Ducks

President Roosevelt thanks Captain Bulmer for the delicious ducks and invites him to play tennis.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-08-26

Vice President Charles W. Fairbanks, Secretary of State Elihu Root, Secretary of War William H. Taft, and Speaker of the House Joseph Gurney Cannon — all depicted like chickens — and a large mother hen labeled “Roosevelt’s policies” squawk at a duck depicting Philander C. Knox in the pool of “states’ rights.”

comments and context

Comments and Context

If Philander C. Knox was not an ugly duckling in the Republican Party of his day, his close relationship with Theodore Roosevelt made him an odd duck in Roosevelt’s circle.

Photograph of ducks swimming in the Little Missouri River. 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.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Creation Date

1936-1937

Photograph of ducks swimming in the Little Missouri River near the old Roosevelt bridge. 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.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Creation Date

1936-1937

Photograph of ducks swimming in the Little Missouri River. 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.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Creation Date

1936-1937

A duck with clawed feet, wearing a medal labeled “The Senate,” carries peacock feathers labeled “Probity, Incorruptibility, Statesmanship, Patriotism, [and] Highmindedness.” Caption: The Senate is indignant over the attacks on it in American magazines. A suggestion under consideration is that some able expounder be selected to deliver a response to the criticisms.–Daily Press.

comments and context

Comments and Context

In February of 1906 — the month this Udo J. Keppler cartoon appeared Puck— the revived William Randolph Hearst magazine Cosmopolitan commenced a nine-part series addressing corruption in the Upper House, “The Treason of the Senate.”

Theodore Roosevelt writes to Professor Kofoid of the University of California, Berkeley, regarding articles and pamphlets written by Henry Chester Tracy, Abbott Handerson Thayer, J. A. Allen, and Edward William Nelson on the topic of birds, plumage, and biological research.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-02-02

President Roosevelt thanks George H. H. Moore for sending the canvasback ducks.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-11-10

President Roosevelt thanks Mary Tracy Scott Townsend for the ducks. He is sure they will be delicious.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-01-10

President Roosevelt thanks Mary Tracy Scott Townsend for the ducks, which he “greedily” looks forward to eating. He asks her to bring Mr. and Mrs. Ronalds to lunch on March 14.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-03-05

William T. Hornaday writes to inform Theodore Roosevelt of his opposition to the proposed lease of Stinking Lake, New Mexico, to a sportsman’s club looking to “turn the finest wild-fowl bredding ground in New Mexico into a duck “preserve.”” Hornaday believes that Stinking lake should be designated as a national bird preserve.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1917-12-10

William T. Hornaday will support E. H. Grubb’s scheme for Stinking Lake if Grubb can secure the approval of the New Mexico Game Protective Association. In a handwritten postscript, Hornaday celebrates the New York Board of Education’s dismissal of three “disloyal teachers.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1917-12-20

Postmaster General Meyer had “great sport,” and sends President Roosevelt two geese and six ducks. He notes that this must seem tame to Roosevelt, who is going to Africa.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-11-22

Theodore Roosevelt is thankful for the geese and ducks that George von Lengerke Meyer sent him. Roosevelt is also envious of Meyer’s “bag.”

Collection

Massachusetts Historical Society

Creation Date

1908-11-22

Essay describing a December duck-hunting outing on Long Island Sound by Theodore Roosevelt and his brother Elliott. The brothers were caught in a snowstorm before returning home from the hunt.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1881-03