President Roosevelt and his sons
Postcard depicting President Roosevelt sitting with his four sons. The original photograph, without backdrop, appears to have been taken by Arthur Hewitt in 1904.
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Creation Date
1901-1907
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President Roosevelt and family
Postcard depicts a 1903 portrait of the Roosevelt family on the lawn at Sagamore Hill. The undivided back of the postcard indicates it was most likely published prior to March 1907.
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Creation Date
1903-1907
Postcard from Willie to Willie Fischer
Postcard depicts a 1903 portrait of the Roosevelt family on the lawn at Sagamore Hill.
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Creation Date
1903-1907
President Roosevelt and family
Postcard is a color copy of a 1903 portrait of the Roosevelt family on the lawn at Sagamore Hill.
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Creation Date
1903-1907
Roosevelt family
Postcard of a 1904 photograph featuring the Roosevelt family and horses at Sagamore Hill. Original photograph was taken by Arthur Hewitt.
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Creation Date
1912-09-23
President Roosevelt and his sons
Postcard of a 1907 photograph of President Roosevelt and his sons in an outdoor setting. Original photograph taken by Pach Brothers.
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Creation Date
1907-1914
Roosevelt family
Postcard of a 1904 photograph featuring the Roosevelt family and horses at Sagamore Hill. From L-R: Kermit Roosevelt, Archibald B. Roosevelt, President Roosevelt, Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, Quentin Roosevelt and Theodore Roosevelt. Original photograph was taken by Arthur Hewitt.
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Creation Date
1904-1907
Mrs. Roosevelt and her sons
Postcard of a 1904 photograph of Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt reading with her sons Archibald B. Roosevelt and Quentin Roosevelt. Original photograph was taken by Arthur Hewitt.
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Creation Date
1904-1907
The President and sons
Postcard of a 1904 photograph of President Roosevelt and his sons. The original photograph was taken by Arthur Hewitt.
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Creation Date
1904-1907
Postcard from Leila to Doanld Mackay
Postcard depicts a 1903 portrait of the Roosevelt family on the lawn at Sagamore Hill. Leila will try and visit daddy this afternoon. The two Peterson children are coming to dinner tonight.
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Creation Date
1906-05-22
Postcard to A. C. Varney
Color postcard with image of a cowboy President Roosevelt extending his hand for a handshake on the left and illustrations of families on the right with the caption, “Dee-lighted to prove that 1 from 2 leaves 3[,] 4 from 2 leaves 6.”
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Creation Date
1907-08-27
Postcard to Chester Edwards
Chester Edwards’ brother writes that he had a good weekend with fifteen dollars on Saturday and Sunday. He reminds Chester to get the work done, and wonders if he remembers three years ago today. The postcard depicts Theodore Roosevelt’s coat of arms, and names his ancestors Klaas Martensezen Van Roosevelt and Jannetje Samuels-Thomas, who emigrated from Holland to New Amsterdam in 1649.
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Creation Date
1910-08-30
Eager hundreds ‘hitch’ chairs to hear message
Journalist Gene Frances Baker, who wrote under the name Gene Baker, reports on the crowd of women who “came in droves” to hear Margaret Sanger speak at the Hotel Oakland ballroom. Sanger, who Baker describes as “feminine” with “personal warmth,” scientifically and clearly described the issue of birth control. She criticized the censorship of the United States Postal Service and former President Roosevelt’s sense of morality. Sanger asked the audience who was more moral: she, for encouraging small, responsible families, or Roosevelt, for encouraging American couples to have many children? At this, Baker reports that Sanger received a great deal of applause, indicating that “the Rooseveltian theory would never win him many of the women’s votes.”
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The Margaret Sanger Papers Project
Creation Date
1916-06-15
Woman rebel scores Roosevelt as enslaver of mothers in U.S.
In an interview with Margaret Sanger, the Denver Post reports on the reformer’s efforts in the area of birth control and her desire for “better babies or no babies.” Sanger claimed that former President Roosevelt had “enslaved” American women and children with his policies and ideas concerning family reproduction. She stated that Roosevelt’s efforts in encouraging American couples to rear large families was “willy-nilly” and that the former president’s personality encouraged people, particularly women, to listen to him. Sanger emphatically called Roosevelt “foolish” and accused him of creating “tenants for our insane asylums, prisons and alms’ houses.”
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The Margaret Sanger Papers Project
Creation Date
1916-05-17
Scores U.S. law which bars talk on birth control
At an engagement at the Hotel Wisconsin, Margaret Sanger discussed birth control, claiming that wealthy women were aware how to prevent pregnancy but working class women did not have access to this information. Sanger indignantly protested that while former President Roosevelt was allowed to travel around the United States and urge couples to have large families, she was not allowed to provide information to women to prevent numerous pregnancies. She further argued that the immorality argument leveled against birth control was identical to the one leveled earlier against women in higher education.
Collection
The Margaret Sanger Papers Project
Creation Date
1916-04-27
My fight for birth control
Margaret Sanger writes of her efforts and struggles to bring birth control education to working class women in order to combat issues such as infant and maternal mortality, abortion, and poverty. Sanger argues that it is unfair that she is considered immoral for urging working class couples to have small families while former President Roosevelt is lauded as moral for encouraging them to have large families in order to prevent race suicide.
Collection
The Margaret Sanger Papers Project
Creation Date
1917-04
We are getting there fast
A young woman wearing bloomers says good night to a young man at the front door. The young man’s mother, also wearing bloomers and holding a newspaper or magazine called “The Advanced Woman,” has come down the stairs to ask when the young woman will be leaving. Caption: Stern Parent–Willy, isn’t that Miss Bloomers going soon? – it’s nearly eleven o’clock! / Son–Yes, Mama; she’s just saying good night!
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1895-12-25
The same old thing
At top, a laborer daydreams he has the ears of a mule and carries a banner that states, “Strike! No Surrender! Down with Capital!” He is being led over barricades by a “Walking Delegate” who gestures toward a laborer standing with one foot on a prostrate industrialist. At the bottom is depicted the reality of an unemployed laborer’s waking life of familial discord, though he still has the ears of a mule. Caption: Same old day-dream. Same old awakening.
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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1895-03-20
Address of President Roosevelt before the Minnesota Legislature, St. Paul, Minnesota, April 4, 1903
President Roosevelt speaks to the Minnesota Legislature regarding the people of Minnesota, including Senators and Congressmen with whom he has worked. He also discusses the veterans of the Civil War, character, large families, legislation, and education.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1903-04-04
“He laughs best who laughs last”
The family of “Tom Popleigh” happily decorates a Christmas tree. In a vignette at left, a well-dressed man gestures toward the growing family of Popleigh and vows to remain a bachelor. In a vignette on the right, the elderly bachelor sits alone at a table and ponders what he has missed by remaining unmarried. The caption reads: “But the years have done all this for Popleigh.”
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1897-12-08