Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh

John Campbell Greenway will be leaving for Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to look for job opportunities and hopes to be home for Thanksgiving. He advises that investment in real estate at Oyster Bay, New York, is a good speculation, and he has picked out a place for a cottage. Greenway will be spending some time with Theodore Roosevelt and John Avery McIlhenny. He is sending two horses to Gilbert Christian Greenway and the government should cover most of the expenses.

Collection

Arizona Historical Society

Creation Date

1898-09-23

John S. Miller introduces John Campbell Greenway, who would like to meet with Mr. Crocker, the purchasing agent for George R. Peck’s company.

Collection

Arizona Historical Society

Creation Date

1901-09-17

Invitation to John Campbell Greenway for a dinner in honor of President Roosevelt.

Collection

Arizona Historical Society

Creation Date

1902-07-04

Margaret Sanger writes about her nationwide speaking engagement tour about birth control and family planning. Sanger discusses events and responses in various cities. She indicates that in St. Louis more people came to hear her speak than had come when Theodore Roosevelt and William H. Taft spoke in the city. Sanger accounts various arrests related to obscenity laws and the distribution of birth control pamphlets.

Collection

The Margaret Sanger Papers Project

Creation Date

1916-08-09

A fat businessman, reclining on a large coin, basks in the bright light of “Special Privilege” while dreaming of castles in the air. On the other side of the coin is factory life in dark and polluted Pittsburgh, where factory workers struggle to flip the coin blocking the light from their city and their lives. Caption: Pittsburg, the citadel of protection.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1909-09-22

Vignettes show messages sent from various cities to philanthropist Andrew Carnegie, along with the scenic postcard views each is requesting: a mountain for Chicago, caves in Philadelphia (where the sun is too bright), a river connecting the Gulf of Mexico with the Pacific Ocean, a fountain of beer for Milwaukee, a sun in Pittsburgh (where the smog is too thick for the natural sun to penetrate), a “Palm Beach” oasis for the Eskimos, and a “natural bridge” crossing the East River into Brooklyn, New York. Caption: His gift of a lake to Princeton suggests other deficiencies of nature which Carnegie may supply.

comments and context

Comments and Context

This double-page cartoon by L. M. Glackens is an example of Puck‘s increasing reliance of humorous current-event news commentaries, with vignettes surrounding a major theme.

President Roosevelt wants the Pennsylvania improvements in the Ohio to be administered from a Pennsylvania office. He would like Captain William Martin in charge with headquarters at Pittsburgh.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-12-22

Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Ailes writes to President Roosevelt regarding his recent travels to California. Ailes investigated the opinions of labor union members in San Francisco, Seattle, and other Northwestern cities concerning Roosevelt’s reinstatement of William A. Miller as Assistant Foreman to the United States Government Printing Office. Labor union members largely favor Roosevelt’s decision. Specifically, Ailes mentions meeting Raymond Stammond Baker in San Fransisco who was investigating the same topic for a magazine article. Ailes also discusses the poor working conditions in Baltimore, Maryland, Saint Louis, Missouri, and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and the topic of banking and currency.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-11-11

Freiherr Sternburg writes to Assistant Secretary of State Loomis to inform Loomis that anarchist leaders Abraham Isaac and Terry Carreen intend to visit Pittsburgh to renew agitation over a strike in the coal mines.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-08-23

W. H. Keech is leaving for Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and feels confident that he can arrange for Attorney General Knox to give his speech before the Chamber of Commerce of Pittsburgh.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-10-07

The message has been delivered to Senator Quay at the Hotel Duquesne in Pittsburgh.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-10-01

Henry Clay Frick is sending President Roosevelt a painting as a souvenir of the President’s visit to Pittsburgh.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-07-08

Robert A. Franks, treasurer of the Pittsburgh, Bessemer & Lake Erie Railroad Company, encloses a dividend check for $31.50.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-09-30

John Campbell Greenway was pleased with President Roosevelt’s letter and agrees to spend a night at the White House. Benjamin F. Jones is traveling to Washington, D.C., and would like to pay his respects to Roosevelt. Greenway describes Jones as a leading citizen of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and the type of man Roosevelt will like.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-09-25

Senator Quay requests that Vice President Roosevelt deliver a speech in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-09-06