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Photograph of the dining room at President Roosevelt’s Washington, D.C., home with moose and ram’s heads on the walls.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1904
An elephant in a top hat and suit talks with a bull moose in a suit as Woodrow Wilson walks by.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1912-1920
Theodore Roosevelt, dressed as a Rough Rider, tells a moose carrying a bayonet that this could be “our last mobilization.” Roosevelt carries a paper labeled “Fall 1914 Campaign” and stands in the Progressive camp. The G.O.P. Camp is on the other hill with a cannon pointed at Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1914
This cartoon depicts a race between the three candidates of the 1912 presidential election sitting astride animals symbolizing their respective parties: Wilson riding a donkey, Taft riding an elephant, and Roosevelt riding a moose. The White House sits in the background as the ultimate finish line. Taft and Wilson are neck and neck, while Roosevelt’s moose bites at Taft’s elephant, seemingly distracting it and slowing it down.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1912
Former President Roosevelt stands looking at a bull moose propped up with a number of boards.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1916
President Wilson, as a pharaoh, rides in an Egyptian chariot drawn by the Democratic donkey. Wilson holds a small sword and ropes attached to a man labeled “Monopoly” whose arms are bound behind him, walking on his knees, and wearing a money-bag crown, a moose, representing the Bull Moose Movement, and the Republican elephant. In the upper right are two figures labeled “Underwood” and “Simmons” leading an army of Congressmen who supported the Underwood-Simmons Act.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1913-10-01
Unidentified and undated page with a short article about political cartoonist Alfred West Brewerton. At the top is a cartoon of Brewerton drawing a cartoon with Theodore Roosevelt shooting a pistol and riding a moose in the direction of a sign labeled “To Chicago.”
Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site
Unknown
Theodore Roosevelt sits in a chair with a bull moose who is crying and looking up at him. In the background a vision shows crowds cheering as Roosevelt is sworn in as president by Chief Justice Edward D. White, while an old and beaten William H. Taft looks on. Caption: Of all sad words of tongue or pen, / The saddest are these: “It might have been!”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1913-02-26
Round, celluloid button with dark blue background and tan picture of a moose head. At the top is printed “Progressive.”
Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site
1912
William Jennings Bryan, as a moose, rubs his antlers labeled “Government Ownership” and “Initiative and Referendum” against a tree labeled “Party Opposition” to knock them off, so that new antlers can grow. On the ground are antlers from previous years labeled “Imperialism shed in 1904” and “Free Silver shed in 1900.” Five heavily-bearded owls are perched on branches of the tree.
A rare two-color cartoon this late in Puck‘s publishing life is J. S. Pughe’s brilliant and simple presentation of of the policies, and changing policies, of William Jennings Bryan. Note that Pughe’s skillful caricature required no label of tag for readers.
A moose hunter uses a bullhorn labeled “Insatiate Egotism” to call moose. A large bull moose with the face of Theodore Roosevelt stands off in the distance. The reflection in a body of water shows a bull moose.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1912-08-28
Theodore Roosevelt tells explorer James L. Clark that he recommended Clark to his friend Alexander Lambert as Lambert needs someone to mount his moose head.
1911-10-08
The preserve that the moose was supposed to enter had not been declared a zoological garden and the law only authorizes the admission of wild animals to zoological gardens. Secretary of the Treasury Shaw has apparently been able to remedy the problem.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-06-14
George E. Harrison and W. H. Harrison send photographs they took of moose near the Big Fork River in Minnesota. They advise President Roosevelt on who to procure as a guide and invite him to join them next year on an expedition to see moose and other “majestic wild animals.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-11-26