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Vignettes lightheartedly depict Irish domestic servants being pampered and coddled by their employers in efforts to keep them happy and happily employed, chiefly, by taking their minds off their domestic duties by providing pleasant distractions.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1906-01-17
Uncle Sam’s boot kicks a Chinese immigrant off a dock as part of an anti-Chinese immigration campaign. Vignettes show how the Chinese can possibly emigrate to the United States, by coming as “a cup-challenger” in yacht races, “as an industrious anarchist,” or “disguised as an humble Irishman,” or “as an English wife-hunter” with “pedigree” in his pocket, or wielding knife and handgun, as a mean-looking “peaceful, law-abiding Sicilian.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1905-07-12
Three men labeled “Riot, Lynching, [and] Violence” burn a female figure labeled “Law and Order” at the stake. She is bound to the stake with ribbons labeled “Prejudice” and “Defiance.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1903-07-22
Uncle Sam holds a paper labeled “Protest against Russian Outrage.” He is standing with his back to a slightly open door revealing a skeleton labeled “Lynchings” and holding a handgun and rope in his closet. He looks at the skeleton, realizing he is caught in a double standard.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1903-07-29
President Roosevelt fires a cannon to send a lifeline to a ship in distress on rough seas with dark clouds labeled “Prejudice” forming overhead. The rope spells out the word “Tolerance.” A rainbow shines on the left with the word “Liberty.” In the lower right corner is a quotation from “The President’s Reference to Immigrants.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1903-07-01
Four men in a basket labeled “The Church” of a hot-air balloon labeled “Religion without Superstition” throw out sandbags labeled “No Museum, Blue Laws, Bigotry, [and] No Sunday Recreations” that are used for ballast, enabling them to soar higher, above dark clouds labeled “Ignorance” and “Superstition.” Caption: The more rubbish they throw out, the higher they can go.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1901-07-17
A large female figure labeled “Enlightenment” pushes open doors labeled “Pan-American Exposition” and knocks out of the way an old woman labeled “Sabbatarian Fanatic” and a man labeled “Sabbatarian Bigot” who were attempting to prevent the Exposition from opening on Sunday. Caption: The managers of the Buffalo Exposition have decided to open it on Sunday.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1901-05-01
Theodore Roosevelt writes to Hugo Münsterberg regarding anti-German-American sentiment as a result of the Great War and German aggression in Belgium. Roosevelt states that although such feelings “grieve” him, he also understands them.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1915-01-04
President Roosevelt agrees with James F. Cave that it is outrageous that a man is barred from membership in any organization because he is a member of the Iowa National Guard. However, Roosevelt cannot do anything about the matter. He hopes the people of Burlington, Iowa, will regard it as their patriotic duty to take care of “such a man.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-01-30
President Roosevelt thanks Baron Kaneko for his concern about Archibald B. Roosevelt’s illness. He explains why the United States wishes to restrict members of the Japanese working class from migrating to the United States. Roosevelt believes that this will ease tensions between both countries. The new commission on immigration might also consider restricting immigration from Europe.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-05-23
Professor Ross was pleased to receive Theodore Roosevelt’s letter regarding Ross’s article entitled “The Struggle for Existence in China.” Ross has been anticipating an effort to end barriers against “Oriental immigration” as part of a policy to expand trade. The article was an effort to have an “unanswerable argument” against Chinese immigration without the “taint of racial prejudice.” Ross will soon be publishing a new book entitled The Changing Chinese and may be able to see Roosevelt in New York on September 15.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-08-01
Senator Dubois feels that Secretary of War Taft has been “grossly deceived” in regard to conditions in Idaho and Utah and suggests that Taft talk to his cousin, Albert Thorpe Ryan, for more details about the existing conditions.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-10-30
Senator Dubois tells President Roosevelt that he has been misinformed if he thinks that law and order is an issue in Idaho. According to Dubois, the sole issue in Idaho is “the domination of the Mormon Church in our politics.” If Roosevelt sends Secretary of War William H. Taft to Idaho to speak in support of Governor Frank Robert Gooding, Dubois assures Roosevelt that this will be viewed as a statement in favor of Mormonism.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-10-25
Print shows the “Light of Reason” shining from the upper right, illuminating bust portraits of “Johannes Kepler, I. Kant, Th. Paine, Jefferson, B. de Spinoza, Franklin, Voltaire, E. H. Haeckel, Tyndall, Huxley, [and] Darwin.” The light is blocked by a large umbrella labeled “Bigotry, Supernaturalism, [and] Fanaticism,” behind which are hiding various members of the clergy, including the Pope, Henry Ward Beecher, and T. De Witt Talmage. In the upper left, a vignette shows three female figures around an infant in a crib, with caption “God made Man and Endowed him with Free Will, Memory, and Understanding.” In the lower right is another vignette showing the Pope and other members of the clergy torturing a man, filling him with “Superstition,” with caption, “But it took a Deal of Altering in the Man before he could be made a ‘Good Citizen’.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1882-03-08
Silas McBee is disappointed with the prejudices of the people in the South but is glad to follow President Roosevelt’s leadership against the “degrading commercial spirit.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-02-09