Public officers

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1918-11-14

Creator(s)

Secretary of Theodore Roosevelt

Recipient

Workman, John C.

Civilian Conservation Corps education adviser Bert Flora and company lieutenant Leroy Everett stand near the North Unit officers’ quarters at the Roosevelt Recreational Demonstration Area.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Creation Date

1936-1937

The photograph shows the Civilian Conservation Corps adviser Bert Flora in the dayroom of the officers’ quarters at the Roosevelt Recreation Demonstration Area. The photograph is part of a three-binder set of pictures taken by Chandler D. Fairbank, Civilian Conservation Corps North Unit foreman at the Roosevelt Recreation Demonstration Area, taken between 1936 and 1937.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Creation Date

1936-1937

Civilian Conservation Corps North Unit landscape foreman Chandler D. Fairbank in the dayroom of the officers’ quarters at the Roosevelt Recreation Demonstration Area. The photograph is part of a three-binder set of pictures taken by Chandler D. Fairbank, Civilian Conservation Corps North Unit foreman at the Roosevelt Recreation Demonstration Area, taken between 1936 and 1937.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Creation Date

1936-1937

Uncle Sam stands on steps, holding a large folder labeled “Root’s Portfolio” containing papers labeled “Army War College, Insular Policy, Modernized Military, Coast Defenses, [and] General Staff.” He is tipping his hat and saying goodbye to Elihu Root who is holding his hat, coat, and gloves.

comments and context

Comments and Context

The short comment on this cartoon is that Elihu Root served as Secretary of War under presidents William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt. A man of credentials, accomplishments, and universal respect, he was only back in private life for a year and a half after this cartoon was drawn. Upon the death of Secretary of State John Hay in July, 1905, Roosevelt persuaded Root to serve in the cabinet’s premier seat.

On the left, a theater manager is bribing an inspector during an inspection of fire prevention equipment, while the specter of the Grim Reaper hovers above. On the right, a female figure labeled “Public opinion” holds three diminutive men labeled “Politician, Manager, [and] Inspector” and points toward the remains of a theater following a fire.

comments and context

Comments and Context

The context of this cartoon, with artist Ehrhart being as forceful as he could be, is not named… but was clear to every reader: the recent Iroquois Theater fire in Chicago. Still regarded as one America’s most devastating disasters, the fire on December 30, 1903, less than a month previous, claimed more than 600 lives. It was a fire that spread quickly — a broken arc light igniting the muslin curtain — and the nation learned of burned bodies, closed exits, and bodies of panicked patrons crushed sometimes 10-deep in aisles and doorways.

Theodore Roosevelt is no longer in public office and cannot offer positions. He apologizes and sympathizes with J. C. Taylor.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1912-06-06

Theodore Roosevelt regretfully informs Elias Cottrell that he is unable to interfere “as regards to any official position” or promotion.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1912-03-25

Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary directs Walter A. Koehler to the January 3 issue of The Outlook for an article by Roosevelt on the popular election of senators.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-12-11

Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary informs Vivian A. Lavely that Roosevelt wrote an article in The Outlook urging the direct election of senators. Lavely can contact the publication for a copy.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-12-07

Theodore Roosevelt found William Bayard Cutting’s letter amusing. He teasingly chastises Cutting’s daughter, Olivia Cutting, for scaring her father. Roosevelt would “cheerfully stretch the Constitution” to have Cutting as a senator.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-11-25

Theodore Roosevelt thanks Ziba T. Moore for the speech. He believes George H. Earle is thoroughly unfit for public office and considers his defeat a “triumph for decency.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-11-14

Theodore Roosevelt wishes he could have helped Senator Percy in some real and tangible way. Many gentlemen from across the country have spoken well of Percy and are disappointed about his defeat. Roosevelt prefers hunting elephants over ducks because they are easier to hit.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-11-14

Theodore Roosevelt shares with George H. Mifflin that he thinks the same of Governor-elect Eugene Foss as he does Governor-elect John A. Dix. He advises that Massachusetts work to re-elect Senator Henry Cabot Lodge and encloses a letter on the matter.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1910-12-15

Theodore Roosevelt is glad that Illinois is raising a monument to Lyman Trumbull whose role in co-authoring the thirteenth amendment that abolished slavery “ranks side by side with the struggle which made us a nation.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1915-04-10

President Roosevelt asks Russell B. Harrison to keep the letter about Delevan Smith to himself. He also says that he did not know that Harrison wanted to be appointed to a position, and wishes he had mentioned it sooner.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-11-19

President Roosevelt thanks Colonel Higginson for the letter and looks forward to seeing him in December. He tells Higginson that the Comptroller he thinks was to blame in Morse’s case was not the man in charge at the time. The current Comptroller’s questions were framed to avoid the troubles that Higginson complains about.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-11-11

President Roosevelt agrees with A. S. Draper that Eugene A. Philbin should be reelected but does not know if he should interfere in the matter.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-11-10

President Roosevelt tells Representative Parsons that the enclosed letter from New York State Commissioner of Education A. S. Draper leads him to support Eugene A. Philbin. However, Roosevelt does not think he should interfere, and he asks Parsons’s opinion on the matter.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-11-10

In light of recent comments being made about President Roosevelt coercing office holders, he believes that Lyman Abbott may be interested in a portion of a letter he just received. The only two “colored” men against William H. Taft that the writer spoke to were office holders.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-10-26