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Robert Green Ingersoll, attorney in the Star Route trials, pumps Montfort C. Rerdell, depicted as a pump, for more “Evidence” as Thomas Jefferson Brady and Stephen Wallace Dorsey stand in the “Prisoners Box.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1883-03-07
Print shows a full-length portrait of Thomas L. James, Postmaster General, standing, facing left, among papers emblazoned with stars littering the floor, holding a stamp labeled “Indicment” [sic] in his right hand.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1881-10-19
Print shows the interior of the “N.Y. Sun Editorial Rooms” where “Political Scandals [are] Promptly Attended to,” also “Post Mortem Scandals Especially Desired”, with elderly editor Charles A. Dana sitting at a desk, listening through an earhorn to Stephen W. Dorsey who is labeled “Public Contempt,” wearing tattered clothing, and with his left arm in a sling labeled “Acquitted by a Washington Jury.” Dana is transcribing “Dorsey’s Own Statement”; an inkpot on the desk is labeled “Gall.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1883-07-25
A stork carries an infant against a full moon, above a snow covered community.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1913-02-05
Theodore Roosevelt and Kermit Roosevelt have been enjoying a four day hunt by themselves. Kermit seems older and “more developed in character.” Yesterday, Kermit rode fifteen miles to meet with a local African leader and brought back a keg of honey. Tomorrow Kermit and Roosevelt will part ways for a month. It has been difficult to find food for the “huge safari” and Roosevelt is concerned about some of his mail being lost due to the distances involved.
1909-09-20
Four toll-takers labeled “Retailer’s Profit, Commission Broker’s Profit, Rail Road’s Profit, [and] Express Company’s Profit” stand on a bridge spanning a small waterway that separates the rural “Producer” on the right from the city “Consumer” on the left. Flying overhead is an airplane labeled “Parcels Post.” Caption: If you don’t like it, you know what you can do.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1911-12-13
A battered ironclad labeled “High Cost of Living” is being bombarded by several ironclads labeled “Berger, Shanks [sic], Sulzer, George, Jr., [and] Taft.” Their gun blasts are labeled, respectively, “Socialism, Municipal Market, Parcel Post, Single Tax, [and] Tariff Board,” and one unidentified “Monitor” with gun blast labeled “Free Trade.” Caption: The Civil War Merrimac was hard enough to whip, but this one may be harder.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1912-02-28
Complimentary frank for President Roosevelt to use during 1902 allowing him to send personal packages through the United States Express Company free of charge.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902
Complimentary frank for President Roosevelt to use during 1902 allowing him to send personal packages through Adams Express Company free of charge.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902
Complimentary frank for President Roosevelt to use during 1902 allowing him to send personal parcels through American Express free of charge.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902
John Clay Davies wants to know J. S. Sherman’s part in matters surrounding the Camden, New York, post office. Davies offers his assistance in securing Theodore Roosevelt’s presidential nomination.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-01-21
William O. Bradley writes President Roosevelt to recommend May Long for the postmaster position in Leitchfield, Kentucky. She was daughter of George W. Long, who served as state treasurer under Bradley when Bradley was Governor of Kentucky.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-12-29
Lawrence F. Abbott clarifies that a reference to ex-Postmaster General, which was made in an article in The Outlook about the Post Office fraud case, was in reference to James N. Tyner. Abbott plans to include information from President Roosevelt’s letter, about the publication of the Post Office report, in the next edition of the magazine. Abbott is awaiting the decision concerning Leonard Wood’s promotion to major general.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-12-14
Edgar S. Wilson encloses a statement, referred to in a previous letter, that is to be published through the Associated Press. He wishes to meet with President Roosevelt to discuss Mississippi politics. He also mentions appointments for U. S. Marshal in the northern district of Mississippi and for postmaster in the Oxford, Mississippi, Post Office.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-12-14
Newspaper article faulting President Roosevelt for not taking any action regarding the Conrad-Bonaparte report on the postal scandals.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-12
A frustrated George E. Green writes to William Loeb regarding his concerns with the postmaster scandal that is under investigation. He requests that Loeb look through and read the enclosed documents, as he feels it will strengthen the other points he has made in his letters.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-06-12
George Cabot Lodge writes to President Roosevelt to clarify a misunderstanding due to poor mail delivery service. The misunderstanding is regarding George Horton, a literary editor at the Chicago Record-Herald, who supposedly “bad-mouthed” Secretary of State Hay’s daughter, also a writer. Lodge fills Roosevelt in on missing details of the case and requests that he still be considered to be re-elected to the consular service.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-06-15
William E. Chandler instructs John J. Howley to check the contents of the package and then forward it to Postmaster General Payne.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-04-15
Odell has mailed President Roosevelt something important which will arrive tomorrow morning.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-11-12
The message has been delivered to Senator Quay at the Hotel Duquesne in Pittsburgh.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-10-01