A California vista
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Unknown
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English
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California
Irrigating an orange grove
Oranges and snow, the winter of California
Midwinter in California
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Unknown
Creator(s)
Newman Post Card Co.; Myers, Myrtle L. O'Dell, 1880-1959
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Circular Bridge, 400 ft. above lower track, Mt. Lowe Railway, California “On the Road of a Thousand Wonders”
Colorized postcard showing a bridge above a cliff with a railway track below.
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A midwinter scene in California Old Baldy from the orange groves
News & Notes
Variety defines this edition of “News & Notes.” The section highlights numerous ceremonies, celebrations, and exhibitions to mark the ongoing centennial observation of Theodore Roosevelt’s presidency. It also covers the Fourth of July celebration in Oyster Bay, New York, the dedication of a plaque commemorating the attempt on Roosevelt’s life in October 1912 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and the 50th anniversary of the opening of Sagamore Hill to the public. “News & Notes” also notes the death of Doris Albert Budner, the struggles of a Rough Rider museum in New Mexico, and the publication of an article by the Cato Institute that criticizes Roosevelt.
The section contains three text boxes with quotations and excerpts from Roosevelt’s writings, and it is supplemented by four photographs, including two of humorist Mo Rocca at Sagamore Hill.
Letter from John Edward Raker to Arno B. Cammerer
Representative Raker sends Assistant Director of the National Park Service Cammerer a letter to forward to Director of the National Park Service Stephen Tyng Mather. Raker hopes that Mather will be able to meet with Arthur L. Conard when he is visits California later in the year.
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Creation Date
1919-09-18
Letter from ‘Abdul-Bahá to Lua Getsinger
Lua Getsinger transcribes a letter to her from ‘Abdul-Bahá in which he urges her to bear the difficulties she has experienced in California, but accepts that she can return to him if she desires.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1911
There are twenty-three of them
There are twenty-three constitutional amendments up for vote at the October 10, 1911 California state special election.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1911-09-19
The sacred principles of free government; William W. Morrow’s speech
The Argonaut reports on William W. Morrow’s speech The Judiciary given at a dinner with William H. Taft and discusses the remarks made by Morrow on justices. Morrow’s speech is printed where he discusses justice power dating back to the American Revolution.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1911-10-21
California Gloria
Handwritten lyrics to a song in praise of California. The author mentions several symbols of California, including grizzly bears and poppy flowers.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1911-03-29
Nevada: battle-born
Justice Norcross outlines the history of Nevada, starting with Secretary of War Charles A. Dana’s account of President Abraham Lincoln’s fight to make it a state so that it could support a constitutional amendment abolishing slavery. Norcross goes on to describe the rich mineral resources of the state, its contributions to the country, and the current troubles it faces, especially regarding transportation and railroad rates.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1909-11
Charles W. McMurran returns
Charles. W. McMurran returned from a trip to Palm Beach, where he interviewed Richard Croker about the New York Senatorial situation. McMurran notes that wealthy New Yorkers are likely to live in Florida or California during the winter.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1911-03-25
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt feels that the gubernatorial election in California is a matter of national concern, and writes on behalf of Hiram Johnson. Roosevelt feels that Johnson’s election would mean “the most terrible possible blow against the domination of the special interests in politics, and his defeat would be hailed with joy by every man who believes in perpetuating in this country the rule of that combination of crooked politics and of crooked finance, which is above all else dangerous to the future of this Republic.” Roosevelt heartily endorses Johnson for the myriad positive policies he stands for.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1910-10-03
Homeward bound
President Roosevelt rides on a train that is full of items: “grizzly cub,” “petrified pumpkin from Dakota,” “redwood log from California,” and a barrel “from Colorado Springs.” The box of “ostrich eggs” falls off as they head “to Pittsburgh 10 miles.”
Comments and Context
Cartoonist Walter R. Bradford, at this point in his career, was almost exclusively a humor cartoonist; even his political cartoons like “Homeward Bound” were sillier than they were partisan. At the time he also drew gag cartoons for Life magazine, and a Sunday comic page ridiculing revolutionaries, Fitzboomski the Anarchist. Ironically, Bradford would evolve into a cartoonist for radical causes in radical journals like Appeal To Reason and the International Syndicate of Baltimore.
Is there room in the bed for both?
President Roosevelt holds a book of “Jungle Stories” and watches two boys–“Japanese” and “Californians”–stick out their tongues at one another while sitting in a “California Legislature” bed with “anti-Japanese legislation” covers. Roosevelt says, “Stop it, I say, stop it!”
Comments and Context
At the end of President Roosevelt’s administration, anti-Japanese sentiment, never completely quieted, flared up in California. Two years earlier Roosevelt exerted enormous pressure and much time — diplomacy with the offended Japanese government and cajoling of California officials — to address the problems. Some Americans resented the pressure on jobs and the economy caused by Japanese labor; and nativist prejudice was involved as well. In some districts Japanese children were forbidden to enroll in public schools. In Japan there arose riots and protests against American residents.
Little Nemo!
A young boy–“California”–falls out of bed and says, “Help! Help! Papa, the Japs are comin’!” President Roosevelt says, “Hush, son, it’s only a nightmare.” Caption: He’s dreaming again.
Comments and Context
Nelson Harding borrowed from a popular comic strip in a competitor of his own Brooklyn Eagle for this cartoon. He was hardly giving free advertising to a rival (New York Herald) because the comics strip Little Nemo in Slumberland had swept New York City and much of the nation, appearing not only in Sunday funny papers, but in reprint books, games, and toys; and at the time of this cartoon was transformed into a lavish Broadway operetta with a cast of hundreds of actors and animals, and music by Victor Herbert.
Letter from Walter Fitch Price
California state senator Walter Fitch Price suggests that it would be good for the “charitably inclined” to make donations to lift the debts of the Golden Gate Orphanage and Industrial Farm.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1908-10-23
Letter from Christopher G. Ruess to C. Wilfred Bourne and Alice A. Bourne
Christopher G. Ruess, Chief Probation Officer of the County of Alameda, California, praises the work of C. Wilfred Bourne and Alice A. Bourne at the Golden Gate Orphanage. Ruess was pleasantly surprised by the good discipline and naturalness of life at the orphanage, and says that he is in the habit of recommending to the court that orphans get sent there when religion and temperament do not prevent it, and has not regretted this yet. He wishes that wealthy people knew of the good work the Bournes have been doing there.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1908-06-30