Period
Pre-1914 propaganda in the collection
406 objects, listed by date.
Illustration, not an archive object
New Kingdom EgyptFragments of the Abydos king list from Ramesses II's temple, in the British Museum: rows of royal cartouches
Achaemenid EmpireBehistun (Bisotun) rock relief and trilingual inscription of Darius I: the king, two attendants and the bound rebel leaders beneath the winged figure of AhuramazdaContent note
Neo Babylonian EmpireClay cylinder with the Ehulhul inscription of Nabonidus, king of Babylon, describing work on three temples
Achaemenid EmpireTomb of Darius I at Naqsh-e Rustam: the king in relief beside his inscription DNa, c. 490 BCE
New Kingdom EgyptSeated limestone statue of Hatshepsut as king, with feminine royal titles on the throne, reassembled from fragments broken up at Deir el-Bahri
Neo Babylonian EmpireGlazed-brick panel with a striding lion, from Babylon (reign of Nebuchadnezzar II)
New Kingdom EgyptLimestone relief block of Ramesses II wearing the White Crown, a jubilee relief from his temple at Herakleopolis
New Kingdom EgyptLine drawing of the Great Kadesh battle relief on the walls of the Ramesseum, from Breasted's History of EgyptContent note
Neo Assyrian EmpireGypsum alabaster slab inscribed in cuneiform, from Nimrud (Kalhu), reign of Ashurnasirpal II
Achaemenid EmpirePersepolis, Apadana staircase relief: a figure with an animal from a procession of delegations, early fifth century BCE
Neo Assyrian EmpireAlabaster relief, Assyrian troops storming a citadel, from Nineveh (reign of Sennacherib)Content note
Achaemenid EmpireEgyptian alabaster jar inscribed with the name of Xerxes the Great in four languages (Old Persian, Elamite, Babylonian, Egyptian), 486 to 466 BCE
Roman EmpireColour lithograph of the Latin text of the Res Gestae Divi Augusti on the wall of the temple of Roma and Augustus at Ancyra, with the heading in large letters (Perrot, Guillaume and Delbet, 1872)
Roman EmpireBronze sestertius of Gaius (Caligula), reverse S P Q R P P OB CIVES SERVATOS in an oak wreath
Roman EmpireSilver denarius of Vespasian, reverse IVDAEA with a trophy of arms and a seated mourning womanContent note
Roman EmpireRelief on the Arch of Titus, Rome: soldiers carrying the menorah and other spoils from the Temple at Jerusalem in a triumphal processionContent note
Roman EmpireBronze sestertius of Trajan, reverse S P Q R OPTIMO PRINCIPI, S C, the emperor on horseback riding down an enemy
Kushan EmpireGold coin of Kanishka: King of Kings legend, king at the altar, deity Oesho
Roman EmpireGold solidus of Constantine I, reverse RESTITVTORI LIBERTATIS
Byzantine EmpireGold solidus of Justinian I, reverse VICTORIA AVGGG with Victory holding a Christogram staff
Kingdom of EnglandBayeux Tapestry, scene 23: UBI HAROLD SACRAMENTVM FECIT VVILLELMO DVCI
Great Seljuk EmpireSeljuq gold dinar of Sanjar, dated 493 AH, with the Abbasid caliph named on one face
FranceEstoire d'Eracles page with Bernard of Clairvaux preaching the Second Crusade in the initial (Walters W.137, fol. 180v)
FranceOpening page of the Estoire d'Eracles (William of Tyre in French), with the Crucifixion and Pope Urban II preaching the First Crusade in the initial (Walters W.137, fol. 1r)
FranceMiniature of Pope Urban II at the Council of Clermont, Les Passages d'outremer (BnF Fr. 5594, fol. 19r)Content note
Electoral SaxonyPassional Christi und Antichristi: the emperor kisses the pope's foot (leaf 'Antichristus')
EnglandSilver testoon of Henry VIII, third coinage: crowned bust and HENRIC VIII, reverse crowned Tudor rose and POSVI DEVM ADIVTOREM MEVM
EnglandPortrait medal of Mary I, legend MARIA I REG ANGL FRANC ET HIB FIDEI DEFENSATRIX
EnglandWoodcut 'A table describing the burning of Bishop Ridley and Father Latimer at Oxford', in John Foxe, Actes and Monuments (1563)Content note
EnglandThe Armada Portrait of Elizabeth I (Royal Museums Greenwich version), oil on panel
EnglandMedal of Elizabeth I: portrait in a ruff, reverse an ark on stormy waves with SAEVAS TRANQVILLA PER VNDAS (18th-century aftercast of a 1588 model)
Mughal EmpireMughal gold coin of Jahangir, dated 1028 AH, with a bull inside a ring of sun rays
Dutch RepublicAnacoana fut pendue sans raison (engraving in Le miroir de la cruelle et horrible tyrannie espagnole)Content note
Holy Roman EmpireDer Warner (broadsheet lampoon on the Jesuits after Breitenfeld and Rain)
Dutch RepublicFrontispiece to Eikon Basilike, The Pourtraicture of His Sacred Majestie in his Solitudes and Sufferings (Hollar, 1649)
Dutch RepublicOndersoeckt de Geesten, ofse van den Duyvel syn, of niet (the De Witt brothers as devils)
Spanish NetherlandsConsult of the doctors on the grave illness of the Grand Sultan (Consult vande medicijnen inde swaere siekte vanden grooten Sultaen)
Great BritainThe Highlanders Medley, or The Duke Triumphant (A Loyal Song)
Kingdom of Great BritainThe North Briton, No. XLV, 23 April 1763 (John Wilkes), opening page
Province of Massachusetts BayThe Bloody Massacre perpetrated in King Street Boston on March 5th 1770 by a party of the 29th Regt.Content note
FranceTrois Tetes sous l'meme bonnet (three heads under the same cap)
FranceMarche du Dom Quichotte moderne pour la deffence du Moulin des Abus (March of the Modern Don Quixote in Defence of the Mill of Abuses)
FranceAssignat of fifteen sols, law of 4 January 1792
Kingdom of Great BritainSans-Culottes, feeding Europe with the Bread of Liberty (James Gillray)
French First RepublicAssignat of fifty sols, law of 23 May 1793 (British Museum)
FranceProclamation de Sonthonax en créole, Cap-Français (Proclamation of Commissioner Sonthonax in Creole)Content note
Kingdom of Great BritainExit Liberté a la Francois! or Buonaparte closing the Farce of Egalité, at St. Cloud (James Gillray)
United StatesGazette of the United States, "The Jeffersoniad" no. VIII, 14 August 1800
United StatesThe Virginia Argus, "Letter to Mazzei" and rebuttal, 16 September 1800
FranceBonaparte, Premier Consul de la Republique Francaise: Revue du Quintidi (Boilly, Levachez, Duplessis-Bertaux)
NetherlandsVan Moscouw tot Elba moest ik wyken (From Moscow to Elba I had to give way), Napoleon caricature by Wijnand Esser
United KingdomThe Examiner, No. 608, 22 August 1819, 'Disturbances at Manchester' (Peterloo)
United States"Some Account of some of the Bloody Deeds of General Jackson" coffin handbill (1828)Content note
United States"Jackson ticket" with Hickory tree motto, Baltimore (1828)
United States"Monumental Inscriptions!" coffin broadside (1828)Content note
United States"State Mining" Jackson campaign lithograph (1828)Content note
United States"Curse the d--d congress committee and their guns!" (anti-Bank print, 1832)
United States"Jackson. New Orleans Jany. 8th 1815" (Childs & Inman, 1832)
United States"Old Jack, the famous New Orleans mouser" (pro-Jackson print, 1832)
United StatesDemocratic ticket, "Liberty & equal rights" (Ohio electors for Van Buren and Johnson), 1836
United StatesDemocratic tickets, "Go it, ye Cripples!" and "Stop Van!!!" (Ohio electors, Van Buren and Johnson), 1836
United StatesDemocratic ticket, "Going the whole hog" (Ohio electors for Van Buren and Johnson), 1836
United States"Political race course - Union Track - fall races 1836"Content note
United States"Set-to between the champion Old Tip & the swell Dutchman of Kinderhook", 1836Content note
United States"Grand match between the Kinderhook poney and the Ohio ploughman", April 1836
United States'Federal-Abolition-Whig Trap, to Catch Voters In', New Orleans broadside, 1840
United States'Going up Salt River', Van Buren-friendly cartoon published by John Childs, 1840
United States'This log cabin was the first building erected on the North Bend', Whig print by T. Sinclair, 1840
United StatesMartin Van Buren portrait print with Jackson 'Veto U.S. Bank' and 'Ten Hours' columns, 1840
United States'The People's Line -- Take care of the Locomotive', Whig woodcut, 1840
United States'The Fox Chace', Whig cartoon of Van Buren hunted by cider-barrel hounds, 1840
United States'National Democratic Republican Nomination' broadside for Van Buren and Johnson, 1840Content note
United StatesNew England Whig Convention badge, Bunker Hill, 10 September 1840
United KingdomPunch, 'Laurels at Ningpo' column on the First Opium War, 1842Content note
United StatesFor President Henry Clay, for Vice President Theodore Frelinghuysen (Whig badge), 1844
United StatesLoco Foco Triumphal Honors (pro-Whig cartoon), 1844Content note
United StatesPolk & Co. Going Up Salt River (pro-Clay cartoon), 1844
United StatesPolk in His Extremity (pro-Clay cartoon), 1844
United StatesTexas Coming In (pro-Polk cartoon), 1844
United StatesTreeing Coons (pro-Polk cartoon), 1844
United StatesTyrants Prostrate, Liberty Triumphant (pro-Polk cartoon on Dorr), 1844Content note
United StatesGrand National Whig Banner. "Onward" (Clay and Frelinghuysen), 1844
United StatesGrand National Democratic Banner. Press Onward (Polk and Dallas), 1844
United StatesDemocratic ticket for Maryland electors: Polk and Dallas, 1844
Kingdom of HungaryHurban, Hodzsa es Stur szemelyes leirasuk (wanted notice for the Slovak uprising leaders, Hungarian, German and Slovak)
United StatesZachary Taylor, People's Candidate for President (Currier banner), 1848
United StatesGrand National Whig Banner: Press Onward (Currier, Taylor and Fillmore), 1848
United StatesFree Soil Candidates for President and Vice-President (Kellogg and Comstock), 1848
United StatesThe Presidents of the United States: Lewis Cass, Democratic Candidate for 12th President (Currier), 1848
United StatesGrand, National, Democratic Banner: Press Onward (Currier, Cass and Butler), 1848
United StatesZachary Taylor, the People's Choice for 12th President (Currier), 1848
United StatesLewis Cass, Democratic Candidate for President (Currier), 1848
United States'Can you rest one hand on the sacred altar of Liberty...' (Free Soil cartoon, Currier), 1848Content note
United StatesGrand Democratic Free Soil Banner (Currier, Van Buren and Adams), 1848
United States"The game-cock & the goose" (Yankee Notions lithograph, 1852)
United States"Gas and glory" (Currier lithograph, 1852)
United States"Great footrace for the presidential purse ($100,000 and pickings) over the Union Course 1852" (Currier lithograph)Content note
United States"The poor soldier & his ticket for soup" (Yankee Notions lithograph, 1852)
United States"Position of the Democratic Party in 1852" (anti-Pierce, anti-Fugitive-Slave-Law print)Content note
United States"Soliciting a vote" (1852 campaign cartoon, drawn before the Democratic nomination)
United States"The Whig Organ" (Frank Bellew, The Lantern, 28 August 1852)Content note
United States"The Balls Are Rolling - Clear the Track" (Currier, 1856)
United States"'Buck' taking the 'Pot'" (Currier, 1856)
United States"The Champions of Freedom" Frémont and Dayton banner (Buffalo, 1856)
United States"The Grand National Fight" (Democratic print, 1856)Content note
United States"The Great Presidential Sweepstakes of 1856" (Currier)Content note
United States"The Right Man for the Right Place" (Currier, 1856)
United StatesJames Buchanan campaign banner (Baker & Godwin, 1856)
United StatesMillard Fillmore campaign banner (Baker & Godwin, 1856)
United States"Col. Fremont Planting the American Standard" (Baker & Godwin, 1856)
United Kingdom"The British Lion's Vengeance on the Bengal Tiger" (Punch, 1857)
British IndiaProclamation by the Queen in Council, to the Princes, Chiefs, and People of India (printed sheet, Allahabad, 1 November 1858)
United StatesCampaign flag banner, "For President John Bell. For Vice President Edward Everett" (H. C. Howard, 1860)
United States"The Union, the Constitution and the enforcement of the laws. For President, John Bell of Tennessee. For Vice President, Edward Everett of Massachusetts" (W. H. Rease, 1860)
United StatesProof for a flag campaign banner for John C. Breckinridge and Joseph Lane (H. C. Howard, 1860)
United States"The undecided political prize fight" (anonymous, 1860)Content note
United StatesFlag campaign banner for Stephen A. Douglas and Herschel V. Johnson (H. C. Howard, 1860)
United StatesCampaign envelope: Stephen A. Douglas and H. V. Johnson, with "I stand for the rights of the whole people" (S. Raynor, 1860)
United StatesCampaign flag banner, "For President Abram Lincoln. For Vice President Hannibal Hamlin" (H. C. Howard, 1860)
United States"The Union must and shall be preserved. For President Abraham Lincoln of Illinois. For Vice President Hannibal Hamlin of Maine" (W. H. Rease, 1860)
New ZealandTe Haeata, front page: 'Te Runanga Maori ki Kohimarama' (Auckland, 1 September 1860)
Russian EmpireBrolej Žemajčiaj! (Brothers Samogitians!): hand-painted broken-cross poster
Russian EmpireKomitet Centralny jako Tymczasowy Rząd Narodowy: Manifest (Central Committee as Provisional National Government: Manifesto of 22 January 1863)Content note
United StatesPolitical caricature. No. 3, The abolition catastrophe. Or the November smash-upContent note
United StatesDemocracy. 1832. 1864.
United StatesGrand National Democratic banner. Peace! Union! and victory!
United StatesGrand national union banner for 1864. Liberty, union and victory
United StatesHow free ballot is protected!Content note
United StatesThe Chicago platformContent note
United States'Little Mac.' (from the Democratic presidential campaign songster)
United StatesLittle Mac's double feat of equitation
United StatesM'Clellan campaign songs, no. 1: Forward march for Little Mac; Little Mac and Pendleton; The head of the nation McClellan shall be; Little Mac is on de track
United StatesMcClellan and Pendleton
United StatesPlatforms illustratedContent note
United StatesPresidential campaign, 1864. Candidates for President and Vice-President
United StatesGrand banner of the radical democracy, for 1864
United StatesUnion and liberty! And union and slavery!
United StatesAbraham's dream!--Coming events cast their shadows beforeContent note
United StatesThe Chicago platform and candidateContent note
United KingdomPunch, 'The Jamaica Question' (Tenniel), 23 December 1865Content note
ParaguayToma! Y qué hacen aquí esos tres? (Look! And What Are These Three Doing Here?), El Centinela cartoonContent note
United StatesBlood Will Tell! The Great Race for the Presidential Sweepstakes
United StatesDemocratic Candidate
United StatesLeaders of the Democratic Party: The Rioter Seymour, the Butcher Forrest, the Pirate Semmes, the Hangman HamptonContent note
United StatesGod Grant Us Peace / We Shall See More Rads 'Bottled Up' in November
United StatesNational Union Republican Candidates
United StatesThe Great American TannerContent note
United StatesThe Great November Contest. Patriotism versus BummerismContent note
United StatesJacobin Radical Republican Record: a legacy for the people! $2,700,000,000 debt!! an expensive luxuryContent note
United StatesThe Radical Party on a Heavy Grade
United StatesRe-construction, or 'a white man's government'Content note
United StatesThe Republican Platform, or the Political MountebankContent note
United StatesThis Is a White Man's GovernmentContent note
North German ConfederationDas ganze Deutschland soll es sein. Haut sie auf den Chassepot! (German broadsheet song and caricature, Franco-Prussian War)
FranceL'Homme a la boule (Draner), French caricature of a Prussian leader on a globe
United StatesDavid and Goliath
United StatesA "dodge" that wont workContent note
United StatesGrand National Liberal Republican banner for 1872
United StatesFor president Horace Greeley of New York and for vice president Benjn. Gratz Brown of Missouri
United StatesYou must make your choice. Birds of a feather flock together
United StatesThe peoples' choice, H. Greeley G. Brown
United StatesThe Republican chart. The nation's choice in war and peace Ulysses S. Grant
United StatesSplitting the party - the entering wedge
United StatesThe working-man's banner. For President, Ulysses S. Grant, 'The Galena Tanner.' For Vice-President, Henry Wilson, 'The Natick Shoemaker.'
United StatesHere! (New Hampshire heard from) The true Military Ring
United StatesThe Chappaqua farmer
United StatesIn the hope that the American people may soon be, not merely united, but reconciled, I am, yours, Horace Greeley
United States"American Progress" (John Gast, chromolithograph for George A. Crofutt, 1873)Content note
United StatesCentennial election. The Republican nominees
United StatesThe champions of the people's right[s]
United StatesGrand National Democratic banner
United StatesGrand National Republican banner
United StatesGrant to Hayes - I guess that reform bait wont work this side. Better try an anti-Catholic wormContent note
United StatesNational Democratic chart, 1876
United StatesNational Republican chart 1876
United StatesOur nation's choice, Rutherford B. Hayes, William A. Wheeler
United StatesRoll along, roll along, shout the campaign battle songContent note
United StatesThe political farce of 1876Content note
Chile¡¡Viva Chile!! Suscrición popular para comprar una Nueva Esmeralda (Popular Subscription to Buy a New Esmeralda)
United KingdomIllustrated London News, 'The Zulu War: Defenders of Rorke's Drift', 1 March 1879Content note
United StatesRepublican Candidates for President and Vice-President: James A. Garfield, Chester A. Arthur (A. S. Seer engraving)
United StatesRepublican Candidates: James A. Garfield and Chester A. Arthur (A. S. Seer lithograph)
United StatesOur Nation's Choice: Gen. James Abram Garfield and Gen. Chester A. Arthur (Haasis & Lubrecht)
United StatesGen. Winfield S. Hancock and Hon. William H. English (campaign handkerchief, Hugh McCrossan)
United StatesThe Champions of the People's Rights: Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock and William H. English
United StatesNational Democratic Banner: Gen'l Hancock, Wm. H. English
United StatesInspecting the Democratic Curiosity Shop (Puck cartoon, c. 1880)Content note
United StatesThe Appomattox of the Third Termers: Unconditional Surrender (Puck cover, 16 June 1880)
United StatesA Weak Ticket in the Field and a Weaker Expected (Puck cover, 16 June 1880)
United StatesDemocratic Candidates: Winfield S. Hancock and William H. English (A. S. Seer lithograph)
United StatesThe Factors of the Greenback-Labor-Socialist-Woman-Suffrage Party (Frank Leslie's, 3 July 1880)
United StatesGeneral James B. Weaver, photographed by C. M. Bell (Harper's Weekly, 3 July 1880)
United StatesWhere Both Platforms Agree: No Vote, No Use to Either Party (Puck cover, 14 July 1880)Content note
United StatesGarfield's Death Warrant: 'Advertiser Extra' reproducing the Morey letter (1880)Content note
United StatesThe banner that boosted Blaine and locked the Logan link
United StatesFor president, James G. Blaine. For vice president, John A. Logan
United StatesGen. Benj. F. Butler: candidate of the Peoples Party, for president of the United States
United StatesFor president, Grover Cleveland of New York. For vice president, Thos. A. Hendricks, of Indiana
United StatesThe end of the republican party After "The Destruction of Jerusalem" by Kaulbach
United StatesOur nation's choice, James G. Blaine, John A. Logan
United StatesBlaine O'Maine
United StatesThe receiving-vault of the Republican politicians who defied public morality
United StatesThe "three honest men" of Wall Street declare for Blaine
United StatesWith Puck's compliments to the Democratic National Convention at Chicago - 1884
United StatesA flag the Independents will fight underContent note
United StatesFor president James G. Blaine, of Maine - for vice president John A. Logan, of Illinois
United StatesFor president Grover Cleveland, of New York - for vice president Thos. A. Hendricks, of Indiana
United StatesOur country's choice--Democratic nominees
United StatesThe Republican souvenirContent note
United StatesThe new Democratic eucalyptus tree purifies a political morass
United StatesA little private mutual admiration scheme, - Joss Ben and his only priest, Sun-SunContent note
United StatesThe bogus workingman and his lonsome boomContent note
United States"Blaine will be vindicated in November" -- N.Y. Tribune
United StatesAnother voice for ClevelandContent note
United StatesShylock's bad bargainContent note
United States"The Mulligan guard lies, but - surrenders"
United States"The Germans supported me nobly" -- J.G. Blaine
BelgiumDe Vlamingen aan de Negers van den Congo (The Flemings to the Negroes of the Congo)
Empire of BrazilA nova espada que o governo pretende apresentar ao exército (The New Sword the Government Means to Present to the Army)Content note
United StatesNot as heavy as Grover, perhaps, but then I have more lemons
United StatesGreat Republican Harrison and Morton campaign ball, 1888
United StatesOur nation's choice, Benjamin Harrison, Levi P. MortonContent note
United StatesPublic office is a public trust: Democratic campaign banner no. 1
United StatesSaved! The Republican Party throws its protecting shield over American laborContent note
United StatesThe consumer consumed
United StatesOur choice, Grover Cleveland, A.G. Thurman. Democratic nominees
United StatesThe difference between trimming a hedge and cutting it down
United StatesProtection to home industry 1888
United StatesUnion Labor Party
United StatesThe goose that lays the golden eggs
United StatesPrinciples of the Prohibition party
United StatesTariff reform. Cleveland and Thurman
United States"Goods will be so much cheaper"--Democratic argument. But what will become of all the American industries?
Empire of JapanIllustration of the Issuing of the State Constitution in the State Chamber of the New Imperial Palace (憲法發布式之圖)
Kingdom of PortugalEntre um ministro e um larapio (Between a Minister and a Pilferer), Os Pontos nos ii
Kingdom of PortugalJohn Bull chamber pot (Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro, Caldas da Rainha)Content note
German EmpireWakamba's: die größten Feinde Stanley's und Emin Pascha's (show poster, c. 1890)Content note
ArgentinaBoletín nuevo: Noticias importantes (New Bulletin: Important News), Revolución del Parque
Qing China豬叫取胎圖 (Picture of the Pig Sect Extracting a Foetus), from Reverently Obeying the Sacred Edict: A Complete Picture Gallery to Repel HeterodoxyContent note
United KingdomThe Radical Programme, No. 4: Dismemberment of the Empire (Gladstone & Co. auction India), St Stephen's Review Presentation Cartoon
United StatesBenjamin Harrison, Republican candidate for president
United StatesFor President Grover Cleveland, for Vice-President Adlai E. Stevenson
United StatesDemocratic platform and presidential nominees, Grover Cleveland, A. E. Stevenson
United StatesDemocratic progressive platforms: 1888 tariff reform; 1892 tariff for revenue only; "tariff for protection is unconstitutional"
United States"Jimy" French Schulze, age 20 months, Kansas Farmers' Alliance presidential candidate for 1892
United StatesPeople's party candidates for president and vice president 1892
United StatesPeople's Party Paper (Atlanta, Ga.), 15 July 1892, page 1Content note
United StatesThe People's Party Convention - delegates who were not in it
United StatesThe champion ready for another bout
United StatesPeople's Party Paper (Atlanta, Ga.), 7 October 1892, page 1
United StatesHarrison and Reid, and the people
United KingdomThe Rhodes Colossus: striding from Cape Town to Cairo (Punch, 10 December 1892)
Empire of JapanThe Great Battle of Ansong Ford: The Valor of Captain Matsuzaki
United States'Greed', illustration from Coin's Financial School
VenezuelaEn posesión de su presa (In Possession of Its Prey)
Empire of JapanKanpō (Official Gazette), extra no. 3328, p. 8 (Tokyo, 2 August 1894): 宣戦ノ詔勅 (Imperial Rescript declaring war on China)Content note
Belgium"Petite scène du Congo": Brussels humorous-paper cartoon on the hanging of Stokes, reproduced in the Pall Mall Gazette, 1895Content note
Qing China劉永福懸賞抓拿日本奸細告示 (Liu Yongfu's notice offering rewards for capturing Japanese spies), Taiwan
FranceLe Traître: Dégradation d'Alfred Dreyfus (The Traitor: Degradation of Alfred Dreyfus), Le Petit Journal, 13 January 1895
Empire of Japan日清戰爭笑樂画會 (Comics of the Sino-Japanese War): 黄海のきづ and 尻へ帆 (Wounds of the Yellow Sea; Sails on the Rear)Content note
German EmpireKolonial-Ausstellung, Gruppe XXIII, Berliner Gewerbe-Ausstellung 1896
United StatesBryan-Sewall campaign buttons, badges and card
United StatesBryan-Sewall 'Free Coinage' portrait handkerchief
United StatesDemocratic nominees Bryan and Sewall broadside
Cuban Independence MovementCuba's Heroes and Their Flag: Souvenir Lithograph of the Grand Cuban-American Fair
United StatesMcKinley-Hobart campaign buttons, badges and ribbon
United States'Protection and sound money' shield placard
British India'The Congress Cross or "Swastik"' (Pickings from the Hindi Punch, Bombay, February 1896)
SpainMáquinas para fabricar yankées (Machines for Manufacturing Yankees)
United StatesCoronation of the autocrat of protection (Puck)
United StatesThe boss of the bosses (Puck)
United StatesThe silver-tongued ventriloquist and his dummies (Puck)
United StatesTrue democracy is safe! (Puck)
United StatesWell protected (Puck)
United StatesLast ghost-dance of the free silver tribe (Puck)Content note
Netherlands"Diner bij Oom Paul" (Dinner at Uncle Paul's): Dutch postcard, Kruger serves Chamberlain Transvaal soup, c.1897
BrazilHomenagem da Revista Illustrada aos gloriosos vencedores de Canudos (Tribute of the Revista Illustrada to the Glorious Victors of Canudos)
FranceL'Aurore, no. 87, front page (Paris, 13 January 1898): "J'Accuse...! Lettre au Président de la République" (J'Accuse...! Letter to the President of the Republic)Content note
United StatesNew York Journal and Advertiser, front page, 17 February 1898 ($50,000 reward, Maine 'work of an enemy')
United StatesNew York World, front page, 17 February 1898 (Maine explosion 'caused by bomb or torpedo')
SpainEl soldado de Cuba: —¡Ven tú, cobarde! (The Soldier of Cuba: 'Come here, you coward!')Content note
United StatesRemember the Maine! And Don't Forget the Starving Cubans! (Judge)
SpainUn combate en el río Zapote (A Fight on the Zapote River), Blanco y Negro
FranceLe Sifflet, cover (Paris, 14 July 1898): "Après les fameuses révélations de M. Cavaignac" (After M. Cavaignac's Famous Revelations)Content note
FranceLes Anglais au Siam, en Égypte, au Soudan et autres lieux (The English in Siam, Egypt, the Sudan and Other Places), La France illustrée
FrancePsst...!, page (Paris, 31 December 1898): "Au parc Monceau" (In the Parc Monceau)Content note
United KingdomPears' Soap: "The first step towards lightening the White Man's Burden" (Cosmopolitan advertisement, 1899)
United States"A Sacrifice to Aguinaldo's Ambition" (commercial stereograph, 1899)Content note
United States"School Begins" (Puck, 1899)Content note
United States"The White Man's Burden (Apologies to Rudyard Kipling)" (Judge, 1899)Content note
United StatesA Pretty Tough Mouthful to Swallow: Kruger as Porcupine
United StatesThe Beginning and the End: Oom Paul's Ultimatum to John Bull
German Empire"England and the War in South Africa" (Der wahre Jacob, 1899)
United StatesThe Issue - 1900. Liberty. Justice. Humanity. W. J. Bryan
FranceDel-Lâchoda devant l'Angleterre (Musée des Horreurs no. 21)
United StatesWm. McKinley, Prosperity
United StatesThe Real Issue: McKinley Was Right in 1896
United StatesMcKinley Was Right (poster: 1896 poverty, 1900 prosperity)
United StatesRing Again the Liberty Bell in 1900 (Bryan poster)
SpainSífilis: Curación absoluta y radical en el Sanatorio para sifilíticos (Syphilis: Absolute and Radical Cure at the Sanatorium for Syphilitics)
British Hong Kong時局圖 (The Situation in the Far East / Map of the Present Situation), newer version with English labels
United StatesWilliam J. Bryan (Taber-Prang Art Co. portrait print)
United StatesBryan and Stevenson (Underwood & Underwood stereograph)
United StatesVictorious Democracy: title page of a 1900 Bryan campaign biography
United StatesA Long Range Assault: Puck cover on the French press and the Transvaal, 3 January 1900
France"Monsieur Cécil Rhodes" (Le Rire cover, 1900)
United StatesMcKinley's Easter Egg (Puck, 18 April 1900)
United StatesThe Ill-Fated Sister: A Case of Unjust Discrimination (Puck, 25 April 1900)Content note
United StatesTake Your Choice (Judge, 12 May 1900)
United KingdomIllustrated London News, 'The War Reviewed' and 'Our Note Book', 26 May 1900 (p. 698)
United KingdomThe Speaker, 'The Carnival of Mafeking', 2 June 1900 (p. 241)Content note
United StatesReckless Defiance: France and Russia Against Britain
United StatesA Two-Edged Record (Puck centerfold, 13 June 1900)
United States"Negro Rule" vampire cartoon with sworn affidavitContent note
United StatesSwallowed! (Puck centerfold, 11 July 1900)
United StatesHe Shouts for Bryan, but This Is the Way He Will Vote (Puck cover, 25 July 1900)
First Philippine RepublicNotice of Justice: Aguinaldo's decree of 3 August 1900 paying 'imperialist soldiers' for surrendered riflesContent note
United StatesThe Promised Feast (Puck centerfold, 8 August 1900)
United StatesThe Vote of the Gold Democrats; Their Country's Welfare Before Their Party's Welfare (Puck, 12 September 1900)
United States'Are our teachings, then, in vain?' (Keppler, Puck, 3 October 1900)Content note
United KingdomMany Happy Returns - of the Gold to the Rightful Owners (Tom Browne, The Sketch)
United StatesTake Your Choice of the Two Bills! (Judge cover, 13 October 1900)
United StatesMcKinley & Roosevelt (Underwood & Underwood stereograph)
United States"The Aguinaldo Guard" (Puck, 1900)
United StatesThe Teddy Idea of a Vice-President Who Would "Do Things" (The Verdict, 29 October 1900)
ArgentinaChile como el cuervo de la fábula (Chile as the Raven of the Fable)
United KingdomThe Speaker, front page 'The Week', 22 June 1901: Hobhouse report and 'methods of barbarism'Content note
NetherlandsDe politieke heksenkeuken (The Political Witches' Kitchen)
United States"Kill Every One Over Ten" (New York Evening Journal, 1902)Content note
FranceLa fin de la guerre anglo-boer ou Donnant donnant (Alfred Le Petit, Le Grelot)
Mexico"La Constitución ha muerto" protest at El Hijo del Ahuizote (1903)
Qing China蘇報 Subao, daily, front page (Shanghai, 18 June 1903)Content note
Mexico¡¡Glorias de México!! Porfirio Díaz y Ramón Corral, electos por el voto unánime del pueblo (Glories of Mexico!! Porfirio Díaz and Ramón Corral, Elected by the Unanimous Vote of the People)
Russian EmpireЯпонский Император и его лукавые доброжелатели (The Japanese Emperor and His Cunning Well-Wishers): Russian Russo-Japanese War print
Empire of Japan1904 Meiji Japan Navy: Seventy-Seven Brave Soldiers Decide to Die
British IndiaHindi Punch, weekly, cartoon page (Bombay, January 1904): 'United We Stand: Divided We Fall!'Content note
United States"The Yellow Peril" (Puck, 1904)Content note
Kingdom of Italy"Il congresso socialista di Bologna" (L'Asino cover, 1904)
United KingdomNsala of Wala, with his daughter's hand and foot (1904)Content note
Empire of Japan"Yamato-damashii no gochisō" (Nihon banzai hyakusen hyakushō print, 1904)
BrazilGuerra Vaccino-Obrigateza! (Compulsory-Vaccination War!), O Malho cartoon
Denmark"Julen 1904": the first Christmas seal (Denmark, 1904)
British IndiaBharat Mata (Mother India)
Qing ChinaAnonymous Cantonese placard warning sedan-chair bearers not to carry Alice Roosevelt (Canton, 1905 boycott)
FranceFidèles compagnons du buveur : Misère & Mort (The Drinker's Faithful Companions: Misery and Death)
VenezuelaProclama que dirigió al país el 9 de Diciembre de 1902 el General Cipriano Castro (Proclamation Addressed to the Country by General Cipriano Castro, 9 December 1902)
British IndiaThe Bombay Gazette, 17 October 1905, page 5: "The Partition of Bengal" and the Swadeshi meeting in BombayContent note
SpainAl Frontón Condal: El Banquet de la Victoria (At the Frontón Condal), ¡Cu-Cut!
Empire of Japan民報 Min Bao, no. 1, article (Tokyo, 26 November 1905): plate of the Yellow EmperorContent note
German EmpireDeutsche Mütter, schützt Eure Kinder vor der Tuberkulose (German Mothers, Protect Your Children from Tuberculosis)
FranceIrrévocablement. Ouverture 15 avril. Marseille. Exposition coloniale (1906)
United KingdomPrivate Property: No Admittance to Philanthropists (Congo State), F. C. Gould
VenezuelaEl Cojo Ilustrado, fortnightly, no. 350, front page (Caracas, 15 July 1906): General Cipriano Castro, 'Restaurador de Venezuela'Content note
VenezuelaEl Cojo Ilustrado, fortnightly, no. 350, article (Caracas, 15 July 1906): 'Hoja de un diario: 4 de julio', praising Castro's triumphal entryContent note
Natal ColonyIndian Opinion (Phoenix, Natal), page 660: Empire Theatre resolutions against the Draft Asiatic Ordinance, 15 September 1906
United Kingdom"In the Rubber Coils" (Punch, 1906)Content note
BelgiumAn Answer to Mark Twain (Brussels pamphlet cover, 1907)Content note
United KingdomSinn Féin 'Éire' propaganda stamps (pair, 1907)
United States"As to Japanese Exclusion" (Puck cover, 13 March 1907)Content note
United States"The Scarecrow of the Pacific" (Puck, 1907)Content note
United States"The War with Japan" (Puck cover, 23 October 1907)
United KingdomThis is 'the house' that man built (anti-suffrage postcard, about 1908)Content note
EgyptThe Cairo Punch: The English Councillors (Sir Eldon Gorst and the ministers)
EgyptThe Modern Civilization of Europe: France in Morocco & England in Egypt (Cairo Punch supplement)Content note
Ottoman EmpireYaşasın Vatan, Yaşasın Millet, Yaşasın Hürriyet! (Long Live the Fatherland, the Nation, Liberty!)
Ottoman EmpireLe Progrès de Salonique, daily, supplement "La fête nationale", front page (Salonica, 25 July 1908)Content note
Natal ColonyIndian Opinion, page 382, article: speeches at the burning of registration certificates (Phoenix, Natal, 22 August 1908)
Empire of JapanKanpō (Official Gazette), no. 7592, front page (Tokyo, 14 October 1908): 戊申詔書 (Boshin Rescript)Content note
United StatesEl Renacimiento, daily, p. 4 article (Manila, 30 October 1908): 'Aves de rapiña' (Birds of Prey)Content note
United StatesThe fleet protects the nation - Prudential Life Insurance protects the home (Puck centerfold, 1909)
Switzerlandصور اسرافیل Sur-i Israfil, weekly, front page (Yverdon, 8 March 1909)Content note
Ottoman EmpireKalem cartoon of Abdulhamid II and his secretary ("Il y a mis du temps, mais il a compris")
Ottoman EmpireKalem cover: Le Chef de l'Armée Libératrice (Mahmud Şevket Pasha)
FranceBande Mataram (Paris), memorial page to Madan Lal Dhingra, 17 August 1909
German EmpireNegresse blanche / The white negress / Die weisse Negerin: Amanoua Kpapo (show poster, c. 1910)Content note
Kingdom of ItalyBuenos Aires 1910: Esposizioni Internazionali, Partecipazione ufficiale dell'Italia (Buenos Aires 1910: International Expositions, Official Participation of Italy)Content note
United KingdomTorturing Women in Prison. Vote Against the Government
United StatesRoosevelt in Africa (Selig film advertisement, The Moving Picture World, 30 April 1910)
Russian EmpirePersidsk. konstitutsiya (Persian Constitution): the Swan, the Pike and the Crab, Molla Nasreddin, 1910
Empire of Japan詔書 (Imperial Rescript on the Annexation of Korea), Korean translation, Official Gazette of the Government-General of Korea no. 1, p. 17Content note
MexicoLos sangrientos sucesos en la ciudad de Puebla: la muerte del Jefe de Policía Miguel Cabrera (The Bloody Events in the City of Puebla: The Death of Police Chief Miguel Cabrera)Content note
MexicoLa vuelta del desterrado (The Return of the Exile)
MexicoEntrada triunfante del caudillo de la revolución Sr. D. Francisco I. Madero a la capital de la república (Triumphal Entry of the Revolution's Leader Madero into the Capital)
MexicoViva Pascual Orozco, valiente luchador y fiel amante de rasgar la careta del tirano (Long Live Pascual Orozco, Brave Fighter Who Loves to Rip the Mask Off the Tyrant)
Qing China申報 Shenbao, daily, page 2, article (Shanghai, 12 October 1911)Content note
Kingdom of ItalyIl Tricolore Italiano in Tripolitania e Cirenaica (panorama of the battle of 26 October 1911)
MexicoSaludo y felicitación al Señor D. Francisco I. Madero al tomar posesión de la presidencia (Salute and Congratulations to Francisco I. Madero on Taking the Presidency)
United States"Keep off! Monroe doctrine" (T. E. Powers, 1912)Content note
Kingdom of ItalyTripoli è italiana! (postcard)
Kingdom of ItalyLa Tribuna illustrata, p. 264 (Rome, 28 April 1912): 'Gli avvenimenti della Tripolitania illustrati'Content note
United StatesThe Menace front page, 12 April 1913 (Aurora, Missouri)Content note
United States"The Feminine of Jekyll and Hyde" (Puck, 1913)
United StatesRegeneración, weekly, front page (Los Angeles, 16 August 1913)Content note
United StatesRegeneración, weekly, front page (Los Angeles, 30 August 1913)Content note
Union of South AfricaIndian Opinion (Phoenix, Natal), page 266: 'Natal Mercury's Comments' and 'The Durban Conference' during the coal-mine strike, 29 October 1913
MexicoEl entierro de Zapata (The Burial of Zapata)Content note
Russian EmpireDiagrams of the resettlement work, plate 66 of the Atlas of Asiatic Russia (1914)
United StatesGhadar di Gunj, verse pamphlet, cover (San Francisco, March 1914)Content note
Norway"Ned med militarismen - Leve socialismen" propaganda stamp (Norway, 1914)
United StatesThe unemployed
MexicoEjército Constitucionalista de México: billete de cinco pesos (Constitutionalist Army of Mexico: Five-Peso Note)
United StatesI.W.W. Hat Card
ArgentinaTercer censo nacional de la República Argentina, 1 June 1914 (allegorical census poster)
United StatesRegeneración, weekly, front page (Los Angeles, 11 July 1914)Content note
Austria HungarySlovenec, Nr. 168, front page (Ljubljana, 27 July 1914): "Avstrija se je našla" and "Živela Avstrija! Doli s Srbijo!"Content note
Austria HungaryPrávo lidu, no. 207, front page (Prague, 29 July 1914): "Válka Srbsku vypovězena" and "Válečný manifest"