Dance

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.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-11-29

Creator(s)

Unknown

Invitation to President and Mrs. Roosevelt to attend a ball in honor of Alice Roosevelt in Manila, hosted by Percy G. McDonnell.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-08-12

Creator(s)

McDonnell, Percy G. (Percy Gilmour), 1875-1953

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.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905

Creator(s)

McCutcheon, John T. (John Tinney), 1870-1949

An invitation from Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt to Eleanor Alexander for a small dance at the White House.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1908-12-28

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Edith Kermit Carow, 1861-1948

A tall, thin old man wearing a top hat labeled “Father” serves as the maypole around which several characters typically featured in Puck cartoons are dancing.

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Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1905-05-17

Uncle Sam and Columbia dance in a line with figures representing “Cuba, Porto Rico, Labor, Capital, Farmer, Philippines, [and] Hawaii” at the entrance to the grounds of the U.S. Capitol, visible in the background. Puck is at center in the foreground.

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Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1900-11-14

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.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association

Creation Date

1985

Creator(s)

Moore, Robert J. (Robert John), 1956-; Theodore Roosevelt Association

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.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association

Creation Date

1985

Creator(s)

Moore, Robert J. (Robert John), 1956-; Theodore Roosevelt Association

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.

Collection

Fritz R. Gordner Collection

Creation Date

1907

Creator(s)

Unknown

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.

Collection

Arizona Historical Society

Creation Date

1908-12-28

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Kermit, 1889-1943

Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt invites Patty Selmes to Alice Roosevelt’s “little dance.” Roosevelt is pleased that Selmes will be able to visit.

Collection

Arizona Historical Society

Creation Date

1901-12-31

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Edith Kermit Carow, 1861-1948

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.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1898-03-16

Creator(s)

Keppler, Udo J., 1872-1956

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!

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1914-02-07

Creator(s)

Greene, Nelson

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.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1885-04-29

Creator(s)

Opper, Frederick Burr, 1857-1937

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.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1884-04-09

Creator(s)

Keppler, Joseph Ferdinand, 1838-1894

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’.”

Collection

Gregory A. Wynn Theodore Roosevelt Collection

Creation Date

1912

Creator(s)

Morrison, Will B., 1874-1937

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.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site

Creation Date

1905-03-04

Creator(s)

Unknown

Uncle Sam offers a bunch of celery as a bouquet to a turkey, wearing a woman’s dance costume, dancing on a stage.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1912-11-20

Creator(s)

Glackens, L. M. (Louis M.), 1866-1933

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.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1912-07-10

Creator(s)

Ross, Gordon, 1873-1946

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.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1912-03-20

Creator(s)

Keppler, Udo J., 1872-1956