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President Roosevelt thanks Charles E. Labady for naming a launch after Roosevelt’s son. The president also mentions that another son, Archibald B. Roosevelt, has become quite a sailor and is fond of fishing.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-09-16
President Roosevelt thanks Charles R. Flint for the fish and game birds from his recent shooting trip, but is unable to accept Flint’s “kind invitation.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-08-08
George LeRoy Brown acknowledges receipt of Theodore Roosevelt’s letter and discusses the concept of compulsory versus voluntary arbitration. He quips that it’s just as important to “go-a-fishing” as it is to go to school. He also believes daily exercise is necessary for building character, but thinks convincing older army officers might be difficult.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-09-18
A fictional affidavit attesting that B. S. Osbon is the writer of the referred to fish story.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-08-24
President Roosevelt sits on a pier and fishes with “real live bait” and says, “I object to wasteful destruction.” Grover Cleveland says, “I am opposed to fishing hoggery” with a book beside him entitled “True Sport.” In the background there is an “Anglers’ Club” with “Rev Dr Van Dyke” as president.
The Reverend Henry Van Dyke was a Presbyterian Minister, professor of English literature at Princeton, and author of popular novels and short stories. He also wrote the words to Beethoven’s Ode to Joy, “Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee,” that became a standard in many hymnals.
President Roosevelt holds a fishing line saying, “I catch this kind right along.” There are two fish to the left: a large fish and a smaller fish that says, “In the words of our good president, you’re another I’m your size.”
This cartoon, from a newspaper that White House scrapbook managers did not record (or excised the paper’s dateline) and by an artist known to us only as “Curry,” clearly takes the side of President Theodore Roosevelt in the several cases of disputes in early 1907. Vituperative exchanges between Roosevelt and trust magnate Edward Henry Harriman (the reference in this cartoon); former ambassador Bellamy Storer and his wife Maria; Senator Joseph Benson Foraker; and former senator James Ralph Burton were among the kerfuffles in the news.
A man labeled “California” and a man labeled “Jap” fight over a picnic basket full of food labeled “Public Schools,” threatening to capsize their boat. Uncle Sam looks on, holding a fishing pole that has three fish on it, says, “Quit it! Quit it!”
Anti-Japanese prejudice in California was so rife at this time, that the state attempted to exclude Japanese immigrants from public schools. It was a public and ugly controversy, spearheaded by, among others, San Francisco publisher William Randolph Hearst. He fanned the flames of prejudice through cartoons — more effective with his readers than printed editorials — once showing a Japanese schoolboy hiding plans to invade the West Coast in his textbook.
President Roosevelt and South Carolina Senator Benjamin R. Tillman go fishing in a “senatorial pool.” At the bottom of the pool is “the railroad rate bill” turtle, a “Philippine tariff bill” alligator, a “statehood bill” frog, and a “Santo Domingo” fish. On the ledge are two crayfish by a “bait amendments” can.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-01-25
At 9:00 a.m., President Roosevelt signs a paper that reads, “Grafting must be stopped.” At 10:00 a.m., Roosevelt points to a banner that reads, “Why certainly, Wilkes-Barre, anything to oblige.” At noon, Roosevelt holds a picnic basket and a fishing rod as he walks with several children. At 1:00 p.m., Roosevelt talks on the telephone. At 2:00 p.m., Roosevelt hands a “letter to peace conferences” to a messenger. At 4:00 p.m., Roosevelt travels in a submarine and says, “Delighted!” At 8:00 p.m., Roosevelt sits in a rocking chair writing poetry with a book of “poems” beside him. At 10:00 p.m., Roosevelt falls asleep in a tent. The moon says, “Delighted.” A handwritten note is included: Respectfully submitted.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-08-28
For this film, the Roosevelt Memorial Association compiled footage from Theodore Roosevelt’s 1913-1914 trip to South America during which he combined a series of lectures with an expedition in the Amazon Valley of Brazil to collect zoological specimens. The Roosevelt group was combined with a group of Brazilian scientists under the leadership of Colonel Rondon to explore the course of the uncharted Rio da Dúvida, the River of Doubt. In 1926, G. M. Dyott, an English explorer, was asked by the Roosevelt Memorial Association to retrace Roosevelt’s voyage down the River of Doubt and to film his trip in order to supplement the footage from the 1914 trip.
Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound
1928
President Roosevelt writes to his son Kermit and describes his trip to Provincetown, Massachusetts, where he gave a speech that he says caused the Stock Market to go down a few points. Roosevelt also attended a banquet with Gloucester fisherman.
1907-08-21
President of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad Marvin Hughitt writes to President Roosevelt to say his son, Marvin Hughitt, Jr., would be pleased to entertain Kermit or Ted Roosevelt. He offers them fishing and boating in Wisconsin, or duck and chicken hunting in Minnesota or Dakota.
1907-05-13
A fashionably dressed young woman sits on the edge of a pool, fishing.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1904-08-17
Theodore Roosevelt writes to his sister Anna describing his time with the Osborns hunting and fishing. He and his brother Elliott swam across the bay and rowed to Laurelton.
1876-08-06
At center, two masked men recklessly drive an automobile down a country road, frightening every man, woman, and beast, and chasing them out of the roadway. Other vignettes depict scenes of summer activities, including swimming at the beach, hunting, fishing, excursion boating, and courting.
Beginning in the mid-1880s, Puck devoted one special issue, and many cartoons and short stories in other issues, to “Mid-Summer” themes. On these pages, politics took a subordinate place to humorous cartoons on social subjects, such as in this double-page spread by Ehrhart.
Quentin Roosevelt writes to his mother to describe the journey to Gallup and his difficulties meeting up with his friend Ben who had gone on a trip to the Grand Canyon. Once Roosevelt meets up with Ben, they head to Kayenta, Arizona for the night. Roosevelt then discusses his whole plan for his time in the area and includes a hand drawn map of their travel route. Roosevelt is hoping for good bear hunting and fishing. He closes hoping his father is keeping quiet and that he wishes he knew Belle, Kermit Roosevelt’s fiance, better but hopes they like his choice of a gift.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1915-07-11
Quentin Roosevelt writes to his mother describing his adventures hunting and hiking in Colorado.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1915-08-18
An essay Quentin Roosevelt wrote on his favorite sport, fishing. An envelope to Edith Roosevelt is included; a teacher may have forwarded the essay to her.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1908-09-28
Grover Cleveland welcomes President Roosevelt to his home, where the two men compare hunting and fishing stories.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-10-18
Theodore Roosevelt informs Joseph G. Sachs that he has received Mr. Leeb’s invite to the Kentucky Fish and Game Protective Association, but will unfortunately not be able to attend as he receives too many invitations of this kind. Roosevelt wishes to accept and apologizes for being unable to do so.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-10-23