Young adults

A young man wearing a robe sits in a chair by a window, reading a book. A young woman nurse is attending to him and an old man, the doctor, has arrived for a check-up. There are medicines on a table in the foreground. Caption: The Nurse — The Doctor has come to take your temperature. / The Convalescent — I suppose it’s all I have left.

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Comments and Context

This cartoon’s joke has little to do with a pretty nurse or a handsome patient, as might be assumed from many themes of the day. Rather, “taking” all he has left is a critique on the cost of doctors’ care, evidenced by the account-book on the table in the foreground.

Pastor Geyer asks Theodore Roosevelt’s permission to compile some of his quotations into a booklet for young people. He would like to distribute Roosevelt’s speeches and papers to a group of young people and have them choose the quotes to be included. Geyer would like to sell the booklets to raise funds to pay off debts incurred by his church’s building fund.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1909-06-08

Young women dance with older and younger men at a summer resort. None of the “couples” is well matched, because the men of the women’s age are nowhere to be found. Caption: Hops as they now are at our fashionable summer resorts.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1897-08-18

Four elderly men and two elderly women watch a fashionably dressed young woman as she walks down the sidewalk.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1913-10-15

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.”

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Comments and Context

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.

Robert Bridges reviews the details for several translations of President Roosevelt’s works into French.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-11-07