Automobiles

Photograph showing a crowd awaiting Theodore Roosevelt outside of the Excelsior Hotel in Naples, Italy.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1910

Creator(s)

Unknown

Photograph showing Theodore Roosevelt standing in, and addressing a crowd. Many in the crowd carry American flags, some are seated in automobiles.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

Unknown

Creator(s)

Underwood & Underwood

Photograph shows group of police on horseback leading a line of cars through a snow-covered residential neighborhood in Oyster Bay, New York during Theodore Roosevelt’s funeral.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1919

Creator(s)

Unknown

This editorial page from The Chicago Evening Post contains a highlighted article nominating Theodore Roosevelt to represent the United States as a distinguished lecturer in Japan to speak on the topic of peace. The lecturer from Japan is to be Doctor Inazō Nitobe.

Other editorials and news items on the page report on criminal cases, politics, notable articles, and society issues.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-07-15

Theodore Roosevelt sits in the back seat of an automobile as another man climbs into a seat in front of him. The car begins to drive off, followed by another car. This movie contains the same scene twice.

Collection

Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound

Creation Date

1912

Creator(s)

Unknown

President Roosevelt and Chair of the Republican National Committee George B. Cortelyou ride in a car that Roosevelt drives. The hood reads, “Roosevelt Presidential Campaign—My own platform, my own chairman, my own everything—the self reliance.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-05-20

Creator(s)

Donahey, J. H. (James Harrison), 1875-1949

Coldwell S. Johnston, treasurer of the Continental Auto Manufacturing Company, sends President Roosevelt a photograph of Connecticut Governor Rollin S. Woodruff in one of the company’s cars. Johnston also encloses his business card.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-11-19

Creator(s)

Johnston, Coldwell S. (Coldwell Sidney), 1880-1956

An advertisement in the Saturday Evening Post for the Marmon-built Roosevelt car.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library Foundation

Creation Date

1929-09-21

Creator(s)

Marmon Motor Car Company

This advertises the Roosevelt automobile built by the Marmon Motor Car Company. It features a portrait of Theodore Roosevelt, along with a description of the car.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library Foundation

Creation Date

Unknown

Creator(s)

Unknown

The Roosevelt bears attempt to fix their broken car. Number 12 in a series of postcards depicting scenes from Seymour Eaton’s “Roosevelt Bears” books.

Collection

Fritz R. Gordner Collection

Creation Date

1907

Creator(s)

Unknown

At what may be the beginning of a parade, Theodore Roosevelt and other men crowd into an open touring car. Roosevelt removes a newspaper from the back seat, acknowledges the camera, sits, talks with men in a car, and shakes hands with a man outside the car. Several sailors crowd around the car as well, and Roosevelt shakes hands with one of them. A brick building or wall fills the immediate background.

Collection

Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound

Creation Date

Unknown

Creator(s)

Unknown

Theodore Roosevelt, in a dark suit, tie, and hat, stands next to an open topped automobile while in South Dakota.

Collection

America

Creation Date

1910

Creator(s)

Hannah, W. E.

John Campbell Greenway is glad that General Wood is in his section of the country. He can send a car and requests that Wood stop in Warren, Arizona.

Collection

Arizona Historical Society

Creation Date

1912-10-25

Creator(s)

Greenway, John Campbell, 1872-1926

John Campbell Greenway asks that General Wood and Secretary Garrison stop over in Warren, Arizona, to visit. Greenway offers to meet them at Osborn for breakfast and drive them to Fort Huachuca.

Collection

Arizona Historical Society

Creation Date

1913-07-17

Creator(s)

Greenway, John Campbell, 1872-1926

President Roosevelt is driving an automobile labeled “U.S. Government,” with Secretary of War Taft seated next to him in the front and Uncle Sam in the back seat. Behind them is the aftermath of their ‘reckless driving’: a wagon labeled “Panama,” a man labeled “Cuban Revolution,” and a cow labeled “Beef.” They have just run over a man labeled “Brownsville affair” and are headed for a chicken reading “Storer.” Caption: Chauffeur Teddy, – “Anything Ahead Bill?”

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1907

Creator(s)

Follett, F. M.

A macabre figure of the Roman god Mercury labeled “Speed Mania” leads automobile drivers speeding along country roads in an automobile race. They are being cheered by crowds even while having accidents and running over spectators.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1910-10-26

Creator(s)

Levering, Albert, 1869-1929

The new year, “1911,” arrives by airplane, while on the ground Father Time looks aghast at the airplane overhead and the wreck of his automobile labeled “1910.”

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1910-12-28

Creator(s)

Baker, A. Z. (Alfred Zantzinger), 1870-1940

An enormous automobile and driver stand in the middle of a rural landscape among a crowd of people who have brought many things that are of value to them, which they are offering to this new god of mobility. A path of destruction appears in the wake of the automobile, which is depicted beneath a black sky.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1910-06-08

Creator(s)

Levering, Albert, 1869-1929

Print shows a procession of animals riding bicycles and driving automobiles; at the center is a weeping horse being driven “To The Museum of Natural History,” his services as a mode of transportation and as a draft animal have been usurped by the automobile.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1899-02-22

Creator(s)

Pughe, J. S. (John S.), 1870-1909

An automobile driver tries to negotiate workmen in the roadway, children playing ball in the street and darting in front of automobiles, absentminded pedestrians stepping off the curb, and people exiting streetcars into oncoming traffic. Includes a lengthy caption about the hazards an automobile driver faces on city streets.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1913-01-29

Creator(s)

Crawford, Will, 1869-1944