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Postcard showing a ponciana regia tree in Honolulu, Hawaii. Charles C. Myers mentions that such tropical vegetation can be seen year round in Hawaii.
1911
Souvenir Post Card Co.; Myers, Charles C. (Charles Cleveland), 1879-1942
This postcard shows a view of one of Rio de Janeiro’s many parks. Tall trees are reflected in the still water.
1911
Black and white photograph of Charles C. Myers, Myrtle L. O’Dell, and Myer’s nephew, Lee W. Myers, standing behind a wooden ladder next to a tree in Novelty, Missouri.
1912-10-13
Photograph showing President Theodore Roosevelt and seven other men seated in a horse drawn carriage at Inspiration Point in Yosemite Valley, California.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1903
George W. McLane has long admired Theodore Roosevelt’s work in forest conservation. He has been in the nursery trade in Mexico and Central America and knows trees that would do well in the various climates of the United States. McLane wants to discuss the matter with Roosevelt during his upcoming trip to New York.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-07-31
The City Beautiful league of Knoxville, Tennessee, is planning to cooperate with the Miller Store to distribute 1,000 catalpa trees to the junior league of the City Beautiful league, which is made up of many of the school children of the city.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-03-06
English
David B. Hill stands in a tree labeled “Wolfert’s Roost” and looks out. There is an “exit ladder” leaning against the tree and a nearby sign that reads, “If you really want to aid Judge Parker, pull in your ladder for four months.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-07-22
“Congress” uses a “resolutions” hatchet to attempt to cut into “the president’s message” tree stump. Hiding in the stump is a bear in the shape of President Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-12-15
In this postscript to a letter from which it has become separated, C. Grant La Farge banters with President Roosevelt about the attitudes of Secretary of War William H. Taft and the army engineers who are planning projects at Point Judith and Fort Kearny, Rhode Island. The engineers “contemptuously” discuss the removal of “old trees.” La Farge goads Roosevelt to come with his “woodsman’s eye” and look at the trees in question. In a handwritten addition, Florence Bayard Lockwood La Farge tells Roosevelt that Grant has cut his right hand and could not write himself. Florence had a “bully time” at Oyster Bay.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-1908
La Farge, C. Grant (Christopher Grant), 1862-1938; La Farge, Florence Bayard Lockwood, 1864-1944
Elkhorn ranch site. A roadgrader sits on the approximate site of the former stable. Includes conjecture about differences in trees at the site between 1886 and 1957.
1957
Film containing quotations and still photos interspersed with factual footage of Theodore Roosevelt’s home and family in Oyster Bay, New York.
Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound
1930
President Roosevelt, holding on to his big stick, prepares himself to get on “the stump.” Uncle Sam urges him on, saying, “Jump on it Teddy.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1902-1907
Uncle Sam sits on a log in a swamp labeled “Spoils System” from which snakes labeled “Quayism, Bardsleyism, [and] Tannerism,” and noxious fumes rise in the form of shades labeled “Raumism – Pension Swindler, Crokerism, McLaughlinism, Tweedism, Prendergast – Political Assassin, [and] Guiteau – Political Assassin.” Also shown among the tree roots is Charles A. Dana. Caption: It will have to be drained to get rid of the noxious miasmas that arise from it.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1893-11-15
Young couples embrace or dance, and walk among a grove of trees at night.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1914-09-05
Grover Cleveland is pictured as a large tree labeled “Eucalyptus Clevelandus” with roots labeled “Honor” and “Honesty,” and branches that spread over swamp land from which rise gaseous ghosts labeled “Stupidity, K. K. K., Bourbonism, Butlerism, Dynamiter, Kellyism, Ward Bossism, [and] Spoils System.” In the background is a large building labeled “Democratic Head-Quarters.” Caption: The eucalyptus tree has recently been introduced into marshy and malarious regions, where it acts as a purifier of the atmosphere, driving away the deadly miasmatic vapors.–Encyclopaedia.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1884-08-27
Uncle Sam and a female figure identified as Liberty stroll through a park among trees labeled “Equal Rights, Free Press, Free Schools, Free Speech, Free Ballot, Constitution, [and] Religious Liberty.” Around the bases of the trees are many mushrooms labeled “Total Abstinence Fanatics, Monopoly, Socialist, Nihilist, Dynamiter, Communist, Anarchist, Demagogism, Bribery, [and] Corrupt,” and a vine labeled “Protection” is beginning to strangle a tree labeled “Unrestricted Commerce.” Puck, sitting on a tree branch, tells Uncle Sam that he needs to clear out the fungus before it destroys “Liberty’s” park. Some of the mushrooms have faces that might be identified. Caption: Uncle Sam – Hello, Puck, are you “up a tree”? – Puck – No, but you will be if you don’t clear this stuff out pretty soon!
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1885-02-25
A large old tree grows at the edge of a body of water, with Albany, New York, on the right, and the U.S. Capitol on the left, in the background. Hanging from the branches are many coins with “$” and a few blossoms labeled “Bribes for Legislation, Bribes for Lawyers, Bribes for Judges, Bribes for Editors, [and] Bribes for Congress.” Telegraph lines are tangled in the branches, and the face of Jay Gould is formed by limbs and branches at center. The bodies of several people lay among the debris beneath the tree. Roscoe Conkling is slumped against a row of buildings. “Westbro[?]” has expired over the same row of buildings. A skull labeled “Jim Fisk” lies next to “Whitelaw Reid.” Ulysses S. Grant, at center, is labeled “Black Friday.” Beneath a railroad is the body of a woman labeled “Stockholder.” Against the trunk of the tree is a man labeled “Stockholder E.R.R.” who looks a little like Cornelius Vanderbilt, and on the right is Alonzo Cornell labeled “Blind Pool.” All appear to have succumbed to greed through the machinations of Jay Gould. Caption: “This tree … was said to be so exceedingly poisonous that no one could even approach it without certain death.” Zell’s Encyclopedia.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1882-08-30
A bear labeled “N.Y. Democracy” climbs a tree labeled “New York” and “N.Y. State Patronage Hive” to get at the honey. However, a block of wood labeled “Tammany Kelly” suspended by a rope labeled “60,000 voters” keeps getting in the bear’s way. Caption: Democratic Bear “If it wasn’t for that log, I’d have had that honey long ago, and the more I thrust it away the harder it hits me!”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1882-08-16
A sword labeled “Nomination” is stuck deeply into a tree, where Theodore Roosevelt and Jacob A. Riis are resting on a large branch. Roosevelt is grinning like the Cheshire cat. On the far right are Albert Baird Cummins and Charles Evans Hughes, and on the left are several other potential candidates for the upcoming presidential election, including Philander C. Knox, Joseph Benson Foraker, Charles W. Fairbanks, Joseph Gurney Cannon, William H. Taft, Albert J. Beveridge, and George B. Cortelyou. Caption: Who is the hero with the strength to draw it out?
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1907-06-12
A figure composed of corn and corn stalks labeled “Record Breaking Crops” walks through a dark wood at night with a diminutive Uncle Sam, who is frightened by scary-looking trees labeled “Johnson, Taft, Sherman, Roosevelt, Wilson, [and] Debs.” Caption: “Don’t be frightened, Sammy. They can’t hurt you while I am with you.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1912-10-16