Theodore Roosevelt commanding two large bears "Interstate Commerce Commission" and "Federal Courts" upon the Wall Street. Based on II Kings 2:23-24.
Source
Puck Magazine, May 8 1907 centerfold. available at Library of Congress
Date May 8 1907
Author Udo J., Keppler, 1872-1956
A bit of art about Teddy dealing with the panic of 1907.
"The panic may have deepened if not for the intervention of financier J. P. Morgan, who pledged large sums of his own money, and convinced other New York bankers to do the same, to shore up the banking system. At the time, the United States did not have a central bank to inject liquidity back into the market. By November the financial contagion had largely ended, yet a further crisis emerged when a large brokerage firm borrowed heavily using the stock of Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company (TC&I) as collateral. Collapse of TC&I's stock price was averted by an emergency takeover approved by anti-monopolist president Theodore Roosevelt. The following year, Senator Nelson W. Aldrich established and chaired a commission to investigate the crisis and propose future solutions, leading to the creation of the Federal Reserve System"