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Theodore Roosevelt thanks Mary A. Lockwood for her knitted jacket. He tells her she has a fine soldier’s record in her family.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1917-06-01
Betty Kilral, a student from a Girl’s Latin School in Boston, writes to Edith Roosevelt that her Latin teacher told her of a friend who taught Quentin Roosevelt to knit while on train from New Hampshire to Boston.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1932-07-18
Theodore Roosevelt is sorry that Meyer Lissner and California Governor Hiram Johnson are disappointed with him but Roosevelt did not want to interfere by offering advice. Roosevelt discusses his grandchildren and a blanket that Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt is knitting for the Governor’s grandchild. Roosevelt asks if Lissner and his wife Ermine Greenhood Lissner might visit this winter.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1915-11-06
Photograph showing three-quarter length portrait of Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt seated and knitting.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1917-10-22
President William H. Taft, as a young boy, kneels on the arm of a rocking chair and leans over to put his arms around the shoulders of an elderly woman, labeled “Ultimate Consumer,” who is knitting a large sock.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1909-06-09
At center, an effeminate Santa Claus stands in front of a fireplace where stockings are hanging. His bag of toys is on the floor nearby. He considers taking the stockings “for the Belgians.” The surrounding vignettes show scenes depicting the “knitting craze”: a chess player knits while waiting for his opponent to make a move; a society woman knits while walking the dog, with a servant following her to carry the yarn on a tray; a man knits while sitting in the bathtub, the only free time he has; passengers and a conductor knit while riding on a streetcar; a boxer drops a stitch when caught off guard by the gong; and a drunkard tells his wife “No, my dear, I wash tnitting at the tlub.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1914-12-26
Charles W. Fairbanks, as an old woman, sits in a rocking chair in front of a fireplace, holding a portrait of the “G.O.P.” elephant. “Blessed Are the Pacemakers” appears on a sampler above the mantle. Fairbanks is wearing a pair of shoes labeled “Nomination Sneakers,” and a basket of knitting labeled “Political Fancy Work” lies on the floor next to the chair. A cage with a bee inside is on a table labeled “Presidential Bee.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1907-02-13
William Wingate Sewall sends President Roosevelt a pair of stockings knitted by his family and requests information regarding their upcoming visit to the White House. He is concerned that they are “green” as his family is from the “backwoods” and worries that they will be “beyond their depth” in Washington, D.C.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-11-05