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Governor Roosevelt thanks Captain Andrews for letting Roosevelt’s son Ted visit him and relates Ted’s arrival information. Ted would like to go on a bicycle but Roosevelt asks that they not travel too far.
1899-05-17
Police Commissioner Roosevelt encloses two letters for Avery De Lano Andrews to review. Roosevelt comments on an upcoming negative Herald article, inspired by Commissioner Andrew D. Parker and Chief of Police Peter Conlin.
1897-02-27
Chronology of the daily life of Theodore Roosevelt from January 1892 to December 1898. Notable events include the death of Elliott Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt is appointed New York City Police Commissioner, his tenure as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, the Spanish-American War, and Roosevelt’s gubernatorial campaign.
Theodore Roosevelt Association
1985
Colorized postcard showing three men on a bridge in National Park in Sydney. One of the men has a bicycle. Trees and other foliage surround the bridge on all sides.
Unknown
Photograph showing President Theodore Roosevelt standing in a carriage and tipping his hat to the crowds as he drives by in a parade.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1902-09-17
President Roosevelt rides a bicycle around the “prosperity loop” to a “2nd term.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-06-18
Sally Flandrau Cutcheon describes a recent bicycling adventure. Her neighbors are installing a telephone and she has ambitions to publish a book.
1896-05-26
Sally Flandrau Cutcheon asks Charles Macomb Flandrau to write more frequently. She reflects on “an eventful winter, with fires and fevers and everything.” Cutcheon describes a trip to Asheville, North Carolina, bicycling, and the latest novels she has read.
1896-05-01
This vignette cartoon depicts aspects of the cycling craze, such as “beneficial” or “injurious” to one’s health, problems with trying to dress appropriately and being excluded if not, the concern that “invalids, babies, and blind people” may soon take up cycling, and yet, despite the crowds, “the boom goes on.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1895-10-30
Grover Cleveland and Thomas B. Reed ride down the “Sound-Money Road” on a bicycle built for two, with tires labeled “Gold Standard,” and honking horns labeled “Ki-Yi Gun” at a small dog labeled “Silverite.” Caption: “In my opinion, Speaker Reed is the strongest and brainiest man in your (the Republican) party.” President Cleveland to Congressman Milliken, as per N.Y. World.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1896-07-01
A man and a woman wearing knickers and bloomers stand with a bicycle between them, shaking hands. To the right and left are examples of nineteenth century fashion.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1895-08-07
Print shows the interior of the “Bicycle Academy” which offers “Special Facilities for Presidential Candidates.” Trying out bicycles are several candidates labeled “Harrison, Sherman, Allison, Morton, Tom Reed, McKinley, Stewart, [Hill], Flower, Cullom, [and] Peffer.” Morton rides a motorized bicycle, Allison rides a tricycle, Flower has put his head through the front spokes, Stewart hangs on to a column, McKinley appears to be hanging onto Reed, and Hill’s tires are leaking air. On the wall is a poster for an “1896 Scorcher” cycle. Caption: The bicycle vote has got to be catered to, and the best wheelman will make the best run.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1895-06-12
A bicycle race is underway on the “National Track” with the man in the lead labeled “National Expenses” easily outstripping the second bicyclist labeled “National Revenue.” A man labeled “Dingley” is giving the second bicyclist a push. Caption: As run at present the man behind has no show.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1898-01-12
Puck, holding a lithographic pen, greets the New Year, a young woman labeled “1898” riding on a bicycle and spilling flowers from a cornucopia strapped to her back. An old woman labeled “1897” rides off on a bicycle into a dark and dismal background, stirring up a cloud of dust encircling two furies labeled “Bryanism” and “Hard Times.” Caption: “Good luck to you! No punctures, no breakdowns, and easy roads!”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1898-01-05
A gigantic man and a gigantic woman ride bicycles on a dirt road. They are road hogs, forcing other forms of transportation, mainly diminutive horse-drawn carriages, off the road.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1896-05-20
William McKinley struggles to ride a wooden bicycle with wooden wheels labeled “McKinley’s Financial Bicycle.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1896-04-08
Print shows at center, Uncle Sam as a policeman attempting to stop a bullfight, calling it a “brutal and degrading sport.” Vignettes surrounding the main image show a “Six Day Bicycle Race” with exhausted riders trying to continue, a “Foot-Ball” game with one football player jumping on another as medical staff carry off an injured player, “Pigeon Shooting,” “Prize Fighting” where the crowd cheers as a boxer gets knocked down, and a “Base-Ball” game where a baseball player is “Assaulting the Umpire” with a bat.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1899-07-12
This vignette cartoon depicts changes to folklore, fairy tales, courtship, and punishment, that will result from the cycling craze. Vignettes include witches riding bicycles instead of brooms, Father Time riding a bicycle, Cupid running over victims with a bicycle instead of shooting arrows at them, fairies on bicycles, and a cyclist’s nightmare in Hell.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1897-07-21
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.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1899-02-22
Puck rides a bicycle, carrying crutches and a large book labeled “Medical and Surgical Directory.” Tied to the bicycle are “Bandages, Splints, [and a bottle of] Arnica.” A long line of cyclists follows. Caption: Puck on wheels with all the modern improvements.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1883-06-06