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A group of grizzly bears get together. Some read “Nature Stories” and newspapers while others hold up signs: ‘We have survived a presidential outing,’ ‘Is the pen more pointed than the gun,’ “Would we rather be shot up or written down,” and “When it doubt, butt in.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-06-16
President Roosevelt holds two revolvers and fires at a dictionary, which has a variety of holes in it. Beside him is “amunishon from A. Carnege Skidoo Castel” and a bouquet “from the Simplified Spelling Board.” Ghosts of Geoffrey Chaucer, William Shakespeare, and Samuel Johnson come out of the dictionary. Caption: “What Mr. Roosevelt means is to scrap the English language. He is a patriot, not a pottering philologist.”—The London “Saturday Review.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-09-22
President Roosevelt fires a “tariff reform” revolver at the feet of “the trusts.” A “small producer” dog watches while the United States Capitol building with a money bag for a dome is in the background.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-12-30
President Roosevelt reads a book entitled “The Simple Life” and has a rifle beside him as he sits on a tree stump. New York Governor Benjamin B. Odell’s face is on a bull dog’s body while he looks up at a raccoon with the face of New York Senator Thomas Collier Platt sitting on a stump. Caption: The hunter—”If I only hadn’t proposed that peace conference.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-12-20
Secret Service agents chase a large President Roosevelt who runs forward. An African-American man with a bow and arrow watches from the side.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-12-01
Uncle Sam is thankful for the prosperity, reforms, and legislation brought by the Roosevelt administration.
1906
Black ink cartoon of Theodore Roosevelt wearing a fur-lined coat and feathered fedora with “Votes for Women” written on it. He is holding a bunch of flowers behind his back with the tag “From Your Friend T.R.” Roosevelt is knocking on a door labeled “Campaign Headquarters Woman’s Suffrage.”
Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site
1912-02-17
Political cartoon of Theodore Roosevelt, in his Rough Rider uniform, with his back pressed up to a wall and a brick in his hand. Above his head is a sign “To The Republican Convention.” President Taft is about to emerge from around the corner.
Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site
1912
President Roosevelt takes on “The Trusts” for the “Small Producer.”
Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site
1904-12-30