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President Roosevelt rolls up a “message to the Senate and House of Representatives” “guaranteed to make a noise when opened.” A teddy bear stares as Roosevelt rolls up two sticks of dynamite and an “alarm clock” as Maurice Latta heads toward the United States Capitol building.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-04-30
President Roosevelt lights a “Taft boom” stick of dynamite outside of the “White House.” Beside him are previously lit sticks of dynamite: “Fairbanks boom,” “Shaw boom,” “Root boom,” and “Cannon boom.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-06-22
Charles O’Brien expresses his admiration for Theodore Roosevelt’s public writings on the “dynamite outrage.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-05-05
The Washington Post reprints selections from Theodore Roosevelt’s Outlook editorial “Murder is Murder,” in which he denounces the labor leaders who came to the defense of the Los Angeles Times dynamiters.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-05-05
English
President Roosevelt goes to light a “Post Office scandal” stick of dynamite as three men—New York Senator Thomas Collier Platt, Ohio Senator Marcus Alonzo Hanna, and Pennsylvania Senator Matthew Stanley Quay—tell him to stop. Meanwhile, “Miss Democracy” looks on while Ohio Senator Joseph Benson Foraker rides in on a fire wagon. Caption: Chorus from the doorway: “Don’t do it, Teddy! It is dangerous!”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-07-03
In the first vignette, Postmaster General Henry C. Payne points at a “Post Office scandal” stick of dynamite and says, “Aw! — It’s only a squib” as Perry S. Heath and August W. Machen look on. In the second vignette, the stick of dynamite explodes, sending Payne, Machen, and Heath flying.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-06-20
“Congress” holds a club, a pistol, a hatchet, and a knife with a box of dynamite behind him as he looks at a picture of “our next ex-president”–Theodore Roosevelt. Caption: The question, “What shall be done with our ex-Presidents?” is bein[g] discussed in Congress.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-01-24
A man whose offer of marriage has been rejected, and who is now determined to kill himself as a means of ending his suffering, is sitting in a chair with two handguns aimed at his chest, mounted on the arms of the chair, facing a cannon. Beneath him are “Dynamite Cartridges,” and overhead is a large rock labeled “500 lb. weight.” A tube from his mouth extends to a container of “Poison,” two straight-edge razors are aimed at this throat, and a “Charcoal” burner spews carbon monoxide fumes. The letter from his girlfriend is on the floor next to the chair. It states, “Dear George, I can not marry you. Carri.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1883-02-07
Graetz, F. (Friedrich), approximately 1840-approximately 1913
Print shows a man labeled “Organized Labor” climbing the steps to a building labeled “Law, Prosperity, [and] Order,” when a bomb labeled “Dynamite Argument” explodes in his face.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1899-08-30
“Britannia” stands on the left, holding “Concessions to Ireland,” and “Hibernia” stands on the right in a militant pose. Between them is a nasty looking man with two “Dynamite” bombs slung over his shoulders.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1884-06-11
Graetz, F. (Friedrich), approximately 1840-approximately 1913
Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa swings like a gorilla from an American flag and drops dynamite bombs on England.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1884-03-19
A large cannon labeled “Violence” explodes out the back end, catching John J. McNamara, James B. McNamara, Samuel Gompers, and possibly Clarence Darrow in the blast. Two large cannon shells labeled “Murder” and “Dynamiting” lie on the ground on the left.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1911-12-27
At center, Samuel Gompers stands on a platform, pointing to a sign with a whip labeled “Expulsion.” The sign states “To Organized Labor / Defend your persecuted brethren. Put up, or lose your union card.” He is holding a hat into which union members, entering from the left, are depositing money. To the right, behind Gompers, the money, in the form of “Dynamite,” drops through a hole in the top of the hat to the platform where union thugs grab it. Beyond them are explosions labeled “Organized Murder.” Caption: What went into it and what came out of it.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1912-02-07