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A “Delegation of Prominent Citizens,” children, Rough Riders, and others await the arrival of President Roosevelt, along the railroad tracks, during his Western tour. Caption: Waiting for the President.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-04-05
A man on a rocking horse labeled “Wall Street” pushes a large cannon ball labeled “Roosevelt Boom 1904” towards the Capitol, flattening trusts along its way as others flee from its path. Caption: For mercenary reasons Wall Street opposes Roosevelt.
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1903-03-11
President Roosevelt greets a man “hidden” inside of a barrel. The man is saying, “Hush! I’m J. P. Morgan in disguise.” Behind Roosevelt and Morgan are several men labeled “reporter,” over which there reads, “Not a word of this must be printed,” and others labeled “detective,” one of whom is calling, “Silence!” Caption: Mr. Morgan always surrounds his movements with as much secrecy as possible and his stay in Washington today was no exception to the rule.–Press dispatch.
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1903-03-14
President Roosevelt is seen holding a shotgun labeled tariff revision. The Trusts stand in front of him using small business as a shield, not seeing Congress with a large bat coming up behind him. Caption: “He must be attacked from the rear.”
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1902-12-05
President Roosevelt is seen frantically looking at the claims of allies, international law, and various foreign language dictionaries as various countries clamor in more demands from doors, windows, and walls.
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1902-12-23
President Roosevelt is dressed as Santa Claus and trying to decide Yes or No to the question waiting in the stocking, whether he will arbitrate the Venezuelan Crisis or not. Great Britain, Germany and France look on anxiously from their hiding places under the bed. Caption: An anxious moment for the parties under the bed.
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1902-12-25
President Roosevelt is smiling at a startled woman labeled Senate and holding a proclamation for an extra session of Congress. A sink full of dishes labeled Unfinished Business sits in the background. Caption: Come Back and Finish Your Work.
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1903-03-03
President Roosevelt holds the “White House” and the “House of Representatives” as he rides a Republican elephant. In the background, a man—likely “Babcock”—says, “Hey!”
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1904-08
President Roosevelt opens his Christmas stocking to find “Hanna’s resignation as chairman of the National Republican Committee.” He says, “Well, what do you think of that?” Ohio Senator Marcus Alonzo Hanna stands in the background dressed like Santa Claus and says, “Such ingratitude! Merry Christmas!” Caption: Mr. Roosevelt: “It’s funny, but a fellow always gets something for Christmas that he doesn’t want.”
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1903-12-25
President Roosevelt speaks into a pipe that is connected to a U.S. map. The words “Roosevelt! 1904! Roosevelt!” come out of the speaker on the map.
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1904-01
President Roosevelt returns from Oyster Bay, New York, with a suitcase and is surprised to see a “post office scandal” mailbag sitting on his desk. A man labeled “Indian land fraud” hides behind the desk.
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1903-09-29
President Roosevelt holds a daily paper with the headline: “More graft in the Postoffice Department!” Caption: The President: “The Postoffice Department must be cleaned out!” Elsewhere, three men, labeled as “Grafters” hold a “bogus contract” and shovel money out of the Post Office Department. Caption: And they took him at his word.
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1903-09-12
President Roosevelt talks on the phone as he sweats profusely. A boy puts a telegram on his desk that reads, “Telegram: Pres. Roosevelt: ‘Bears on the run in Druid Hill Park: Killed one Monday.’ Police Sergt. Smith. Baltimore.” Secretary of War Elihu Root is followed by “department clerks,” bearing “important business” papers. In another section of the trees are “Hoi polloi with cameras and curiosity.” Finally, a group of “office seekers with recommendations and hopes” walk toward Roosevelt. Caption: The president is enjoying a much needed rest.
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1903-07-16
Lieutenant General Nelson Appleton Miles holds a paper that reads, “Order of retirement from active service,” as he walks away from Adjutant General Henry Clark Corbin and President Roosevelt, who both hold papers that say, “Git!”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-08
President Roosevelt holds a rifle and aims at a “presidential aspirations” apple in an “Ohio” tree that a bear–Ohio Senator Marcus Alonzo Hanna–happens to be in. Hanna says, “Don’t shoot! I’ll come down.” There is a sign in the background: “Private grounds. Keep off!” Caption: The president’s got a bear at last.
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1903-05-28
President Roosevelt rides on a train that is full of items: “grizzly cub,” “petrified pumpkin from Dakota,” “redwood log from California,” and a barrel “from Colorado Springs.” The box of “ostrich eggs” falls off as they head “to Pittsburgh 10 miles.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-06-03