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Postcard featuring a black and white photograph of Benten Street in Yokohama, Japan. On the reverse side of the postcard, Charles C. Meyers writes of the silk stores on this street, including the George Washington Silk Shop.
1908
At center is a place for Republicans to go to commiserate while awaiting the next election. Such stalwart Republicans as George F. Edmunds, John Sherman, William M. Evarts, George F. Hoar, and Thomas B. Reed wait there. Surrounding vignettes show a prominent citizen being escorted by two “Bureau of Public Comfort” guards who keep the press at bay, a sewing station for women’s clothing after a round of bargain shopping, a room where anarchists can blow off some steam “without disturbing anybody,” an educational facility to help orient newcomers to the ways of the city, and a hypnotist who attempts to convince servants to work in the country. Caption: Some of the useful purposes it might serve.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1893-10-25
A well-dressed, grand old woman sits in a chair, with a comb labeled “Republican Party” in her hair, and newspapers on the floor around her with headlines “Evening Reporter – Commerce Picking Up All Along the Line” and “Morning Verity – Trade Getting Brisk Since the Passage of the Wilson Bill.” She is holding the “Daily Facts – Increased Activity in Business on Account of the New Tariff.” There is a steaming pot of tea on the table next to her. She is imagining a scene where a street in the business district is filled with a procession of women shoppers carrying placards that state, “Under the Democratic Tariff We Live in a Golden Age of Business!!!”, “1896 – We, the Shopping Women of America, Favor the Democrats Because Their Tariff Bill Favors Our Pocket Books!!!”, and “Thanks to the Democrats Shopping is Now a Joy Forever.” Caption: The Republican Party sees the Democrats, in 1896, winning back their old and powerful ally, the “shopping woman.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1894-10-24
Print shows Uncle Sam standing behind the counter at “Uncle Sam’s Department Store” where there is a “Great Sale Now Going On Inside.” The store is filled with representatives of “Germany, England, France, Russia, Italy, Mexico, Japan, China, Austria” and Turkey, who are anxious to purchase such commodities as “Steel Rails, Machinery, Provisions, Agricultural Implements, Clothing, Scientific Instruments, Chemicals, Grain, [and] Tools”, as well as battleships, railroad bridges, and locomotives. Uncle Sam is doing a brisk business.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1899-11-29
A policewoman observes a crowd of women outside a store advertising a “Sacrifice Sale of Millinery.” She is torn by her obligation to her duties as a police officer and her desire to take advantage of the sale. Caption: She will never be a success on some “fixed posts.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1913-04-16
Teresa Richardson discusses shopping with Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt and the latter buying a garment that is blue, not white. Edith was concerned that it was “unsuited to her years” but Richardson claims she looks “young and girlish and pretty in it.” She hopes that President Roosevelt will like it the way that she does.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-12-03
Assistant Secretary of the Navy Theodore Roosevelt has purchased a subscription to The Deer of all Lands: A History of the Family Cervidae Living and Extinct by Richard Lydekker from the publisher Rowland Ward Limited.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1897-12-14
Rowan Ward provides an invoice for several books Assistant Secretary of the Navy Theodore Roosevelt ordered, including Three Years’ Hunting and Trapping in America and the Great North-west by J. Turner-Turner, Travels in the Interior of South Africa, Comprising Fifteen Years’ Hunting and Trading by James Chapman, Sport on the Pamirs and Turkistan Steppes by Charles Sperling Cumberland, and A Naturalist in the Transvaal by William Lucas Distant.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1898-02-18
Rowan Ward provides an invoice for several books Assistant Secretary of the Navy Theodore Roosevelt ordered, including The Far Interior: A Narrative of Travel and Adventure from the Cape of Good Hope Across the Zambesi to the Lake Regions of Central Africa by Walter Montagu Kerr, Camping in the Canadian Rockies: An Account of Camp Life in the Wilder Parts of the Canadian Rocky Mountains, Together with a Description of the Region about Banff, Lake Louise and Glacier, and a Sketch of the Early Explorations by Walter Dwight Wilcox, and Sport in the Highlands of Kashmir: Being a Narrative of an Eight Months’ Trip in Baltistan and Ladak, and a Lady’s Experiences in the Latter Country: Together with Hints for the Guidance of Sportsmen by Henry Zouch Darrah.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1898-03-25