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Theodore Roosevelt’s ship arrives

Theodore Roosevelt’s ship arrives

Theodore Roosevelt arrives back in New York on the Kaiserin Auguste Victoria. He is seen waving his top hat under the flag pole surrounded by a welcoming party of family and friends as the ship sits in quarantine. Theodore Roosevelt Jr. is on the far left wearing a straw hat and his fiancee Eleanor Butler Alexander is in all white holding the railing. Franklin Delano Roosevelt can be see on the far right in a straw hat in profile.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1910-06-18

Creator(s)

Unknown

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Ethel Roosevelt

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Ethel Roosevelt

As they may disembark that night, Theodore Roosevelt writes a quick note from off the coast of Santiago, Cuba, to tell his three children that he loves them. Included with the letter is a sketch of a dog labeled “Cuba” and signed by William Pollock, whom Roosevelt describes as “the Pawnee Indian.” The dog in the sketch, Roosevelt says, runs everywhere around the ship and howls sometimes when the band plays.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1898

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

“Turn the rascals out”

“Turn the rascals out”

A ship labeled “Life Insurance” is being taken over by pirates labeled “Pres. $100,000, 1st V.P. $50,000, 2nd V.P. $40,000, 3rd V.P., 4th V.P., 5th V.P. [and] Sonny,” who are forcing scapegoats to walk the plank, an “Old Clerk, Office Boy, Pensioner, Janitor, Scrubwoman, [and] The Goat.” The ship figurehead shows two men labeled “Hendricks & Kilbourn.” Caption: After the investigation the strictest economy.

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Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1905-10-11

The “fake” beggars

The “fake” beggars

Senator Marcus Alonzo Hanna, wearing a sign “Please help the poor,” and J.P. Morgan, carrying a model ship labeled “Leyland S.S. Lines,” stand at the end of a pier with the “Ship Yard” behind them. They hold out their hats, one labeled “For a shipping subsidy,” to Uncle Sam standing in front of the U.S. Treasury. An enormous ocean-going steamship, flying a banner “American built ships,” floats offshore in the distance. Caption: Uncle Sam. — You are already building up a monopoly without help; – why should I pay you a subsidy?

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Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1901-06-26