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President Roosevelt sits at his desk with a paper in front of him and a sign that reads, “My busy day.” His “big stick” is leaned against the desk. All around him are bouquets from various states: Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Kansas, Minnesota, Nebraska, and “John T. Graves, Georgia, 3rd term.”
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1907-04-14
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.”
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1906-09-22
William Jennings Bryan gives a “Big Bryan Boom” bouquet to President Roosevelt and William Randolph Hearst. Bryan says, “Gentlemen, I hardly know which to thank for this.”
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1906-06-24
Puck gives a bouquet of roses labeled “With the Compliments of the People” to President and Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt.
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1902-12-31
Prince Henry offers bouquets of flowers labeled “Visit of Prince Henry,” “Christening by Miss Roosevelt,” and “Yacht built in America,” to Columbia who is holding a paper that states “British Canal Concessions.” In the background, on the left, John Bull is watching from a small, rocky island.
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1902-02-19
Theodore Roosevelt thanks Leah Shafer for her “beautiful bouquet.”
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1912-04-12
Theodore Roosevelt thanks the children of the Second Ward for their “beautiful bouquet.”
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1912-04-12
President Roosevelt congratulates Russian Ambassador Count Cassini on the jubilee celebration of his entry into the diplomatic service and sends flowers and a photograph from Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt and himself.
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1904-12-28
Photograph showing President Roosevelt accepting a bouquet of flowers from a railcar during his speech in Durant, Oklahoma Territory, urging preparation for statehood.
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1905
Photograph showing President Roosevelt accepting a bouquet of flowers from a railcar during his speech in Durant, Oklahoma Territory, urging preparation for statehood.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1905
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Photograph showing a bouquet of flowers.
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1906-03-09
President Roosevelt and William Loeb stand on a stage. Roosevelt wears a sign that says, “boquets here,” while Loeb’s sign says, “kicks here please.”
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1904-07-16
At the “Republican National Convention,” President Roosevelt presses a button that controls Frank Swett Black who holds a “nominating speech that approves T. R.” New York Senator Thomas Collier Platt and New York Governor Benjamin B. Odell sit beside each other on the stage while Speaker of the House Joseph Gurney Cannon receives shocks. Massachusetts Senator Henry Cabot Lodge holds up “the platform.” Indiana Senator Charles W. Fairbanks is on a wire and wears a sign that reads, “great vice-presidential slide for life.” All the delegates are puppets who vote for “Roosevelt.”
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1904-06-21
“Panama” and “Cuba” take a bow on stage as President Roosevelt, who is serving as an “usher,” brings two bouquets for them: “reciprocity (for Cuba)” and “canal treaty for Panama.”
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1903-11-09
Ohio Senator Marcus Alonzo Hanna hands President Roosevelt an “endorsement” bouquet as he looks at Ohio Senator Joseph Benson Foraker. On the wall is an “Ohio Convention” banner.
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1903-06-03
President Roosevelt arrives at the “New Union Station, Washington,” along with William Loeb. The latter is carrying Roosevelt’s “Big Stick,” on which is hanging a cage enclosing the dove of “Peace.” He also bears a shovel labeled “Panama Troubles,” a bag full of “Mistakes,” “Slips,” “Errors,” and “Department Scandals,” and a rifle. The new station, in the background, is the United States Capitol, with a “Tariff Wall” and a large man labeled “The Trusts Stand Pat” atop the dome.
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1905-10-01
President Roosevelt, standing on a stage, reels in a bouquet tied to a string that is attached to his belt. There is a sign on the bouquet which reads, “For T. R. compliments of T. R.” Caption: “We are the best ever.”—The accepting candidate.
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1904-09
Photograph of President Roosevelt in a crowd.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1906-02