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John Hedge offers his services as “second cook” to Theodore Roosevelt’s officers. Hodge wishes to serve Roosevelt and “our Flag.” He describes himself as a “colored man.”
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1917-05-17
W. M. Johnson requests the position of officer’s cook or in the Quartermaster department with Theodore Roosevelt. Johnson is a veteran of the Spanish American War. The letterhead is from “The Negro Protective and Political League of Burlington County, N.J.”
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1917-05-15
David Campbell writes that he will notify Fred Campbell if Theodore Roosevelt wishes Fred to cook for him again, as he did in Cuba. He writes that he would consider an appointment as a physician in an African American regiment with Roosevelt.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1917-05-15
Photograph of an original picture of Civilian Conservation Corps company 2771 cook standing outside a camp building at the Roosevelt Recreation Demonstration Area. The photograph is part of a three-binder set of pictures taken by Chandler D. Fairbank, Civilian Conservation Corps North Unit foreman at the Roosevelt Recreation Demonstration Area, taken between 1936 and 1937.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1936-1937
A traveling couple is set upon by every member of the service industry – coachmen, porters, maids, messengers, busboys, and cooks – for some amount of remuneration. The cause is illustrated in the upper right, where the manager of the hotel tells his staff to extract payment from the guests in lieu of wages. The “hold-up” of a stagecoach takes place in the background on the upper left. Caption: In olden days the highwayman did the job himself; nowadays he directs his minions to do it.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1901-07-03
Photograph of a Navajo man in Kayenta, Arizona. Nicholas Roosevelt identifies the man as “Loco the Cook.” A horse can be seen in the background.
1913
Grover Cleveland, who wears a “What and where am I?” feather; Arthur P. Gorman, who wears a “I am out in the cold” feather; and David B. Hill, who wears a “I am still a Democrat—very still” all hold down the lid on the “Democratic political pot.” Two lobsters—William Jennings Bryan and William Randolph Hearst—are inside. They each hold papers. Bryan’s reads, “Bryan the apostle of poverty. Income $50,000 a year.” Hearst’s reads, “God bless out home. Hear$t who pleads for the suffering poor while he enjoys his life on his mother’s $50,000,000.” There is a picture of Thomas Jefferson on the wall. Caption: Democratic chorus—”If they e’er take off the lid the worst will be yet to come!”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-03
In a kitchen, a petite woman implores her muscular Irish cook to continue in her duties. The cook shakes her fist in defiance.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1883-05-09
Three cooks stand in front of a large hearth. One holds a large spoon labeled “Assembly Committee” and gestures to the others to stop. The second holds a bowl labeled “Special Grand Jury” from which he drops a handful into a large pot. The third holds a box labeled “State Senate Committee” from which he is about to add more ingredients to the large pot labeled “Investigation of the Department of Public Works, New York” heating over a fire labeled “Public Pressure.” A man thumbing his nose, who may be Hubert O. Thompson, appears in the steam.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1884-01-23
President Wilson is a chef roasting hot dogs labeled “Congress” on a grill labeled “Washington in Summer” at a beach, with bathing house and lighthouse in the background.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1913-07-16