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James Wilson states Upton Sinclair’s staff gave out many dispatches related to the meat packing industry in order to promote Sinclair’s book.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-04-12
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., Kermit Roosevelt, and their respective wives, Eleanor Butler Roosevelt and Belle Roosevelt, pose for the cameras in New York City after the two men had returned from their hunting expedition in India.
Sherman Grinberg Film Collection
1926
Owen M. Waller thanks Theodore Roosevelt for his letter commending the work on the Howard Asylum, and hopes Roosevelt will allow him to use the letter as positive publicity to appeal to the public.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-10-08
Assistant Postmaster General Joseph L. Bristow and President Roosevelt shine “publicity” light on four men holding money, bribes, and grafts. The light is fed by the “Bristow Report.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-11-30
President Roosevelt and Postmaster General Henry C. Payne attempt to scrub the stains of the “Post Office scandal” off the Republican elephant in a tent labeled “G. O. P. The Sacred White Elephant Show.” A “Department of Publicity” megaphone sits on a table outside of the tent.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-07-13
Senator Beveridge writes to President Roosevelt with his opinion on which family photograph would be best.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-03-26
At center, Uncle Sam and President Cleveland shake hands, with a portrait of Liliuokalani, Queen of Hawaii, in the background. The surrounding vignettes feature a cast of characters, identified or referred to in the text as “Croker,” “Parkhurst,” and “Tammany” reform, “Iago Manley” and “Othello Reed,” “Peffer, Lease, Dana, Pulitzer, [and] Depew,” Harrison sitting in his over-sized top hat, and Thomas Collier Platt turning a crank that manipulates George R. “Malby” as “Speaker” of the New York State Assembly, David B. Hill sitting in an over-sized “Senatorial Chair N.Y. State,” and “McKinley” dressed as Napoleon I, riding a “War Tariff” rocking horse. Each scene includes “Valentine” text, such as this for “Peffer” and “Lease,” each holding papers labeled “Speech”: “From bleeding Kansas’s wind-swept plains, / Where whiskers take the place of brains, / You come with all your verbose strength / Of speeches of unending length. / Here, take the hint Puck gives – resign! / Let Mary be your Valentine”; and this for McKinley: “McKinley Bill! McKinley Bill! / Why do you ride that hobby still? / The cause of pool, combine and trust, / And idle mill-wheels red with rust. / Mistaken Man! We’ll never pine / For you to be our Valentine.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1894-02-14
William Jennings Bryan and William H. Taft drive a stake labeled “Publicity” into the ground in a wilderness area. A rope labeled “Public Opinion” is tied to the stake, and one end is tied to the Democratic donkey’s tail while the other end is tied to one leg of the Republican elephant. Caption: And the green grass grows all ’round.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1908-08-19
George W. Perkins asks President Roosevelt, “if the attached comes anywhere near [his] ideas of publicity?”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-01-05
Every “Kansas man” that visits President Roosevelt gives interviews to Kansas newspapers regarding the visit and Roosevelt’s hospitality. This is poor etiquette and Roosevelt probably does not appreciate this type of publicity.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-12-25