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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to James W. Gerard

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to James W. Gerard

President Roosevelt thanks James W. Gerard for the gift of a knife and returns a penny to Gerard to honor a superstition regarding gifting knives. Roosevelt considers the knife far too valuable to risk taking to Africa and will keep it in the north room of his home where he hopes to host Gerard and his wife Mary Augusta Daly Gerard after he returns from his safari.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1909-03-02

Letter from James W. Gerard to Theodore Roosevelt

Letter from James W. Gerard to Theodore Roosevelt

James W. Gerard, Justice of the New York Supreme Court, sends President Roosevelt a knife to take on his safari. Gerard jokes that the knife might impress the “native chiefs” or at the very least cut the pages of The Outlook. Gerard asks for a penny or something of similar value in return to honor a superstition regarding gifting knives.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1909-03-02

Letter from George Bird Grinnell to Theodore Roosevelt

Letter from George Bird Grinnell to Theodore Roosevelt

George Bird Grinnell asks Theodore Roosevelt for a contribution to the Collection of American Hunting Arms that the Boone and Crockett Club is starting. Grinnell specifically asks Roosevelt if he can donate the suit of buckskin clothing that he wore when hunting in the west. Grinnell plans to donate a suit of regulation old time trapper’s clothes, an old Hudson’s Bay flint lock fuke, and an old Hawkin’s rifle among other interesting things.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-07-18

The black hand of democracy

The black hand of democracy

The “Democratic party” holds a “ruin to U.S. industries” knife with a hilt that features Alton B. Parker’s head. The Democratic party brings the knife near a group of individuals, including a “citizen,” “capitalist,” “manufacturer,” and “house owner.” The arm of the party reads, “Democratic platform: tariff for revenue only means smaller wages.” The hand has several words: “spoils,” “Hillism,” “Bryanism,” “Gormanism,” “Belmontism,” and “fallacies.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-09

Ready to retire, laden with honors

Ready to retire, laden with honors

David B. Hill stands with torn and shredded clothes, stuck by several knives and axes in his body: “Cleveland memento,” “from Tammany,” “World editorial,” “Times,” “defeat for Gov. 1895,” and “Coler boom.” He holds an umbrella and a bag with the tag of “stolen Senate seat.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-09-07

Marbles specialties for sportsmen

Marbles specialties for sportsmen

This Marble Specialties catalog with a short introductory article about gun selection by Webster L. Marble lists a number of axes, firearms, knives for sale. In the last year, almost one million catalogs were distributed throughout the year. An illustration and a short description is included for each item included in the catalog.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908

A result of the system

A result of the system

A devil wearing a business suit holds a fire brand labeled “Arson” in one hand and a large knife labeled “Murder” in the other. He is accepting a payment for $10,000 from a hand labeled “Vast Sums on Uninvestigated Risks.” The hand extends from a “Fire Insurance” company with a motto that states, “We Insure Everything and Anybody” on the corner of the building. Caption: The big insurance companies, by carelessness in their selection of agents, adjusters and risks, place a premium on crime.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1895-11-20

Puck’s presidential possibilities – No. 1, The national knife-grinder

Puck’s presidential possibilities – No. 1, The national knife-grinder

Presidential hopeful John Sherman, wearing a tall stove-pipe hat, stands in the middle of a village street, operating a grinding wheel labeled “Nomination” and sharpening a large knife labeled “Law-Breaking Strikers.” Papers in his pocket are labeled “Speeches,” and a sign attached to his wheel states, “Please help a poor perennial aspirant to get to the White House.” Just up the street, leaning against a fence, is a man labeled “Striker.” Along the street are buildings labeled “Silverites, Womans Rights, Populists, [and] Protectionists” with people standing in windows or at the door, holding large knives to be sharpened.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1894-08-15

“We won’t do a thing to it!”

“We won’t do a thing to it!”

Two masked legislators labeled “Anti-Administration Senator” and “Jingo Senator,” holding long knives labeled “Hatred of Cleveland” and “Hatred of England,” stand outside the “U.S. Senate,” waiting to ambush an “Arbitration Treaty” standing at the entrance to the Senate.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1897-02-03