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Vacation’s over

Vacation’s over

President Roosevelt arrives at the “New Union Station, Washington,” along with William Loeb. The latter is carrying Roosevelt’s “Big Stick,” on which is hanging a cage enclosing the dove of “Peace.” He also bears a shovel labeled “Panama Troubles,” a bag full of “Mistakes,” “Slips,” “Errors,” and “Department Scandals,” and a rifle. The new station, in the background, is the United States Capitol, with a “Tariff Wall” and a large man labeled “The Trusts Stand Pat” atop the dome.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-10-01

“Take us like this”

“Take us like this”

President Roosevelt and a Republican elephant wear halos over their heads attached by sticks as Roosevelt holds “the olive branch of peace.” Beside him is a bucket with a sign that reads, “Roosevelt’s letter of acceptance whitewash.” The elephant has been whitewashed and has a sign that reads, “The whitewash on this animal is wet.” There is also a lamb with a sign: “We have adopted this beautiful little lamb.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-09-13

Letter from Emily Tyler Carow to Theodore Roosevelt

Letter from Emily Tyler Carow to Theodore Roosevelt

Emily Tyler Carow thanks President Roosevelt for the Saint-Gaudens medallion. Carow likes it because she believes the medallion is “strong yet artistic.” She also remarks on the peace prospects between Russia and Japan. Several foreign diplomats, including the Japanese minister, have complimented Roosevelt. Carow believes they are grateful for Roosevelt’s “moral support.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-07-23

Letter from Oscar S. Straus to Theodore Roosevelt

Letter from Oscar S. Straus to Theodore Roosevelt

Oscar S. Straus suggests that President Roosevelt write a letter asking Switzerland to either defer its Red Cross Convention, or to refer it to the second Hague Conference, as it is causing a conflict. He also suggests that Roosevelt recommend taking a more affirmative attitude on “Asiatic immigration,” which will have the practical effect concerning exclusion, but will have a better diplomatic and international affect.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-12-13

Telegram from William Henry Hudson Southerland to Charles J. Bonaparte

Telegram from William Henry Hudson Southerland to Charles J. Bonaparte

Naval officer William Henry Hudson Southerland relays to Secretary of the Navy Bonaparte the text of a message from Dominican president Horacio Vásquez. On behalf of the Dominican people, Vásquez thanks Southerland for his “successful efforts in behalf of peace” and accepts the offer to put the Scorpion at his disposal. Southerland tells Bonaparte that the situation is “satisfactory.” The Scorpion has arrived with peace commissioners, who capitulated today.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-01-16

“Let us have peace”

“Let us have peace”

President Grover Cleveland and British Prime Minister Robert Cecil, Lord Salisbury, are dressed as Native Americans, smoking peace pipes filled with “Common Sense Tobacco.” Sitting with Cleveland, also dressed as natives, are Richard Olney, Robert R. Hitt, Charles A. Boutelle, Nelson Dingley, George Frisbie Hoar, William E. Chandler, John T. Morgan, and Henry Cabot Lodge. Sitting with Salisbury are Joseph Chamberlain, Arthur James Balfour, George Joachim Goschen, and the Duke of Devonshire, Spencer Compton Cavendish. In the foreground is a hatchet in a hole, to be buried, possibly over the Venezuela boundary dispute.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1896-01-22

The peacemaker at work

The peacemaker at work

Roosevelt stands in the middle of the image with outstretched arms, holding a dove in one hand and an olive branch in the other. Above him are the words “No extra session. Peace.” To either side of Roosevelt are figures, one representing Uncle Sam, and the other a locomotive headed figure labeled “the railroads.” Uncle Sam holds an eagle-headed cane, while the figure representing the railroads holds a large club labeled “rebates.”

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1905-06-12

The peace of Europe is assured

The peace of Europe is assured

Alexander III, labeled “Russia,” looks sternly at William II, labeled “Germany,” who returns the glare, as they walk along a pathway away from a statue of “Peace,” a female figure with wings, looking doubtful. Alexander III is accompanied by a diminutive Sadi Carnot labeled “France” who is shaking his fist across the pathway at a diminutive Umberto I, labeled “Italy,” who in turn shakes his fist, and a diminutive Franz Joseph I, labeled “Austria,” who accompany William II.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1893-11-08

Chained!!

Chained!!

The Roman god “Mars” is shown bound to rocks, imprisoned with shackles and clamps labeled “Russo-German Commercial Treaty,” fastened with spikes driven by Alexander III of Russia and William II of Germany using large sledgehammers labeled “Ratification.” In the background, a female figure labeled “Peace” reclines in a hammock that hangs between the standards of each nation. Caption: Peace in Europe is safe for ten years more, anyhow!

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1894-04-04

The wars that never come

The wars that never come

George F. “Hoar” sits with a broken drum labeled “Hawaiian Bluster,” Henry Cabot “Lodge” holds a broken rifle labeled “Behring Sea War Thunder,” and John T. “Morgan” sits with a bent and beaten-up bugle labeled “Nicaraguan War Blast.” A large female angel of “Peace” stands behind, spreading her wings over them.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1895-05-29

The quarrelsome European nursery

The quarrelsome European nursery

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!

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1897-03-17