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A “Washington” woman gives President Roosevelt a big hug while Uncle Sam, who is standing by a vase of “welcome” flowers, watches. There is a sign on the wall that reads, “There’s no place like [home].”
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1906-10-02
President Roosevelt holds a “Roosevelt Speller revised edition” and crosses off the second “f” in “the tariff” on the chalkboard. Andrew Carnegie says, “That wasn’t on my list!” while Speaker of the House Joseph Gurney Cannon tries to pull Roosevelt back. Secretary of the Treasury Leslie M. Shaw says, “The unkindest cut of all.” Pennsylvania Representative John Dalzell lies flat on the floor while a “steel trust” and Rhode Island Senator Nelson W. Aldrich cover their faces.
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1906-09-01
Uncle Sam opens a “meat packing report” pot and holds his nose. President Roosevelt looks on and says, “It’s up to you, Uncle.”
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1906-06-06
A “meat packer” and a “beef trust” man sit outside of the White House covered in bandages. The “meat packer” asks, “Aren’t you glad Bryan wasn’t elected?”
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1906-06-12
Rhode Island Senator Nelson W. Aldrich and President Roosevelt shake hands. There is a “Roosevelt Aldrich rate bill” on the table.
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1906-05-25
William Jennings Bryan gives a “Big Bryan Boom” bouquet to President Roosevelt and William Randolph Hearst. Bryan says, “Gentlemen, I hardly know which to thank for this.”
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1906-06-24
Speaker of the House Joseph Gurney Cannon holds a gavel and holds the docile lamb of the “House” under his thumb. Meanwhile, President Roosevelt holds a big stick behind his back and watches as an unruly “Senate” goat eats the “railway rate bill.”
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1906-05-01
President Roosevelt sits at his desk and reads, “How to Bag Gray Wolves.” “Pilgrim’s Progress” and a small “Senate” man are on the ground. A sign on Roosevelt’s chair reads, “This is not the time to hunt bears. T. R.”
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1906-04-22
President Roosevelt offers Secretary of War William H. Taft, dressed in a baseball uniform and standing on the “political field” with a bat, a seat on the “supreme bench.” Taft says, “Just as I am getting in trim, too!”
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1906-03-15
President Roosevelt holds his big stick as he watched a blindfolded Benjamin B. Odell stand on the gangplank. Timothy L. Woodruff puts up his hand and says, “Give him time!”
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1906-01-23
President Roosevelt leaves the White House with a gun and a “Senatorial game bag.” He encounters a number of animal traps: “railway rate trap,” “Panama trap,” “federal ins. trap,” “Santo Domingo trap,” “Venezuela trap,” “German tariff trap,” “state interference trap,” and “campaign expenses trap.”
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1906-01-03
The Senate room, which has bear skins on the wall, is full of President Roosevelts.
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1905-12-27
President Roosevelt feeds various animals on the farm. A rabbit asks, “Where’s Loeb?”
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1905-12-30
President Roosevelt holds up a “railway rate problem” boy and grins. A boy, who holds a “tariff revision sentiment” hat, says, “I guess he doesn’t know I’m here.”
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1905-12-07
Old Mother Hubbard, labeled a “Washington correspondent” and a “press” dog open “the cabinet” and are shocked to read a sign that says, “Nothing doing. T. R.” Caption: “When she got there the cupboard was bare, and so the poor dog got none.”
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1905-10-26
Uncle Sam holds back “customs officers” and points Alice Roosevelt to “the open door” at the “U.S. Custom House.” An attendant brings gifts from the “Emperor of Korea,” the “Emperor of Japan,” “Philippine friends,” and the “Dowager Empress of China.”
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1905-10-22
President Roosevelt watches two men, who are standing in front of a football.
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1905-10-16
A number of men offer papers to President Roosevelt that read, “latest roster of Roosevelt’s cabinet,” “the message to Congress,” “the President’s Southern tour,” “reorganized cabinet,” “what the President will do to Congress,” “outline of Roosevelt’s foreign policies,” and “Roosevelt and 1908.” There are also three barrels beside him: “good advice from Neb.,” “good advice from Nebraska,” and “more good advice from Nebr.”
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1905-10-02
Uncle Sam and “Columbia” greet President Roosevelt and William Loeb as they return home.
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1905-10-01
President Roosevelt sits in his desk chair on “ye velvet rug” and looks at Richard F. Pettigrew, who holds a paper that reads, “I am an anti-Roosevelt Republican—R. F. Pettigrew.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-09-30