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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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Comments and Context

This lively image of a determined President Roosevelt, clad in Rough Rider uniform and not in presidential formalwear, is iconic, of brilliant simplicity. It explains to readers the tenacity of the famously tenacious president, especially when he was confronted by challenges facing his pet project.

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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Comments and Context

Kessler drew this cartoon for the St. Louis Republic. By the 1920s he was drawing a human-interest panel cartoon syndicated to rural newspapers by Metropolitan Newspaper Features.

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

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

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1911-10

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

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

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1911-10

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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1911-10

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

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Creation Date

1911

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

Article detailing what an exemplary employee Theodore Roosevelt Jr. has been while working for the Hartford Carpet Company in San Francisco, California.

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

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1911-1912

An illustration depicting Theodore Roosevelt Jr.’s day working at the Hartford Carpet Company. He served in humble tasks at the company plants in Connecticut, Little Falls, New Jersey, and in San Francisco, California.

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1908-1910

Article describing the feast thrown for Theodore Roosevelt Jr. as he leaves San Francisco, California, to take a job as a salesman in a Wall Street bond house.

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1912-03-22

Editorial criticizing a San Franciscan correspondent of the Oakland Tribune for saying Theodore Roosevelt Jr. was at a party trying to ascertain everyone’s presidential preferences.

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1912

In these studio portraits, Eleanor Butler Roosevelt holds her six month old daughter, Grace, on her lap. In the scrapbook, Eleanor notes the photographs were taken by Walter S. Shinn, then with Campbell Studios.

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

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1912-02

From left to right: Mrs. John A. Hartwell, Baroness Natalie von Ohnesorge, and Grace Green Alexander pose in front of a mountain background.

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1912

Portrait painting of Eleanor Butler Roosevelt and her baby daughter, Grace.

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Creation Date

1912

Grace Roosevelt sits in a baby chair.

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

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1912-08

One year old Grace Roosevelt standing.

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1912-08

One year old Grace Roosevelt sits in the Roosevelt family baby carriage at Sagamore Hill.

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1912-08

One year old Grace Roosevelt stands in a coat and baby bonnet.

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1912-08

Eleanor Butler Roosevelt in what the caption says is her “best dress and hat”.

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1912

Eleanor Butler Roosevelt at a garden party at the William Bourke Cockrans. From left to right: unidentified man, Anne Louisa Cockran, Mrs. Oscar S. Straus, Roosevelt, William Bourke Cockran. A note written under the picture says Eleanor’s hat was from Paris and of the latest fashion.

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

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1912