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An unruly infant labeled “Arbitration” cries, sitting in a high chair. Oscar S. Straus, as a nurse, is measuring out a spoonful of “Anti-Strike Tonic,” and a puzzled “Dr. Hanna” is standing behind the child. Caption: The child of the labor question worries its nurses.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1902-05-28
Theodore Roosevelt asks Mary J. B. Frazer to congratulate the father and mother of the prize-winning baby and all parents who participated. He encloses a handkerchief from Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt for the winner.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-09-15
Theodore Roosevelt congratulates W. F. Starkweather on the birth of his baby.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1915-08-20
Theodore Roosevelt congratulates John V. Elflein and his wife, Margaret C. Elflein, on the “young ‘Bull Moose.'”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-12-02
Theodore Roosevelt congratulates Malcolm Douglas and his wife on the birth of their daughter, Virginia Etta Douglas.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-11-27
Theodore Roosevelt congratulates S. Ira Cooper and his wife on the birth of their daughter, Jane K. Cooper.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-11-27
Theodore Roosevelt wishes good luck to Milton F. Herder and his family, including “the little Bull Moose.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-11-18
George Cabot Lodge thanks President Roosevelt for the kind note he sent following the birth of his son. He asks Roosevelt to also thank Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt for the telegram she sent.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902
Daniel Taylor asks Theodore Roosevelt to send an autographed photograph as a prize for the Terre Haute baby contest.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-08-23
Josephine M. Shields sends Theodore Roosevelt a picture of her triplet sons. She wishes that Roosevelt, Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, and Ethel Roosevelt could see them.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-03-26
Alice Eugenia Young invites Theodore Roosevelt to attend a “Baby Opera” in Beaumont, Texas, which will be put on by the Mothers Club. The event will take place around the time Roosevelt will already be passing through Texas.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-02-07
Materials related to the Grand Baby Show including a partial list of the offered prizes, a flyer listing the event’s information and class list, and a contestant entry ticket.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-04-28
Speaker of the House Joseph Gurney Cannon brings President Roosevelt a “nomination notice” infant. Roosevelt jumps up and overturns his desk with several items on it: a “try prosperity infant food sample box,” a “no race party suicide” picture frame, and an “I accept. T. Roosevelt” paper.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-07-27
Ohio Senator Marcus Alonzo Hanna holds a recently blown out candle and tiptoes away from a “1904 presidential boom” crib as President Roosevelt, who is in a picture frame, looks on. A baby bottle has spilled on the floor with the label of “newspaperiety.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-11-22
President Roosevelt holds a “1904” sign and climbs on top of a stork that holds a “nomination” baby. The Republican elephant watches while the “White House” is in the background.
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1903-06-22
President Roosevelt holds William H. Taft, who is depicted as a baby and holds a Republican elephant rattle. Uncle Sam, who has a cigar in his mouth, looks on. Caption: Uncle Sam–My, what a big boy! But Bryan says he can’t talk? Papa Teddy–Oh yes, he can! He repeats everything I say.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-09-16
A disheveled Uncle Sam holds a crying “Panama” baby while President Roosevelt stands beside a “Try SSSS” sign as he holds a “speak softly soothing syrup” bottle.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-09
Color postcard with image of a man holding two crying infants, with a third in a crib and a home in disarray. The caption below reads, “The Much-Married See poor papa with footsteps unsteady, He says “marriage is a failure” already; The kids loudly roar As he walks the floor, And you bet he won’t vote for Teddy!”
1901-1907
Color postcard with image of a man holding two infants, with two others held in the pockets of a large green coat and the caption, “You should take Teddy’s advice” below.
1901-1907
Color postcard with image of a man holding two infants, with two others held in the pockets of a large red coat and the caption, “You should take Teddy’s advice” below.
1901-1907