Mr. Corti
An Italian gentleman of fashion in Paris about 1902. His name was Corti and he was a beau of Alice Green, Eleanor Butler Roosevelt’s aunt.
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1902
Your TR Source
Courtship
The rivals
A beautiful young woman emerges from a church on Easter. A cluster of well-dressed men, all eager for her hand, are waiting. Two of the men turn away a devil figure dressed in red. Caption: Who hath not owned, with rapture smitten frame, / The power of grace.–Campbell.
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1905-04-19
The Russian cross-roads
A diminutive Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia, wearing a fur robe, courts Medusa who is hiding behind the mask of a beautiful young woman. On the left, as if issuing from Medusa, storm clouds labeled “Chaos” are brewing over a Russian city. A more modestly-dressed woman stands on the right pointing toward a temple labeled “Progress” at the top of a hill.
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1904-12-28
Flirtation under difficulties
Uncle Sam offers a bouquet of flowers labeled “Reciprocity” to a woman labeled “Canada.” Uncle Sam is being held back by a businessman labeled “Trusts” whose feet are planted against a rock labeled “High Protection” and is pulling on Sam’s coattails, while the woman is being held back by a military officer labeled “Toryism” pulling on her fur wrap.
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1904-03-02
Flirtation
William Jennings Bryan escorts an old woman labeled “Dem. Party” on his right arm. Coming up behind them is “A.B. Parker,” well-dressed, wearing a top hat and overcoat.
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1903-03-18
Theodore Roosevelt in Boston: Shadows and sunshine
Stacey A. Cordery examines the “shadows and sunshine” of Theodore Roosevelt’s time in Boston while an undergraduate student at Harvard College. Cordery identifies the shadows as the death of Roosevelt’s father, his disenchantment with his natural science major, and his failed courtship of Edith Kermit Carow. The countering sunshine was provided by Roosevelt’s successful pursuit of Alice Hathaway Lee. Cordery looks at each of these episodes, especially the courtship of Carow and Lee, and she argues that these episodes were pivotal to Roosevelt’s life and career.
Four photographs appear in the text, including two of Roosevelt with Lee.
Collection
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
Creation Date
2007-10-27
Priscilla—”Why don’t you speak for yourself, Mark?”
Ohio Senator Marcus Alonzo Hanna, playing the part of John Alden, hands a bouquet of flowers labeled “Advocacy of Roosevelt” to the figure of the Republican Presidential Nomination, playing the part of Priscilla. Priscilla holds “1904” spun wool in her hand. Caption: Priscilla—”Why don’t you speak for yourself, Mark?” —Maybell in the Brooklyn Eagle.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1903-12
Creator(s)
We are getting there fast
A young woman wearing bloomers says good night to a young man at the front door. The young man’s mother, also wearing bloomers and holding a newspaper or magazine called “The Advanced Woman,” has come down the stairs to ask when the young woman will be leaving. Caption: Stern Parent–Willy, isn’t that Miss Bloomers going soon? – it’s nearly eleven o’clock! / Son–Yes, Mama; she’s just saying good night!
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1895-12-25
Creator(s)
The delayed dance at Hay Corners
People are gathered in a barn for a Christmas dance party. The fiddler arrives late, a bit intoxicated. Caption: Jabe Gormley–I got ‘im; I got ‘im; – but he’s been to two dances already!
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1895-12-04
Creator(s)
The phœnix-like “summer girl”
A female figure with wings rises from the flames of summer romances that are burning out as the season comes to an end. She leaves behind many broken-hearted men on the beach at a summer resort. Caption: She rises gayly from the ashes of her season’s conquests, to continue her deadly work as the “Winter Girl” of the near future.
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1895-09-18
Creator(s)
Both satisfied
A female figure labeled “Rep. Party” tries to choose from among three suitors labeled “McKinley, Reed, [and] Harrison.” Another female figure labeled “Dem. Party” is walking in the background with her beau, William Jennings Bryan. Caption: Republican Party–Isn’t it lovely to have so many eligible young men to choose from? / Democratic Party–Well, I’m satisfied with my present escort, – and I don’t worry about the future.
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1895-09-18
Creator(s)
The dear creatures
An old woman sits on a bench, holding a purse labeled “G.O.P.,” with Benjamin Harrison on the left and William McKinley on the right, vying for her attentions. Caption: Old Party (coyly)–Oh! you presidential aspirants are such flirts!
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1894-06-13
Creator(s)
The gay Lothario of Europe
A man labeled “Russia” stands with several women, representing various countries, around him. The women each hold a note from Russia proclaiming his love and affections. “Gt. Britain” is standing on the far left, the only one not to receive a declaration of love from Russia. Caption: Most of the ruling belles of the world have had rose-colored declarations of love from him, and he is still looking for fresh conquests.
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1897-10-27
Creator(s)
“Love me, love my dog”
Uncle Sam sits on a bench with a young woman wearing a coat labeled “Wilson Bill” and a hat labeled “Tariff Reform.” She is holding a bull dog on her lap that is wearing a collar labeled “Income Tax.” Caption: Uncle Sam–Well, you’re a nice girl, but I don’t keer fer yer pet!
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1894-05-16
Creator(s)
The latest suitor
An old man kneeling on a sack labeled “182,000 Majority in Pennsylvania for Galusha A. Grow” is proposing to an elderly woman sitting in a chair and holding a fan labeled “Republican Party.” Caption: Republican Party–After all, it might not be so bad to be an old man’s darling!
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1894-03-14
Creator(s)
Wed!
The Tammany Tiger, with a shamrock on his hat, hugs a woman labeled “New York City” atop a bridge support tower with a view of the Statue of Liberty in the background. Caption: “Does oo love oo Tigy-Wigy?”
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1893-11-01
Creator(s)
The national chaperone
A group of dejected young women sit at the beach with a mannequin labeled “Cost of Living.” The mannequin is dressed in the symbols of a lady’s needs, including white gloves, a fan, and the tools of home-making, as well as two tags labeled “Rent” and “Taxes.” Young men are standing nearby, pondering the group of women, but fearing the chaperone. Caption: “If you haven’t any money, you needn’t come around.”
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1909-07-21
Creator(s)
Uncle Sam’s summer girl for ’95
Uncle Sam flirts with a young woman labeled “The New Tariff.” She is holding a bouquet of flowers tied with ribbons labeled “Prosperity and Good Times” and “Increased Wages.” An elderly woman labeled “Republican Party” is sitting in the background. She appears shocked by Sam’s behavior.
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1895-08-21
Creator(s)
Xmas greens
On the left is a street vendor selling Christmas greens. On the right is a poem by H. A. Crowell titled “Greens to Sell,” and an interior scene with a young man kissing a young woman beneath mistletoe hanging in a doorway.
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1897-12-29
Creator(s)
One of the causes
Uncle Sam and John Bull ice skate with a young woman labeled “American Girl” between them.
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1898-12-28