Cooking

Colorized stereograph of the galley on the USS Connecticut. Several sailors are cooking, cleaning, and supervising. Text on the reverse of the stereograph describes the work done in the galley.

Comments and Context

As printed on the reverse of the stereograph, “Another wonderful exhibition of Stereoscopic Art. This is the Cooks’ Galley on board the great flagship Connecticut. The sailor boys are told off to help the cook. The sailor in the fore part of the picture is cooking coffee in a monster copper boiler. Further back you will notice a long steel range, and the cook is way in the rear superintending the cooking. Everything is clean and bright and polished in the Cooks’ Galley, and is inspected three times a day by a commissioned officer to see that everything is right.”

Collection

Duane G. Jundt Theodore Roosevelt Collection

President Roosevelt stirs a pot cooking over an open flame at an outdoor campsite.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1903

The postcard features two Cracker Jack Bears making Cracker Jack. One bear stands on a case of Cracker Jack stirring something in a pot while the other bear carries a bowl of popcorn. The message on the back explains that the postcard was found by Mrs. Groff in Lincoln Park, Chicago, Illinois, on August 4, 1967. Number fourteen in a series of sixteen cards that were free to anyone who mailed in ten sides from Cracker Jack boxes or ten cents in “silver or stamps.”

Collection

Fritz R. Gordner Collection

Creation Date

1907

Theodore Roosevelt suffered an asthma attack but has recovered and is in “perfect health and spirits.” He has recently taken a walk in the country, visited a beer garden, attended an open air concert, and shot air rifles. When not studying, Roosevelt has been spending his time translating natural history, wrestling, and cooking.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1873-06-08

Photograph of the Civilian Conservation Corps camp kitchen with the mess sergeant (right) and an enrollee at the Roosevelt Recreation Demonstration Area.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Creation Date

1930-1939

A photograph of Grace Green Alexander cooking over a campfire with an unidentified man. Taken while on vacation in and around Yellowstone Park.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1908-1909

A large, bloated man, wearing an apron labeled “The Trusts,” stands next to a large cauldron labeled “Tariff Reduction.” Standing in front of him is a diminutive, emaciated man labeled “The Philippines” holding a cup labeled “25%.”

Comments and Context

Keppler’s cover cartoon delineates a contrast between a bloated trust figure (did cartoonists ever depict the trusts otherwise?) and an emaciated supplicant, representing the new United States territory of the Philippine Islands — evoking the scene in Dickens’s novel where Oliver Twist begs for more food.

Behind Keppler’s cartoon, uncharacteristically declining to address to complicated subtext, were roiling issues. Virtually every new “possession” of the United States acquired in victory over Spain in the 1898 war had issues that were separate and different than the others’. The logical factors of this situation were due to varying stages of development; commercial and agricultural health; traditions of trade and commerce with other countries of the world with and without the previous Spanish components; the profile of natural resources and manufactured products; and proximity to other countries.

Theodore Roosevelt takes a “sour satisfaction” in the failure of James Garfield’s “house-climbing feat,” because he likes to know that his friends are getting old also. Roosevelt also describes hiking, boating, picnicking, and camping with his family and friends.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-07-13