Peace

“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

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

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

Roosevelt, the peacemaker

A poem by James McCormick Dalzell praises the peacemaking efforts of President Roosevelt following the conclusion of the Russo-Japanese War.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-12-13

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

Compilation of statements from European newspapers

Various British and other European newspapers react to the Russo-Japanese peace negotiations.  

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-08

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

List of American Members of the League for International Conciliation

List of unknown origin titled “American Members of the League for International Conciliation,” enclosed with a letter created by Nobel Prize winner Nicholas Murray Butler. Andrew Carnegie and Andrew D. White are listed as “Honorary Presidents,” 12 people are listed under “Council of Direction,” and 46 people are listed as “Members.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-12-05

XV Congrès Universel de la Paix

A form letter from the International Society for Peace inviting recipients to the 15th Universal Congress for Peace.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-07-19

Peacemaker

Sheet music for “The Peacemaker,” which celebrates President Roosevelt’s role in settling the Russo-Japanese War. The song is dedicated to Roosevelt and feature a photograph of him on the cover.

Collection

Dr. Danny O. Crew Theodore Roosevelt Sheet Music Collection

Creation Date

1905

Peacemaker

Celebratory music written for President Roosevelt’s successful negotiations to end the Russo-Japanese War. The song is dedicated to Roosevelt, which is noted at the top of page three.

Collection

Dr. Danny O. Crew Theodore Roosevelt Sheet Music Collection

Creation Date

1905

Peacemaker

Celebratory music written for President Roosevelt’s successful negotiations to end the Russo-Japanese War. The song is dedicated to Roosevelt, which is noted at the top of page three.

Collection

Dr. Danny O. Crew Theodore Roosevelt Sheet Music Collection

Creation Date

1905

Draft letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Joseph Gurney Cannon

Third draft of a letter with handwritten edits. President Roosevelt formally accepts the Republican presidential nomination. He then reviews several campaign issues and the achievements of his administration.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-08-15

Address of President Roosevelt at Omaha, Nebraska, April 27, 1903

President Roosevelt speaks in Omaha on the anniversary of Ulysses S. Grant’s birth. He speaks of paying homage to ancestors and “illustrious memories.” Roosevelt also discusses the current “problems of peace” facing the nation, law, and individual character.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-04-27

“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

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

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 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

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

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