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A bruised John Bull offers a “Tonic” of “Financial Help” and “Liberal Treatment” to an injured and battered Paul Kruger, President of the South African Republic, following the end of the fighting in South Africa.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1902-06-18
Senator Marcus Alonzo Hanna, wearing a sign “Please help the poor,” and J.P. Morgan, carrying a model ship labeled “Leyland S.S. Lines,” stand at the end of a pier with the “Ship Yard” behind them. They hold out their hats, one labeled “For a shipping subsidy,” to Uncle Sam standing in front of the U.S. Treasury. An enormous ocean-going steamship, flying a banner “American built ships,” floats offshore in the distance. Caption: Uncle Sam. — You are already building up a monopoly without help; – why should I pay you a subsidy?
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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1901-06-26
Theodore Roosevelt is not able to assist Stewart L. Tyson.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-05-25
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary sends Roosevelt’s regrets to Charles O. Lander, but it is impossible for him to help.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-04-25
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary informs Reverend Ebert that Roosevelt unfortunately cannot help with the matter he discussed in his letter. Roosevelt is not a rich man and he is already doing as much as he is able to do to help in other cases. Roosevelt wishes that he could be of assistance to Ebert, as he sympathizes with the circumstances of the situation.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-04-26
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary declines the request Harlow N. Higinbotham made to Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-02-17
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary declines Charles W. Holmes’ request for a donation from Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-02-16
Theodore Roosevelt asks James L. Davenport of the Board of Pensions to act on behalf of Charles Buckley, a former soldier.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-02-14
Theodore Roosevelt tells Jane Addams that he is “in a quandary.” Roosevelt received correspondence from someone claiming to be a soldier in need of assistance. In order to verify this, Roosevelt asks Addams to please read the letter and assess it for herself. Should she agree with his concern, he would like her to send a trusted person to check on this man and verify his situation and whether he was part of Roosevelt’s regiment. If he is indeed in need, he would like her to let him know so he can proceed with discharging the man and arranging for some money to assist him.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1915-01-13
William Wingate Sewall asks Theodore Roosevelt whether he might help the daughter and wife of James Cicle, the guard who died while Roosevelt was president. Sewall reports that his family is well and that his wife’s nephew heard Roosevelt speak in Spokane, Washington, on his trip out west. He wishes Roosevelt would visit and come stay at one of his camps.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-05-03
Print shows Uncle Sam and Columbia taking Christmas presents off a Christmas tree and distributing them to Native children labeled “Hawaii, Samoa, Puerto Rico, Cuba, [and] Philippine.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1899-12-27
Print shows an Irishman sailing in a top hat with a sail labeled “Money Wanted Fur to Free the Ould Country!” mounted on a clay tobacco pipe; his coattails are labeled “Land League” and “Free Ireland”. He is just offshore of land labeled “Michigan” where there is a crop of “American Greenback Corp.” labeled with “$”. Caption: “Wonst more, me byes, for Ould Oirland – the land of divilment and distriss!”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1881-10-19
Uncle Sam works at the “Free Pie Kitchen” offering daily distribution of free pies labeled “Long Term Franchise, Graft Tariff, Land Grant, [and] Special Privilege” to crooked businessmen labeled “Public Service Corporation, ‘Infant Industry’, Trust, Public Land Thief, [and] Predatory Wealth” standing in a long line or already enjoying their “Free” pies. Caption: The pie line.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1908-04-08
Oyster Bay’s veteran stage driver, Amos Boerum, asks President Roosevelt for help as he faces winter without enough money to buy coal and other necessities.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-12-07
Amos Boerum writes to thank President Roosevelt for the check Roosevelt sent to help Boerum with expenses through the winter.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-12-11