Money

Elisha Ely Garrison elaborates on a disagreement he is having with Victor Morawetz regarding financial matters, explaining that he feels that it is more important to establish a well regulated currency, and that creating proper banking conditions is incidental. He advises Theodore Roosevelt that it is not necessary to commit himself to any plan, as they tend to be of little consequence.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-03-01

Columbia University President Butler sends President Roosevelt his thoughts on revision of national currency policy. He feels that the current system is unable to meet the needs of businesses and creates constant problems. Butler evaluates the current state of politics in New York, including the popularity of Governor Charles Evans Hughes and unpopularity of Senators Thomas Collier Platt and Chauncey M. Depew.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-09-26

This note records that $100 of the Vanderbilt fund went to the “Neighborhood House,” which is a social settlement under the auspices of Associated Charities.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907

Winthrop Chanler discusses sending $250 to William A. Baillie-Grohman on President Roosevelt’s behalf.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-02-25

President Roosevelt is depicted as a cannon, aiming at a locomotive-automaton labeled as railroad magnate Edward Henry Harriman. Harriman, the target, is missed by Roosevelt. Harriman stands atop a pile of money with a Napoleonic hat.

comments and context

Comments and Context

Reproduced from the original artwork, this cartoon was probably drawn for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch or New York World, both Pulitzer newspapers. Alfred Joseph Frueh eventually drew some of the most striking and popular theatrical caricatures in American art, notably for Life and The New Yorker.

President William McKinley appears as Moses with two rays of light emitting from his top hat, and wearing a red cape labeled “McKinley.” He stands next to a large rock labeled “Prosperity” that has split and is spewing money toward a throng of people representing mostly the working class and the poor who stream from the factories in the background. Caption: The people foolishly think that McKinley will be able to tap the rock of prosperity, à la Moses, and make money flow like water.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1897-03-10

Roswell P. Flower and Levi P. Morton are watering flowers labeled “Presidential Hopes” by pouring money on them. Morton’s flower is much taller than Flower’s flower. Caption: The same method, but different results.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1894-09-19

On the left, money is being counterfeited and is labeled “Low-down and Illegal.” On the right, capitalists on “Wall Street” hold papers labeled “Watered Stock” and “Dividends.” Caption: What is the difference morally between making and circulating valueless paper in the guise of money, and making and circulating valueless paper in the form of securities? Both kinds of counterfeits get real money in exchange for fake; only, one kind gets a few hundreds of dollars, perhaps, and then goes to jail, while the other gets millions, maybe, and says: “Don’t! You’ll destroy confidence,” to anybody who ventures to criticise.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1910-09-28

Print shows an interior view of the office at a charitable organization. A bloated manager sits at a desk with his feet on top. In the background, several men hold open a large money bag to catch money flowing from a large cornucopia labeled “Charity.” The money goes down a chute “For Salaries, Office Rent, and Miscellaneous Expenses.” A couple pennies spill from a smaller chute into a basket “For Actual Relief of the Poor.”

Caption: Too often its benefits go to the organizers.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Print shows Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa spoon-feeding a promissory note that states “Pay the Bearer $5 When Ireland is Free” to an Irish servant girl labeled “Bridget”; on the floor between them is a hat labeled “Rossa” filled with golden eggs labeled “Money from Bridget”. On a table to the left is a large bowl filled with golden eggs labeled “Irish Contributions from Servant Girls”, and hanging on the wall at center are notices that state “Funds Wanted for Bleeding Ireland” and “Headqua[rters] of the Dynamite Coterie.” Broken eggs spill coins on the floor. Caption: Rossa “Begorra, we’ll never kill her while her appetite lasts!”

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1883-08-22

Aboard a ship carrying cotton are several people – a man labeled “McAdoo,” also identified as “St. Clair,” a young girl labeled “Miss Columbia,” also identified as “Little Eva,” the figure of a man with a large coin for a head, labeled “National Currency,” also identified as “Uncle Tom,” and a large man labeled “Wall Street Banking Interests,” also identified as “Slave-driver Haley,” holding a whip labeled “Credit” and the chain labeled “Control” that binds to servitude the “National Currency.” Caption: Little Eva — Oh, Papa, won’t you buy him for me?

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

A man wearing a top hat labeled “Lawyer” sits on a pile of money bags labeled “Fees” in a cart drawn by a donkey labeled “The Law.” The reins are labeled “Red Tape” and the harness is labeled “Technicalities” and “Delays.” Hanging from a whip just beyond the donkey’s reach is a carrot labeled “Conviction of the Guilty.” A large horseshoe magnet labeled “Positive” and “Negative” hangs off the side of the cart.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1912-01-03

A man wearing a crown labeled “Money Power” sits on a throne at his place of business labeled “Goats to Satisfy Popular Clamor,” among goats in cages labeled “Insurance Goat, Political Goat, Clerical Goat, Banking Goat, Labor Goat, Trust Goat, [and] Wall St. Goat.” At his feet is a wastebasket filled with papers labeled “Indictments.” A policeman labeled “The Law” is dragging a goat toward a crowd reaching for someone or something to blame, with one man pointing to a “Jail” in the background.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1912-01-17

A group of country people dance around a large corn shock topped with money paid by tourists from the city boarding in country inns.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1911-09-06

Civil Service Commissioner Roosevelt requests an increase in the administrative budget for the Civil Service Commission from William Potts. Roosevelt elaborates on how to allocate funds and shares his ideas for reorganizing the Commission.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1889-05-08

Theodore Roosevelt thanks William C. Bradbury and Samuel Bradbury for the twenty-dollar check.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1912-06-25

Theodore Roosevelt expresses his deep love to his wife Alice and how he could not live without her. His election as a New York state assemblyman seems assured and he is enclosing an article. His book is nearly finished but he confesses he is not in “a good condition from a monetary point of view.” Uncle Jimmie is standing by him.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1881-11-05

Eleven-year-old Theodore Roosevelt continues to chronicle his family’s trip through Europe in this diary. The diary begins with his trip through the Papal states, then through France, England and back home to the United States. Lists at the end include “Papa’s money,” “hotels” and “countries visited.”

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1870

Travel diary of fourteen-year-old Theodore Roosevelt beginning in New York, sailing on the ship Russia for Liverpool and ending in Vienna as he departs for Dresden. Includes entries for Egypt, Jerusalem, and many other locations in the Middle East. Also included is an entry for “Diary in the North Eastern states in August of 1872.” Sketches, doodles, and lists, including a list of expenses, can be found. Some pages have been torn out.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1872-1873

Ten-year-old Theodore Roosevelt records his trip to Europe with his family. He records the names of hotels and towns where they stayed, people to whom he sent letters, everyday activities, how his money was spent, the names of friends he made in Europe, and lists of Dutch and German words he learned. Samples of plants and flowers he saw were pressed into the pages.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1869