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President Roosevelt stands on top of an elephant and throws a lasso. Speaker of the House Joseph Gurney Cannon, Indiana Senator Charles W. Fairbanks, and Illinois Senator Shelby M. Cullum try to escape the lasso.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-05-18
Illinois Senators Shelby M. Cullom and Albert J. Hopkins attempt to run away from Illinois Governor Richard Yates who holds a “my boom” kite. President Roosevelt stands outside the “White House” garden and invites Cullom and Hopkins into the “private political playground.” Caption: Just like those mean big boys.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-01
Clipping of an article about Senate proceedings regarding the Interstate Commerce Commission and Senator Benjamin R. Tillman and Senator Shelby M. Cullom’s options towards it.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-11-25
While Secretary of War Taft finds nothing to criticize in President Roosevelt’s letter to Senator Shelby M. Cullom, he offers an editing suggestion.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-01-11
President-Elect Taft informs President Roosevelt that he has written to Senators Eugene Hale, Shelby M. Cullom, Philander C. Knox, and George C. Perkins about the matter of establishing an embassy in China. Taft believes that if Roosevelt writes to Perkins and Cullom, they might be convinced. He hopes that they will be able to “steal a march” on Secretary of State Elihu Root and get this embassy established quickly.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-12-24
Senator Gallinger is taking up the “Crum case” during an executive session, with the hope of settling the matter. Gallinger asks President Roosevelt to notify certain senators of the importance of the matter.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-04-22
Article describes current standings for the upcoming elections and is against the use of patronage to manipulate politics.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-03-04
Senators Hopkins and Cullom recommended the appointment of Thomas Nevin Jamieson and supported their recommendation with many endorsements. President Roosevelt could not make another appointment under those circumstances, even with the subsequent contradictory reports regarding Jamieson.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-02-09
David B. Hill as the animal trainer Carl “Hagenbeck” performs a circus act with trained animals labeled “Murphy, Pugh, Chandler, Peffer, Morgan, Coke, Higgins, Stewart, Teller, Cullom, [and] Hoar.” Hill is standing at center with a bag of “Peanut Politics” at his feet. He holds a whip in his right hand and a string in his left, which is attached to a ring in the nose of “Murphy” as a dancing bear. “Pugh” as a monkey sits on the floor. The other animals are standing on short pedestals arranged around the rear of the cage.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1894-02-07
William McKinley, at the Republican National Convention, wears a royal robe and places a crown labeled “Nomination” and listing the states “Mass., Texas, Maryland, Illinois, Ohio, New York, Pennsylvania, Cal. [and] Va.” on his head. Charles H. Grosvenor and Mark A. Hanna are near him as high priests, and Herman H. Kohlsaat is a court page holding his robe. Paying their respects, on the right, are Thomas Collier Platt, William B. Allison, Matthew S. Quay, Thomas B. Reed, Shelby M. Cullom, and Levi P. Morton. A small portion of the convention hall is visible in the background.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1896-06-24
Print shows the interior of the “Bicycle Academy” which offers “Special Facilities for Presidential Candidates.” Trying out bicycles are several candidates labeled “Harrison, Sherman, Allison, Morton, Tom Reed, McKinley, Stewart, [Hill], Flower, Cullom, [and] Peffer.” Morton rides a motorized bicycle, Allison rides a tricycle, Flower has put his head through the front spokes, Stewart hangs on to a column, McKinley appears to be hanging onto Reed, and Hill’s tires are leaking air. On the wall is a poster for an “1896 Scorcher” cycle. Caption: The bicycle vote has got to be catered to, and the best wheelman will make the best run.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1895-06-12
Hopeful presidential candidates dance around the “Republican Presidential Nomination” maypole, hanging onto ribbons labeled “New York” (Levi P. Morton), “Maine” (Thomas B. Reed), “Indiana” (Benjamin Harrison), “Ohio” (William McKinley), with candidate “Allison” hanging onto “Iowa,” and candidates “Cullom” and “Sherman” in the background. On the left, David B. “Hill” is holding all the ribbons of the “Democratic Presidential Nomination” maypole.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1895-05-08
William McKinley sits on a white horse on a cliff, as the brilliant leader of a successful military campaign, with Mark A. Hanna standing next to him, holding a banner that states, “Three Cheers and a Tiger for Prosperity’s Advance Agent!!” In the valley below lie the casualties of the campaign, “Morton, Quay, Allison, Reed, Manley, [and] Cullom,” and in the background are John Sherman, Robert T. Lincoln, and Benjamin Harrison. “Manley,” Reed’s campaign manager, wears a Red Cross on his uniform.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1896-05-20
Grover Cleveland lifts a heavy weight labeled “Silver Question.” He has several medals pinned to his chest. With him are “W.E. Russell,” David B. Hill, Robert E. Pattison, Adlai E. Stevenson, James E. Campbell, and William R. Morrison. On the right, refusing to touch any of the weights labeled “Silver Question, Tariff Question, [and] Cuban Question,” are William McKinley, Shelby M. Cullom, Levi P. Morton, Robert Todd Lincoln, Thomas B. Reed, Benjamin Harrison, [and] William B. Allison. Uncle Sam is part of a large audience seated in the background. Caption: One strong man has shown his ability to lift the heavy weight; – now let’s see what the others can do.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1896-05-13
Fifteen delegates to the North American Conservation Conference are shown outside the White House. Left to right, seated: from Canada, Henry S. Beland, Clifford Sifton, and Sydney George Fisher (missing – E. H. Outerbridge, Newfoundland); from the United States, President Roosevelt; from Mexico, Romulo Escobar, Carlos Sellerier, Miguel Angel de Quevedo. Left to right, standing: from Canada, Robert E. Young; from the United States, Secretary of State Robert Bacon, Gifford Pinchot, Senator Shelby M. Cullom, Secretary of the Interior James Rudolph Garfield, Ambassador James Bryce of Great Britain, Secretary of the U.S. Delegation Thomas R. Shipp, and Senator Philander C. Knox.
Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site
1909-02
Assistant Secretary of State Loomis acknowledges communicating with Senator Cullom and Mr. Hitt concerning the resolution.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-02-08
Secretary of State Hay is sending a letter from Philippe Bunau-Varilla, Panama’s ambassador to the United States and President Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-01-20
During a visit by President Roosevelt to Abraham Lincoln’s tomb in Springfield, Governor Richard Yates of Illinois asked for Senator Shelby M. Cullom’s support in the upcoming political campaign. Cullom demurred that this was neither the time nor the place for such a conversation, and Roosevelt signified that he did not intend to enter into a factional fight in state politics.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-06-12
Quesada has agreed to extend the Cuban treaty but Senator Cullom has said the treaty might be ratified before the date fixed. Hay will wait for word from Cullom.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-01-21
Secretary of State Hay sends President Roosevelt a letter from General Bliss regarding his statement on the Cuban treaty given before the Subcommittee on Foreign Relations on a Cuban Treaty. Hay asked Senator Cullom for a printed transcript, but they are in short supply. Therefore, “Burrows will have to wait a few days for his ammunition.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-12-31