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After vacation – the discovery of the home

After vacation – the discovery of the home

Vignettes illustrate the comforts of domestic life at home, with the central scene showing a man bathing in a bathtub.

comments and context

Comments and Context

“After Vacation” is typical of the non-political genre cartoons, collections of themed gags that by 1905 appeared roughly once a month in Puck magazine. They provide to later readers superb diaries of everyday life that might otherwise be lost to history.

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Pinckney Marcius-Simons

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Pinckney Marcius-Simons

President Roosevelt thanks Pinckney Marcius-Simons for his letter and offer to send “the little picture” to Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, which she will gladly accept. The president expresses Edith’s and his fondness for Marcius-Simons’s painting, and tells him that one of his works hangs in the living room at the White House: “I doubt if either of us ever goes into the room without looking at it.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-11-22

Parlor in “The House of the Seven Gables,” Salem, Mass.

Parlor in “The House of the Seven Gables,” Salem, Mass.

Postcard showing the parlor in The House of the Seven Gables. The room is fully decorated with furniture and artwork. A fireplace and an opened china cabinet are seen on the far wall.

Comments and Context

In Charles C. Myers’s own words, “Next we enter the parlor which is an interesting place with its odd and old designs of furniture and tapestries.”

Collection

Charles C. Myers Collection