Easter

Ted Roosevelt comments on a letter his father, President Roosevelt, wrote. He believes it accomplished a double purpose, addressing what the President wants to do regarding the unions and also helping the Political Club. Ted relayed the elder’s message to “the boys” about dining with them during his upcoming visit to Harvard. Ted saw Samuel P. Blagden and is going to invite him to stay with them for Easter.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-01-19

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1887-1944

President Roosevelt watches from the White House as New York Governor Charles Evans Hughes, Vice President Charles W. Fairbanks, Speaker of the House Joseph Gurney Cannon, Leslie M. Shaw, Secretary of State Elihu Root, former Secretary of the Treasury Philander C. Knox, watch Secretary of State William H. Taft and Senator Joseph Benson Foraker roll two eggs — “Taft boom” and “Foraker boom”on the White House lawn.

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Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-04-01

Minnie Codington Rodey, wife of Delegate Bernard Shandon Rodey of New Mexico, asks if arrangements can be made for her and her children to view the Easter egg rolling from the White House.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-03-27

Creator(s)

Unknown

Theodore Roosevelt writes to his sister Anna Roosevelt about recent happenings in Washington. He and wife Edith have been doing quite a bit of entertaining. Alice and Ted found eggs left by the Easter Bunny.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1891-03-29

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

A court jester entertains a young woman wearing a crown on her head, sitting on a large stone bench.

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Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1906-04-11

Theodore Roosevelt writes his father about his Easter vacation with the Minot and Weld families. He describes his activities over the weekend, including his studies, leisure time, and attending church.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1877-04-15

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

A beautiful young woman emerges from a church on Easter. A cluster of well-dressed men, all eager for her hand, are waiting. Two of the men turn away a devil figure dressed in red. Caption: Who hath not owned, with rapture smitten frame, / The power of grace.–Campbell.

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Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1905-04-19

A fashionably dressed young woman is being escorted by a rabbit and a young child dressed in a red suit. The woman looks back over her shoulder at three unhappy monks standing outside a stone church or monastery.

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Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1905-04-19

A young woman plays a lute as a group of rabbit cavaliers dance around her. In the background, two monks whisper to each other at the entrance to a monastery.

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Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1904-03-30

A little girl takes all the colored eggs from the Easter Bunny’s basket. She is putting them in her apron, but some have fallen on the ground and are broken. A hen wearing a bonnet is in the background.

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Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1903-04-08

Easter greeting card with an art print of an aviator walking in a graveyard with a plane flying overhead. Inscribed in ink on the print is “To Quentin Roosevelt who at the front had fought like an eagle.” Includes a music score: “A Litany.” The item also includes an envelope printed with “Easter Greetings.”

Collection

Sagamore Hill National Historic Site

Creation Date

Unknown

Creator(s)

Unknown

A pamphlet regarding an Easter celebration on the front. The poem is one Edith Roosevelt had shared with Quentin Roosevelt before. He sent this back to her with an April 7, 1918, letter.

Collection

Sagamore Hill National Historic Site

Creation Date

1918-03

Creator(s)

Unknown

Several young women wearing their new Easter fashions stand outside a church. Included is a poem titled “The Easter Girls” by Madeline Bridges.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1902-03-26

Creator(s)

Ehrhart, S. D. (Samuel D.), approximately 1862-1937

Theodore Roosevelt thanks his son Quentin for sending him a copy of the Grotonian. He hopes that, unlike the rest of his family, Quentin Roosevelt will keep writing. Theodore hopes that over Easter the family can be together at Oyster Bay. He thought of visiting Groton School over Washington’s birthday but did not think he would be able to see Quentin then, so he has postponed his visit until the spring.

Collection

Sagamore Hill National Historic Site

Creation Date

1915-03-08

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

A young woman walks arm in arm with a rabbit carrying a basket of Easter eggs. A tonsured monk standing in the background is startled by what he sees.

comments and context

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1902-03-26

Columbia is adjusting her bonnet, which is a battleship labeled “World Power” with two guns labeled “Army” and “Navy.” It is spewing thick black smoke labeled “Expansion.” She is inserting a tiny sword as a hatpin to hold it in place.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1901-04-06

Creator(s)

Ehrhart, S. D. (Samuel D.), approximately 1862-1937

Puck, wearing the bright red outfit of a musketeer, walks between two rabbits who are each carrying an Easter egg. A tonsured monk in a cowl, reading a Bible or missal, occupies the foreground.

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Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1901-04-06

Special Easter edition cover, in an art nouveau style, shows a woman performing a magic trick by making Easter eggs and other prizes flow from a piece of paper rolled up like a cone; also a young girl with angel wings is holding an Easter egg and a rabbit.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1900-04-18

Creator(s)

Nankivell, Frank A. (Frank Arthur), 1869-1959

Theodore Roosevelt wants to add to the good wishes already sent by Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-04-21

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt was pleased but surprised to see Laura Gertrude Roosevelt Punnett, and hopes she is having “an entire rest” and will enjoy having the children with her for Easter.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-04-10

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919