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Speech detailing the political career of William Bruce Ellison in New York state politics. His high character and strong convictions, even against political parties and bosses, are emphasized throughout the address.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-03-07
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
Invitation to the 25th anniversary of the founding of the University Settlement Society of New York, which will include guest speakers, stereopticon views, and music by an orchestra of the Settlement.
Mary M. Tuttle describes scenes in a hotel in the Adirondack Mountains in detail. She includes a “discussion” between a New Yorker and an Ohioan about whose state is greater.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-07-29
A program listing the January, February, and March dates and speakers for the Saturday Discussions lecture series sponsored by the Republican Club of the City of New York.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-04-11
It is reported that at a dinner with President Roosevelt, Ambassador to Italy George von Lengerke Meyer was told that his resignation is expected, in order for former New York City mayor Seth Low to take up the post. Meyer was made ambassador by William McKinley in 1900, with the understanding that he would resign after a year. Meyer has not resigned, much to the consternation of Secretary of State John Hay.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-06-26
It has been reported that former New York City mayor Seth Low accepted an ambassadorship from President Roosevelt in a recent meeting. Low will become ambassador of Mexico, or of Italy. Reports state that he would prefer Italy, and thus would displace current ambassador George von Lengerke Meyer, whose term expires in December.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-06-25
This cartoon summarizes a number of important political events in 1903, including presidential and vice presidential aspirations, the Panama Canal, Tammany Hall, equal rights, and the Post Office scandal. President Roosevelt is in the center with his gun in his hands and his foot on a dead “graft” bear.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-11
Seating chart for a lunch held on December 4, 1901.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-12-04
Attorney General Bonaparte encloses two letters to President Roosevelt regarding a prior letter from Seth Low and the legislative bill he proposed. One letter criticizes the bill, and the second gives Bonaparte’s views regarding the advisability of such legislation at present. Bonaparte felt that Roosevelt might find it more convenient to have the two topics separated in this way.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-12-02
The article examines the selection of James R. Sheffield for the position of United States district attorney for the Southern District of New York and discusses his previous experiences in public office.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-01-10
List of unknown origin titled “American Members of the League for International Conciliation,” enclosed with a letter created by Nobel Prize winner Nicholas Murray Butler. Andrew Carnegie and Andrew D. White are listed as “Honorary Presidents,” 12 people are listed under “Council of Direction,” and 46 people are listed as “Members.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-12-05
Seth Low, president of the Civic Federation, recently met with a committee from the American Federation of Labor, including President Samuel Gompers, on the subject of amending the Sherman anti-trust act to exclude labor organizers. While they did not reach a definite decision, they made progress on forming a measure to introduce to Congress. Low also recently spoke with President Roosevelt about this issue.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-03-06
Newspaper article describing political infighting during the New York City mayoral election. The Republican party’s “fusion” candidate, Seth Low, is not supported by some of the party and efforts were made to make sure he was not elected. However, the party discovered and warned defectors that party support would be behind Low.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-10-26
Thomas Collier Platt kneels on the right, praying, as a bolt of lightning labeled “Citizens Union” strikes at his feet from a storm cloud showing the face of Seth Low. He is back to back with Richard Croker, on the left, who is struck by a bolt of lightning labeled “Henry George Party” coming from a dark cloud showing the face of Henry George. The jolt knocks off Croker’s hat.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1897-10-27
Father Knickerbocker, labeled “Greater New York” with a “Vote” in his pocket, is deciding between the “Tammany” Tiger on the left, representing “Spoils Gov’t” and kneeling on its “Record” of “Tweedism, Crokerism, Sheehanism, [and] Free Silverism,” and Seth Low, on the right, representing “Non-Partisan Gov’t,” standing on his record of an “Upright Public and Private Career.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1897-10-13
Richard Croker as the Tammany Tiger holds a measuring tape up to Charles A. Dana, Oswald Ottendorfer, and A. Oakey Hall. Caption: Tammany ought to seek among its oldest and staunchest supporters for a mayoralty candidate who will come up to Seth Low’s measurements.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1897-09-29
At a dog show, a variety of breeds are competing. In the upper left corner, labeled the “Judges’ Stand,” are several newspaper editors, including James Gordon Bennett, Whitelaw Reid, Murat Halstead, Charles A. Dana, Henry Watterson, and George W. Curtis. They are judging two dogs, Winfield Scott Hancock and Samuel J. Tilden. Other dogs depicted are “Sesquipedalian Sleuth Hound Evarts, Mulligan Mongrel, Rossa Runt – take care dangerous, Lap Dogs Monopoly Breed”, also Chester A. Arthur, William Mahone, Thomas Collier Platt, Roscoe Conkling, James D. Cameron, John Logan, “Pointer Bayard, Tammany Tarrier, House Dog Edson, Dachshund, Toby Dog, Poodle, Water-dog,” David Davis, U.S. Grant, “Tewksbury Ratter, Hoar-Hound, Hybrid Hayes” and at center, “Puck’s entry Cleveland [and] S. Low.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1883-05-09
Ulysses S. Grant is leading his “Grant Boom” band comprised of Samuel J. Tilden, Lucius Q. C. Lamar, Roscoe Conkling, William W. Phelps, David Davis, James D. Cameron, John Sherman, James G. Blaine, John Kelly, Winfield Scott Hancock, William Mahone, and John Logan. Most carry drums that are broken or in disrepair. Across the street, in front of the “Political Armory,” Puck is operating a makeshift stand, issuing “New Drums for Old Drums.” Benjamin F. Butler kicks away his old drum labeled “Butlers Old Policies” and is getting a new drum labeled “Civil Service Reform.” Brooklyn Mayor Seth Low and Grover Cleveland are trying out new drums labeled “Independence” and “Civil Service Reform.” Other new drums are labeled “Tariff Reform, Political Honesty, Anti-Monopoly, Honesty, [and] For the People.” Caption: The U.S. Army is to have new drums. In their day the old drums did good service. Now they must retire and give place to better drums. Phila. Record.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1883-02-14
Puck reclines before a table covered with alcoholic beverages, some labeled “V. H. Dusenbury’s P.P. Brandy” and “Puck Punch [No London Punch],” smoking and blowing smoke rings. Among the figures appearing in Puck’s smoke cloud are Chester Alan Arthur labeled “For a Good Veto” and fishing for “Popularity”; George M. Robeson at the helm of a boat carrying a large money bag labeled “Appropriation”; Jay Gould, Russell Sage, and William H. Vanderbilt sailing on a boat labeled “Monopoly”; Susan B. Anthony and another woman, George William Curtis labeled “Civil Service Reform,” Roscoe Conkling, Jay A. Hubbell labeled “Deform,” Ulysses S. Grant labeled “No Third Term,” David Davis, Robert Green Ingersoll boxing with Thomas De Witt Talmage, James Gordon Bennett, “Old Rossa” with “Dynamite,” Cyrus W. Field trying to net a “Coronet,” John Kelly and Samuel J. Tilden on a seesaw, William Russell Grace standing on a rock labeled “Public Esteem” with Seth Low trying to climb up, and James Russell Lowell on a “British Mission.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1882-08-09