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Ready for the tram

Ready for the tram

President Roosevelt smiles slightly as he carries a barrel labeled “Canal Facts.” Behind him, a teddy bear carries a box of “Inside Facts” that relate to the “Canal Zone,” “Porto Rico,” and “Panama,” while two “Canal Critics” run off into the forest.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1905-1909

The coming conflagration in the European forest

The coming conflagration in the European forest

In a dark forest a group of men labeled “Irish Invincibles, Nihilists, Austrian Socialists, German Artisans, Republicans, Fanatical Irredentists, [and] Black Hand” carry torches or flaming sticks of dynamite and bombs, disturbing the slumber of various forest creatures labeled “France, Austria, Russia, Spain, Greece, Sweden, Germany, [and] Italy” and the British Lion heading for its lair labeled “India, Africa Malta, Canada, [and] Egypt.” A group of businessmen with a firefighter’s water pump labeled “Middle Class Conservatism” are hoping to extinguish the flames.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1883-03-21

The kept newspaper

The kept newspaper

At center, a woman wearing a newspaper dress drinks “Subsidy Brand” champagne chilling in a bucket labeled “Wall Street Cooler,” while a man labeled “Corporate Interests” writes a check. A bust statue of “Horace Greeley” is visible in the background. The entire scene is framed by an octopus with tiny male figures caught in its tentacles. Surrounding vignettes show a newspaper editor as he looks to his staff (larger than life) and to the newspaper owners (diminutive), a “Business Manager” telling an “editorial writer” to tone down comments about a “forest spoliation matter [because] the boss has acquired some interests out there,” and a newspaper reader “who has read the paper for forty years” influenced by the resulting editorial – “I guess that western forest steal ain’t as bad as they made it out. This editorial says it’s been grossly exaggerated.”

comments and context

Comments and Context

People today are aware, and often concerned, that newspapers show bias. In fact since before the Revolution most newspapers were intended to assert partisan points of view. Readers expected and often welcomed the situation. It was only in the twentieth century that newspapers self-identified as neutral or independent or non-partisan, or “news only,” even if editorial pages leaned left or right, Democrat or Republican. That facade faded away, or morphed into outright partisanship.

Letter from Stewart Edward White to Theodore Roosevelt

Letter from Stewart Edward White to Theodore Roosevelt

Stewart Edward White offers to start a petition for removal of Charles S. Newhall as Superintendent of Forest Reserves in California. He requests that a circular letter be sent to “all rangers, military commanders and park keepers” informing them that he is “a respectable member of society.” The adventure and travel writer, accompanied by his future wife and co-writer, Elizabeth “Betty” Grant, was planning a visit to national parks in the West.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-01-12

Letter from Gherardi Davis to Theodore Roosevelt

Letter from Gherardi Davis to Theodore Roosevelt

Assemblyman Gherardi Davis has become Chairman of the Forestry Committee and is now acquainted with Gifford Pinchot, Professor Henry Solon Graves, and Mr. MacNaughton. He is learning a great deal about forestry and is also working on an amendment to the New York Constitution, which was suggested by Governor Odell. Davis also reflects on the composition of the current New York Legislature.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-01-25

Letter from Gifford Pinchot to Theodore Roosevelt

Letter from Gifford Pinchot to Theodore Roosevelt

Gifford Pinchot regrets not having a letter for the Denver meeting of the American Forestry Association but understands Vice President Roosevelt’s position. Pinchot and Frederick Haynes Newell are exploring some grazing and irrigation issues and will be leaving for a two week trip to the mountains. Although Pinchot expects to miss his hunt, he hopes he and Roosevelt have a “good visit, with lots of exercise.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-08-05

Letter from Dewitt C. Middleton to Gifford Pinchot

Letter from Dewitt C. Middleton to Gifford Pinchot

Commissioner Dewitt C. Middleton of New York informs Gifford Pinchot that Governor Benjamin Odell has approved the Annual Supply Bill which contains $8500 to be paid to the Division of Forestry for work conducted in Hamilton County, New York. In recognition of the assistance given by Assemblyman Jothan Powers Allds, Middleton requests that Pinchot employ Allds’ friend as a laborer.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-05-07