A roadless park structure
Dish tanks and wood fencing sit away from park roads in the South Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
Collection
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
Creation Date
1968-07-13
Your TR Source
Ponds
A roadless park structure
A dish tank and wood fence posts sit away from park roads in the South Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
Collection
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
Creation Date
1968-07-13
Roadless park structure
A dish tank and wood posts sit away from park roads in the South Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
Collection
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
Creation Date
1968-07-13
Boating on the pond, Beverly, Mass.
Gibraltar the cascade
A postcard showing a bridge with branches as railing in an area filled with plants and trees. A cascade of water runs across the bridge into the pond next to it. An individual stands on a path in the background.
Comments and Context
In Charles C. Myers’s own words, “A shady corner in the park.”
Collection
Botanical Gardens, Sydney, N.S.W.
A postcard showing a park with trees, plants, and a pond. Charles C. Myers notes it is the Botanical Gardens of Sydney, Australia.
Comments and Context
In Charles C. Myers’s own words, “The Botanical Gardens of Sydney are noted as being among the finest Botanical Gardens of the world, surpassed only by those of Rio de Janeiro.”
Collection
The tightwad fishing club
Five fishermen are in a small boat on a lake. Each has a fish on his line, but refuses to complete the catch by pulling the fish into the boat. Caption: The first man to land one has to treat the crowd.
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1910-09-14
“Waiting”
A black Labrador retriever labeled “Jack” sits on a life preserver labeled “Re-election to U.S. Senate” on a board propped up against the bank of a lake. Sitting on the shore in the lower right corner is a frog that looks like Benjamin F. Butler. Caption: Mr. Logan’s enthusiastic friends have already nominated him for the presidency – in 1888.
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1885-06-10
Persuasive nymphs trying to lure the coy faun into the presidential waters
Thomas A. Hendricks, Abram S. Hewitt, Charles A. Dana, and Henry Watterson are pictured as nymphs in women’s clothing attempting to coax Samuel J. Tilden as a faun into water labeled “Presidential Waters.” Already in the water, in the background, is Thomas F. Bayard.
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1883-08-22
Cold mornings in September
A large man with a $ in his hair, wearing a bathing suit labeled “High Tariff Graft Interests,” stands in a lake labeled “The New Tariff.” He is shivering from the sudden change in the climate. A long hook labeled “Congress” is dragging his ermine robe labeled “High Protection” beyond his reach.
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1913-09-03
Independence Day
A wide-eyed man (Mr. Henry Peck) sits in a canoe loaded with camping gear while a Native guide rows him out on a wilderness lake. A woman (Mrs. Henry Peck) stands on the shore with her hands on her hips. A large building, possibly a lodge, stands at the top of a hillside leading up from the lake.
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1913-07-02