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Photograph of the library fireplace at Sagamore Hill, Theodore Roosevelt’s Oyster Bay, New York home. Various animal heads and portraits adorn the walls, with chairs and couches spread about.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1912-1918
President Roosevelt writes to his son Kermit about his speech to the Gridiron Club. Though Roosevelt has a lot of work to do, he does not want to give up his exercise. He closes with a story about Archie and Quentin building a brick fireplace to cook on outside. Kermit appears to have written on the back of the letter.
1906-12-09
View of the reception room at President Roosevelt’s summer home
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1904-07-14
A pensive bachelor sits in front of a fireplace on Christmas Eve. The figure of Cupid stands before an open suitcase, its contents strewn about the floor, as a butler nervously attends to the clothes. The bachelor’s distress arises from his holiday solitude.
A popular theme of cartoonists in these times was the contrast of convivial lifestyles of unmarried society types and loneliness at holiday times. Rose O’Neill explored this theme no less than fellow cartoonists, but this pioneer female artist also specialized in the subjects of children, her creations The Kewpies, illustrations for romance novels, and, later in life erotic sculptures. She was also a writer and poet. Born in the Ozarks, at the time of this cartoon she was married to the society lion and inventor Gray Latham. Soon after this cartoon’s publication she divorced Latham and married Puck‘s editor, the popular humorist Harry Leon Wilson.
Theodore Roosevelt is pleased to hear that Belle Roosevelt’s family will be visiting her in Argentina. He is glad that Belle has her “fireplace in trim for the cold weather” and wishes he could meet the Portuguese maid and Japanese cook. Roosevelt provides brief updates on various family members.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1915-05-31
Postcard showing the old kitchen in The House of the Seven Gables. Two chairs sit in front of the large fireplace. Inside the fireplace are many cooking utensils. Charles C. Myers comments the kitchen is set up to look like how it would have been used.
In Charles C. Myers’s own words, “Next we enter the old kitchen which is kwpt [sic] as it was at the time that Hawthorne frequented the place, showing the many old and interesting kitchen utensils.”
The front cover of the Winter, 1988 edition of the Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal features Hubbell R. McBride’s drawing of the Theodore Roosevelt Association’s logo and medal, which was originally designed by James Earle Fraser. The rear cover features a view of the fireplace in the North Room of Sagamore Hill, with several sculptures on the mantle and flanked by bison heads.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
1988
Photograph showing furnishings in the White House Blue Room during President Roosevelt’s administration.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1902
A man falls asleep in a rocking chair by the fireplace. A clock and two photographs, including one of Theodore Roosevelt, can be seen on the mantel. “President Taft’s message” has dropped from the man’s hands onto the floor at his left. The man dreams of eagerly reading “Roosevelt’s message” with his wife beside him.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1910-01-06
A man sits on a chair and looks at a fireplace as he contemplates an earlier cartoon, showing Uncle Sam putting his hand on President Roosevelt’s shoulder with the caption “He’s good enough for me!”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-09
Photograph of the trophy room at Sagamore Hill, summer home of President Roosevelt, with two large mounted buffalo heads flanking the fireplace.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1905-09-14
Puck tends a fire in a large fireplace where stars-and-stripes stockings are hanging from the mantel, and the faces of caricatured figures appear in the smoke above a large log labeled “1897.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1897-12-08
Print shows a woman attending to an infant in a bassinet while a man hangs tiny stockings on the mantel of the fireplace.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1899-12-13
Three cooks stand in front of a large hearth. One holds a large spoon labeled “Assembly Committee” and gestures to the others to stop. The second holds a bowl labeled “Special Grand Jury” from which he drops a handful into a large pot. The third holds a box labeled “State Senate Committee” from which he is about to add more ingredients to the large pot labeled “Investigation of the Department of Public Works, New York” heating over a fire labeled “Public Pressure.” A man thumbing his nose, who may be Hubert O. Thompson, appears in the steam.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1884-01-23
President Cleveland, as Santa Claus, stands in front of a fireplace where stockings are hung from the mantle. He has a large sack of toys labeled “Navy, Treasury, Interior, Justice, State, [and] War Dept.” on his back, and a cat that looks like John Kelly lies at his feet. Watching from around the room are “Bayard, Randall, Cox, Barnum, McDonald, Slocum, Lamar, Morrison, [Garland], Tilden, Carlisle, Hewitt, Watterson, [and] Thurman,” and asleep in a cradle labeled “Independence” is either Carl Schurz or Joseph Pulitzer.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1884-12-24
The hearth of Pine Knot cabin is shown with color highlights. Green branches are visible on the mantel with rocking chairs at either side. Pine Knot, located in Albemarle County, Virginia, was a country home for the Roosevelts during the presidential years.
Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site
Unknown
A cat wearing a hat labeled “American Labor” reaches for a toy labeled “Tariff Benefits” that is very close to a fire labeled “Politics.” Sitting to the right of the fireplace, in the background, is a large ape wearing a crown shaped like a money bag labeled “Protected Monopoly.” Next to it are many bags of money. Caption: Isn’t it about time that the American workingman got wise?
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1912-09-18
An unidentified man sits at a CCC-built structure in the Roosevelt Recreational Demonstration Area.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1934-1941