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Photograph of the recreation hall used by Civilian Conservation Corps company 2771 at the Roosevelt Recreation Demonstration Area. The photograph is part of a three-binder set of pictures taken by Chandler D. Fairbank, Civilian Conservation Corps North Unit foreman, at the Roosevelt Recreation Demonstration Area, taken between 1936 and 1937.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1936-1937
Photograph of mess hall used by Civilian Conservation Corps company 2771 at the Roosevelt Recreation Demonstration Area. The photograph is part of a three-binder set of pictures taken by Chandler D. Fairbank, Civilian Conservation Corps North Unit foreman, at the Roosevelt Recreation Demonstration Area, between 1936 and 1937.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1936-1937
The dining room of the house where Theodore Roosevelt Jr. and Eleanor Butler Roosevelt lived at 1942 Pacific Avenue in San Francisco, California.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1910-1911
Vignettes illustrate the comforts of domestic life at home, with the central scene showing a man bathing in a bathtub.
“After Vacation” is typical of the non-political genre cartoons, collections of themed gags that by 1905 appeared roughly once a month in Puck magazine. They provide to later readers superb diaries of everyday life that might otherwise be lost to history.
William Randolph Hearst hosts a dinner for a gathering of cartoon characters at the White House. On the left, a dinosaur is eating a portrait of President Roosevelt. Caption: The inaugural dinner at the White House.
William Randolph Hearst is a fascinating American figure who dominated many fields he pursued and influenced various areas of American life. His father was George Hearst, a miner whose discoveries of silver and gold made him fabulously wealthy. A term as United States senator from California was one of his toys, as was the purchase of newspapers — one of which, the San Francisco Examiner, he gifted to his son after the latter was expelled from Harvard for lassitude and pranks.
The captain of an ocean liner offers a toast to his passengers sitting around a large dining table on a ship that is rocking a bit too much for most passengers. Caption: The Captain — Ladies and gentlemen, I drink to your very good health!
Cartoonist Ehrhart here makes a humorous, not political, comment on a contemporary trend, the increasing popularity of ocean cruises. Rising prosperity in the United States enabled this trend that joined rail travel and resort vacations among the upper classes. Steamship lines hurried their production of luxury liners — in England by the White Star and Cunard lines; in Germany by the North German-Lloyd line. In the United States, J. P. Morgan devoted resources to enter, and, of course, dominate, the transatlantic passenger and shipping fleets. After purchasing shipbuilding companies in Cleveland and Philadelphia but failing to secure federal subsidies, he bought into Great Britain’s White Star line, even hiring its executive Bruce Ismay. (In 1912, it was the White Star’s The Titanic that famously sank, and its chief, Ismay, who shamefully climbed aboard a lifeboat as many perished.)
View of the dining room at President Roosevelt’s summer home
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1904-07-18
Postcard showing the dining room in The House of the Seven Gables in Salem, Massachusetts. The room is fully furnished and decorated. To the left of the fireplace, a secret staircase is hidden in a closet. Charles C. Myers notes he visited the room on August 19, 1911.
In Charles C. Myers’s own words, “The old dining room and on the right can be seen entrance to the closet in which there is a secret entrance and stairway to the room above.”
This postcard shows Buckingham Palace’s State Dining Room, lavishly furnished with rugs, chairs, chandeliers, and a great deal of marble.
In Charles C. Myers’s own words, “A portion of the Kings Dining Room, finished in marble of all colors and also much mosaic work.”
Photograph showing the dining room table at Sagamore Hill.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1923
An African American man and woman stand in the dining room at Bulloch Hall, the scene of the marriage of President Roosevelt’s parents. Written on verso: Otey B. Mitchell, Bulloch Hall, dining room.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1907-03-27
Photograph of the dining room at President Roosevelt’s house in New York.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1923-12-17
Photograph of the dining room at President Roosevelt’s Washington, D.C., home with moose and ram’s heads on the walls.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1904
A wave labeled “Republican Voters’ Revolt” crashes into the dining room of a ship where “Cannon, Payne, Taft, Knox, Sherman, Root, Aldrich, Woodruff, Dalzell, Crane, Wickersham, Lodge, Parsons, Hitchcock, Depew, Hale, Elkins, Ballinger, Smoot, Penrose, [and] Cox” are dining, and upsets a dish of “Party Plums,” as well as a bottle of “Stalwart Grog.” Caption: “We were crowded in the cabin, / Not a soul would dare to sleep; / It was midnight o’er the waters, / And a storm was on the deep.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1910-04-20
George M. Robeson, shabbily dressed as a tramp, stands in a doorway. Joseph Warren Keifer, as a small dog with a cap labeled “Speaker” tied to its tail, stands behind Robeson, and on the floor at his feet is a broken plate labeled, “Appropriations $182,496,018 Administration 1868-76.” He carries a club labeled “Repn. Leadership” and branded on the palm of his left hand is the word “More.” His appearance in the doorway frightens the “Old Women” of Congress who were gathered around a table, drinking tea. Depicted wearing women’s dress are William Windom standing behind the door labeled “Congress,” John P. Jones spilling a pot of tea, John Sherman fainting, John Alexander Logan labeled “306” and supporting Sherman, J. D. Cameron also labeled “306,” Frank Hiscock, George F. Edmunds, David Davis eating an “Independent Plum,” B. W. Harris and Abram S. Hewitt locking the “Appropriations Pantry,” and William P. Frye hiding behind a chair. Uncle Sam and Puck appear at far left, running toward the building.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1882-07-12
Waiters Joseph Gurney Cannon and J. S. Sherman turn away a man labeled “Average Citizen” and a woman at the “Hotel Prosperity” dining room because all the tables have been reserved. Signs on the tables read “Reserved for Wool Interests, Reserved for Coal Trust, Reserved for Steel Trust, Reserved for Senator Aldrich and Party, Reserved for Cold Storage Interests, Reserved for Sugar Trust, Reserved for Ice Trust, [and] Reserved for Franchise Grabbers.” Caption: The Head Waiter — Sorry, sir, but all our tables are reserved.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1909-12-29
A photograph of the dining room at Sagamore Hill, Theodore Roosevelt’s Oyster Bay, New York home.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1912-1918