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A woman pilots an airplane with a frightened female passenger. Caption: The Nervous One — But I understood you had to have a license! / Fair Aviator — Oh, yes. The final test is to take up a passenger and do stunts – that’s how I came to ask you.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1913-01-29
A dastardly figure peers from behind a bush in the background, as a matronly woman pushes a young woman, looking starry-eyed and carrying a suitcase bursting with cash and stocks, out the front door, in response to a note which shows a pink handprint and states “Put ze girl and ze money on ze doorstep or I will slap you on ze wrist. Ze Pink Hand.”
L. M. Glackens’s cartoon presumably is a cartoon reference to a crime wave that existed throughout America cities starting in the 1890s and having a peak of activity in 1908 — extortion of innocent people through letters signed by a Black Hand. The activity was most active in the Italian immigrant enclaves of New York City, Chicago, and coal-mining regions of northern Pennsylvania. That, as well as internal evidence of the notes and confessions of blackmailers, confirmed the Southern Italian component of the movement.
Many women in the “Mrs. P. J. Gilligan” bar smoke and drink at their leisure. Caption: For the benefit of those ladies who ask the right to smoke in public.
Puck asserts in putative humor that there is a fine line between women smoking cigarettes in public, and the panoply of delights in a man’s saloon — heavy drinking, gambling, and ignoring the please of children to return home.
Two women help Puck hang Christmas decorations. They have used holly to form “Puck” at the top of the window.
During much of the immediately preceding years, Puck cartoons and editorials had grown more political than ever, and increasingly radical. Corporate investigations and scandals dominated 1905; a flurry of Muckraking exposes and Congressional actions filled 1906; and 1907 was capped by a Wall Street financial panic. The magazine in its showcase covers and center-spreads, did not abandon humor nor decorative and seasonal themes, but they were diminished in numbers and focus.
William Jennings Bryan, standing on the veranda of the “Hotel Jefferson,” attracts the attention of several women labeled “Penn Democracy, Illinois Democracy, Ohio Democracy, New York Democracy, Indiana Democracy, Georgia Democracy, VT Democracy, R.I. Democracy, Maine Democracy, Ark. Democracy, N.J. Democracy, Mass. Democracy” and “Mo. Dem.” The woman from Ohio is holding a book “Bryanecdotes.” Bryan’s vest is decorated with donkeys and a watch or key fob has the head of a donkey at the end.
One of the cliches about social habits of the day was that urban families fled to farms and rural resorts in summer months, and that “eligible” women and young men looking for dates or wives flocked to seaside resorts. Uncountable cartoons and short stories in magazines from the 1880s onward found creative fodder in these social conventions.
Santa Claus and Puck bow to a bust portrait of a young woman with mistletoe in her hair.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1912-12-04
Three old men sit on a stone wall watching the clouds form beautiful ballerinas dancing a ballet.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1911-11-08
A beautiful young woman rides an ocean wave approaching the beach. A lobster and a fish appear below.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1911-08-16
A young woman sits on a precipice, holding aloft a bouquet, and surrounded by mountainous wilderness. The faces of young women from around the world appear as cloud formations.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1911-06-14
A woman holds Cupid in one arm while plucking and arranging Cupid’s feathers in her hair and admiring herself in a mirror held by a faun who is mostly hidden by tall grasses.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1911-04-26
A woman dives into the warm waters of Florida after shedding the furs and heavy clothing of winter. In the background are girls flying like birds from cold climates to the tropical warmth of Florida. Caption: The annual migration of the bathing-girl.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1911-01-11
Theodore Roosevelt professes his support for women’s rights and the responsibilities of both males and females in safeguarding those rights.
1912-02-03
In reply to Bessie Van Vorst’s article “The Woman Who Toils,” President Roosevelt writes about the characteristics of citizens needed for a strong nation, one of which is being a good wife and mother or being a father. This appears to be an early draft of the letter, which was finally sent dated October 18, 1902.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-10-16
Charles Inman Barnard reports that French newspaper Le Figaro has an article with a quotation from Alphonse Daudet which appeared in one of President Roosevelt’s book. The subject of the quotation is French women’s fear of maternity.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-09-20