Visiting cards

The calling card of P. M. Mattheeff, commissioner-general for Bulgaria at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-11-26

A calling card with the home and office addresses of Douglas Robinson, President Roosevelt’s brother-in-law.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-02-08

Calling card of General Count Tcherep-Spiridovitch.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-02-08

A calling card for Count Arthur Cherep-Spiridovich.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-02-14

Calling card of Anson H. Weeks.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901

Calling card of Mrs. Dean Sage.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901

Calling card of A. Ferris Rihani.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901

Eleanor Butler Roosevelt’s calling card printed with “Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, Junior” and her address in San Francisco “One thousand, nine hundred and forty-two Pacific Avenue”.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1911

A calling card, listing Mrs. Rudolph Herman Kissel (Caroline Morgan Kissel), Miss Gladys Kissel, and Miss Ina Kissel.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

Unknown

Calling card of Sir William Mather, member of the British House of Commons.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-09-11

Calling card from Lonnie B. Moseley, a member of the Republican National Committee from Mississippi.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904

William II, Emperor of Germany, stands in the middle of a narrow cobblestone street, possibly in Italy (the pope, wearing the papal crown, is walking down the street into the background). He is taking a visiting card labeled “Wilhelm” from a small pouch in his left hand. The French flag is hanging above a door labeled “RF,” on the left, where a man is leaning out a window. Austria appears to be the next door on the left, and other rulers lean out windows on both sides of the street. At William’s feet is a suitcase with labels “William Berlin, Hotel Britain, Polar Star, [and] Morocco.” Caption: “Let me see! Whom shall I call on next?”

comments and context

Comments and Context

German Chancellor Bernhard von Bulow, the former foreign minister who retained much of the diplomatic portfolio under Kaiser Wilhelm II, at this time arranged for the Emperor to undertake overseas trips to enhance the nation’s prestige and international presence. Not all visits were welcome by fellow royals; and some trips were counter-productive, as a leisurely visit to England a few months after this cartoon would prove. (Wilhelm granted a very indiscreet interview to a London newspaper).

Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary explains that H. D. Stratton has been calling at the office and misrepresenting himself as Naval Officer Kracke. Harper encloses the business card Stratton left with his address on the back so that William H. Van Kleeck may look into the matter.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1912-03-25

President Roosevelt assures Paul Morton that they would be happy to invite Helen Scott Cuyler to his daughter Ethel Roosevelt’s debutante ball. However, they are not inviting people from out of town. If Cuyler arrives in Washington, D.C., before the ball she should leave her card and address at the White House, and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt will send an invitation.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-11-12

W. P. Bowman apologizes to H. K. Yerkes for his delay in responding to her request for a visiting card.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-06-08

E. E. Hixson has some engraved calling cards for Theodore Roosevelt and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt. He asks Frank Harper if he can meet deliver them to the Roosevelts in Cairo, Egypt.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1910-02-28

The card contains the name and title of P. K. Yoon, a Korean pastor at the Methodist Episcopal Church in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-07-14

The calling card is for Syngman Rhee. His location is listed as “Seoul, Korea.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-07-14

Calling card for novelist Harry Stillwell Edwards.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1910-09-03

Calling card of John Wallace Springer.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-06-06