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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
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
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, 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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
William Jennings Bryan rides on the shoulders of the “Tammany” Tiger, carrying a banner that states “Repudiation and National Dishonor.” Accompanying him are, on the left, John Peter “Altgeld” holding a torch burning “Arnachism” [sic] and, on the right, Benjamin R. “Tillman” with a patch labeled “S.C. Primaries” over one eye and holding a pitchfork that appears to be soiled with manure.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1896-10-14
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
A “Hayseed” legislator wearing a hat labeled “N.Y. Republican Party” sits in a stupor on a large jug labeled “Raines Law,” holding a large wine bottle labeled “Hayseed Legislation.” He is slumped against a wall labeled “Albany,” with a bottle of alcohol at his feet labeled “Progressive Inheritance Tax,” and a bottle in his coat pocket labeled “Black’s Civil Service Bill.” The figure may represent Frank Swett Black, governor of New York. A man wearing a cap labeled “Tammany” is pulling papers labeled “Greater New York Patronage” from inside the coat of the legislator.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1897-05-26
Thomas C. “Boss Platt,” adorned with a ribbon of “Patronage Deals,” holds back a hungry tiger labeled “Tammany,” threatening a female figure holding a shield labeled “Greater New York.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1897-06-02
An angry Father Knickerbocker, symbolic figure of New York City, performs a feat of strength by breaking chains that bind his arms and chest. The broken chains spell “Raines Law” and “Hayseed Legislation.” Caption: Father Knickerbocker is in training for this “Sandow Act” (referring to similar feats of strength by bodybuilder Eugen Sandow).
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1897-06-09
Puck as Diogenes carries a lantern and a lithographic pen and seeks the perfect mayor for New York City. At center Puck gets the opinion of “The Republican Machine” (Thomas Collier Platt with the tail and ears of a fox) and “Tammany” Hall (Richard Croker with the tail and ears of the Tammany Tiger). In the surrounding vignettes, he hears the opinions of “The Sunday Closers” who respect the Sabbath, “The Reformers” who seek “a man of the highest ideals … and irreproachable character!” and have “Seth Low” at the top of their list, as well as “The Germans” and “The Bicyclers,” before returning to the “Office of Puck,” somewhat dismayed. Caption: Diogenes Puck starts out to find him, and gets a lot of varied information on the subject.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1897-07-04
Grover Cleveland, as William Tell, holds the hand of Franklin Edson, as his son, striding past a hat labeled “Tammany” perched atop a stick labeled “Ignorant Voters” around which Samuel S. Cox, Thomas F. Grady, Hubert O. Thompson, Francis B. Spinola, and others bow down. On the left, an enraged John Kelly sits on a donkey, commanding soldiers carrying a banner labeled “Board of Aldermen.” In the background, on the right, standing beneath a sign that states “Regular Democracy,” are a group of men that includes Samuel J. Tilden, William R. Grace, Abram S. Hewitt, and Edward Cooper.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1883-05-16