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Colorized postcard of a teddy bear wearing an outfit decorated with beads and patches and a feathered headdress. The bear is standing up and holding a bow and arrow. A note on the reverse asks the recipient of the postcard if her teddy bear looks like the one on the front.
Duane G. Jundt Theodore Roosevelt Collection
1909
President Roosevelt thanks Frank M. Chapman of the American Museum of Natural History for the binoculars and encloses a check. He finds the case of the young grebes interesting and reflects on how there is still much to learn.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-08-15
President Roosevelt smiles widely and wears a “from the peace dove” feather in his hat.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-08-30
A duck with clawed feet, wearing a medal labeled “The Senate,” carries peacock feathers labeled “Probity, Incorruptibility, Statesmanship, Patriotism, [and] Highmindedness.” Caption: The Senate is indignant over the attacks on it in American magazines. A suggestion under consideration is that some able expounder be selected to deliver a response to the criticisms.–Daily Press.
In February of 1906 — the month this Udo J. Keppler cartoon appeared Puck— the revived William Randolph Hearst magazine Cosmopolitan commenced a nine-part series addressing corruption in the Upper House, “The Treason of the Senate.”
President Roosevelt tells Audubon Society president William Dutcher that he and First Lady Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt support the work of the Audubon society both in general, and specifically in the effort to stop the sale of white heron feathers.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-07-18
President Roosevelt tells Audubon Society president William Dutcher that he and First Lady Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt support the work of the Audubon society both in general, and specifically in the effort to stop the sale of white heron feathers.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-07-18
President Roosevelt will admire the pheasants’ plumage and enjoy eating them. He would like to write to Senator Platt’s friend and thank him.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-12-12
Emil Gribeschock presents his arguments to the United States Tariff Board regarding why woolskins and other wool products should have the import duties changed in order to promote American industries. The tariff as it currently stands “has created an absolute unnatural state of affaires [sic],” and should be changed so as to no longer produce a loss for the United States. He compares the wool industry to the feather industry, which went through a similar change, as a means of proving his point.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-03-15
William Beebe discusses that a previously undescribed coloration of Yucatan jays is attributed to age, not sex.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-12-05
William M. Steward, on the left, and William McKinley, on the right, have a strangle-hold on a bald eagle that has a stars and stripes shield on its breast. They are plucking its feathers and stuffing them into large bags labeled “Silver Grab Bag” and “Tariff Grab Bag.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1893-08-23
The illustration shows a bust portrait, facing right, of a beautiful young woman wearing a hat with blue feathers. Caption continues: No such likeness do I see, / Blue-bird lady though you be; / You are more than that – to me / You’re a Bird of Paradise! / Blue-bird lady though you be, / With your hat perched careless-wise!
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1914-05-02
A woman, possibly Coco Chanel, wears a large hat with feathers and shoots at large white birds with a rifle. Two dogs labeled “French Milliner” place the dead birds on a pile at her feet.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1911-05-24