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Newspaper article reviewing President Roosevelt’s article entitled, “Reform Through Social Work: Some Forces That Tell for Decency in New York City.” Roosevelt praises philanthropy and the work of F. Norton Goddard.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-10-29
Theodore Roosevelt responds to a letter from John Adams Kingsbury, commissioner of public charities for the City of New York, appealing for Roosevelt to endorse a program proposed by philanthropist Adolph Lewisohn and others. Roosevelt tells Kingsbury that he is occupied with the great national issues of military readiness and international duty, and he simply cannot take up every fight that is brought to his attention.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1916-05-12
Print shows an interior view of the office at a charitable organization. A bloated manager sits at a desk with his feet on top. In the background, several men hold open a large money bag to catch money flowing from a large cornucopia labeled “Charity.” The money goes down a chute “For Salaries, Office Rent, and Miscellaneous Expenses.” A couple pennies spill from a smaller chute into a basket “For Actual Relief of the Poor.”
Caption: Too often its benefits go to the organizers.
Vignettes show messages sent from various cities to philanthropist Andrew Carnegie, along with the scenic postcard views each is requesting: a mountain for Chicago, caves in Philadelphia (where the sun is too bright), a river connecting the Gulf of Mexico with the Pacific Ocean, a fountain of beer for Milwaukee, a sun in Pittsburgh (where the smog is too thick for the natural sun to penetrate), a “Palm Beach” oasis for the Eskimos, and a “natural bridge” crossing the East River into Brooklyn, New York. Caption: His gift of a lake to Princeton suggests other deficiencies of nature which Carnegie may supply.
This double-page cartoon by L. M. Glackens is an example of Puck‘s increasing reliance of humorous current-event news commentaries, with vignettes surrounding a major theme.
Upon receiving President Roosevelt’s $25.00 check for afflicted orphans, the Pastor of Grace Reformed Church asks permission to forward it to the orphanage, so that the orphans will know that the Chief Executive is thinking of them.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-12-08
George Cabot Lee has given a letter of introduction to John H. Storer who would like to interest President Roosevelt in a charity.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-03-06
Corinne Roosevelt Robinson writes on behalf of Sybil Kane, sister of former Rough Rider Captain Woodbury Kane, who would appreciate President Roosevelt’s autograph on several books for the benefit of a charity. She regrets asking her brother for so many autographs, so she attempts to go through George B. Cortelyou.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-12-06