United States. Congress. Senate

Members of the U.S. Senate look down on five diminutive members seated in the front. They are identified as “Hill Repudiated by New York,” “Murphy Repudiated by New York,” “Gorman Repudiated by Maryland,” “Brice Repudiated by Ohio,” and “Smith Repudiated by New Jersey.” Among the senators present are Adlai E. Stevenson, William M. Stewart, George F. Hoar, Charles A. Boutelle, John Sherman, Daniel W. Voorhees, William E. Chandler, John M. Palmer, Justin S. Morrill, John P. Jones, Matthew S. Quay, and William A. Peffer.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1895-12-11

Creator(s)

Keppler, Udo J., 1872-1956

The U.S. Senate chamber is reduced to pandemonium when a Senate Page announces the unexpected arrival of “Investigators Lexow and Goff.” Among the senators scrambling for cover are Arthur P. Gorman, Matthew S. Quay, Calvin S. Brice, Edward Murphy Jr., and George F. Hoar. Caption: The awful scene that would ensue if investigators Lexow and Goff should unexpectedly appear in the U.S. Senate chambers.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1894-06-27

Creator(s)

Taylor, Charles Jay, 1855-1929

George F. Hoar is seen as an old washer-woman, with a large brush labeled “Magazine Articles and Speeches,” white-washing senators from a bucket labeled “Defense of the Senate.” He is applying a fresh coat to Thomas C. Pratt while others wait in line.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1897-11-03

Creator(s)

Dalrymple, Louis, 1866-1905

Two figures stand above the “senatorial pool” armed with fishing equipment. Theodore Roosevelt holds a large pole with a can labeled “bait amendments” by his side. Next to him, holding a pitchfork with a net strung in it, is the figure of Benjamin Tillman, a democratic senator from South Carolina. In the pool are a number of creatures, including a frog labeled “statehood bill,” a fish labeled “Santo Domingo,” a crocodile labeled “Philippine tariff bill,” and a large turtle with the head of a steam locomotive labeled “the railroad rate bill.” Roosevelt’s fishing pole has hooked under the lip of this turtle’s shell.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1906-02-25

Creator(s)

Rogers, W. A. (William Allen), 1854-1931

A senator, probably William M. Stewart, with papers in his pocket labeled “Silver Mine Owner,” addresses the Senate, though all the senators are asleep.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1893-10-18

Creator(s)

Dalrymple, Louis, 1866-1905

Senators labeled “Stewart, Peffer, Vest, Jones, Teller, [and] Wolcott” are being thrown out of windows in a building labeled “U.S. Senate” by laborers and other citizens. Papers labeled “Anti-Repeal Drivel” and “Obstructionist Nonsense” have been thrown out with them. Caption: What a pity this is only a fancy sketch!

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1893-11-01

Creator(s)

Keppler, Joseph Ferdinand, 1838-1894

Stephen B. Elkins walks down an aisle in the “U.S. Senate,” holding a “Certificate of Election to U.S. Senate – Stephen B. Elkins.” Seated on the left are “Teller – Senator on Cash Basis” and “Smith,” and seated on the right are “Brice – Senator by Grace of Boodle” and “Jones Bonanza Senator.”

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1895-01-23

Creator(s)

Hutchins, Frank Marion, approximately 1867-1896

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.”

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1894-04-04

Creator(s)

Dalrymple, Louis, 1866-1905

A man with a slip of paper in his pocket that states “Senator-Elect from–” is stepping off a barrel labeled with a “$,” and climbing through an open window to a building labeled “U.S. Senate.” The door and the steps are covered with cobwebs from lack of use, and the steps are labeled “Patriotism, Statesmanship, Understanding, [and] Character.” Title quote is taken from the King James Version of the Bible, John 10:1.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1898-02-09

Creator(s)

Keppler, Udo J., 1872-1956

Uncle Sam is a policeman using a billy club labeled “Votes” to prevent a diminutive figure labeled “Free Silver” and “16 to 1” from entering the White House with papers labeled “Populism” and “Dishonest Money Schemes.” Caption: Uncle Sam–Consarn ye! you’ve spoiled my Senate and House of Representatives but I’ll never let you get into the White House! – that’s all I’ve got left to depend on!

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1896-06-17

Creator(s)

Keppler, Udo J., 1872-1956

Edward Oliver Wolcott as the biblical Joshua rides on a horse labeled “U.S. Senate” at the head of a small infantry comprised of John Sherman, George F. Hoar, George G. Vest, William A. Peffer, David B. Hill, Julius C. Burrows, Thomas H. Carter, William V. Allen, William J. Sewell, John M. Palmer, Roger Q. Mills, Justin S. Morrill, Matthew Quay, and others unidentified. Many are carrying spears or bow and arrows. They are chasing the sun labeled “Gold Standard” and descending upon a small community of farms and factories. One man carries a military standard that states, “Resolved, that some legislation be had by the U.S. Senate looking to an international conference with the nations of the world for the promotion of Bimetallism. Wolcott’s Resolution in Caucus.”

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1897-01-06

Creator(s)

Taylor, Charles Jay, 1855-1929

Two masked legislators labeled “Anti-Administration Senator” and “Jingo Senator,” holding long knives labeled “Hatred of Cleveland” and “Hatred of England,” stand outside the “U.S. Senate,” waiting to ambush an “Arbitration Treaty” standing at the entrance to the Senate.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1897-02-03

Creator(s)

Dalrymple, Louis, 1866-1905

On the left, a fat businessman labeled “Monopolist” is welcomed into the “U.S. Senate,” while on the right, a “Taxpayer” is booted out by a large shoe labeled “Tariff Legislation.”

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1897-07-21

Creator(s)

Keppler, Udo J., 1872-1956

Report prepared at the request of the United States Senate containing the government correspondence regarding the retirement of Constantin Catacazy, Russian minister to the United States from 1869 to 1871. President Ulysses S. Grant and the State Department sought the removal of Catacazy due to his poor conduct. However, he remained as minister until after Grand Duke Alekseĭ’s trip to the United States, because a minister needed to be present for the visit and there was not enough time to replace Catacazy before Alekseĭ’s arrival.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1871-12-06

Creator(s)

Fish, Hamilton, 1808-1893; Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885

Uncle Sam hands top hats to Eugene Hale and Nelson W. Aldrich outside the doors of the “U.S. Senate.”

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1910-05-25

Creator(s)

Keppler, Udo J., 1872-1956

Puck stands in the Senate chamber, among many senators sick with “Presidential Fever.” Puck is offering a spoonful of “Anti-Presidential Quinine” to John Sherman. Among the senators present are Wade Hampton, George Frisbie Hoar, J. D. Cameron, William Mahone, Warner Miller, Daniel W. Voorhees, John Alexander Logan, George F. Edmunds, John Sherman, George Graham Vest, Thomas F. Bayard, John P. Jones, and David Davis. Peering over the chamber walls are George M. Robeson, Jay Gould, and Roscoe Conkling.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1883-02-21

Creator(s)

Opper, Frederick Burr, 1857-1937

Senator Young thanks Superintendent Hanks for the newspaper clippings Hanks sent about the dedication of Theodore Roosevelt National Memorial Park. Young also informs Hanks that during his time at the park for the dedication he heard many nice things about Hanks.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Creation Date

1949-06-17

Creator(s)

Young, Milton Ruben, 1897-1983

Black ink cartoon of President Roosevelt dressed in an admiral’s uniform and standing on a copy of the United States Constitution. He is addressing six men, all with Roosevelt’s face. One of the men is dressed as a cook and labeled “Treasury.” The rest are in Naval uniforms with the labels Army, Cabinet, Navy, Senate, and House. In the background is a ship’s smokestack labeled “The Uncle Sam Teddy.”

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site

Creation Date

1904-06-12

Creator(s)

Unknown

Governor Roosevelt asks for advice about the nurses’ bill. Roosevelt states that he is taking care of the children while Edith Roosevelt is away, and describes them as being “really very cunning.” He also discusses the daily business of governing New York.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1900-03-14

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Theodore Roosevelt, as “Pope Theo the first,” sits on a throne, wearing the Papal tiara, as a man labeled “The Senate” bows down before him.

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Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1907-01-02