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The wolf bent-on, meeting little red riding hood

Description: Image of Senator Thomas Hart Benton as the big bad wolf and United States President Martin Van Buren as Little Red Riding Hood.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: approximately 1840
Call number: priJLC_POL_002633
Creator: Last, Jay T(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Jay T. Last, 2005.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Red Riding Hood

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Image of Little Red Riding Hood with a basket of oranges on her arm and a flower bouquet in her hand standing in front of a fence; wolf, orange grove and mountains in background; wrapped Sunkist orange logo at lower right.

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An interesting family

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Image of a political cartoon caricature of United States President Martin Van Buren as an opossum; the marsupial, with a smirking Van Buren's head, rises on its hindquarters and displays in its pouch three of its "young:" administration insiders (left to right) Thomas Hart Benton, John C. Calhoun, and Washington "Globe" editor Francis Preston Blair.

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Disturbing a Martins nest

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Image of a satire on the administration of United States President Martin Van Buren (at right) referencing his alliance with political strategist Amos Kendall against Senator Nathaniel P. Tallmadge; Kendall (left) and Van Buren are at a table strewn with "discharge" papers; Kendall is seated below a painting of Andrew Jackson titled "Glory," and reads the "Globe" newspaper; Van Buren sits below a portrait of "Globe" editor Francis Preston Blair; Tallmadge watches from behind a curtain at center.

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Red Lion camp meeting

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Image of the Red Lion camp meeting held August 6-14, 1853, near Red Lion, Delaware; large quantity of tents in a forest centered around the pulpit with people and horse-drawn vehicles gathering under the trees.

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Rough Rider

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Image of Teddy Roosevelt as a cavalry Rough Rider in his military uniform and riding his horse, Little Texas.

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Dining room in the Huntington residence

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A table with six chairs around it, with three more chairs arranged against the wall. Four women stand in pairs looking at the portraits on the walls. The paintings are, from left to right, George Romney's Catherine (Halhead) Burton (1789), Sir Thomas Lawrence's Emily Anderson: Little red riding hood (circa 1821), and Sir Martin Archer Shee's Frances (Woodis) Borlase, later Frances Grenfell, and Pascoe George Norman Grenfell (circa 1804). MS notes on verso read "HEH residence as art gallery: dining room" and "L.A. Chamber of Commerce."

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The wolf bent-on, meeting little red riding hood

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