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Postcard showing the nursery in the Roosevelt House in New York City. A bed, a crib, and several chairs are seen throughout the room, which is covered in decorative wallpaper. Text on the reverse notes that the Woman’s Roosevelt Memorial Association is responsible for the house and the museum. A handwritten note mentions a visit to the home.
1938
A large group of children in a nursery are fighting amongst themselves. They are labeled “England” and “Russia,” “Austria” and “Italy,” “Greece” and “Turkey,” “France” and “Germany” fighting over a child or doll labeled “Alsace Lorraine,” “Roumania” and “Servia,” and in the background on the left, “Denmark” and “Sweden,” and “China” and Japan. The mother of the house, an angel labeled “Peace,” looks tired and exasperated. There is a dead bird in a birdcage hanging on the left. Caption: Madam Peace–Goodness, gracious! – were there ever such troublesome children? They are always promising to be good, and yet they are always squabbling!
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1897-03-17