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The St. Cecile Lodge invites Vice President Roosevelt to their annual entertainment and reception on March 27.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-03-27
Chronology of the daily life of Theodore Roosevelt between January 1879 to December 1883. Notable events include Theodore Roosevelt’s engagement and marriage to Alice Hathaway Lee, his appointment to the New York State Legislature, and his first visit and buffalo hunt in North Dakota.
Theodore Roosevelt Association
1985
Chronology of the daily life of Theodore Roosevelt from January 1871 to December 1878. Notable events include the Roosevelt family’s trip to Europe and Egypt, Roosevelt’s entrance to Harvard, the death of Theodore “Thee” Roosevelt, Roosevelt’s trip to Maine, and Roosevelt meeting Alice Hathaway Lee.
Theodore Roosevelt Association
1985
Newspaper article reporting on the concert at Carnegie Hall for the benefit of the Masonic Home of Utica which consisted of professional performers as well as children from the home dancing and performing music. The concert raised over $5,000 for the Masonic Home and the children enjoyed their trip to New York City. Letters received by William J. Wiley, superintendent of the home, are also printed.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-11-29
In the top part of the cartoon, President Roosevelt bows to a seated “Congress,” who holds an empty dance program. Caption: Congress—”No, thanks, I think I’ll not dance.” In the bottom part, “Congress” finds herself with dancing with Roosevelt and a full dance program featuring variations on Roosevelt’s name. Caption: Mr. Roosevelt—”O, nonsense, come on. Get busy. Don’t be a wall flower.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905
Postcard with a rhyme about political life in Washington, D.C. Accompanying the rhyme are related drawings including a teddy bear, American flag, and dancing.
1907
Kermit Roosevelt thanks Robert Harry Munro Ferguson and Isabella Ferguson for the stockings and the picture of Martha Ferguson. Roosevelt describes his travels to New York, Ethel Roosevelt’s dance, and travel plans for the African safari with President Roosevelt.
1908-12-28
Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt invites Patty Selmes to Alice Roosevelt’s “little dance.” Roosevelt is pleased that Selmes will be able to visit.
1901-12-31
The Russian Bear plays a fiddle labeled “Politics.” Around its waist is a belt with papers labeled “French Military Secrets” tucked behind. A cord extending from its right wrist is connected to a restraint labeled “Treaty” around the neck of a dancing soldier labeled “France.” The French soldier may refer to (and looks somewhat like) Ferdinand W. Esterhazy who was involved in the Dreyfus Affair and the sale of military secrets to Germany.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1898-03-16
A man and a woman are engaged in a wild modern dance, with the woman flipping upside down, on a dance floor with nearby tables and patrons at a nightclub. In the background are a few bored men. Caption: Blase Gentleman (in background) — Aw, let’s go some place where it’s a bit lively!
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1914-02-07
Several wealthy men, “Gould, W. K. Vanderbilt, W. H. Vanderbilt, Sage, Cornell, [and] Cornelius Vanderbilt,” some dressed as women, hold ticker tape and dance around a may pole. Cyrus W. Field, dressed as a woman, sits on a safe next to the pole. Sitting on a bench to the left are Chauncey M. Depew playing cymbals labeled “Monopolist Music” and Whitelaw Reid playing a horn labeled “Tribune.” Behind them is William M. Evarts looking out a window in a building labeled “Millionaires Snug Harbor,” and in the background is a “Monopoly Mill” labeled “Stocks” and “U. S. Bonds.” Lambs gambol nearby. Includes verse.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1885-04-29
A woman labeled “Democracy,” wearing a blindfold labeled “Stupidity,” is being pushed by Samuel J. Randall toward a “Presidenti[al] Chair.” Several eggs lie in the way on the ground, labeled “Honest Naval Appropriation, Civil Service Reform, Honest River-Harbor Appropriation, Economy, Anti-Silver Coinage, National Banking System, Tariff Reform, [and] Prompt Legislation.” Two of the eggs are broken. Among a group of men laughing, in the background on the right, are John Logan, John Sherman, and William D. Kelley.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1884-04-09
Popular score, by Will B. Morrison, and lyrics, by J. Will Callahan, to a dance inspired by Theodore Roosevelt and his family, “The Bull Moose Glide.” Cover design features an illustration of a moose, head and rack, alongside a woman dressed in a star hat and pearl necklace. Both the moose and the woman are smiling. Orange and white on burgundy ground. Advertisement on front and back covers for “The sensation sentimental ballad, ‘My Dear Old Hoosier Home’.”
Gregory A. Wynn Theodore Roosevelt Collection
1912
Sixteen-page dance card for President Roosevelt’s 1905 Inaugural Ball. The dance card belonged to Elizabeth (Bess) Smallwood Lincoln, who attended Roosevelt’s 1905 inauguration. She was in Washington, D.C., at the time as a student at Washington Seminary.
Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site
1905-03-04
Uncle Sam offers a bunch of celery as a bouquet to a turkey, wearing a woman’s dance costume, dancing on a stage.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1912-11-20
An attractive young woman and an old, bald man dance the Grizzly Bear dance on the shore of a beach next to lobsters, crabs, and fish, as well as other beach goers in the background. Caption: Passé in the ballroom, but a novelty on the beach.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1912-07-10
A gunslinger labeled “Morgan” sits on the porch of the “Dead Mans Gulch Saloon,” shooting two handguns labeled “Control of Credit” and “Control of Bank Deposits” at the feet of three men labeled “Promoter, Business Man, [and] Banker,” causing them to jump. Visible through a narrow opening in the mountains (of Wall Street) is Trinity Church.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1912-03-20
In a banner across the top, men and women dance at a dance or nightclub. The banner breaks at the center and the women fall into prostitution, separating the bottom of the cartoon into two halves. On the left, a woman with clawed feet holds up a “Red Light” lantern with a skull-shaped bulb in her left hand while holding back dogs labeled “Disease,” “Insanity,” and “Suicide” with her right hand. Behind her is “The Potters Field” cemetery. On the right are two business establishments that appear to serve as fronts for illicit activities, as a line of patrons file out of a “Chinese Rest[aurant]” and into a waiting “Police Patrol” wagon. Caption: Small wonder there are protests against “The Grizzly Bear” and “The Turkey Trot.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1912-01-31
A group of country people dance around a large corn shock topped with money paid by tourists from the city boarding in country inns.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1911-09-06
Theodore Roosevelt writes to his sister Anna Roosevelt about recent happenings in Washington. He has been getting along well with President Cleveland and his new colleague at the Civil Service Commission, John Robert Procter. Roosevelt enjoyed his most recent White House and Cabinet calls. He and his wife Edith continue to socialize quite a bit, and they introduced the Bellamy Storers to Judge William H. Taft.
1894-01-07