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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Anna Roosevelt Cowles

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Anna Roosevelt Cowles

Governor Roosevelt suggests that Anna Roosevelt Cowles host a dinner or breakfast with a given list of guests so that he can show the writer Frederic Harrison some attention. Roosevelt believes that Harrison will be in town from March 3 through March 5. As President McKinley is being inaugurated on March 4, Roosevelt states that date will not work.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1901-02-23

Eat, drink, and be merry

Eat, drink, and be merry

An angry, well-dressed man labeled “Monopoly” sits at a table, eating from a plate heaped with “Benefits of Protection.” Standing next to him is a minstrel holding a song sheet labeled “Tariff Reform Songster” and singing a song titled “Yo’s gwine t’get somethin that yo doan expect.” Caption: The Grouchy Diner — Confound these cabaret shows! They ought to be abolished!

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1912-12-25

“Merry Christmas, Bill!”

“Merry Christmas, Bill!”

Lame duck president William H. Taft is having Christmas dinner at the White House, served by the Republican elephant, when the Democratic donkey bursts through a window, causing the Republican elephant to spill the “Soup.” Caption: The Democratic Donkey makes an informal call at the White House.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1912-12-25

The return of Rip Van Winkle

The return of Rip Van Winkle

An elderly man labeled “The Law,” with a long beard and holding a broken gun labeled “Fines,” peers at a group of bloated criminals standing and sitting on the porch of “The Jolly Grafter’s Inn, Successor to Ye Stern Justice” who are laughing at the old man before them. Those on the porch are labeled “Big Offender, Respectable Crook, Handy Judge [with a glass of] Judicial Favors, Corporate Lawyer [with mugs of] Legal Aid, Tax Dodger, Special Privilege, Insurance Grafter, Corrupt Business, Rail Road Merger, [and the] Oil, Coal, [and] Beef Trust[s].” On a table is a newspaper labeled “The Daily Graft,” and growling at the man is a dog labeled “Subsidized Press.”

comments and context

Comments and Context

Puck had fought cheek-to-jowl with reform politicians, Muckraking journals, and President Roosevelt over most of the recent years, week after week. In this crowded center-spread cartoon, J. S. Pughe expressed the utmost cynicism about laws and regulations that were hard-fought and hard-won in 1906.

Doctor’s orders

Doctor’s orders

A man labeled “Trusts” sits at a table spread with large dishes of food for a Thanksgiving Day feast, including a large turkey labeled “Restraint of Trade” and a bowl of soup, from which he is eating, labeled “Competition.” The soup sits on a note signed by “Taft, M.D.” advising the man that he “must go on a strict diet [and] cut out all rich food.” Thanksgiving Number.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1911-11-22

Every hour is lunch hour at the Dreadnought Club

Every hour is lunch hour at the Dreadnought Club

The Roman god Mars, eating a battleship, is seated a table with Uncle Sam and Marianne (symbol of France) and the rulers of European and Asian countries at the “Dreadnought Club,” each awaiting their meals of munitions and armaments being brought to the table by a heavily burdened waitress labeled “Peace.” Caption: Peace — “Waiting on a crowd like this is no job for a woman.”

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1911-05-31