Conversation

President Roosevelt looks forward to meeting Judge Wickersham and discussing the Alaska Territory.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

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1908-08-22

President Roosevelt informs Walter Chadwick Noyes that his commission as judge will be sent within the next few days. Roosevelt also tells Noyes how much he enjoyed meeting and conversing with him, and notes that the title of a volume they discussed is Moral Overstrain, by George W. Alger.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-09-18

President Roosevelt thanks H. E. Miles for the clipping he sent, and for his discretion concerning the discussions he has had with the president. Roosevelt expects to see him in Washington, D.C., soon to discuss a tariff commission and how Roosevelt can get Congress to act.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-07-29

Ernest P. Holcombe’s reports on his travels as special inspector to attend the hearing in the case of Holm Olaf Bursum v. Territory of New Mexico. Holcombe mentions his conversations with Judge Albert B. Fall, who was under the influence of alcohol. Holcombe details the proceedings of the Bursum case, which resulted in the Territory owing an amount of money to Bursum.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-09-19

Ambassador Tower encloses his entire correspondence regarding Edwin Lefevre’s desire to interview German Emperor William II. Lefevre wants to write an article in an American newspaper about the character and personality of William II and hoped to personally meet with the German emperor. Although it was not possible because William II was traveling, Tower informs Roosevelt that the Imperial Foreign Office was sympathetic to Lefevre’s intentions.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-09-17

Edwin Lefevre thanks Ambassador Tower for attempting to arrange an audience with German Emperor William II for Lefevre and only regrets that he probably put Tower to “some trouble.”

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-09-14

Ambassador to Germany Tower informs Edwin Lefevre that he brought Lefevre’s request to have a personal audience with Emperor William II to German Minister for Foreign Affairs Heinrich Leonhard von Tschirschky und Bögendorff, and provided him with copies of Lefevre’s correspondence. The German minister did not reply, except to state that William II does not intend to return to Berlin in the near future. Tschirschky und Bögendorff planned to write Tower in a few days.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-09-11

Edwin Lefevre informs Ambassador to Germany Tower that he plans to write an appreciation of German Emperor William II as a companion study to one about President Roosevelt that will be released soon. He is visiting Germany in the hopes of speaking with William II in order to gain a personal impression of him. Lefevre compares his study to H. G. Wells’s study of Roosevelt, which brought him great admiration.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-09-07

Nicholas Murray Butler is giving President Roosevelt the schedule of his upcoming trip along with the address where he can be reached. He wants Roosevelt to know that he will be meeting with the Emperor at Wilhelmshohe in August to discuss the interchange of professors and educational subjects. Butler is also congratulating Roosevelt on his role in the Japan-Russian matter.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-06-15

Two Mormon elders discuss another Mormon who has been found guilty of bigamy. Caption: Elder Heaperholmes–He has been tried by the church and found guilty of bigamy. / Elder Holikuss–Guilty of bigamy? / Elder Heaperholmes–That’s the judgment. He’s been married only twice.

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Comments and Context

Among members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints at the time of this cartoon, bigamy was more common than it is today. Mormons were heavily criticized outside of Utah and other areas where the sect dominated, and there were many laws proposed to restrict polygamy. Ehrhart’s cartoon — with the Temple and a horde of children surrounding one father in the background — jokingly suggested that Mormons disfavored those with merely two spouses.

Two boys talk on a busy city sidewalk next to a produce stand. Caption: Messenger — I didn’t do a t’ing but win a dollar an’ t’irty-two cents at craps, las’ night. / Bucket-Shop Office Boy — Put it all on Cotton, Billy, an’ stand fer a raise uv fifteen p’ints – I heerd de boss tellin’ a come-on ter sell short!

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Comments and Context

The context of this cartoon is a simple joke that even messenger boys could share in the nation’s prosperity during the early years of the President Roosevelt’s administration.

Two Irishmen talk in the street of a rural community. The son of one is taking music lessons, to the annoyance of the other, as well as the neighbors. Caption: Hogan — I suppose ye’ve heard me lad, Terry? He do be takin’ lissons on th’ clary-o-nit. / Ryan — He might betther be takin’ lissons on the sthame-dhrill. It’ud be more useful t’ him an’ a dom sight more soothin’ t’ the neighbors.

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Comments and Context

Walter Gallaway was one of Puck‘s cartoonists who virtually never drew a political cartoon or a caricature of a person in the news; he devoted himself to humor cartoons, mostly single-panel, and many with ethnic figures. He also moonlighted during the first years of the century, drawing cartoons and strips (one-shots, not recurring characters) for the Sunday color comic supplement of the New York Herald.

Two businessmen sit in an office discussing the success of the local trolley service. Caption: Visiting Magnate — Is your new trolley-line a success? / Local Magnate — Not as great as we hoped. Nearly half the passengers can get seats.

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Comments and Context

The cover cartoon by cartoonist Nankivell can be read as a humorous complaint about crowded public transit — a critique that probably will always be fresh.

A young woman talks with her father about the promises her boyfriend has made. Caption: Ethel — He has promised to give me every dollar he earns! / Papa — Better make him promise to give you every dollar he gets. He has a political job, you know!

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Comments and Context

This Ehrhart cartoon shows a father, a likely parvenu or nouveau riche knowing the value of a dollar, reminding his daughter of the difference between earning a paycheck and receiving a paycheck.

Two old farmers talk on the platform at a train station. They are concerned about farm boys leaving the farms for the city, as well as mortgages being held by banks outside the local community. Caption: Uncle Josh — The boys won’t stay on the farms no more. / Uncle Silas — No; an’ you can hardly expect ’em to. Nowadays, even the mortgages don’t stay on the farms.

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Comments and Context

Increasingly at the time of Gallaway’s cartoon, when Puck hit upon a good humorous gag, the magazine was inclined to bounce the usual partisan cartoon. But even a commentary about country boys leaving for the big cities had subtexts of politics or social commentary. The reference here to mortgages being held by distant banks, but also the threats of foreclosures.

Two young Irish women talk at a stand selling “Soda Water” next to a busy city street. Caption: Maggie — He’s going ter buy me an autermobile – dat’s wat! / Katie — An autermobile, eh? An’ where’s he goin’ ter git der dough? / Maggie — Well, he’s goin’ ter watch his chance an’ git run over by one, an’ den sue fer damages!

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1902-08-27

Two men talk in the yard of a rural home. Chickens in the yard scratch the soil and pull up the plants. Caption: Citimann — I see you raise your own vegetables. / Suburbanite — No! I simply plant a small garden so as to keep the chickens at home.

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1902-08-06

President Roosevelt chatting with a person on the deck of a ship

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1903-07-28

Theodore Roosevelt sends a message of thanks to social worker Henry Moskowitz in receipt of his letter and quotation, and he expresses appreciation for their recent conversation.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

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1912-07-22

Theodore Roosevelt tells Silas McBee that he looks forward to reading Brooke Foss Westcott’s book, and that McBee made a great impression on him. He hopes to see McBee again soon to hear about his travels in Europe.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-06-12