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Russian Emperor Nicholas II and Japanese Emperor Meiji, who holds a “Port Arthur Manchuria” suitcase, hold the hands of an angel with President Roosevelt’s face. Caption: “Peace hath her Victories,” &c.—(Milton.)
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-09
President Roosevelt was very interested in Henry Adams’s letter about his sculpture, writing that he had simply taken it for granted that the statue was of a woman, but without attaching any importance to that fact, similar to the way the angels Gabriel or Michael are traditionally portrayed as male.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-12-17
Architect J. Stewart Barney encloses a letter written to Right Reverend Henry Yates Satterlee. Barney needs information for a lectern he is working on and Rev. Dr. Goodwin suggested that he contact President Roosevelt. He encloses a photograph of the model, apologizes for the quality of the photograph, and explains his design that symbolizes “the union of England and America.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-05-17
The front and back covers of this issue of the Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal feature photographs of a lectern presented to Bruton Parish Church in Williamsburg, Virginia, by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1907. The photographs highlight the carving of an angel which makes up much of the lectern.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
1996
President Roosevelt is dressed as an angel and blesses Louis Frisbie Payn. Beside Roosevelt is a “list of the forgiven”: “Morgan. Hill (J. J.) Gould. Harriman. Addicks. Platt. Black. Odell.” The door reads, “White House private—admittance by invitation only. T. R.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-07-01
Ohio Senator Marcus Alonzo Hanna and President Roosevelt both have angel wings and sit beside each other with grumpy expressions. Hanna says, “Quit yer shovin’!” while Roosevelt replies, “Aw, back up!”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-12
Secretary of War William H. Taft is dressed like an “angel of peace” and uses an olive branch to touch “Panama’s” head. Taft says, “Peace be unto you!” Panama responds, “Darn the United States!! She’s noggin’ me!!”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-10-30
On the left side, D. Cady Herrick is depicted as an angel. Caption: Herrick, the candidate. On the right side, Herrick wears a suit with a number of tags: “a desperate political operator” (The Sun), “an impropriety, a scandal,” (The Times), and “the associate of low and disreputable ward politicians” (The World). A “stuffed ballot box” runs after him and says, “You can’t lose me, D-Cady.” Caption: Herrick, the boss. The Angelic Herrick refuses to shake the hand of the political boss, who asks “What! Have you forgotten ME?”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-10-03
President Roosevelt and a Republican elephant wear halos over their heads attached by sticks as Roosevelt holds “the olive branch of peace.” Beside him is a bucket with a sign that reads, “Roosevelt’s letter of acceptance whitewash.” The elephant has been whitewashed and has a sign that reads, “The whitewash on this animal is wet.” There is also a lamb with a sign: “We have adopted this beautiful little lamb.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-09-13
Speaker of the House Thomas B. Reed is asleep at his desk, dreaming that Thomas Collier Platt and Matthew S. Quay, as angels, are coming to offer him the “Presidential Nomination 1896.” Caption: It beats Jacob’s ladder out of sight.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1896-01-01
An angel labeled “National Credit” with wings labeled “Sound Financial Policy” and “Repeal of Sherman Silver Law” rises above the flames of the wreck of the “U.S. Treasury.” Among the wreckage lie William McKinley bowled over by the “McKinley Bill,” John Sherman being crushed under the weight of large silver coins, Green B. Raum sitting in an empty safe labeled “U.S. Treasury,” with Benjamin Harrison and Charles Foster hanging onto the safe, and William A. Peffer among the lumber on the left.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1893-09-27
George F. “Hoar” sits with a broken drum labeled “Hawaiian Bluster,” Henry Cabot “Lodge” holds a broken rifle labeled “Behring Sea War Thunder,” and John T. “Morgan” sits with a bent and beaten-up bugle labeled “Nicaraguan War Blast.” A large female angel of “Peace” stands behind, spreading her wings over them.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1895-05-29
A large group of children in a nursery are fighting amongst themselves. They are labeled “England” and “Russia,” “Austria” and “Italy,” “Greece” and “Turkey,” “France” and “Germany” fighting over a child or doll labeled “Alsace Lorraine,” “Roumania” and “Servia,” and in the background on the left, “Denmark” and “Sweden,” and “China” and Japan. The mother of the house, an angel labeled “Peace,” looks tired and exasperated. There is a dead bird in a birdcage hanging on the left. Caption: Madam Peace–Goodness, gracious! – were there ever such troublesome children? They are always promising to be good, and yet they are always squabbling!
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1897-03-17
Print shows Uncle Sam leaning over a wall labeled “$50,000,000 For National Defense” and fashioned from money bags labeled with “$.” A tattered diminutive man, possibly representing Spain, sits on a rock on the lower left.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1898-04-06
Puck rides on a winged, white horse, holding a lithographic pen with banner that states “1000th Number.” He is led by cherubs with floral garlands and blowing horns. At top are many of the characters depicted in Puck magazine over the past 19 years. Includes light verse.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1896-05-06
An elderly man labeled “1898” carries a sack labeled “Nuisances” filled with diminutive figures labeled “Spain, R. H. Davis, Crank, Quay, Esterhazy, Paty de Clam, Mercier, Yellow Journal, Prize Fighter, Croker, Platt, Tanner, Aguinaldo, [and] Free Silverite.” Also shown is Joseph Pulitzer. Above are two angels carrying a putti labeled “1899” between them. One angel is labeled “Prosperity” and holds a cornucopia; the other is labeled “Peace” and blows a trumpet.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1899-01-04
A large angel of peace stands atop a monument labeled “Grant,” on which a Union veteran and a Confederate veteran are placing wreaths labeled “North” and “South.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1897-04-28
Theodore Roosevelt appears as a two-faced Janus chess game piece. On the left is an angelic “Roosevelt The National Savior” and on the right a devilish “Roosevelt the National Menace.” Caption: It all depends on the way you look at him.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1910-11-09
Print shows John Bull and Uncle Sam holding the earth aloft, with an angel of peace flying around it.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1899-05-03
A female figure labeled “Europe” sleeps among boxes of “Munitions of War [and] Ammunition,” large shells, and a barrel of “Powder” with a candle labeled “Ambition” as a burning fuse. She is dreaming about “The Czar’s Proposal for a Universal Peace Congress.” Her dream shows an angel holding up a banner labeled “Millennium” around which are dancing the symbolic representations of several countries. Among them are a fox, a turkey wearing a fez, a double-headed eagle labeled “Austria,” a cock labeled “France,” an eagle labeled “Germany,” the British Lion, the Russian Bear labeled “Russia,” a fox labeled “Italy,” a cat labeled “Spain,” and a dragon labeled “China.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1899-04-05