Fiacres in Paris
Fiacres, four-wheeled carriages available for public hire, in front of the Cafe de la Paix in Paris, France.
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1899
Your TR Source
Restaurants
Chop Room, Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese
Postcard showing the dining area of an inn with tables around a fireplace and pictures hanging on the walls, including a portrait. Charles C. Myers identifies it as Ye Cheshire Cheese Restaurant in London, England, where writers Samuel Johnson and Charles Dickens often visited. The portrait is of Johnson. Myers notes that he ate Thanksgiving dinner at the restaurant in 1910.
Collection
Creation Date
1910
Creator(s)
Santiago, Parque Cousino I, Restaurant
Postcard showing the restaurant in Cousiño Park in Santiago, Chile.
Collection
Creation Date
1911
Creator(s)
Adolfo Conrads; Myers, Charles C. (Charles Cleveland), 1879-1942
Albano, Italy, 1909 or 1910. T. R. Roosevelt before the restaurant
Photograph showing Theodore Roosevelt, with his back to camera, talking to two men outside the restaurant.
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1910
Creator(s)
Prosperity!
The Philadelphia Evening Item reports on the good economic conditions in various industries, companies, and places in the United States and its trading partners, which it says “give[s] the lie to the calamity howlers.”
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1903-12-22
Creator(s)
Postcard with White Room
Postcard featuring the White Room at the Kathryn Lawrence’s Dining Rooms. Theodore Roosevelt was inaugurated at the house on September 14, 1901.
Collection
Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site
Creation Date
1937-1959
Creator(s)
Ansley Wilcox room
Postcard featuring the Ansley Wilcox Room at the Kathryn Lawrence’s Dining Rooms. Theodore Roosevelt was inaugurated at the house, then owned by Ansley Wilcox, on September 14, 1901.
Collection
Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site
Creation Date
1937-1959
Creator(s)
What’s in it?
Uncle Sam sits at a table in the “Congressional Lunch Rooms.” He is being served a large sausage labeled “Tariff Bill” by a waiter labeled “Republican.” Another waiter labeled “Democrat” is standing on the left. Caption: That’s one of those things which no fellow can find out.
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1883-03-21
Creator(s)
Ansley Wilcox room
Postcard featuring the Ansley Wilcox Room at Kathryn Lawrence’s dining rooms. Theodore Roosevelt was inaugurated at the house, then owned by Ansley Wilcox, on September 14, 1901. A handwritten note states that Roselyn’s wedding breakfast was held at Kathryn Lawrence’s dining rooms in 1944.
Collection
Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site
Creation Date
1944-1959
Creator(s)
White room
Color postcard of the interior of the Kathryn Lawrence dining room.
Collection
Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site
Creation Date
1937-1959
Creator(s)
Kathryn Lawrence’s dining rooms
Color postcard of Kathryn Lawrence’s dining rooms. Iron fence along the sidewalk on Delaware Avenue and a neon sign near the gate. The postcard also features lush trees and vegetation.
Collection
Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site
Creation Date
1937-1959
Creator(s)
Receipt of Theodore Roosevelt from Metropolitan Club Restaurant
Assistant Secretary Roosevelt purchased two mutton chops, two scrambled eggs, one potato salad, four glasses of milk, and two cups of coffee from the Metropolitan Club Restaurant for a total of $1.70.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1898-04-09
Creator(s)
Receipt from the Metropolitan Club Restaurant
Receipt from the Metropolitan Club Restaurant for a meal that included mutton chops and milk. Theodore Roosevelt paid fifty cents for the meal.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1898-04-05
Creator(s)
Receipt from the Metropolitan Club Restaurant
Receipt from the Metropolitan Club Restaurant for a meal that included mutton chops, potato salad, a glass of milk, and strawberries and cream. Theodore Roosevelt paid two dollars and thirty cents for the meal.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1898-04-29
Creator(s)
Receipt from the Metropolitan Club Restaurant
Receipt from the Metropolitan Club Restaurant for a meal that included half of a spring chicken, a glass of milk, and strawberries and cream. Theodore Roosevelt paid seventy cents for the meal.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1898-04-18
Creator(s)
Receipt from the Metropolitan Club Restaurant
Receipt from the Metropolitan Club Restaurant for a meal that included mutton chops, a glass of milk, and scrambled eggs. Theodore Roosevelt paid one dollar and ten cents for the meal.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1898-04-14
Creator(s)
Receipt from the Metropolitan Club Restaurant
Receipt from the Metropolitan Club Restaurant for a meal which included half a spring chicken and two glasses of milk. Theodore Roosevelt paid fifty-five cents for the meal.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1898-04-02
Creator(s)
Receipt from the Metropolitan Club Restaurant
Receipt from the Metropolitan Club Restaurant for scrambled eggs, a glass of milk, and sardines. Theodore Roosevelt paid fifty-five cents for the meal.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1898-03-31
Creator(s)
Receipt from the Metropolitan Club Restaurant
Receipt from the Metropolitan Club Restaurant for one dollar and five cents where Theodore Roosevelt ordered two luncheons and a glass of milk.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1898-04-23
Creator(s)
Receipt from the Metropolitan Club Restaurant
Receipt from the Metropolitan Club Restaurant for a meal that included blue points, broiled potatoes, duck, potato salad, and Camembert. Theodore Roosevelt paid eleven dollars and thirty cents for the meal.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1898-04-04