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Draft of an address to be given by President Roosevelt, in which Roosevelt accepts the Republican presidential nomination and reviews the accomplishments of his administration. This copy contains handwritten edits suggested by New York Governor Benjamin B. Odell.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-07-14
Draft of an address to be given by President Roosevelt, in which Roosevelt accepts the Republican presidential nomination and reviews the accomplishments of his administration. This copy contains handwritten edits suggested by Secretary of the Navy Morton.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-07-18
Draft of an address to be given by President Roosevelt, in which Roosevelt accepts the Republican presidential nomination and reviews the accomplishments of his administration. Winthrop Murray Crane returned his copy with few edits.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-07-18
Draft of an address to be given by President Roosevelt, in which he accepts the Republican presidential nomination and reviews the accomplishments of his administration. This copy includes edits suggested by George B. Cortelyou, as recorded by telephone conversation with William Loeb.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-07-21
Draft of an address to be given by President Roosevelt, in which Roosevelt accepts the Republican presidential nomination and reviews the accomplishments of his administration. This copy includes edits suggested by Chairman of the Republican National Committee George B. Cortelyou, some of which he transmitted to William Loeb by telephone.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-07-21
Draft of an address to be given by President Roosevelt with handwritten edits. Roosevelt accepts the Republican presidential nomination and reviews the accomplishments of his administration.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-07-27
Theodore Roosevelt discusses the problems of the United States’ modern industrial life, detailing the different effects of industrialization on the rural countryside and urban centers. Roosevelt explains how the health of the working class is an indicator of the health of the United States is as a whole. Roosevelt also discusses the role of government in regulating the economy, protecting wage-earners, and acting as a mediator in employee-employer relations.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
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Puck, holding a lithographic pen, stands next to a laborer who is reading a notice posted on a wall that states, “‘Reduction in Wages due to the Great Law of Supply and Demand.’ Explanation by Republican Party, under Republican Administration.” Caption: Puck–Doesn’t it ever seem strange to you, my friend, that the eternal and unvarying law of supply and demand should work only for the Republican Party?
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1898-02-02
“Marcus Aurelius Hanna” is at center wearing robes and a top hat with laurel wreath and ribbons labeled “Senatorship 1898,” standing next to a safe labeled “Hanna,” and holding a whip. Four men, two labeled “Boss Bushnell” and “Boss Foraker,” bow down before him on ground labeled “Ohio.” This vignette is captioned “happiness in Ohio” and “Hanna–‘God reigns and the Republican Party still lives.'” Surrounding vignettes show the working classes and merchants suffering the brunt of the “Reduction in Wages,” overcrowding on public transportation, and no customers. Exporters, “Trust Magnets,” and Tammany Hall’s “N.Y. Democratic Club” appear to benefit the most.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1898-02-09
A portly laborer carrying a full dinner pail and a “Bank Book” in his coat pocket stands on the roadway with factories spewing smoke in the background. On the left a sign states, “Voluntarily Increased Wages Thanks to Cleveland,” and on the ground a sign states, “Reduced Wages Thanks to McKinley.” On the right a sign states, “High Wages and Steady Employment Under Cleveland,” and on the ground a sign states, “Strikes and Lockouts Under McKinley.” Caption: “The McKinleyites poked lots of fun at me a while ago, ‘cos I voted for Cleveland; but I’m doing the laughing now!”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1895-05-22
The end-of-summer resort crowd returns to the city from their vacations at the beach, ready to resume duties or obligations to employers or social and charitable organizations, and ponder next year’s vacation.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1894-09-19
Print shows Jay Gould, William H. Vanderbilt, Cyrus W. Field, Russell Sage, and John Roach riding in a carriage past a crowd of laborers labeled “Knights of Labor” and “Pittsburg Free Strikers” who are watching a man labeled “Workingman” trying to climb a “Greased” pole carrying a child on his back and with a woman and child hanging from his belt. The pole is greased with “Monopoly Grease,” at the top are “Higher Wages, Bread, Tobacco, Wine, [and] Ham.” The view from the pole shows factories in the middle distance and the “Roach Monopolist Ship Builder” facility in the background.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1882-06-21
Many young women try to find space on a raft labeled “Living Wages” in a stormy sea labeled “Sea of Want” that is infested with sharks labeled “Prostitution” and “Disease.” A ship labeled “The Home” sails away in the background beneath storm clouds labeled “Misfortune.” Caption: While there are more applicants than jobs the working-girls’ grim struggle will continue.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1913-04-09
Three baseball players are entwined by snakes formed of baseballs labeled “Base Ball Trust.” Each carries a “Contract,” one for $8000, one for $10000, and one for $12000 and also stuffed in his belt papers labeled “Bonds, Stocks, [and] Deed Oran[ge] Farm.” Caption: No class of labor feels the grip of grinding monopoly more than our underpaid, overworked ball-players.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1913-05-14
An employer and a group of laborers stand outside the entrance to a factory. The employer is directing the laborers’ attention toward a notice posted on the wall that states “Notice to Workers. If the Tariff Bill is Passed, Your Wages will be Cut.” Behind them, coming down the sidewalk, is a large, angry green “goblin” labeled “Redfield” carrying a paper that states “Notice to Employers. Department of Commerce will Investigate all Wage Reductions said to be Necessitated by the New Tariff.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1913-06-04
An animated letter “K” labeled “Schedule” (Schedule K of the Payne/Aldrich Tariff Act) sits at a table spread with food and wine labeled “Benefits of Protection” and offers a bone labeled “Starvation Wages” to a diminutive man labeled “‘Protected’ Labor.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1912-03-13
A gigantic, two-faced man, wearing a money-bag crown with “$” around it, sits on a U.S. Custom House on the shore of U.S.A. He is holding up two pieces of paper. One is addressed “To American Working Men” and states “Preserve the high tariff and protect yourselves from the competition of foreign cheap labor. The tariff maintains for you the American standard of living.” The other, addressed “To Foreign Labor,” states “Come over to free America and work. High wages and steady employment. You will make more here in a week than you can there in a month.” Gathered on the shores are American laborers and foreign laborers. Caption: The tariff protects the American worker from competition with foreign cheap labor abroad, but not from competition with foreign cheap labor here at home.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1912-03-13
A group of country people dance around a large corn shock topped with money paid by tourists from the city boarding in country inns.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1911-09-06
John H. Hutton provides short answers to questions about the six months he spent in the Civilian Conservation Corps stationed near Watford City, North Dakota. Hutton does provide the names of supervisors and fellow CCC alumni, but the majority of his answers are fairly limited.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1984
Series of editorials on liquor sales, wage earners, labor unions, and the two and a half cent coin.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-03-09