Easter

President Roosevelt updates his son Kermit Roosevelt on the weather and the family after the Easter holiday. He discusses the railroad situation and the requests for him to speak on the matter but reiterates that he would be repeating what already has been said. In a postscript, Roosevelt updates his son on the grounds and how the trees and flowers are blossoming.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-03-31

President Roosevelt wishes the Dutch Reformed Church and its congregation a happy Easter.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-03-26

President Roosevelt tells Ambassador to Italy Henry White that his sister, Corinne Roosevelt Robinson, will be visiting Rome and hopes to see the Easter festivities.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-02-04

President Roosevelt asks American Ambassador to Italy Griscom to help his sister Corinne Roosevelt Robinson and her husband Douglas Robinson see the sights, especially the upcoming Easter celebrations.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-02-04

President Roosevelt does not believe that his wife Edith will be at the White House at all during the Easter holidays. He asks if Nicholas Murray Butler and his daughter can visit on April 21.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-03-01

Sister M. Sebastian sends Theodore Roosevelt Easter greetings. She will never forget his “noble, self-sacrificing spirit and indefatigable zeal” as president and how everyone respected him. She warns that, like Jesus Christ, people will try to entrap him in his speech. However, as a true friend, she always prays for him and his family.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-04-13

Frederic Cook Morehouse invites Theodore Roosevelt to spend Easter with his family in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and then address the City Club the following day.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-04-03

Chronology of the daily life of Theodore Roosevelt from October 1858 to December 1870. Notable events include the Roosevelt family’s involvement in the American Civil War, Theodore Roosevelt meeting John Hay as a child, and the Roosevelt family’s first European trip.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association

Creation Date

1985

George W. Toomey describes spring as a time of resurrection, the most important being that of Jesus Christ. Toomey invites readers to find inspiration in the celebration of Easter.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-04

On behalf of her and her sister Louisa Lee Schuyler, Georgina Schuyler sends Theodore Roosevelt and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt Easter greetings. She looks forward to Roosevelt’s speech on behalf of the Berry School. She sends a pamphlet she wrote about preserving the old Schuyler Mansion, the purchase of which was approved by Governor John A. Dix.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-04-16

Oscar S. Straus shares reports of rumors concerning the massacre of Jews in Odessa, Russia, and the tolerance of the Russian government for publications inciting the massacre. Straus trusts that President Roosevelt will invoke “humanitarian diplomacy” concerning the matter.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-03-31

Edna Kuhuert thanks cousin Elsie Kuhuert for the Easter card she sent. Edna starts school next week and “papa is busy seeding now days.” It appears Albert wrote the message and Edna added her signature. On the postcard front, a well dressed bear walks in the door to find a female bear sweeping alongside the caption “Busy bears -Thursday.”

Collection

Fritz R. Gordner Collection

Creation Date

1910-04-12

Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt sends love and Easter greetings to John Campbell Greenway from the Roosevelt family.

Collection

Arizona Historical Society

Creation Date

1900-03

Psyche wears an Easter bonnet and admires her reflection in a small pool of water with irises and lilies.

comments and context

Comments and Context

The back-story of Puck‘s Easter Issue’s cover is related to its year, 1909. The artist, Gordon Grant, was Puck‘s answer to Life Magazine’s Charles Dana Gibson, creator of the glamorous Gibson Girl. As “American Girls” began gracing the covers of virtually every magazine of every category at the time — drawn or painted by the likes of Gibson and Grant; James Montgomery Flagg; Coles Phillips; Howard Chandler Christy; C. Jay Taylor; Penrhyn Stanlaws; and others — Puck even got a little saucy with an Easter theme.

A group of well-dressed people greets the sun at Easter. On the right, an old woman carrying a sack labeled “Hard Times” is overshadowed and forgotten.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1894-03-21

A small chick labeled “Prosperity” has emerged from a large egg labeled “Easter 1897.” A rooster labeled “Rep. Party” is crowing in the background and a hen with the head of President McKinley is strutting on the right. Caption: It is pretty small yet – but it is bound to grow.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1897-04-21

A large Easter bonnet casts shade over a small eclectic group of individuals.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1897-04-21

Puck holds a mirror for a fashionably dressed young woman trying on an Easter bonnet. They are standing among several hat boxes, some showing bonnets.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1898-04-13

An elderly woman wearing late 19th century clothing labeled “Fashion” gestures toward an “Easter Bonnet” atop a maypole around which many other women have gathered. A smartly-dressed young woman labeled “New Woman” refuses to participate.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1896-04-08

A man and a woman stand on a hilltop observing dark clouds composed of empty religious vestments, bunnies, and chicks drifting across the sky. The clouds partially obscure a disk (the Eucharistic bread and/or sun) labeled “Easter’s Religious Significance” showing a cross and a crown of thorns.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1910-03-23