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Photograph of an unidentified girl at a Civilian Conservation Corps staff and family picnic in the Killdeer Mountains of Dunn County, North Dakota. Photograph is part of a three-binder set of pictures taken by Chandler D. Fairbank, Civilian Conservation Corps North Unit foreman at the Roosevelt Recreation Demonstration Area, taken between 1936 and 1937.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1937-05
Cartoon depicting Theodore Roosevelt with his new granddaughter Grace on his lap, frustrated by the inability to play with a girl. Around them are mementos of his masculine avocations.
Kessler drew this cartoon for the St. Louis Republic. By the 1920s he was drawing a human-interest panel cartoon syndicated to rural newspapers by Metropolitan Newspaper Features.
A girl and boy sit on a bench. The girl is possibly Eleanor Butler Alexander. Information regarding photograph is covered by other materials in the scrapbook.
Theodore Roosevelt has sent some tintypes to his sister Anna so she can see the girls he so often talks about. He describes each of the tintypes and who is in them. He makes sure to stress that his sister must send them back. He asks her and Bessie to come visit.
1879-05-20
A little girl takes all the colored eggs from the Easter Bunny’s basket. She is putting them in her apron, but some have fallen on the ground and are broken. A hen wearing a bonnet is in the background.
Puck‘s annual Springtime/Easter issue was graced with a poster-like design by L. M. Glackens. This was one its most attractive covers at a time when social themes, humorous drawings and jokes, and decorative holiday-inspired artwork insinuated themselves on covers. With the flat-color background and silhouetted figures, the drawing has a feel of Japonisme — then a reigning “look” in poster art in the United States, Europe, and of course Japan.
A crowd of school girls in tasseled caps with flags await President Roosevelt’s arrival.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1905
President Roosevelt appreciates the “darling little girl” in her costume, which reminds him of what his younger boys still wear. He is not convinced that Ernest McGaffey is having a more “genuine country time” than he is.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-09-11
Ezra William Decoto, Probation Officer of Alameda County, was instructed to investigate conditions at the Golden Gate Orphanage and Industrial Farm run by Wilfred C. Bourne and his wife, Alice A. Bourne. This report includes testimonials from the State Board of Examiners, the Farmers and Mechanics Bank, and the Santa Rosa Chamber of Commerce, all of whom think the management and conditions at the orphanage are positive and benefit the children living there.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-12
1908
English
Colorized photograph of three Hawaiian woman and a young girl relaxing on grass mats. The woman on the left is holding a guitar.
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