Science

Joel Chandler Harris tells President Roosevelt, “You see–It’s this way about a rabbit–” In Harris’s pocket is the “Story of the Dog Flash.” By Roosevelt’s chair is the book, “Nature Faking by T. Roosevelt,” and behind his chair are two men: “fakir” and “nature fakir.” There are mounted animals: a bear, a moose, a raccoon, a deer, and a mouse. They say, “What’s that?” “Gee whiz!” “Did you hear what that man said?” “The biggest one I ever heard” and “You don’t say so!” respectively. In the foreground is a turtle that says, “I’m a nature fakir myself!”

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-11-19

President Roosevelt falls asleep at Oyster Bay, New York, with the book, “Nature and Nature Fakers,” beside him. More than 20 sea gulls look at him. Caption: Dr. John B. Watson of Chicago University says he has discovered that sea gulls have a language. — News Item.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-08-03

In the first vignette, a man takes notes on animals, which all appreciate his observations and that he isn’t shooting at them. Caption: 1 — After you had studied wild animals for years — In the second vignette, a man takes pictures of animals, which are all willing to look good for the pictures. Caption: 2 — And photographed them — . In the third vignette, the man writes on a paper entitled, “Wild Animals By One Who Has Studied Them,” with two books — How to Observe Wild Creatures Without Killing Them and Nature Study vs. Animal Slaughter — on the ground. Caption: 3 — And written books about them — . In the fourth vignette, President Roosevelt with a “big stick” throws the man into a room with several others and says, “You’re a nature faker” amidst “the Persona Non-Grata Coterie.” Caption: 4 — If you suddenly found yourself disposed of as above? Wouldn’t it jounce you?

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-05-28

President Roosevelt chases the “American Society of Nature Fakers” into the woods with a large “federal regulation” big stick. There are books and papers in the foreground, including “The Call of the Riled by Jack Onion” and a crowd of people watching in the background.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-05-20

President Roosevelt agrees with Reuben Myron Strong and believes the movement for popularizing science is too important to “fall into the hands of such outrageous fakers as” William J. Long.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-06-03

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Theodore Roosevelt thinks the proof of George Bird Grinnell’s article is “one of the most interesting articles I have ever read” and thinks it offers a more descriptive narrative than a scientist, such as Schufeldt, could ever provide. Roosevelt does question Grinnell’s point about the wolves regarding the Indians as friends, since the Indians were killing many wolves for their furs.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1897-08-30

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

J. Gardner Smith sends Theodore Roosevelt programs from the liberal Church movement lecture series. He asks Roosevelt to speak on October 15 about the conflict between religion and the church.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-08-14

Creator(s)

Smith, J. Gardner, 1861-1931

“Newton, Abbott, Briggs, Savage, [and] Adler,” and one man holding a flag that states “Think or be Damned” stand behind a machine gun labeled “History, Archaeology, Evolution, Enlightenment, [and] Geology.” They stand among boxes of ammunition labeled “Scientific Facts, Historical Facts, [and] Rational Religion.” They take aim at a group of clergy on the drawbridge of a castle. The clergymen are labeled “Medieval Dogmatism” and are armed with halberds and a banner that states “Believe or be Damned.”

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1899-07-19

Creator(s)

Keppler, Udo J., 1872-1956

At center two large hands labeled “Militarism” and “Jingoism” are squeezing men labeled “Labor” and “Capital” over an inverted spike-topped helmet stuck in the ground and overflowing with their blood. There is a skull and crossbones emblem on the front of the helmet. Surrounding vignettes depict, on the left, science, art (sculpture), and woodworking, and on the right, agriculture, art (painting), and blacksmithing.

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1914-08-01

Creator(s)

Mayer, Henry, 1868-1954

Herbert Spencer appears as a statue of a large dog at the entrance to a public building emitting rays of light labeled “Science.” Many diminutive men, wearing over-sized top hats, scamper about with ladders and muzzles in an attempt to silence Spencer’s views on religion and science. On a nearby flagpole hangs a banner that states “Freedom of Thought.” Caption: “The Society for the Suppression of Blasphemous Literature proposes to get up cases against Professors Huxley and Tyndall, Herbert Spencer, and others who, by their writings, have sown widespread unbelief, and in some cases rank atheism.” Tel. London, March 5, 1883.

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1883-03-14

Creator(s)

Graetz, F. (Friedrich), approximately 1840-approximately 1913

Four men sit quietly beneath a shelf of “Books of Religious Reference” in a hall in a museum. A small crowd is gathered before them. Further along the hall, another group of four men sits quietly beneath a shelf of “Books of Scientific Reference.” Part of the display, labeled “Geography,” shows an owl perched on an open book labeled “Kosmos” and a man standing next to a globe. Further still along the hall, a man is lecturing to a large gathering in a section labeled “Chemistry.” Portraits of Nicolaus Copernicus, Charles Darwin, Benedictus de Spinoza, and Thomas Paine hang from the vaulted archways above.

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1883-01-10

Creator(s)

Keppler, Joseph Ferdinand, 1838-1894

A group of explorers of the polar regions, representing discovery and exploration, float on an ice floe. They may all be on the verge of death. Weighing judgment are James Gordon Bennett of the New York Herald and several European heads of state sitting in an area labeled “Reserved for J. G. Bennett and other Crowned Heads,” as well as a group of men seated in an area labeled “In the Name of Science – More! More!” This latter group has already pronounced judgment by giving the “Thumbs Down” sign. Notices pasted on the walls of the arena state “Kane died 1853, Franklin died 1850, Hall died 1871, [and] G. W. De Long 1882” referring to explorers who died in the name of science.

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1882-05-31

Creator(s)

Keppler, Joseph Ferdinand, 1838-1894

A skeleton labeled “Death,” as a gladiator, stands over “The Sick.” Before giving the death stroke, the skeleton looks to the spectators seated in a section identified as “Anti-Vivisectionists,” who, holding their pets close, give the “thumbs down” signal. The emblem on their banner shows a hand about to snuff the flame on a lamp labeled “Progress.”

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1911-06-07

Creator(s)

Crawford, Will, 1869-1944

A ship founders at sea during a storm, with many passengers on deck, but the sailors, bowing to pressure from “anti-vivisectionists,” are rescuing the dogs first. Caption: “Women and children first” would cease to be shipwreck etiquette if the anti-vivisectionists had their way.

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1911-04-05

Creator(s)

Levering, Albert, 1869-1929

A raging fire in a building billows dark smoke labeled “Disease.” People are trying to escape by climbing to the edge and jumping into a safety net labeled “Vivisectional Research Life-Net” held by fire fighters. Other fire fighters stream water labeled “Knowledge” on to the flames. A man with a hatchet labeled “Legislation” is about to chop the water hose into pieces, as other citizens attempt to pull the safety net away. Caption: The anti-vivisectionists to the fire-fighting doctors.

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1911-03-22

Creator(s)

Keppler, Udo J., 1872-1956

Two men in a make-shift laboratory are about to operate on a live rabbit. A group of concerned citizens has entered on the left, attempting to stop the operation. The spirits of many past victims of illnesses are on the right imploring the men to continue with their research for the sake of humanity. Caption: The Sentimentalists — For mercy’s sake, stop! / The Sufferers — For humanity’s sake, go on!

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1911-02-22

Creator(s)

Crawford, Will, 1869-1944

Brief statement of the purpose and principles of the Carnegie Institution.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-06-02

Creator(s)

Carnegie Institution