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President Roosevelt is not hurt by Finley Peter Dunne’s cartoons, and thinks they are written in “the nicest possible style.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-01-09
President Roosevelt thanks John T. McCutcheon for the cartoon.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-01-05
Cartoon depicting Sam Davis’s support of the Goldfield miners’ strike and lockout.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-04-04
A political cartoon depicting President Theodore Roosevelt and lawyer Francis Heney comparing hunting kills. Roosevelt’s two dead bears identify him as a boodler and a land thief, and Heney’s bears are labeled grafter and U.S. Senator.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-03-25
Kermit Roosevelt misses riding with President Roosevelt and has nothing to do. He asks Roosevelt to give him information on the “negro troop question,” likely referring to the events that took place in Brownsville, Texas, as the newspapers are not saying anything about the matter. He mentions a “nasty cartoon” he saw about it in Harper’s Weekly, as well as a poem he had read in Collier’s Weekly about President Roosevelt, which was “very nice.” He also comments on a recent letter he received from a cattle rancher.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-01-13
“Teddy” Roosevelt spurs a bucking horse which is branded “Rough Riders” on its right hip, while Thomas Collier Platt looks on from behind a wall. Roosevelt’s lariat forms the phrase “Nomination for Governor.” The caption reads: Uncle Tom Platt – “My, What stunts! I wish that fellow would stop. He makes me awful nervous.”
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1898-08-05
President Roosevelt writes to Joseph Bucklin Bishop to discuss cartoons depicting him as a dictator and the effect they may have on the presidential campaign. He also asks Bishop to visit him and Nicholas Murray Butler.
1904-06-04
Theodore Roosevelt and three potential presidential rivals are depicted as different species of flowers. A female figure labeled Columbia (likely representing the U.S.) is watering the Roosevelt flower, Beautii Americanus Teddyum, with a can labeled 1904. The flower names given to the rivals portray them in a negative way. They are Groverum Third Terminus (Grover Cleveland), Sixteen to Oneicus Rubberum (William Jennings Bryan), and Peanutti Politicus Dave Hillum (David B. Hill).
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-04-15
President Roosevelt tells his son Kermit that he offered Edwin Arlington Robinson a position but Robinson refused. He has had great luck in hunting with Alexander Lambert and Philip Battell Stewart despite having a touch of Cuban fever. He has a dog to bring back to Archie and is feeling homesick. Roosevelt adds that he is amused by the cartoons about him and urges Kermit to go hear Jacob Riis speak. Kermit scribbled some math problems on the back of the envelope.
1905-05-07
A youth admiring a picture of Theodore Roosevelt.
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Mascots for Progressives, Republicans, and Democrats unite in showing admiration for Theodore Roosevelt after he was shot in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, during the 1912 presidential campaign.
1912-10-17
Uncle Sam is thankful for the prosperity, reforms, and legislation brought by the Roosevelt administration.
1906
A farmer sits in a rocking chair by the fire, reading a newspaper with the headline “President’s Message.” On the wall above the fireplace is a picture of Theodore Roosevelt. Caption: Original of Colonel Roosevelt’s favorite cartoon. First published in the Chicago Chronicle during his presidency. Redrawn from the original at Sagamore Hill and presented by the artist. Mr. Everett E. Lowry. (Roosevelt described the cartoon in Chapter X of his Autobiography.)
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A cartoon depicting Uncle Sam patting President Roosevelt on the back, endorsing him for a second term as president. This copy appeared in “A Cartoon History of Roosevelt’s Career,” and the caption explains that the cartoon was widely circulated by the Republican party during the 1904 presidential campaign.
1904
A portion of Theodore Roosevelt’s speech in Milwaukee is depicted, torn asunder by the bullet of an assassin. The excerpt begins, “I am telling you the literal truth when I say that my concern is not for my own life.”
1912-10-18
Theodore Roosevelt rides a bucking horse called “Spoilsman” wearing a saddle inscribed “Civil Service Reform.” In the background is a cabin titled “Uncle Sam’s Ranch, U.S.A.” Roosevelt’s hat has flown off his head, and a paper slips from it which says, “The Commission means business. T.R.” At bottom right is the caption, “Stick to your saddle and don’t be bounced.” While the cartoon was drawn and signed in 1889, at bottom left the artist has written, “With compliments of Th. Nast, 1896.”
1896
Cartoon shows President Roosevelt sitting at a desk, looking up at Senator Henry Cabot Lodge with an axe lying on the ground.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-02-15
Scrapbook of cartoons covering the 1904 presidential election, collected from various newspapers dated 1903 and 1904.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1903-1904
Minneapolis Journal publishes Charles L. Bartholomew’s political cartoon “Speak Softly and Carry a Big Stick – You Will go Far” the day after President Roosevelt used the quote in a speech in Chicago. Caption – President Roosevelt, in his Chicago speech, applies an old adage.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-04-03
Frank Harper has met with Theodore Roosevelt who approves of the changes to the cartoon and is glad to have Mark Sullivan working with the campaign.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-10-26