Primary Sources

Tea advertisement of Queen Victoria offering President William McKinley a cup of "the regal beverage" (1897)

Map titled "The Race That Rules On Every Continent but One" outlining the "domains of English-speaking people" (1901)

Photograph of U.S. engineer John C. Turk and his wife, attended by servants, aboard a private railroad car in Burma (1901)

Photograph of Joseph Earle Stevens in typical Anglo-Saxon colonial dress titled "How We Dressed for $2.50" (1898)

Illustration from the novel Between Boer and Briton of two cousins, Dave (American) and Will (English), meeting for the first time (1900)

Comparative depictions of Cecil Rhodes and Uncle Sam--"The Rhodes Colossus" (1892) and "The Pacific Colossus" (1898)

Page from the Sears, Roebuck and Co. Consumers' Guide advertising images of the Spanish-Cuban-American War, the Philippine-American War, and the Anglo-Boer War (1900)

Political cartoon mocking Rudyard Kipling's poem "The White Man's Burden" (1899)

Photograph of U.S. colonial Agricultural Secretary A. W. Prautch's display of Philippine products at a fair in Singapore (1910)

Political cartoon depicting John Bull as a third party essential to the American project of sectional reconciliation (1898)

Map of colonial Southeast Asia conveying the proximity of the Philippines, highlighted by the U.S. flag, to other colonies (1898)