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A program for the Peace Jubilee and Reception held for Colonel Roosevelt at Oyster Bay. The sequence of events at the reception included: Roosevelt’s speech “War Experiences,” songs with lyrics included, and a benediction.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1898-09-21
Eleanor Butler Roosevelt at a garden party at the William Bourke Cockrans. From left to right: unidentified man, Anne Louisa Cockran, Mrs. Oscar S. Straus, Roosevelt, William Bourke Cockran. A note written under the picture says Eleanor’s hat was from Paris and of the latest fashion.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1912
Invitation to a garden party given by Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt.
1903-1908
Fancy dress party at Mrs. George Munroe’s, Tuxedo Park, New York, 1901. Left to right: Ruth Cutting (later Mrs. Reginald Auchincloss), Harriet Alexander (Mrs. Winthrop W. Aldrich), Janetta Alexander (Mrs. Arnold Whitridge), Eleanor Butler Alexander (Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt Jr.) and Mary Alexander (Mrs. Sheldon Whitehouse).
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1901
Theodore Roosevelt writes to his son Kermit and daughter-in-law Belle about Archie and Quentin going to army camp for training. He talks about the fancy dress party he and Edith hosted. Edith is ill because of the poison ivy, and Ethel is visiting with her son. Roosevelt encloses a letter from Seth Bullock regarding Kermit in case of war.
1915-07-10
A young couple and their driver stand in the snow outside the door to a building where a “stag” party is in progress. They are being invited in by two men at the door.
By 1905 Puck magazine had evolved from an exclusively politics-and-humor journal to a humor magazine with doses of politics. Its politics were evolving from Democratic and Reform-minded to Radical and Democratic. Such is the profile of its priorities. Additionally, before it ended publication in the ‘teens it fashioned itself after many European journals — witty, edgy, “smart” social commentary, with painted artwork as well as cartoons.
A young couple, wearing formal evening dress at a fashionable card party, discuss whether the card game “euchre” is gambling, with men and women playing cards at tables in the background. Caption: He. — Some clergymen denounce progressive euchre as gambling. She. — I think they’re horrid! He. — But I think it is gambling. She. — I think you’re horrid!
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1901-04-24
President Roosevelt tells Paul Mariéton that he would be pleased to have his name be listed on the Committee of Patronage for a proposed celebration of Frédéric Mistral, but with the understanding that he will not be able to take any active part in it.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-12-29
Gifford Pinchot is going out to Chicago and will see a lot of the Progressives. He would like to meet with Theodore Roosevelt in New York City or Oyster Bay before that visit to Chicago.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1916-11-27
During a gathering at the Fifth Regiment Armory honoring James Gibbons, Marshall F. Ziegler says an unnamed gentleman who sat in between President William H. Taft and Edward Douglas spoke negatively about the contents of his speech, astounding Ziegler.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-06-10
A friend of James R. O’Beirne is hosting a reception at the Martinique Hotel in New York City, and O’Beirne hopes Theodore Roosevelt will make an appearance as a favor.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-05-17
Charles J. Bonaparte writes on behalf of the committee formed to organize the celebration of Cardinal Gibbons’s jubilee in Baltimore, Maryland. Bonaparte and the rest of the committee ask Theodore Roosevelt if he will consider joining in the celebration.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-05-18
Internal Revenue Service Collector Samuel J. Roberts sends Theodore Roosevelt a card “as a sort of official farewell.” Roberts is leaving his office after having held it for thirteen years, but emphasizes the good will between him and the man who will hold it next. Roberts plans to devote his time in the future to his newspaper, The Lexington Leader.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1910-08
Gifford Pinchot informs W. G. Steel that he will arrange to accompany Joseph Silas Diller to present Grace H. Russell Fountain’s picture to Theodore Roosevelt if he can arrange it. He thanks Steel for the invitation to the Crater Lake trip beginning August 6, 1902, but Pinchot does not know where he will be then and cannot accept on those grounds.
1902-04-02
Sally Flandrau Cutcheon does not wish to receive more letters from Charles Macomb Flandrau in the style of the last one. Cutcheon describes a story told to her by Joe Humphreys about some Native Americans in the Dakotas. She is attending the Women’s Congress to see Julia Ward Howe speak and recently visited her family.
1891-10-30
Ted Roosevelt thanks John Campbell Greenway for all he has done for him. President Roosevelt is in favor of Ted working with Greenway. He hopes to complete college this year. Ted saw in the newspaper that a game warden was supposedly coming to arrest him for hunting with Greenway without a license.
1905-1909
A beautiful young Native American woman stands beneath a sprig of mistletoe at a colonial Christmas party, while several men in attendance appear eager to kiss her.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1910-12-07
In a crowded dining room with mostly women and a few men, the women are helping themselves to the table settings and other items that will fit into their purses. An insert shows the horrified reaction of members during “The House Committee’s Inventory.” Caption: Talk about your shoplifters!
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1910-09-14
A large procession crosses the newly-completed Brooklyn Bridge. At the front, dressed as policemen with nightsticks, are several newspaper editors. Among them are James Gordon Bennett, Oswald Ottendorfer, Whitelaw Reid, Murat Halstead, Joseph Pulitzer, Charles A. Dana, and Carl Schurz. Puck follows at center on a white horse, with a group of dandies on the right, one labeled “Freddie,” and a group of “Political Tramps” on the left, including George M. Robeson, Ulysses S. Grant, Thomas Collier Platt, James G. Blaine, and Roscoe Conkling. John Kelly is at the lead of the “Tammany Heelers,” followed by Hubert O. Thompson with the “New York Street Cleaning Department.” Behind them comes “Puck’s Monopoly Target Company” with Russell Sage, William H. Vanderbilt, Jay Gould, and Cyrus W. Field. On the left is a masonic group labeled “F. & A.M.” carrying a goat on a pedestal. Beneath the bridge is a boat labeled “The Dynamiter” filled with angry anarchists. Caption: Puck follows the example of the illustrated newspapers, and gives an accurate picture of the event one day before it takes place – and don’t you forget it!
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1883-05-23
A socialite, prisoner “no. 500,” is having a tea party with her society friends outside her cell labeled “Cell no. 500 Our Noble Martyress.” Caption: When the suffragettes of American society become martyrs to the cause.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1910-02-09