Berryman, Clifford Kennedy, 1869-1949

In the upper left hand corner, a man measures the door of the White House at five feet while Vice President Charles W. Fairbanks stands at six feet, four inches. In the upper right hand corner, Samuel G. Blythe, president of the Gridiron Club, stands as President Roosevelt and Vice President Fairbanks remain seated. In the lower left hand corner is a man dressed up as “Cuba,” and in the lower right hand corner Clifford Kennedy Berryman gives a chalk talk about the teddy bear with the caption, “Initiation Act.”

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Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-01-27

Senator Lodge encloses a political cartoon by Clifford Kennedy Berryman that he found amusing.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1912-05-14

Creator(s)

Lodge, Henry Cabot, 1850-1924

Charles D. Walcott, Secretary of the Smithsonian, is glad that Theodore Roosevelt agrees that the zoologist Edmund Heller should go accompany Paul James Rainey on a trip to South Abyssinia. Senator Thomas Henry Carter, chairman of the Senate Irrigation Committee, is writing a report of the committee’s investigation into reclamation projects in the west, which Walcott believes discredits work done during Roosevelt’s administration. If this is the case, Walcott is sure that the minority report by Senator Francis G. Newlands will dispute it.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-02-04

Creator(s)

Walcott, Charles D. (Charles Doolittle), 1850-1927

Ambassador Jusserand is glad to hear news about Theodore Roosevelt, and notes that he appears to be having a good time on safari. He jokes that Roosevelt should not spend too long there, because he will exhaust his hunting permits and the Smithsonian will run out of room for his specimens. He includes a cartoon from Clifford Kennedy Berryman depicting ladies wearing his trophies as a suggestion of what can be done with them.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1909-07-21

Creator(s)

Jusserand, J. J. (Jean Jules), 1855-1932

Speaker Joseph Gurney Cannon assures President Theodore Roosevelt that he played no role in the publication of a recent cartoon in the Washington Post and has told anyone who spoke to him about it that the drawing has “no foundation in fact.” The cartoon by Clifford K. Berryman depicts Roosevelt telling Cannon “You will be President,” but Cannon wants Roosevelt to know that he lacks “the Presidential bee” and is focused solely on the upcoming midterm elections. So that the cartoon does not become a distraction to the nation, Cannon wonders if Roosevelt wants him to release a rebuttal or simply ignore it.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-08-23

Creator(s)

Cannon, Joseph Gurney, 1836-1926

The front cover of this issue features a commemorative stamp issued by the United States Postal Service in 2020 to mark the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the nineteenth amendment in 1920. A postcard featuring the work of political cartoonist Clifford Kennedy Berryman that also addresses the topic of women’s suffrage appears on the back cover.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

2020

Creator(s)

Stahl, Nancy

James Bruns describes the corrupt practices, investigation, and trial of August W. Machen, a high ranking official of the Post Office Department. Bruns details the various schemes, bribes, and kickbacks that enabled Machen to become a rich man on a meager salary, and he covers the 1904 trial that led to Machen’s conviction, along with others involved in his schemes. Bruns highlights President Theodore Roosevelt’s pleasure in the outcome of the investigation and trial.

The essay is illustrated with seven courtroom drawings by Clifford Kennedy Berryman and one political cartoon.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

2007

Stephen E. Ambrose and Douglas Brinkley tell the story of the most famous bear hunt in American history: Theodore Roosevelt’s unsuccessful hunt for black bear in Mississippi that gave birth to the teddy bear toy. Ambrose and Brinkley provide political context for the trip to Mississippi, list the members of the hunting party, and describe the hunt of November 15, 1902. The article also describes Clifford Berryman’s cartoon depiction of the hunt which led to the creation of the teddy bear. 

A photograph of Brinkley and his wife, and three photographs of members of the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) distributing teddy bears at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital in New York City, accompany the article. A text box with the vision statement of the TRA appears at the end of the article. 

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

John A. Gable reviews Nathan Miller’s Theodore Roosevelt: A Life and claims that it “replaces all previous popular, general-audience biographies of TR.” Gable places Miller’s work in the context of the many other biographies of Theodore Roosevelt, such as those of Henry F. Pringle and William Henry Harbaugh, and he asserts that there is still a need for a multi-volume treatment of Roosevelt. The “Books” section also details the contents of Theodore Roosevelt: Many-Sided American, a collection of forty-two essays originally delivered at an April 1990 conference at Hofstra University. The “Book Notes” section highlights the work of Roosevelt scholars Douglas Brinkley, David G. McCullough, and Edmund Morris, and takes special note of two works on the Teddy Bear.

A photograph of Miller appears on the first page of the section.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

1992

Much of this lengthy edition of the “News and Notes” section, eight of fourteen pages, is devoted to the election, dinner, and ceremonies surrounding the 1991 annual meeting of the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) in Roswell, Georgia. The meeting news includes the conferring of the Theodore Roosevelt Distinguished Service Medal to Eugene P. Odum, the complete text of the medal’s citation, and a report on the state of the TRA by its president, Robert D. Dalziel. The section also includes three quotes from Theodore Roosevelt on nature and conservation and an announcement that an expedition will undertake to retrace Roosevelt’s expedition on the River of Doubt in Brazil in 1992. The reopening of Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Hall at the American Museum of Natural History, after an extensive renovation, the results of the TRA’s annual Teddy Bear Drive, and the conferring of the TRA’s Bertha B. Rose Award to Cornelius Boertien of the Roosevelt Study Center are also detailed. The section closes with a indictment of NBC television’s movie “The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw” for its portrayal of Roosevelt, labeling the program as a “stupid film” and “trash.”

The section includes ten photographs from the annual meeting, two photographs from the Rose Award ceremony, a photograph of Odum, and a photograph of the members of the Brazil expedition team. A text box noting that this issue is dedicated to Oliver R. Grace and an illustration of both sides of the TRA medallion supplement the section.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

1991

Paul Russell Cutright examines Theodore Roosevelt’s June 9, 1910, bird walk in southern England with Viscount Edward Grey. Cutright discusses the birding the two did in the Itchen River valley and New Forest, and he provides an excerpt from Roosevelt’s An Autobiography in which Roosevelt describes in detail some of the birds and their songs. Cutright discusses Roosevelt’s birding as a young man, and he highlights Grey’s speech and book about his birding with Roosevelt. The article concludes with a section on Grey and Frank M. Chapman retracing the walk in 1921.

A photograph of Roosevelt at Oxford University on June 7, 1910, appears in the article as does a reproduction of a page of the guest book of the Forest Park Inn showing Roosevelt’s and Grey’s signatures. A notice about the dedication of a historical marker in Mississippi denoting Roosevelt’s 1902 bear hunt also appears in the article.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

1987

John Lancos of the National Park Service (NPS) describes the Theodore Roosevelt Teddy Bear Drive first undertaken in 1986 to give teddy bears to children hospitalized during the Christmas holidays in New York City. Lancos describes the fundraising for and execution of the campaign, and he notes how people can donate new bears or funds for the 1987 effort. The second page of the notice features an advertisement for the campaign and lists places in New York City where teddy bears can be donated and the address to which donations can be mailed. The background of the ad features a Clifford Berryman cartoon of Theodore Roosevelt with a small black bear. A photograph of Lancos with members of the Theodore Roosevelt Association distributing teddy bears in December 1986 appears on the first page of the notice.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

1987

Creator(s)

Lancos, John

Cornelius W. Heine relays the story of the commissioning and sculpting of a bust of Theodore Roosevelt as Vice President for display in the United States Capitol.  He provides details about the sculptor, James Earle Fraser, and how he undertook his work, including shadowing Roosevelt in the White House. Heine also gives a brief history of the United States Capitol Historical Society which preserves and documents the history of the Capitol.

Two political cartoons by Clifford Berryman and a photograph of the Roosevelt bust accompany the article.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

1981

This brief article relays the history behind the Teddy bear phenomenon which began in 1902 in President Theodore Roosevelt’s administration. The article recounts the story of Roosevelt’s failed bear hunt in Mississippi and the subsequent invention of the Teddy bear by Morris Michtom. It discusses the Clifford Kennedy Berryman cartoon that inspired Michtom and quotes from a magazine celebrating the anniversary.  

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

1979

Creator(s)

Unknown