Police

Acting Sergeant John W. Gallaher, who is superintendent of the House of Detention in Washington, D.C., recounts the arrest of Laura A. Hull Morris at the White House, where she attempted to see President Roosevelt. Gallaher says that Morris was not hurt when she was brought into the cab, but she slapped him when he told her where she was going. After a doctor initially decided that she could not be charged with insanity, Morris was let go after a friend paid a $5 collateral. Following this, the arresting officer, Jacob P. Frech, told Gallaher that he had charged her with insanity.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-01-12

Creator(s)

Gallaher, John W., 1839-1908

Police Major and Superintendent Sylvester writes to Secretary Loeb to say he received a letter urging him to increase the police presence around President Roosevelt to avoid a possible Japanese threat.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-09-13

Creator(s)

Sylvester, Richard, 1858-

B. Pickman Mann explains that although he wrote to the Commissioners asking for President’s Roosevelt’s chauffeur to be prosecuted for speeding, he directed no criticism at Roosevelt himself. Mann also desires to know if Roosevelt received the letter he wrote the previous year regarding Saturday half-holidays.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-07-08

Creator(s)

Mann, B. Pickman (Benjamin Pickman), 1848-1926

Ambassador Meyer tells Senator Lodge that St. Petersburg, Russia, has been perfectly quiet since he arrived, due to extraordinary precautions taken by Governor-General Trepov to put down any troubles. Meyer thinks the disturbances in Warsaw, Poland, were a smaller scale repetition of those in St. Petersburg on January 22, 1905, and he notes that both could have been avoided by an able police. The stories Meyer has heard about corruption in some of the departments in St. Petersburg are astounding. Meyer thinks the ukaz issued by Emperor Nicholas II giving religious liberty to practically all sects except the Jewish people, if honestly and efficiently carried out, will be beneficial to the country. Representatives of Russian zemstvos, local municipalities, met recently at Moscow and blocked out a scheme of representative government. Meyer thinks the idea of a representative government is permeating all classes of society and that reforms are sure to come about, but the Russian government is currently “in a comatose state,” awaiting the result of the naval conflict and the next battle near Harbin, Manchuria.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-05-06

Creator(s)

Meyer, George von Lengerke, 1858-1918

Police Commissioner Roosevelt tenders his resignation to New York Mayor Strong to take effect in two days time. He thanks Strong for appointing him as President of the Board of Police Commissioners, and for the support he gave efforts to reform the police service. Roosevelt is proud of the police force that he has helped shape, and lists his accomplishments in reducing corruption, ensuring the fair enforcement of laws, and improving the force of patrolmen and officers. He regrets that not as much progress was made as he believes would have been possible under a single, unified Commissioner.

The back of the last page of the letter has a short accounting of receipts written in Roosevelt’s hand.

Collection

America

Creation Date

1897-04-17

Theodore Roosevelt introduces Cleveland Chief of Police Fred Kohler to American Ministers in Europe. Kohler is investigating new policing methods.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-06-09

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Uncle Sam holds a baton in his right hand and “Panama” in his left as he walks down “International Boulevard.” The “Colombia” shack has no disturbances, but there is a lot going on in the “Republic of Santo Domingo” shack with words like “secession,” “rebellion,” and “down with the government.” Caption: Policeman Sam—”I’ve have to ‘pull’ that shack yet.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-01-03

Creator(s)

Unknown

President Roosevelt congratulates John Biddle and is glad Biddle could have the meeting with “Randall and the Colonel.” If it were located in Washington, D. C., Roosevelt would insist to meet men subject to any police regulation.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-11-28

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Austen G. Fox tells President Roosevelt he has been made Chairman of the Committee of Nine for the New York Police Department, and asks if Roosevelt might look over some proposed legislation the committee has prepared and give his opinion as to whether “they seem useful.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-03-16

Creator(s)

Fox, Austen G. (Austen George), 1849-1937

Senator Lodge updates President Roosevelt about his son Theodore “Ted” Roosevelt and his arrest and upcoming trial, commenting that because Ted is the President’s son that he is “natural prey for yellow newspapers and adventurers like Moran.” Lodge believes Ted’s lawyer, Francis Reginald Bangs, is taking good care of the young men and that Police Commissioner Stephen O’Meara did not realize his men had struck Ted. Lodge further discusses whether the labor unions will support the Democratic candidates in the upcoming elections in New York and Massachusetts. 

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-10-04

Creator(s)

Lodge, Henry Cabot, 1850-1924

Vignettes show a “nervous congressman” suspecting everyone he meets to be a spy investigating him. Everyone he sees (a female companion, a “waiter,” “his constituents,” a “friend,” and a woman pushing an infant in a stroller) is carrying handguns and handcuffs, and he refuses the return of a loan for fear that it is “marked money.” A picture of Marcus Alonzo Hanna hangs on the wall of his congressional office. At night a demon that looks like Theodore Roosevelt torments his sleep.

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Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1909-02-10

Two lambs stand at center in the image, the left labeled “T.R.,” and the right labeled “Waldo” (i.e. Rhinelander Waldo). Waldo was the New York City Police Commissioner, known for his intimidating anti-vice squads. In front of both are two dice, both showing sixes, with the die on the left labeled “Politics,” and the right labeled “Police.” Above both figures sits a crow-like figure sitting on a tree branch with money and card suits growing from it.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1912-10-07

Creator(s)

Rogers, W. A. (William Allen), 1854-1931

Richard Croker is pictured as a large dog standing over a smaller dog labeled “New York Police.” They are looking at a cat with its back, labeled “Investigation,” arched and tail raised, and wearing a ribbon labeled “New York Senate.”

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1894-03-28

Creator(s)

Hutchins, Frank Marion, approximately 1867-1896

Two governesses, each with a child, visit in the park. One woman is having trouble controlling a little boy who is frightened of a policeman standing in the background. Caption: Miss Dolan–Oi’m a-goin’ to lave me place! / Miss O’Toole–Don’t yer loike th’ choild? / Miss Dolan–Yis; but he’s thot afeared av a policemon thot Oi can’t get him near wan!

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1894-01-10

Creator(s)

Ehrhart, S. D. (Samuel D.), approximately 1862-1937

A man labeled “Bossism” carries weapons labeled “False Count,” “Fraudulent Registration,” “Intimidation,” and “Deals.” Behind him are two policemen labeled “Independent Democrat” and “Independent Republican,” who are keeping an eye on him. They each carry a billy club labeled “Votes.” Caption: “Dere ain’t no more show for me, since dem two big policemen come on de beat!”

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1893-12-20

Creator(s)

Unknown

At center is a place for Republicans to go to commiserate while awaiting the next election. Such stalwart Republicans as George F. Edmunds, John Sherman, William M. Evarts, George F. Hoar, and Thomas B. Reed wait there. Surrounding vignettes show a prominent citizen being escorted by two “Bureau of Public Comfort” guards who keep the press at bay, a sewing station for women’s clothing after a round of bargain shopping, a room where anarchists can blow off some steam “without disturbing anybody,” an educational facility to help orient newcomers to the ways of the city, and a hypnotist who attempts to convince servants to work in the country. Caption: Some of the useful purposes it might serve.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1893-10-25

Creator(s)

Opper, Frederick Burr, 1857-1937

A large police officer turns the crank on a large press labeled “Blackmail,” squeezing money out of a variety of merchants labeled “Boot Black, Gin Mill Keeper, Dive Keeper, Merchant, Green Goods, Contractor, Gambler, [and] Pawnbroker.” Caption: “Let no guilty man (or woman) escape – widout dey put up de stuff!”

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1894-10-03

Creator(s)

Dalrymple, Louis, 1866-1905

Uncle Sam is a policeman using a billy club labeled “Votes” to prevent a diminutive figure labeled “Free Silver” and “16 to 1” from entering the White House with papers labeled “Populism” and “Dishonest Money Schemes.” Caption: Uncle Sam–Consarn ye! you’ve spoiled my Senate and House of Representatives but I’ll never let you get into the White House! – that’s all I’ve got left to depend on!

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1896-06-17

Creator(s)

Keppler, Udo J., 1872-1956

Figures representing “England, Hungary, France, Germany, Russia, [and] Italy” are carrying nightsticks and escorting a young child labeled “Greece.”

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1897-04-14

Creator(s)

Keppler, Udo J., 1872-1956

New York City Mayor Robert Anderson Van Wyck is a judge and Richard Croker is a policeman, holding a club labeled “Tammany,” bringing a man labeled “Reform” before the judge in a courtroom.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1898-02-23

Creator(s)

Dalrymple, Louis, 1866-1905