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Freshmen college students are being tested for “Beer Capacity,” on the “Cigarette Tester,” and the “Rah Rah Recorder” at “Sis Boom University.” Caption: The freshmen are taking their entrance exams.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1906-09-19
President Roosevelt, pictured with a cigar in his hand, greets guests at the White House. Many other guests appear in the background, dancing, smoking, and visiting.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-02-16
Archibald W. Conklin asks Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary if Roosevelt smokes. He does not think Roosevelt seems like a smoker.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-07-14
Paul Joseph Dashiell sends Theodore Roosevelt a pouch of “larb,” which Native Americans sometimes smoke in place of tobacco. He says that mixed with tobacco, it tastes and smells like campfire smoke. The pouch used to belong to W. Hallett Phillips. Dashiell thinks that Roosevelt will appreciate the pouch, because he appreciates the West.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-07-14
John E. Wilkie, Chief of the Secret Service, responds to dissatisfaction regarding the agents stationed at President Roosevelt’s Oyster Bay home.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-08-17
President McKinley takes a break to smoke a cigar while a wax figure sits at his desk to suggest that he is hard at work reviewing applications from office seekers who are clamoring in the background, hoping to get an audience with the President. Caption: A wax-figure substitute would enable the President to get a breathing-spell, now and then, from the onslaught of the office-hunters.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1897-03-31
A woman wearing a large hat smokes a cigarette and gets a manicure from a man wearing a suit. Caption: In the era of the suffragette.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1910-10-19
Print shows two fashionably dressed young women, one sitting in a chair with her left foot resting on her right knee, holding a cane and gloves, and smoking a cigarette. The other is sitting on the edge of a table, holding a paper with the word “Freedom” at the top; there is an alcoholic beverage between them. These liberated women are discussing a remark made by the husband of one of them the prior evening. Caption: “I had a row with my husband after the play, last night.” / “What about?” / “He tried to call me down for going out between the acts to see a woman.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1899-03-29
Many women in the “Mrs. P. J. Gilligan” bar smoke and drink at their leisure. Caption: For the benefit of those ladies who ask the right to smoke in public.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1908-03-18
George Wood Wingate, President of the Public School Athletic League, writes an open letter to boys across New York, urging them that, “You cannot expect success in life however well you may be educated, unless you have got a sound body.” Wingate recounts the successes of the league in holding hundreds of tournaments and games throughout the city. The articles were enclosed in a letter from Jacob Riis to Theodore Roosevelt, who supports the Public School Athletic League.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-05-01