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Richard Watson Gilder informs President Roosevelt that Jacob A. Riis and Mary Phillips Riis have just departed after a five-day visit. Gilder observes that it is a marriage of contrasts, but a happy one. He also mentions that George Colman deKay Gilder and Hayden Channing have done well in recent horse races.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-09-17
Sunday at the horse races in Paris about 1906.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1906
Sunday at the races in Paris about 1906.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1906
Sunday at the races in Paris, 1906. The Tribune Reserve at Auteuil. Mrs. Ogden Mills, nee Margaret Rutherford, can be recognized at right in front of pillar.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1906
Theodore Roosevelt writes to his sister Anna Roosevelt about recent happenings in Oyster Bay, New York. Roosevelt has been entertaining guests, including his brother Elliott and brother-in-law Douglas Robinson, and entered his ponies in the local races. Roosevelt is upset about an incident involving Alice and her canceled visit to Henderson House because sister Corinne’s mother-in-law did not have room for Alice’s nurse. He will be leaving to go West in a few days.
1888-08-05
Program for horse races at Hippodrome, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1913-11-09
A well-dressed couple discuss the amount of money a jockey earned the previous racing season. The woman suggests that he should be able to earn more than the diminutive jockey. Caption: He — That jockey made $50,000 last season! / She — What! That little fellow! Why can’t you do something like that, John?
Female jockey race on Roosevelt Day
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1903-07-28
Comparison of Theodore Roosevelt’s time in the Badlands with the respect earned by Grey Wolf, an eastern Thoroughbred horse. Grey Wolf lost a race under poor conditions to a local horse, Gopher, but won admiration for his effort.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1949-05-01
Theodore Roosevelt is disappointed William Astor Chanler is living abroad. He is interested in Chanler’s remarks about the Italians but does not make suggestions to the administration on foreign policy. Roosevelt comments on the Italian invasion of Tripoli.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-11-21
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-11-04
Chanler, William Astor, 1867-1934
Chronology of the daily life of Theodore Roosevelt from January 1884 to December 1891. Notable events include the deaths of Alice Lee Roosevelt and Martha Bulloch Roosevelt, Roosevelt’s time on his ranch, the completion of Sagamore Hill, Roosevelt’s engagement and marriage to Edith Kermit Carow, Theodore “Ted” Roosevelt’s birth, the “Great-Dieup” of cattle in North Dakota, and the founding of the Boone and Crockett Club.
Theodore Roosevelt Association
1985
Chronology of the daily life of Theodore Roosevelt between January 1879 to December 1883. Notable events include Theodore Roosevelt’s engagement and marriage to Alice Hathaway Lee, his appointment to the New York State Legislature, and his first visit and buffalo hunt in North Dakota.
Theodore Roosevelt Association
1985
The article discusses the history of Deer Park in Harper County, Kansas, a deer preserve and horse farm founded by pioneer Joseph Lewis.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-04-14
In the first cartoon, William Lorimer holds up some cash and tells Speaker of the House Joseph Gurney Cannon, “Betcha million you’re wrong, Joe!” Caption: He will bet on the Speaker’s decisions. In the second cartoon, Lorimer holds up cash as he watches President Roosevelt play tennis and says, “Betcha million he misses the ball!” Caption: A fine chance to wager a few on Teddy’s game. In the third cartoon, Lorimer plays crap with two men and says, “Fade you for a million!” Caption: What a chance on the crap games!” In the fourth cartoon, Lorimer looks at a horse race from the dome of the United States Capitol and says, “Fifty million on Azelina!” Caption: He can see the Bennings races from the dome of the Capitol. In the fifth cartoon, Lorimer points to an umbrella a man is holding and says, “Betcha million it don’t rain today!” Caption: Betting on the weather.
Ferdinand G. Long, who drew for several newspapers in the United States and England, but most regularly for the New York World (where he created Sunday and daily strips including the seminal Mr. Peewee) drew this daily political genre-cartoon for the Philadelphia Evening Telegraph in 1908. Unfortunately its title was clipped off by the scrapbook compiler at Theodore Roosevelt’s White House. The Telegraph (1864-1918) was a minor newspaper but with an Associated Press franchise, the reason that publisher Cyrus Herman Kotzschmar Curtis purchased it, then killed it, in 1918.
The five vignettes, without the cartoon’s published caption, appear to address William Lorimer, the corrupt Republican United States congressman from Illinois. He was a notorious gambler and reputed influence-peddler and briber. When associate was later asked about charges against Lorimer, he said that he supposed “a million dollars,” spread around, would not have changed an election’s outcome. In fact Lorimer would be elected United State senator — by the state legislature; in the days before direct election of senators — and was subsequently expelled from the senate for having bribed his way into office.
President Cleveland drives a stagecoach carrying a female passenger labeled “National Credit” and a trunk labeled “Gold Reserve.” The horse team is labeled “Firmness” and “Common Sense.” A pack of dogs is trying to rattle the horses. The dogs are identified as “Dana, Pulitzer, Frye, Bland, Sickles, Peffer, Reed, Boutelle, Wolcott, Pugh, Stewart, Jones, Morgan, Teller, [and] Lodge.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1895-03-13
A doubtful Uncle Sam watches as two horses pass on a racetrack headed for the start of the race. On the first horse labeled “Wilson Bill” is jockey William L. Wilson wearing a ribbon labeled “Tariff Reform.” Several bandages encircle the horse’s legs, tail, and neck labeled “Senate Amendments, Concessions to Collar and Cuff Trust, Concessions to Sugar Trust, Concessions to Coal Trust, Favors to Lead Trust, [and] Favors to Iron Trust.” On the second horse labeled “McKinley Bill” is jockey William McKinley wearing a ribbon labeled “Protection.” Caption: Uncle Sam–Neither one of these animals is good for anything; – they say there’s a new horse being trained, called “Free Trade,” that will beat ’em both!
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1894-06-20
Puck appears as a jockey on a galloping horse labeled “Free Trade” on a racetrack labeled “International Commercial Race-Track.” John Bull stands on the track next to the British Prime Minister Lord Rosebery as a jockey, sitting on a horse labeled “British Commercial Supremacy.” Caption: John Bull–Good ‘evins! Hif that there filly is goin’ to start, hit’ll go ‘ard with my ‘orse!
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1894-08-01
The people of Nairobi remind Theodore Roosevelt of Rudyard Kipling’s stories, but locals do not appreciate the comparison. Kermit Roosevelt has been a great comfort and Roosevelt is very proud of him. Kermit has been taking part in race week but always on poor horses. Roosevelt describes some of the local people, including the “warlike Masai” and women “painted with vermillion and ochre.” He was glad to hear that the family was enjoying the European trip and does not want Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt to “economize in foolish ways.”
1909-08-01
Theodore Roosevelt writes his mother from his honeymoon in London. He describes visiting Aunt Hattie and the only thing that marred the visit was the “slobbering” of the younger Bullochs. He also details paintings at the National Gallery and at South Kensington. He took Alice to “ladies day” at Epsom Races, driving in Hyde Park, the opera and Saint Paul’s.
1881-06-05