Snow

Ambassador Jusserand sends Theodore Roosevelt Christmas wishes and hopes for his continued safety. He informs Roosevelt of his election to the French Academy of Moral and Political Sciences on his own merits, with no opposing votes. Jusserand shares an incident of a mother cat saving her kitten from a caged tiger. Roosevelt’s letter was delightful and complemented his articles in Scribner’s Magazine, which everyone follows with interest. He does not have much to comment on regarding internal politics other than that he deplores the quarrel between Gifford Pinchot and Secretary of the Interior Richard Achilles Ballinger. Jusserand updates Roosevelt on several of their friends. Ambassador to France Robert Bacon was recently injured in a fall from his horse before leaving for his assignment. A letter “full of pleasant chattering” from Justice Alford Cooley hints at a possible improvement in health. Secretary of the Navy George von Lengerke Meyer and Assistant Secretary of the Navy Beekman Winthrop are trying to capture Jose Santos Zelaya in Nicaragua. While Henry Cabot Lodge and Anna Cabot Mills Davis Lodge are in good physical health, they still mourn for their son George “Bay” Cabot Lodge, especially on Christmas. Jusserand includes a newspaper clipping on Roosevelt’s election to the Academy and part of a political cartoon featuring Roosevelt.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1909-12-25

Creator(s)

Jusserand, J. J. (Jean Jules), 1855-1932

Whitelaw Reid has heard that white rhinoceros have become extremely rare, and that President Roosevelt may have trouble finding one on his safari. Reid is pleased to send the rifle from Edward North Buxton to President Roosevelt for testing, but did not think that he could send clothes to Roosevelt in the same pouch under the current State Department rules. London is currently getting a few inches of snow, which Reid says “seems to block transportation here as much as a real [blizzard] with us.” He is concerned by the news of the recent natural disaster in Sicily.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-12-30

Creator(s)

Reid, Whitelaw, 1837-1912

Collection

Charles C. Myers Collection

Creation Date

1915-06-25

Creator(s)

Unknown

Recipient

Myers, Charles C. (Charles Cleveland), 1879-1942; Myers, Myrtle L. O'Dell, 1880-1959; Myers, Victor D. (Victor Dale), 1914-1998

Language

English

Collection

Charles C. Myers Collection

Creation Date

Unknown

Creator(s)

Unknown

Language

English

Period

Unknown

This postcard shows a winter scene in Yosemite Valley, with both the valley floor and peaks rising above covered in a thick blanket of snow.

The image appears to have been glued onto a different postcard.

Collection

Charles C. Myers Collection

Creation Date

Unknown

Charles M. Ziebach, superintendent of Sullys Hill National Park, acknowledges Secretary of the Interior Fisher’s letter and says that he does not think it is advisable to take pictures of the park at the current time due to the cold weather and large amount of snow. He will send pictures to his office as soon as the weather permits.

Collection

White Horse Hill

Creation Date

1912-03-20

Creator(s)

Ziebach, Charles M., 1868-1940

Photograph depicting flowers and snow in Pasadena, California.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-01

Creator(s)

Unknown

Uncle Sam is pictured as a peddler offering “Bonds Sold For Gold” on a snowy street where he encounters a diminutive figure labeled “Canada” holding a paper labeled “Sound Currency System.” She points to Uncle Sam’s bag of “Silver.” Standing on balconies labeled “England – Sound Currency System,” “France – Sound Financial System,” “Austria – Sound Financial Policy,” “Russia – Sound Financial Policy,” and “Germany – Sound Currency System” are the Prime Minister of Great Britain, Lord Salisbury; the President of France, Felix Faure; the Emperor of Austria, Franz Joseph I; the Emperor of Russia, Nicholas II; and the German Emperor, William II; and standing on an unmarked balcony is the King of Italy, Umberto I.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1896-02-05

Creator(s)

Dalrymple, Louis, 1866-1905

A small dog wearing a collar labeled “Boutelle” is bound with heavy chains and a large padlock labeled “Democratic Majority.” The dog sits outside a doghouse labeled “Minority Kennel.” He is exposed to the cold and snow of winter.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1894-02-14

Creator(s)

Dalrymple, Louis, 1866-1905

A St. Bernard rescue dog, with a blanket labeled “Tariff Reform” strapped to its back and a small barrel labeled “The Wilson Tariff Bill” under its chin, approaches a man labeled “Labor” caught in snow drifts labeled “McKinley Tariff.” Nearby, Grover Cleveland, as a monk with a hand to his ear, responds to the dog’s bark. At the top of a hill, in the background, is the U.S. Capitol.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1894-01-10

Creator(s)

Dalrymple, Louis, 1866-1905

A mother with an infant and a young child stands in the windblown snow at night, looking at a notice posted on a wall that states “Charity Ball” and “Proceeds for the Benefit of the Needy” and a new notice posted over the old “Called Off on Account of the Church’s stand on Modern Dance.”

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1914-02-07

Creator(s)

Keppler, Udo J., 1872-1956

Benjamin F. Butler spreads ashes labeled “Censure, Exposure, Desire for Reform, [and] Criticism” on a slide in the snow labeled “Slide of Public Mismanagement” to the dismay of a group of children labeled “Factory Employee, Sup’t. of Charitable Institution, Prison Supt., Army Snob, Matron of Infant Asylum, Manager of Insane Asylum, [and] Superfluous Gov’t. Employee” on “Beacon Hill.”

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1883-01-17

Creator(s)

Opper, Frederick Burr, 1857-1937

A beautiful young woman stands on a small hill with wind and blowing snow, and a cluster of snow buntings. She is wearing a bright red fur-lined coat and hat.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1914-01-24

Creator(s)

Hammell, Will, 1888-1963

A street on a winter’s day is crowded with horse-drawn sleighs, some of which are attempting to get ahead of the others. On the left, a sleigh labeled “J. Gould” carrying Gould, Whitelaw Reid, and Roscoe Conkling has caused another sleigh labeled “Villard” and “Northern Pacific R. R.” to overturn, spilling Henry Villard, and nearly hitting George H. “Pendleton” holding on to the arm of a young girl labeled “Civil Service Reform.” Behind them is a troika labeled “Standard Oil Co.” that is driven by Sereno “Payne.” Racing ahead at the center is a sleigh labeled “The P– be d–” and “Vanderbilt” driven by William H. Vanderbilt. On the right is a large “Labor Sleigh” loaded with blue-collar workers and drawn by a single, scrawny horse struggling to keep pace. To the far right are two sleighs. One labeled “Roach Contract Cutter” is driven by John Roach and the other labeled “Field” is driven by Cyrus Field. Bringing up the rear is a sleigh labeled “Huntington” driven by Collis P. Huntington and flying a banner that states, “It costs money to fix things.” A man with a bag labeled “Laborer Iron” has fallen in the street and is about to be run over by Roach and the Labor Sleigh.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1884-02-06

Creator(s)

Keppler, Joseph Ferdinand, 1838-1894

In a winter scene, a soldier labeled “Democracy” stands in front of a road sign that points in four directions “Free Trade, To Tariff Reform, To Protection, [and] No Policy.” Between his feet is a small dog that looks like John Kelly. “Speaker Carlisle” as a drum major for “Reform” is standing in the left foreground. Behind and to the left are Benjamin Butler “Butlerism,” Abram S. “Hewitt” with “Free Trade” banner, and Samuel S. “Cox” pointing toward “Free Trade.” Samuel J. “Randall” is standing in the right foreground, wearing a helmet labeled “Protection.” Behind and to the right are Sereno “Payne” with banner labeled “Straddle Every Issue!”, Thomas “Bayard” holding papers that state “Dodge the Question,” and Samuel J. Tilden labeled “Ancient Issues.”

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1884-01-30

Creator(s)

Gillam, Bernhard, 1856-1896

A sleepy Uncle Sam, wearing a robe, stands in the snow marked with “$” at the foot of snow-covered steps, with the “U.S. Treasury” in the background. He is handing a shovel labeled “Repeal of the Silver Coinage Law” to a diminutive man labeled “Buckner” with papers in his pocket labeled “Chairman Coinage Com.” who refuses to take it, saying he’ll come back later. Liberty observes from a window behind Uncle Sam. Caption: Buckner “Not just now – I’ll see you later!”

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1884-01-02

Creator(s)

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

A young woman stands in the snow with two young children in a sled. One is holding an American flag.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1914-12-26

Creator(s)

Hill, W. E. (William Ely), 1887-1962

Two winter scenes are depicted with a verse by Breton Braley printed between them. On the left is “The Christmas Coach” showing a stagecoach with passengers riding on top, with a crescent moon and winter spirits in the night sky. On the right is “The Spirit of the Snow” showing the Snow Spirit spreading snow over a city at night with a church in the background. Each half of the spread includes a remarque at the bottom signed with monogram (E within a box) and showing a 19th century farmhouse and a church.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1914-12-19

Creator(s)

Ewer, Raymond Crawford, 1888-1915

A colonist barters with Natives outside a stockade in the winter. He is offering them a small piece of brightly colored cloth and a clay pipe in exchange for game including deer, turkey, fish, and ducks or geese.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1913-12-03

Creator(s)

Unknown

Two young women stop in the snow so that one of them can write her New Year’s resolutions in the snow, “1913 No Jealousy No Anger No Flirt.” It is unclear whether she intends to say flirting, or does not finish because she is having second thoughts. Caption reads: New Year resolutions – till they melt!

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1913-01-01

Creator(s)

Budd, Leighton