Telegram from Theodore Roosevelt to Franklin H. Hall
President Roosevelt requests two saddles and corresponding bridles.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1901-09-30
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Bridles
Letter from George W. Crawford to J. C. Cook
George W. Crawford thanks J. C. Cook for sending him bridles along with the Ju-Jutsu attachment. He is pleased with the bridle and expresses that it is more useful than what Cook recommended, and fully endorses Cook in what he is doing.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1911-09-14
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Letter from Secretary of Theodore Roosevelt to Joseph Perkins
The Secretary to Theodore Roosevelt writes to Joseph Perkins to inform him that Roosevelt is not interested in buying a bridle from Perkins and is sorry not to be able to recommend Perkins’ services to anyone else. It was common for prisoners of the Montana State Prison, where Perkins was an inmate, to make and sell bridles.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1911-05-25
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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Thomas Henry Barry
President Roosevelt thanks General Barry for sending him the Russian saddle and bridle.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1906-01-04
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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to J. F. Schmitt and Daniel McUlvan
President Roosevelt thanks the citizens of Cheyenne for the “handsome saddle and bridle.”
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1903-06-01
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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Mary D. Lydick
President Roosevelt thanks Mary D. Lydick for the bridle.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1903-04-28
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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Henry Reynolds
President Roosevelt thanks Henry Reynolds for the gift of a hair bridle, which General Torrance has presented to him.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-10-13
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Letter from J. C. Cook to Theodore Roosevelt
J. C. Cook sends two bridles to Theodore Roosevelt and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt that were made special for them. He does not want anything in return but informs Roosevelt that his advertising managers photographed the bridles for use in the company’s catalog.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1911-12-04
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For better protection, wear blinders
Cartoon shows Theodore Roosevelt and Republican House Majority Leader Sereno Elisha Payne walking arm in arm between two billboards, “Help Cuba grant 25% reduction and double stock,” and “Notice! Help Cuba remove Dutch Standard in Tariff Law 1897 Paragraph 209.” The billboards are supported by posts “Sugar Trust,” “American Planters,” and “Cuban Planters.”
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1902
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For better protection, wear blinders
Cartoon shows Theodore Roosevelt and Republican House Majority Leader Sereno Elisha Payne walking arm in arm between two billboards, “Help Cuba grant 25% reduction and double stock,” and “Notice! Help Cuba remove Dutch Standard in Tariff Law 1897 Paragraph 209.” The billboards are supported by posts “Sugar Trust,” “American Planters,” and “Cuban Planters.”
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1902
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Remarks of President Roosevelt in accepting the saddle and bridle presented by the citizens of Cheyenne, and the horse presented by the citizens of Douglas, Wyoming, June 1, 1903
Theodore Roosevelt thanks the citizens of Cheyenne, Wyoming, for the saddle and bridle. He also thanks the citizens of Douglas, Wyoming, for the horse. The horse will be named “Wyoming.”
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1903-06-01
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The old bronco-buster
Joseph Gurney Cannon, on a bucking bronco labeled “Insurgence,” just barely hangs on with one hand while holding the “Party Whip” with the other. The saddle, labeled “Speakership,” is held in place by a strap labeled “The System.” The bridle is labeled “Patronage.” Caption: He can’t come back.
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1910-08-31
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In a hole; – and no “issue”
Print shows William Jennings Bryan as the Democratic Donkey with the bit end of a bridle in his mouth, trying to climb out of a hole constructed of blocks labeled “Aguinaldoism, Anti-Trust, Anti-Imperialism, Free Riots, Anti-Expansion, Free Silver, Populism, Calamity Cry, [and] Chicago Platform,” with the U.S. Capitol nearby.
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1899-12-27