Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

A large crowd of people rush forward to the “Exchange Desk,” bearing Christmas gifts which they wish to exchange.

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1906-12-26

Senator Jacob H. Gallinger appears as a Dutch girl praying to the angelic spirit of Marcus Alonzo Hanna holding a ship labeled “Ship Subsidy.” Caption: From the gallery of privilege and graft.

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1906-12-26

The “G.O.P.” elephant holds a tambourine labeled “Stand Patism” and hands out free baskets labeled “Tariff Graft” containing a turkey, duck, or chicken to ragged figures labeled “Coal Trust, Steel Trust, [and] Wool Trust.” A long line of trust figures await their turn. Joseph Gurney Cannon, Nelson W. Aldrich, Joseph Benson Foraker, and Leslie M. Shaw appear in women’s clothing as the “Republican Salvation Army” singers, singing “There are no flies on Dingley.” A man labeled “Protected Monopoly” stands in the foreground, at the edge of the platform. Caption: Distribution of Christmas goodies by the Republican Salvation Army.

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1906-12-19

Joseph Gurney Cannon leads a procession including Nelson W. Aldrich, Joseph Benson Foraker, Henry Cabot Lodge, and Leslie M. Shaw who are carrying the golden ark of the Dingley Tariff, with figures labeled “Trust, Infant Industries, [and] Protected Monopoly” bowing as it passes.

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1906-12-12

The heads of Chauncey M. Depew labeled “Compliments of New York” and Thomas Collier Platt labeled “From the Empire State” lie on desks in the “U.S. Senate” chamber, with Uncle Sam scowling in the background.

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1906-12-19

In the interior of a frontier cabin, a long table is set for a Christmas turkey dinner. Around the table are seated several people, some of whom are surprised to discover an arrow stuck in the turkey, shot by a Native standing outside the open door of the cabin.

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1906-12-05

Santa Claus, labeled “G.O.P.,” reaches to place the “Star of Hope” on top of a Christmas tree trimmed with lemons, marble hearts, a stuffed bear “From Teddy,” two “Little Big Sticks” and a “Big Stick,” a ball of “Promises,” and three balls labeled “Gas, Guff, [and] Wind.” On a nearby table is Joseph Cannon as a “Joe in the Box,” a “Home made frosted cake from Uncle Joe’s Pantry,” and a book of “Fairy Tales by Uncle Sam.”

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1906-12-12

European leaders from England, France, Italy, Japan, Russia, Germany, Austria, and Turkey are among the crowd enjoying the entertainments at the “Casino Del’ Europe.”

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1906-11-28

Illustration shows rows of toys, dolls, teddy bears, soldiers and drummers, and trees.

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1906-12-05

President Roosevelt conducts the orchestra at the “Congressional Vaudeville” with a baton labeled “The Big Stick,” with two band members, Elihu Root and William H. Taft, performing “Overture President’s Message.”

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1906-11-28

Theodore Roosevelt, with halo, kneels on a burning pyre and is tied to a stake labeled “III Term” by tapes labeled “Popularity / Party / Pressure.” A crowd of on-lookers cheers in the background. Caption: “I can conceive of a situation that would compel Mr. Roosevelt, no matter how painful it might be, to accept a third term.”–Attorney-General Moody.

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1906-11-21

A game of chess is being played on the “[Depar]tment of Police” board, between a hand labeled “Political Pull” showing a cufflink labeled “Brass Check” and a hand labeled “Reform.” Some of the squares are labeled “Race Track, Suburbs, White Lights, Gambling District, Goatville, Financial District, Tenderloin, Red Light District, Lonely Beat, [and] Hell’s Kitchen.” The chess pieces are police officers, some in plainclothes, labeled “Crooked Captain, Inspector, Sleuth, ‘Fixed’ Captain, Honest Captain, Grafting Captain, Honest Inspector, Plainclothes Man, [and] Sergeant.”

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1906-11-21

The sun, wearing a football helmet, beams rays onto a football-shaped planet that shows a stadium with fans in the grandstands and a football game in progress. In the background is the outline of a young woman’s head looking on.

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1906-11-14

Theodore Roosevelt, dressed as a Rough Rider, leads a group of laborers, armed with shovels, to work on the Panama Canal. One man in the background wears a hat labeled “Jake,” perhaps referring to John F. Stevens, who took over the chief engineer position for the canal construction in 1905.

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1906-11-14

Cartoon depicting Theodore Roosevelt with his new granddaughter Grace on his lap, frustrated by the inability to play with a girl. Around them are mementos of his masculine avocations.

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1911

Theodore Roosevelt Jr. holds his two-month-old daughter, Grace.

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1911-10

Creator(s)

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Theodore Roosevelt Jr. and Eleanor Butler Roosevelt’s daughter, Grace, in her cradle.

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1911-10

Creator(s)

Unknown

Theodore Roosevelt Jr. holds his infant daughter, Grace, while his wife Eleanor looks on outside their home at 1942 Pacific Avenue in San Francisco, California.

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1911-10

Creator(s)

Unknown

Eleanor Butler Roosevelt wheels a baby carriage holding her infant daughter, Grace.

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1911

Creator(s)

Unknown

Eleanor Butler Roosevelt’s calling card printed with “Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, Junior” and her address in San Francisco “One thousand, nine hundred and forty-two Pacific Avenue”.

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1911

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Eleanor Butler, 1889-1960