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This receipt from Jacob H. Schiff documents President Theodore Roosevelt’s $500 donation to the victims of the General Slocum accident.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-06-21
A ship founders at sea during a storm, with many passengers on deck, but the sailors, bowing to pressure from “anti-vivisectionists,” are rescuing the dogs first. Caption: “Women and children first” would cease to be shipwreck etiquette if the anti-vivisectionists had their way.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1911-04-05