Runners (Sports)

Octogenarian Henry Gassaway Davis, as a runner, is attended by Arthur P. Gorman who is putting a bandage on Davis’s right knee.

comments and context

Comments and Context

Henry Gassaway Davis, an industrialist and former senator from West Virginia, is caricatured here being conditioned by Senator Arthur Pue Gorman of Maryland. Davis, at 80, was and is the oldest candidate for president or vice president in United States history. The Democrats in 1904 nominated him for his “barrel,” an immense fortune they expected he would tap to finance the national campaign. He did underwrite about a third of the national party’s expenses, which was disappointingly less than hoped.

Photograph of runners participating in the Badlands Cross Country Race passing the visitor center sign in the South Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Creation Date

1965-10-02

Runners participate in the Badlands Cross Country Race on the Scenic Loop Drive near the interstate overpass in the South Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Creation Date

1965-10-02

College-level runners participate in the Badlands Cross Country Race on the Scenic Loop Drive in the South Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Creation Date

1965-10-02

Badlands Cross Country Racer is assisted by Ranger Lary Barney to remove studs from running shoes in the South Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Creation Date

1966-10-01

President Roosevelt asks Ambassador Reid if he would be able to petition Lord Robert Offley Ashburton Crewe-Milnes to write to officials in Uganda that Roosevelt would appreciate being given a guide and information that would allow him to hunt a white rhinoceros or elephant. The current unrest in India concerns Roosevelt, and asks what the feelings of British officials are towards it. Roosevelt also remarks briefly on his plans to leave immediately after William H. Taft’s inauguration as president, and comments on a controversy that arose at the 1908 Olympic Games in London, which is still fostering some resentment between the two nations. If Roosevelt can secure a third specimen of the white rhinoceros, he would be happy to send it to the British Museum.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-11-26