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Cyrus K. Stockwell has a series of sermons he plans to give that include the favorite texts of several famous people. He wants to include the favorite text of Theodore Roosevelt and asks Lyman Abbott to find out Roosevelt’s favorite text, or one of them.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-10-02
C. S. Young requests Theodore Roosevelt to sign his reply to the letter. He asks Roosevelt what the best-illustrated magazine account of his public career is to include in his scrapbook of prominent individuals.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-12-11
Cyrus K. Stockwell asked Theodore Roosevelt what his favorite text or portion of the Bible was, explaining that he intended to prepare a series of sermons titled “Favorite Texts of Famous People.” Stockwell expressed admiration for Roosevelt’s work and noted that including his selection would serve as an inspiration to others.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-09-07
A bingo board-like, twelve-frame satire of real and fictitious important figures shows: 1. Dr. Albert Frederick Cook, “Inventor of the North Pole,” 2. Herman Metz, “Who Discovered Brooklyn,” 3. “Professor Gloom-Bayside,” 4. “Col. Dillpickle Champion Pinochle Player,” 5. “J. Sargeant Gram Public Service Com.,” 6. Dr. Mary Edwards Walker, 7. “Major Joy,” 8. Theodore Roosevelt, wearing a pith helmet and identified as “Bwana Tombo-3rd Term Kid,” 9. “Bill Stam, Discoverer of Stamford,” 10. John Davison Rockefeller, labeled “Oily John, Inventor of the Soft Pedal,” 11. “Casey” of “Casey at the Bat,” and 12. “Col. Baum, Man Who Discovered Hair Restorer.”
This cartoon was drawn by Thomas E. Powers for the New York American and newspapers of the Hearst chain. The “Gloom” character is self-referential — Powers drew a popular series of cartoons for more than three decades called Joys and Glooms, where stick figures representing moods and reactions of readers and caricatured figures either pranced or sulked. Often they occupied corners of cartoons, a Greek Chorus of sorts.
Theodore Roosevelt, on his way to the “Hall of Fame,” passes between two rows of kings, emperors, military leaders, statesmen, and others, including, on the left, “Alexander, Nimrod, Caesar, Joshua, Solomon, Moses,” and possibly Ramses I, King of Egypt; and on the right, “Wellington, Washington, Napoleon I, Frederick the Great, Cromwell, Shakespere [sic], Luther,” and two unidentified kings, possibly William I and Richard I, kings of England.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1912-09-04