Hats

Photograph showing Theodore Roosevelt seated in an automobile and smiling.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1910-10-25

Reproduction of a caricature of Theodore Roosevelt by Gunter Brandt, showing Roosevelt speaking with his right arm raised and his hat in his left hand.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1936

President Roosevelt wears a sultan’s turret, sits in the “White House,” and holds a rope attached to a Republican elephant. David B. Hill—”I am a Democrat”—is depicted as a rooster and stands on top of “Wolfert’s Roost.” In the background, a large sun with Alton B. Parker’s face and “safe and sane” rays shines while a “Bryanism” cloud covers part of the sun.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-04-04

A woman wears a Rough Rider uniform and a “Roosevelt” hat while “Dame Democracy” attempts to select a hat. There are several options: “The ‘Dave Hill’: Any old price,” “The Parker: A new thing,” “The ‘Bryan’: In stock 8 years. Marked down from 16 to 1. Shop worn,” “The Cleveland: A star-eyed daisy.” “Dame Democracy” holds “The ‘Hearst’: Made of the yellowest material.” Caption: Miss Strenuous Republican to Dame Effete Democracy:—You seem to have trouble over your new Easter hat, my dear. Mine’s picked out, and it is the ruling style, I tell you!

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-03-20

Atlanta Mayor James T. Woodward, recently defeated for reelection, is dressed like Napoleon I and wears a bicorne with the label of “Woodward.”

Comments and Context

This cartoon was clipped from the Atlanta Georgian and News and pasted in the scrapbooks of political cartoons kept by the White House during the presidency of Theodore Roosevelt. Those clippings allowed Roosevelt to gauge public sentiment and to anticipate policy formation. It may be presumed he enjoyed cartoons too.

The vast majority of the clippings have Roosevelt as a figure, or otherwise comment on a vital issue he would address; the drawings seldom dealt with issues or personalities that were of very local, or transitory, import. This example seems to have slipped past the typically astute attention of the staffer.

Black and white postcard with an illustration of a bull moose galloping towards the White House. The postcard also includes a portrait of Theodore Roosevelt, an illustration of the “T. R. hat” and the phrase, “My hat is still in the ring.” On the reverse of the postcard, Florence writes to her Grandfather that the “old moose can wag his tail now but after the election it will be dead.”

Collection

Fritz R. Gordner Collection

Creation Date

1911-1912

The angry countenance of Father Knickerbocker looks down from storm clouds on a flood that has broken up “Tammany Hall” with the Tammany Tiger sitting on a partial building labeled “Tammany” and a group of Natives sitting on a ladder resting against the other half of the building labeled “Hall.” Other Natives are treading water. A bolt of lightning is labeled “Popular Condemnation.” Among those depicted as Natives are Richard Croker, Roswell P. Flower, William B. Cockran, James J. Martin, and Hugh J. Grant. Also shown are Charles A. Dana, Edward Murphy Jr., and George B. McClellan, and the top hat of John J. Scannell.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1894-05-09

Thomas B. Reed, Benjamin Harrison, and William McKinley are playing poker at the “Presidential Aspirants’ Poker Club.” Reed is wearing a crown and royal robe, Harrison is wearing his iconic top hat, and McKinley is dressed like Napoleon I and has a stack of red, white, and blue chips in front of him.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1894-01-03

A large Easter bonnet casts shade over a small eclectic group of individuals.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1897-04-21

Print shows a hotel proprietor standing on the sea shore telling a sea serpent to go away before the summer tourists arrive. The serpent, wearing a hat, tells the man that it is about to shed its skin, which could be advertised as a “disrobing act.” Caption: Summer-Hotel Proprietor No; go away! Sea-serpents are out of date as attractions. / Sea-Serpent But I am just about to shed my skin; – couldn’t you advertise me as doing a disrobing act?

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1899-06-07

A bust portrait of a beautiful young woman, facing front, wears a hat and large calla lily collar, with a seemingly vacant stare.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1914-10-17

A beautiful young woman sits in a large wine glass.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1914-09-12

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!

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1914-05-02

A well-dressed couple walks together on a windy day. Many wind-blown hats fill the air around them, yet they manage to keep theirs in place.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1914-03-07

Print shows an Irishman sailing in a top hat with a sail labeled “Money Wanted Fur to Free the Ould Country!” mounted on a clay tobacco pipe; his coattails are labeled “Land League” and “Free Ireland”. He is just offshore of land labeled “Michigan” where there is a crop of “American Greenback Corp.” labeled with “$”. Caption: “Wonst more, me byes, for Ould Oirland – the land of divilment and distriss!”

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1881-10-19

Illustration shows an artist’s palette, with brushes and portfolio, and drawings depicting an artist(?) among several women wearing a variety of hats, also caricatures including one of big business as a pig wearing a top hat. Caption: A little memento found in our artist’s studio after his departure for Europe.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1885-09-09

A policewoman observes a crowd of women outside a store advertising a “Sacrifice Sale of Millinery.” She is torn by her obligation to her duties as a police officer and her desire to take advantage of the sale. Caption: She will never be a success on some “fixed posts.”

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1913-04-16

Straight pin with a cowboy hat on top, possibly from the 1912 presidential campaign to symbolize Theodore Roosevelt’s statement that he was “throwing my hat in the ring.”

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site

Creation Date

1912

Theodore Roosevelt is shown wearing a pith helmet and a herringbone wool suit with a vest, white shirt, and polka-dotted tie.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site

Creation Date

1910

A woman wearing a large hat and a red dress sits at a table in a nightclub with a man who is holding her hand across the table.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1912-05-29