Desks

A desk has a sign above it: “Announce yourself NOT a candidate here without a delay.” Below are two papers: “Under no circumstances will I be a candidate for or accept another nomination. Signed, Theodore Roosevelt” and “I have not been a candidate for anything but the confidence of the people. xxxx George B. Cortelyou.” There is a map of North and South America, a telephone, and several books, including “Bears I have met,” “Santiago and way stations,” and “More bears.”

comments and context

Comments and Context

Cartoonist Harold R. Coffman, later one of William Randolph Hearst’s “relief pitchers” on his chain’s art staffs, illustrating features and drawing occasional editorial cartoons in place of Winsor McCay, contributed clever elements to this drawing. “Make Way For Taft!” managed to say much about the breaking news story without picturing a single figure.

Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt sits at a desk in the White House

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1903-03-02

Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt sits at a desk in the White House

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1903-03-02

Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt sits writing at a desk in the White House

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1903-03-02

Historian Ray H. Mattison requests information about the location of the Elkhorn Ranch site from Hermann Hagedorn.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Creation Date

1949-11-03

President Roosevelt sitting at his desk in his private office.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1903-02-19

President Roosevelt sitting at his desk in his private office.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1904-01-02

President Theodore Roosevelt sitting in an arm chair at his desk. A globe and a bookcase can be seen in the background. Sold by Works and Studios.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1902-06-20

President Roosevelt sitting at his desk.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1902-05-26

Stereograph showing Roosevelt sitting at his desk in his White House office.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1906-07-09

President Roosevelt sitting at his desk writing.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1903-06-11

Theodore Roosevelt sitting at his desk.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1912-05-27

President Roosevelt sitting at desk in White House office.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1908-05-04

President Roosevelt sitting at his desk in his private office.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1904-03-17

President Roosevelt sitting at his desk with a globe in the background.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1903-06-11

President Roosevelt sitting at his desk in the White House.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1903-04-25

President Roosevelt thanks Carl Ethan Akeley for the letter and model of the elephant’s head that Akeley sent him. Roosevelt will also gladly accept the table that Akeley offered Roosevelt, and asks if Akeley would send it care of Emil Boas of the Hamburg-American Line. Roosevelt looks forward to hearing about Akeley’s plans for his own trip, and he will certainly try to get the elephants that Akeley mentioned if they are there and he is able to do so.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1909-02-28

Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt writes C. Grant La Farge about a variety of changes and repairs made at Sagamore Hill. She was glad to see La Farge’s wife, even if it was only for a short time.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-10-12

President Roosevelt is “really put out” after receiving the sketches from Hamilton Bell. The desk without logs is exactly what he wanted, but he has already ordered a different desk and requests that Bell send the wood he wants to the “Davenport people.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-10-04

Carl Ethan Akeley tells President Roosevelt that he has sent him a model of an elephant head instead of sending drawings and photographs as he had previously promised. Akeley has also made Roosevelt a camp table that he would like to send him, and asks where he can send it. Akeley plans to write to Roosevelt again in a few days about his trip to British East Africa and the elephant group for the American Museum of Natural History.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1909-02-26