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President Roosevelt thanks Anna Roosevelt Cowles for the information on Mr. Harriman.
Resource Type:
Letter
Subject:
Harriman, Edward Henry, 1848-1909
Date:
1902-09-15
Description:
Leslie M. Shaw informs President Roosevelt that Shaw and his wife have received complimentary annual passes to railroad transportation from Edward Henry Harriman. He advises he did not know of the passes and is ready to return them to the railroad.
Resource Type:
Letter
Subject:
Railroad tickets, Railroad travel, Harriman, Edward Henry, 1848-1909
Date:
1903-07-17
Description:
President Roosevelt is still examining the candidates for Paymaster General and will not promise to appoint Mr. Boggs. Roosevelt would like to see Governor Odell and Mr. Harriman at Oyster Bay and offers to send a boat for use in their travels.
Resource Type:
Letter
Subject:
New York (State)--Oyster Bay (Town), Local officials and employees--Selection and appointment, Harriman, Edward Henry, 1848-1909
Date:
1902-07-08
Description:
Illustration shows a spider labeled "Interstate Commerce Commission" on a its web labeled "The Law" and a large fly labeled "Harriman" that is caught in the web.
Resource Type:
Cartoon
Subject:
Flies, Governmental investigations, Spiders, United States. Interstate Commerce Commission, Harriman, Edward Henry, 1848-1909
Date:
1907-06-19
Description:
President Roosevelt is most appreciative that Anna Roosevelt Cowles sent him the information about Edward Harriman.
Resource Type:
Letter
Subject:
Thank-you notes, Harriman, Edward Henry, 1848-1909, Reid, Whitelaw, 1837-1912, Root, Elihu, 1845-1937, Roosevelt family
Date:
1902-09-15
Description:
Illustration shows a man labeled "Corporate Corruption" and a baby boy labeled "Rail Road Scandal" lying in bed; another young child labeled "Life Insurance Scandal" is trying to climb into the bed. A man departing the room carries a doctor's bag labeled "Interstate Commerce Com. M.D.", and hanging on the wall above the bed is a portrait labeled "E.H.H." On a table in the foreground is a bank for "Other People's Pennies" and a bottle of "Legislation Drops".
Resource Type:
Cartoon
Subject:
Big business, Corruption, Physicians, Scandals, Sick, United States. Interstate Commerce Commission, Harriman, Edward Henry, 1848-1909
Date:
1907-01-30
Description:
Illustration shows Theodore Roosevelt as a hayseed from "Oyster Bay" being greeted by Edward H. Harriman as J. Pierpont Morgan and James J. Hill look on from around a doorway in the background. Caption: "Well, if this ain't Uncle Ted Roosevelt! How's all the folks at dear old Oyster Bay?"
Resource Type:
Cartoon
Subject:
Capitalists and financiers, Salutations, Trusts, Industrial, Harriman, Edward Henry, 1848-1909, Hill, James Jerome, 1838-1916, Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
Date:
1907-04-03
Description:
Illustration shows Theodore Roosevelt as an old washer-woman, scrubbing a young boy labeled "Flim-Flam Finance" with soapy water from a pot labeled "Honesty Soap". Three faces are visible in the puddles forming on the ground: Edward Henry Harriman, John D. Rockefeller, and one unidentifiable. Caption: (Regards to Pears' Soap).
Resource Type:
Cartoon
Subject:
Baths, Capitalists and financiers, Honesty, Laundresses, Harriman, Edward Henry, 1848-1909, Rockefeller, John D. (John Davison), 1839-1937, Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
Date:
1907-09-04
Description:
Article discusses the Roosevelt-Harriman controversy in which Theodore Roosevelt was said to ask for campaign funds from certain donors while running for his second term as president. With quotes from George B. Cortelyou and George R. Sheldon, it concludes there was no impropriety on behalf of Roosevelt.
Resource Type:
Newspaper Article
Subject:
Political campaigns--Corrupt practices, Republican Party (N.Y.). State Committee, Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919, Cortelyou, George B. (George Bruce), 1862-1940, Harriman, Edward Henry, 1848-1909, Sheldon, George R.
Date:
1911-12-24
Description:
President Roosevelt encloses a letter from Clarkson and hopes that Joseph Bucklin Bishop can speak with him. He discusses a letter sent by Secretary to the President Loeb to Edward Henry Harriman without his knowledge and comments on the railroad union protests that followed.
Resource Type:
Letter
Subject:
Industrial relations, Labor unions, Letters, Union Pacific Railroad Company, Loeb, William, 1866-1937, Harriman, Edward Henry, 1848-1909
Date:
1903-10-02
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