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A young woman talks with her father about the promises her boyfriend has made. Caption: Ethel — He has promised to give me every dollar he earns! / Papa — Better make him promise to give you every dollar he gets. He has a political job, you know!
This Ehrhart cartoon shows a father, a likely parvenu or nouveau riche knowing the value of a dollar, reminding his daughter of the difference between earning a paycheck and receiving a paycheck.
Theodore Roosevelt cannot accept the invitation but sends his love to John Fox’s father.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-06-04
Theodore Roosevelt thanks Thomas T. Tabee for his letter and enjoyed Tabee’s father’s remark.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-05-31
Theodore Roosevelt replies to Marguerite McFadden’s letter, saying that he hopes her father will be reinstated. Roosevelt has forwarded McFadden’s letter to the Postmaster, but Roosevelt cannot make a personal recommendation for her father’s reinstatement as he does not know the details of the case personally. Roosevelt also remarks that McFadden may take this letter to the Postmaster herself to ensure that the matter is attended to.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-08-29
Theodore Roosevelt writes to the Postmaster, Thomas B. Smith, to say that the letter from Marguerite McFadden was very touching. Roosevelt asks Smith to look into the facts regarding McFadden’s case, and see in anything can be done to reverse McFadden’s father’s dismissal from his position.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-08-29
Theodore Roosevelt did not write his true feelings about F. Maurice Newton’s father, Richard Heber Newton, because he did not want people to think he was exaggerating.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1915-02-18
Theodore Roosevelt sends his deepest sympathy for the death of F. Maurice Newton’s father. He also just recently learned that Newton’s mother had passed away the previous winter. Roosevelt would like to see Newton at the earliest convenience.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1914-12-22
A humorous anecdote on being a father versus a grandfather.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-08-18
Mattie Griffith Satterie asks William Loeb to direct President Roosevelt’s attention to the periodical she sent containing an article she wrote about Roosevelt’s father, Theodore Roosevelt, who was her friend.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-05-10
Color postcard with image of a man holding two crying infants, with a third in a crib and a home in disarray. The caption below reads, “The Much-Married See poor papa with footsteps unsteady, He says “marriage is a failure” already; The kids loudly roar As he walks the floor, And you bet he won’t vote for Teddy!”
1901-1907
President McKinley appears as a father showing favoritism by holding an infant labeled “High Protective Tariff,” while ignoring another infant labeled “Financial Question” crying in a high chair.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1897-04-07
Father Knickerbocker, a symbolic figure for New York City, holds a roll of papers labeled “Charter.” He is looking down at a young boy labeled “Brooklyn” on the sidewalk outside a building labeled “Greater N.Y.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1897-12-29
President Wilson, as the father of the bride the day after the wedding, brushes confetti off of himself and addresses three figures. One labeled “The Trust Question” is sitting on the floor with a woman’s shoe on his head. The second figure, with a large coin for a head and labeled “Currency Question,” is sitting in a chair. The third, labeled “Mexican Question,” is attempting to help “Trust Question” to get to his feet. The floor is strewn with flowers, garlands, women’s shoes, rice, and confetti. Caption: The Bride’s Father — Let’s see, gentlemen; Where were we at?
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1913-11-26
At a royal wedding, the groom is enclosed in packaging labeled “Guaranteed Under the Pure Prince Act” and stamped “Serial Number 606.” An elderly man behind the resigned bride is examining the princely groom who is supported from behind by a gentleman.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1913-10-22
A young boy jumps with joy as a battleship is blown up. His father is reminding him that the explosive display is his gift for being a good boy. “Fourth of July number” is written in the lower-left corner. Caption: Multi-Millionaire — There, Reginald! Didn’t papa say if you were a good boy he’d blow up an old battleship for you? That battleship cost papa twenty thousand dollars!
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1911-06-28