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Ernest Hamlin Abbott writes to President Roosevelt expressing his frustration with the Congressional attitude toward the Arbitration treaties.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-02-07
Photograph of the women’s pit toilet with the stall door open at Halliday Well in the South Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Memorial Park.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1967-10-21
An agent presents the grand entrance to “Bluff Court” to an excited young couple. The regal doormen add a royal quality to a spectacular looking dwelling that is actually an apartment with cramped and narrow quarters. Caption: The apartment house trap and its alluring bait.
Cartoons like this by Samuel Ehrhart, a double-page spread in an issue of Puck Magazine, provide windows to students of history and researchers scarcely less pertinent than those saturated with politics and partisan debates. We learn in “social” cartoons how society was changing, what its standards and values were, and the concerns that often drove politics and political positions.
A large female figure labeled “Enlightenment” pushes open doors labeled “Pan-American Exposition” and knocks out of the way an old woman labeled “Sabbatarian Fanatic” and a man labeled “Sabbatarian Bigot” who were attempting to prevent the Exposition from opening on Sunday. Caption: The managers of the Buffalo Exposition have decided to open it on Sunday.
One of the controversies surrounding the 1892 Columbian Exposition in Chicago, where Puck Magazine had its own pavilion, was Sunday operation. Traditional Sabbatarians argued that such fairs be closed on the Lord’s Days, but many people petitioned for Sunday openings, principally on the grounds that working people, when six-day work weeks were yet common, could only visit with their families on Sundays.
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.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-10-12
Delegates wait outside the doors of the Bull Moose Convention, which are formed by Theodore Roosevelt’s face. The delegates wonder what he will say and declare that “he won’t disappoint us.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1912-08
William McKinley as Ali Baba kneels before a slightly opened door in the “High-Tariff Robber Barons Cave,” holding a bag labeled “McKinley Boom Fund,” which is being filled with coins issuing from the opening in the doorway. Caption: Ali Baba McKinley.–Protection! Protection!! Protection!!!
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1896-04-15
A personified full dinner pail, banged up in places and a little drunk (there is a bottle labeled “Bluff” at his feet), is leaning against a door labeled “1912” with the door frame labeled “The Presidency” and is having difficulty getting the key into the lock. Caption: “Looksh like I washn’t goin’ t’ get in thish time!”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1912-09-04