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A man reads handwriting on a wall: “Back of the City stands the State and back of the State stands the nation—President Roosevelt—.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-05-12
Painted Canyon Overlook stone wall under early construction in the South Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1978-02
Stone wall under construction at the Painted Canyon Overlook in the South Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1978-02
A “Tariff Wall” on the U.S. coastline has two gates, one labeled “Annexation” and the other labeled “Reciprocity.” A woman labeled “Cuba,” holding a bundle of “Raw Sugar” cane, is attempting to enter the United States through the gate labeled “Reciprocity.” She is being turned away vociferously by a man labeled “Sugar Grower” holding a piece of paper labeled “Tariff on Sugar.” In the background is a woman labeled “Porto Rico” carrying a bundle of sugar cane. She has entered through the “Annexation” gate over which the sugar grower and his tariffs have no control. Caption: Cuba — Why not let me in? Porto Rico is inside. / American Sugar-Grower — She didn’t come in this gate. She went through the other one – and I can’t control that!
It was certainly the case that domestic producers of sugar in the United States did not welcome, and lobbied against, the free importation of Cuban sugar and its free export to world markets. The situation pictured in Keppler’s cartoon was a bit more nuanced, however. Cuba, despite its problems under Spanish rule, had a functioning economy and export policies, and it had been assured of a minimal United States presence and relatively quick independence. Porto Rico (as then spelled in the American press) had minimal infrastructure, was deemed in need of special considerations, and was largely assumed to become an eventual part of the United States, by annexation, territorial status, or similar relation.
Print shows Uncle Sam leaning over a wall labeled “$50,000,000 For National Defense” and fashioned from money bags labeled with “$.” A tattered diminutive man, possibly representing Spain, sits on a rock on the lower left.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1898-04-06
Uncle Sam stands at the top of a wall labeled “Prohibitive Tariff” on land labeled “U.S.” He looks across a body of water at the “Chinese Wall” being torn down by European and Japanese rulers labeled and caricatured as “France” (Felix Faure), “Germany” (William II), and “Japan” (Meiji), “England (George V), and “Russia” (Nicholas II). Caption: Uncle Sam – By Jingo! That reminds me that I’ve got a wall like that; – I’d better take it down, myself, before other people do it for me.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1898-06-29
Uncle Sam stands on an island labeled “Philippines” at an open gate labeled “Open to All Nations on Equal Terms.” He is welcoming an international crowd to enter through the gate. A female figure labeled “Commerce” is tugging on his coattails; she is standing on a solid, fortress-like structure labeled “U.S.” and “Protective Tariff Wall.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1898-12-28
Humpty Dumpty labeled “Excessive Protection” slips off a “Tariff Wall.” Many men have thrown a rope labeled “Stand Pat Influence” around his waist, hoping to prevent him from falling. Caption: Humpty Dumpty slips from the wall; Humpty’s due for an awful fall. All the Trust lobbies, with all their slick men, Will never be able to raise him again.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1913-03-12
Photograph of an unknown Civilian Conservation Corps enrollee standing next to the 2772 company sign in the Roosevelt Recreation Demonstration Area.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1930-1939