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Marie De Ronne informs Theodore Roosevelt that she has the cure for hoarse throats, which he experienced on a recent lecture tour. She was a singer for 13 years and hopes to make her cure known to the public, with Roosevelt’s support.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-10-11
The “G.O.P.” elephant holds a tambourine labeled “Stand Patism” and hands out free baskets labeled “Tariff Graft” containing a turkey, duck, or chicken to ragged figures labeled “Coal Trust, Steel Trust, [and] Wool Trust.” A long line of trust figures await their turn. Joseph Gurney Cannon, Nelson W. Aldrich, Joseph Benson Foraker, and Leslie M. Shaw appear in women’s clothing as the “Republican Salvation Army” singers, singing “There are no flies on Dingley.” A man labeled “Protected Monopoly” stands in the foreground, at the edge of the platform. Caption: Distribution of Christmas goodies by the Republican Salvation Army.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1906-12-19
President Roosevelt surrounded by children. Title from item. #4 of 4 photos taken.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1902-04-10
President Roosevelt surrounded by children. Title from item. #3 of 4 photos taken.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1902-04-10
A group of children who sang for President Roosevelt. Title from item.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1902-04-10
President Roosevelt surrounded by children. Title is from item. #1 of 4 photos taken.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1902-04-10
President Roosevelt surrounded by children. Title from item. #2 of 4 photos taken.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1902-04-10
President Roosevelt believes that Secretary of War William H. Taft is up to a fight against Senator Joseph Benson Foraker Foraker; Senator Lodge can confidentially send him anything he wants to on the Brownsville Affair. Roosevelt describes the singing one recent night of four African American servants and two white ones. He urges Lodge’s son John to appreciate the work of Martin Luther for saving some countries from the abuses of papal misrule.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-06-27
John T. B. Smith sends Theodore Roosevelt a photograph of him singing in German, taken during the dedication of American University’s Hall of History. He also has a photograph of Roosevelt and Bishop Earl Cranston, which he sent to the latter.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-01-16
Alton B. Parker and Henry Gassaway Davis hold sheet music and sing two contradictory songs about protectionism and free trade to Uncle Sam. Caption: Special engagement of Alton and Gassaway, the celebrated team of musical daologueists.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-09-29
Walter F. Carter admires John Campbell Greenway’s military service. He reminisces about their college days, updates Greenway on their friends, and offers to send a care package. Carter is very eager to see Greenway when he is back on American soil.
1898-07-24
Associate Justice Hughes and President Roosevelt walk along a railroad track dressed in rags. Roosevelt plays a banjo and sings, “I love the cows and chickens.” A nonplussed local resident says, “Might fix ’em up a mess of bread an’ lassas Ma.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1916
A man labeled “Pension Fraud” holds fists full of money and stands on a stage, singing, with two musicians on the left and the “U.S. Treasury” in the background. Includes text of the song – “Now I’ve got my pension, I’m a gent!”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1894-05-23
Benjamin Harrison plays the “Communists’ Chorus” on a large pipe organ, with “Tom Reed” and “McKinley” singing along. All are wearing liberty caps. Includes text of the chorus, which laments, “The Wilson Bill your present thought engages; / We must bring the whole thing up short with a jerk. / The Government has got to pay the wages / Of every man who doesn’t care to work!”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1894-03-07
Puck sits on a sofa next to a young woman. They are holding a book labeled “Christmas Carol” and singing.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1893-12-06
Cuban General Máximo Gómez sits on a horse, listening to an eagle perched on the U.S. Capitol building singing “the song of freedom.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1898-05-11
Puck conducts a group of singers on a stage as they sing “The Star Spangled Banner.” Among the singers are “Palmer, Buckner, Johnson, Levering, Watson, Bryan, Sewall, Mrs. Lease, McKinley, [and] Hobart.” Mary E. Lease is dressed as Columbia holding an American flag. Caption: Puck–Now, then, altogether! – “The Star Spangled Banner, oh long may it wave / O’er the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave!”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1896-11-11
An attractive young woman wearing a green swimsuit sits on a beach where a lobster has come to the surface with a banjo to serenade her.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1914-06-20
Four elderly men wearing Masonic uniforms stand between the Masonic pillars labeled “Boaz” and “Jachin” that look like barber poles. The men are performing a song and dance routine. Caption: When one’s a Mason, However snide, / He must aprons place on And collars wide. / Then he’ll pass from “Labor” – Which is swopping grips, / With his “brother” neighbor, To “Refreshment” – nips. Conspirators’ Chorus in “la Fille de Mme. Angot” – New Version.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1882-06-14
Theodore Roosevelt is enjoying the hunting expedition with Elliott Roosevelt, although the hunting has been poor. Elliott is very popular with the farmers and hunters. Roosevelt provides a summary of the “motley crew” they are staying with.
1880-08-25