Courtship

Poem by Reinhold Lincke on courtship.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-11

Stacy 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A fashionably dressed, healthy young woman hangs on the arm of an injured football player. In the background, two hearty young men, a soldier and a sailor, home from military service during the Spanish-American War, and a young man, ill-suited for military service, are standing on the sidelines, no longer favored by the young woman.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1898-11-23

A dejected female figure labeled “France,” wearing a phrygian cap and a tri-color dress, sits on a bench, watching as a tall, blond queen is escorted by “J.B.” and “Russia.” There is a paper at her feet that states, “You are cordially invited to let bygones be bygones and attend a Peace Congress. The Czar.”

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1898-10-19

A young man and a young woman are sitting on a love seat. He holds her hand and appears ready to propose to her, while behind them question marks labeled “Tariff Question, Chinese Question, Armenian Question, Silver Question, Cuban Question, Venezuelan Question, Boundary Line, Mafia Question, [and] Bering Sea Question” hover in the air. Caption: “Questions” may come, and “questions” may go; but, thank goodness, this “question” goes on for ever!

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1896-03-04

This vignette cartoon depicts changes to folklore, fairy tales, courtship, and punishment, that will result from the cycling craze. Vignettes include witches riding bicycles instead of brooms, Father Time riding a bicycle, Cupid running over victims with a bicycle instead of shooting arrows at them, fairies on bicycles, and a cyclist’s nightmare in Hell.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1897-07-21