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President Roosevelt sends a special greeting to the school children of Pueblo. He thanks them for coming out to see him.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-05-04
President Roosevelt greets the school children of Santa Fe. He thanks the teachers for their work and speaks of the qualities of character that he hopes are being fostered in the children.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-05-05
President Roosevelt addresses the citizens of Albuquerque. He is impressed by the irrigation and by the efforts of the New Mexico territory to become a state. Roosevelt speaks of the importance of educating the children into good citizens. He also defines what it truly means to be a man.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-05-05
President Roosevelt greets the school children of Albuquerque.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-05-05
President Roosevelt greets the school children and Sisters at a Catholic school in Albuquerque. He had hoped to meet them at Santa Fe, where he participated in the baptism of the son of a regiment member.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-05-05
President Roosevelt thanks the Grand Army for their escort. He greets the children of an Indian school in Albuquerque and says, “The Indian who will work and do his duty will stand on a par with any other American citizen.”
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1903-05-05
President Roosevelt briefly speaks to the children and offers a special thanks to the teachers of San Bernardino.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-05-07
President Roosevelt briefly speaks to citizens in Watsonville, thanking them for their greeting. He states that he is most impressed by American unity and congratulates them on their children.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-05-11
President Roosevelt briefly greets a crowd in Dawson, North Dakota. He speaks about his time living in the Dakota territory and working on cattle trains.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-04-07
President Roosevelt speaks to a crowd in Clarinda, thanking them for the greeting and thanking the Grand Army of the Republic. He also greets the children, and speaks to them regarding play and work. Roosevelt also speaks about the veterans in the Civil War and their character.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-04-28
President Roosevelt briefly greets a crowd in Louisiana, Missouri, and congratulates them on their character and children.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-04-29
President Roosevelt speaks to school children in Sioux Falls. He believes in work and play and gives examples of character.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-04-06
Two governesses, each with a child, visit in the park. One woman is having trouble controlling a little boy who is frightened of a policeman standing in the background. Caption: Miss Dolan–Oi’m a-goin’ to lave me place! / Miss O’Toole–Don’t yer loike th’ choild? / Miss Dolan–Yis; but he’s thot afeared av a policemon thot Oi can’t get him near wan!
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1894-01-10
A bespectacled man wearing a top hat and overcoat stands in the street, holding a book titled “Old Sleuth the Detective.” Near him, young children are reading the newspapers labeled “Daily Scandal Monger,” “Morning Cyclone of Crime,” “Daily Rot, Daily Scooper, [and] Morning Scavenger.” Behind are newsstands labeled “All the Sensation Papers” and “Don’t Fail to Buy the Sunday Slop Bucket,” with headlines such as “How to Poison a Whole City,” “Murder,” and “Crime.” Caption: Dime Novel Writer–And they used to say that my books were bad for young peoples’ morals!
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1897-03-17
A large group of children in a nursery are fighting amongst themselves. They are labeled “England” and “Russia,” “Austria” and “Italy,” “Greece” and “Turkey,” “France” and “Germany” fighting over a child or doll labeled “Alsace Lorraine,” “Roumania” and “Servia,” and in the background on the left, “Denmark” and “Sweden,” and “China” and Japan. The mother of the house, an angel labeled “Peace,” looks tired and exasperated. There is a dead bird in a birdcage hanging on the left. Caption: Madam Peace–Goodness, gracious! – were there ever such troublesome children? They are always promising to be good, and yet they are always squabbling!
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1897-03-17
Uncle Sam helps four little girls labeled “Philippines, Ladrones, Porto Rico, [and] Cuba” onto a wagon filled with many other young children, including “Hawaii.” Two horses harnessed to the wagon are labeled “Liberty” and “Union.” An old man, wearing a hat labeled “Monroe Doctrine,” sits on a log nearby and asks Sam if the wagon isn’t getting too full.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1898-09-28
President Roosevelt briefly addresses the crowd gathered to see him in Brandy (now Brandy Station), Virginia. He says he has enjoyed visiting the countryside and seeing the people, especially the children.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-11-03
William McKinley, dressed as a nurse, perspiring, sits in a rocking chair with an infant labeled “Gold Standard” on his lap and another child labeled “High Protection” crying on the floor. Caption: “I’ve got to take care of this Gold Baby for my political living, but I love my own tootsey-wootsey the best!”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1896-09-02
A well-dressed couple sit on a sofa before a fire in the fireplace, with the spirits of three young children dancing around a Christmas tree. There are art-nouveau style furnishings (lamp and flower vase) on the table in the background.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1896-12-09
Vignettes show children leaving Sunday school on the left and walking to the movies on the right, with scenes depicting bad influences, such as “The Devil’s Recruiting Station” and the hazards of films that teach bad habits, such as “Where did you learn to crack a safe? At the Moving Picture Show.” Above the Sunday school is a bust of an angel; above the movie theater is a bust of the devil. Caption: From the Sunday-school to the moving-picture show is but a step.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1910-11-09