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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to E. W. Bloomingdale

Theodore Roosevelt does not believe The Outlook intends to attack department stores. Instead, he and the periodical feel that big stores should treat their employees with “scrupulous justice and consideration” like any other employer. Roosevelt thanks E. W. Bloomingdale for pointing out the pages in the federal report about women and child workers. He will show them to Lawrence F. Abbott.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-08-01

Letter from E. W. Bloomingdale to Theodore Roosevelt

E. W. Bloomingdale feels that recent articles in The Outlook appear prejudiced against department stores. He sends Theodore Roosevelt a federal report.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-07-31

Postcard to John Stephen Bond

The Roosevelt bears in the department store. Number 9 in a series of postcards depicting scenes from Seymour Eaton’s “Roosevelt Bears” books. Postcard sent to John Stephen Bond by his father with the message “Hope the candy pills made you well.”

Collection

Fritz R. Gordner Collection

Creation Date

1908-12-09

The greatest department store on earth; – and every day a bargain day

Print shows Uncle Sam standing behind the counter at “Uncle Sam’s Department Store” where there is a “Great Sale Now Going On Inside.” The store is filled with representatives of “Germany, England, France, Russia, Italy, Mexico, Japan, China, Austria” and Turkey, who are anxious to purchase such commodities as “Steel Rails, Machinery, Provisions, Agricultural Implements, Clothing, Scientific Instruments, Chemicals, Grain, [and] Tools”, as well as battleships, railroad bridges, and locomotives. Uncle Sam is doing a brisk business.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1899-11-29

The toy department

A crowd of parents and children shop in the toy department of a department store at Christmas, where Santa Claus surrounded by a group of parents. Caption: “Bring the little ones; let them enjoy this wonderful Christmas Carnival to their hearts’ content.”–Extract from a department store adv.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1913-12-17