School children

Photograph of Theodore Roosevelt with a group of laughing and smiling school children in Lower Manhattan, New York.  

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

1913

Newspaper clipping of a humorous story about a young student saying that “Betsy Roosevelt” made the first American flag.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-09-29

George H. Maines expresses in his letter a proposal to raise funds for the battleship Maine by encouraging schoolchildren across the U.S. to each donate one penny. Maine outlines a plan involving governors, banks, and school superintendents to collect donations and urges support from educators and newspapers.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-09-11

President Roosevelt sits at his desk and holds a book entitled “Big Game in Africa Shown to Be Extinct” in one hand and “Petition from [T]exas. Spare African Animals. Signed–School Children. Petition from New England. Have mercy on African animals. Signed–School Children” in his other. His rifle–“my pet”–is on his desk as well as “Nature Stories.” On the ground is an open book: “Political Game in America: Dead and Dying.” Kermit Roosevelt says to his father, “Dad, they’re mollycoddles.” President Roosevelt replies, “Oh! No! This needs investigation.”

comments and context

Comments and Context

As Theodore Roosevelt’s presidency drew to a close. he was not less busy as some Chief Executives who managed to “transition,” but rather more occupied than usual, which famously was hectic and strenuous at normal times. He was involved in a messy dispute with Congress, he hurriedly made appointments, proclamations, and executive orders while he had those powers, he prepared to meet the returning Great White Fleet from its circumnavigational tour, he did what he could to implement the initiatives that grew from the National Governors Conference he convened (on conservation matters), and so forth.

Teacher bear instructs three students while a fourth sits in the corner with a dunce hat. Addressee side contains handwritten entry “Howard.”

Collection

Fritz R. Gordner Collection

Creation Date

1902-1907