, take the hint Puck gives – resign! / Let Mary be your Valentine”; and this for McKinley: “McKinley Bill! McKinley Bill! / Why do you ride that hobby still? / The cause of pool, combine and trust, / And idle mill-wheels red with rust. / Mistaken Man! We’ll never pine / For you to be our Valentine.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1894-02-14
Father Knickerbocker struggles to hold aloft a dumbbell that is labeled on the left “Plattism,” showing Thomas Collier Platt with papers labeled “Jobs” and “Deals,” and on the right “Crokerism,” showing Richard Croker with papers labeled “Jobs” and “Deals.” Caption: He’s pretty strong; but the double-boss dumb-bell will prove too much for him.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1894-01-31
“Father Knickerbocker” stands at a bar at the “Tammany Inn,” drinking “Irish Whiskey,” with Richard Croker as the bartender, standing behind the bar, offering “Mixed Drinks Croker Style.” A weeping young boy labeled “Reform Movement” has a hold of Father Knickerbocker’s arm, trying to get him to leave the bar and come home. Caption: “Father, dear Father, come home with me now!”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1893-11-29
The Tammany Tiger, with a shamrock on his hat, hugs a woman labeled “New York City” atop a bridge support tower with a view of the Statue of Liberty in the background. Caption: “Does oo love oo Tigy-Wigy?”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1893-11-01
Richard Croker as the Tammany Tiger clutches a large bag labeled “Spoils” and holds a whip labeled “Tammany” and, in his claws, a diminutive man who appears to be holding a paper that states “Robinson. Straight Republican Nomination 1893.” On the ground in front of the Tammany Tiger are bones labeled “1890, 1891, [and] 1892.” “Tom Platt” appears to have tossed Henry C. Robinson to the Tiger and is now fleeing to safety. Five men, one labeled “Republican,” are on the right and left, in the background, behind the safety of high walls. Among them, holding a long spear atop a palm tree, is Chauncey M. Depew. Caption: Rather than stand up and fight, they throw him a sop and run away.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1893-11-08
Senator David B. Hill, on his knees, begs Richard Croker, the “Boss of New York,” and Hugh McLaughlin, the “Boss of Brooklyn,” to use their influence to “Please nominate my friend Maynard for Judge of the Court of Appeals.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1893-08-30
The owner of a wine and beer store puts up a sign that states, “As long as it is the law it shall be enforced, Theo. Roosevelt.” A man representing Tammany Hall implies that if Tammany men were running the government, there might be ways to get around the laws without having to repeal them. Caption: Tammany–Goin’ to wait till dem reformers repeal dat law, are yer? Put me back and you won’t need to repeal! See?
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1895-07-24
Father Knickerbocker, a symbolic figure for New York City, tosses an old man with a long beard out of a building labeled “N.Y. City.” Papers labeled “Anti Local Option, Blue Laws, Hayseed Legislation, [and] Anti Home Rule Laws” fall out of his hat labeled “Hayseed Legislator.” Sitting on the ground outside the building is Richard Croker, the Tammany Hall boss, rubbing his head. The State House labeled “Albany” is visible in the distance. Caption: He got rid of Tammany rule, and now, if he gets rid of Hayseed rule, he will be ready for home rule.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1895-08-28
“Marcus Aurelius Hanna” is at center wearing robes and a top hat with laurel wreath and ribbons labeled “Senatorship 1898,” standing next to a safe labeled “Hanna,” and holding a whip. Four men, two labeled “Boss Bushnell” and “Boss Foraker,” bow down before him on ground labeled “Ohio.” This vignette is captioned “happiness in Ohio” and “Hanna–‘God reigns and the Republican Party still lives.'” Surrounding vignettes show the working classes and merchants suffering the brunt of the “Reduction in Wages,” overcrowding on public transportation, and no customers. Exporters, “Trust Magnets,” and Tammany Hall’s “N.Y. Democratic Club” appear to benefit the most.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1898-02-09
Richard Croker is pictured as a radiant sun at the center of New York’s “Solar System” with such figures labeled “Pawnbroker, Brewer, Laborer, Hayseed, Fireman, Gambler, Liquor Dealer, Contractor, Soubrette, [and] Heeler,” among others, and people identified as “D. Hill, Belmont, Gould, Murphy, W. Reid, T. Platt, J.J. Astor, [and] Van Wyck” revolving around him.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1898-03-30
New York City Mayor Robert Anderson Van Wyck is a judge and Richard Croker is a policeman, holding a club labeled “Tammany,” bringing a man labeled “Reform” before the judge in a courtroom.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1898-02-23
Half-length portrait of Richard Croker, facing front, with right hand resting on papers labeled “Certificate of Stock, Consolidate[d] Ice Co., Auto Truck Company, Fireproofin[g], [and] Telephone Co.” The ghost of a disconsolate Boss Tweed, wearing prison stripes, appears in the upper left corner above Croker’s right shoulder.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1899-05-10
Two dogs stand on a table. One labeled “Platt” has its front paws on a platter labeled “Patronage” on which is a piece of meat labeled “Raines Bill.” The other dog wearing a collar labeled “Croker” is looking wide-eyed at Platt.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1896-04-22
New York political bosses Thomas Collier Platt and Richard Croker appear as Roman centurions, wearing armor and carrying swords labeled “Bossism.” They are daintily shaking hands with the New York state capitol building labeled “Albany” in the background.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1898-11-16
Theodore Roosevelt addresses the issue of machine party politics in New York. He touches on the gubernatorial race and various Senators in the state legislature, including Charles Francis Murphy and William Barnes. Roosevelt is campaigning for a non-machine politics candidate, “stalwart of good government, the unflinching fighter for real reform, Frederick M. Davenport.” Roosevelt continues to cover tariffs while mentioning the Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act and the Revenue Act of 1913.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1914
The Tammany Tiger, in ragged clothes, wears a campaign button that states “16 to 1 Bryan and Sewall” and a watch chain with a “Pawn Ticket” instead of the watch. The tiger bemoans the fact that the Republican Party platform promises “Prosperity for the Laborer and the Business Man” and “Prosperity for the Farmer” and the Democratic Party platform promises “Prosperity for Labor and Business.” The tiger gestures toward campaign banners, hanging in the background, for “McKinley and Hobart” and “Bryan and Sewall.” Caption: They’re all goin’ to git Prosperity, an’ I’m goin’ to git left!
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1896-11-04