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President Roosevelt hugs the goddess of peace who has collapsed in his arms. In the background are several weapons, including “the big stick.” A dove brings an olive branch.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-08-30
President Roosevelt wears a number of weapons and carries the “big stick” as he runs forward.
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1904-12-04
On behalf of Theodore Roosevelt, his secretary thanks Louis C. Hill for his courtesy in sending the Indian club.
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1911-04-26
Theodore Roosevelt thanks John F. Parker, Governor of Samoa, for the war club. He continues to be interested in the welfare of the Samoan people, just as when he was the president.
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1910-12-20
Theodore Roosevelt thanks Charles O’Neil for the clipping. Roosevelt remembers now about the Gathman gun project, but had forgotten the interview with Mr. McMullen.
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1915-01-16
President Roosevelt wrote to Robert H. Nichols regarding the Great War, aggression against Belgium, and American involvement. Roosevelt recommends that Nichols read his book America and the World War and write to his congressmen and senators.
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1915-01-16
President Roosevelt thanks Lieutenant Loving for the shield of miniature Filipino weapons.
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1904-12-02
Draft manuscript containing an essay, “The lion,” by Frederick Courteney Selous. Selous recounts many stories of lions attacking people and animals, and of adventures involving lions. He also addresses lions more scientifically, and offers a description of the habits and living conditions of lions.
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1907-06-03
General Hamilton commends President Roosevelt for his tact with handling San Francisco’s challenges to the Gentlemen’s agreement with Japan. He discusses different forms of combat. He believes that Japanese and Russian soldiers are more prone to fight in hand-to-hand combat, while superior soldiers rely on firearms. Hamilton relays his opinion of Captain Tanaka and Tamemoto Kuroki, and Japanese men more broadly. Hamilton was happy to see the photographs of Roosevelt riding his horse.
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1907-06-11
The article describes an early rotating gun battery invented by Theodore R. Timby and exhibited in 1843. It outlines the design and mechanics of the circular, steam-powered fort and argues for Timby’s recognition as the true inventor of the naval turret system.
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1911-09-08
President Roosevelt is dressed in religious attire as are several weapons, including “the big stick,” a cannon, a dagger, and a revolver. Above them is a dove.
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1904-08-29
President Roosevelt stands in the middle of a variety of books about war and implements of war, including “the big stick,” “Essays on War. Roosevelt,” “The Art of War,” and “With Roosevelt at San Juan.” He is dressed in colonial attire and has a paper that reads, “call for a peace congress at the Hague.”
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1904-08
A large band holds a “You’re It” sign and waves a “notification committee” flag. President Roosevelt holds the string to a cannon full of weapons, “the big stick,” and the “Roosevelt Monroe Doctrine” that is attached to a Republican elephant’s back. The elephant holds onto a “Sagamore Hill” sign and wears a “and Fairbanks” tag on its tails.
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1904-07-23
“Gen Loeb” lies on the ground beside a small hill that President Roosevelt stands on. There is a lowered flag that has “positively no admittance.” He hands a sword to a member of the “United Mine Workers Association.”
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1904-07-16
President Roosevelt chases a “sultan” turkey on a horse with an “Oyster Bay” harness. Roosevelt carries a variety of weapons with him, including a sword and a revolver.
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1903-08-30
“Congress” holds a club, a pistol, a hatchet, and a knife with a box of dynamite behind him as he looks at a picture of “our next ex-president”–Theodore Roosevelt. Caption: The question, “What shall be done with our ex-Presidents?” is bein[g] discussed in Congress.
As Theodore Roosevelt was only fifty years old upon his imminent retirement; and as he famously was a strenuous polymath and cognoscente, there was much speculation, not the least among editorial writers and political cartoonists, “What shall we do with our ex-president?” The question occurred to Roosevelt too, and history knows his many subsequent pursuits, commencing with the African safari.
President Roosevelt holds his big stick and runs toward Joseph Pulitzer and Ohio Senator Joseph Benson Foraker who hold morning star clubs labeled “Panama” and “Brownsville” respectively.
This cartoon was drawn by the Tulsa World‘s obscure cartoonist surnamed Allen, surely not Clarence Allen, the paper’s later and longtime political cartoonist, who would have been about ten years old at this time. (Yet, his father worked for the World…) Its date suggests that President Roosevelt was about to do battle with two threatening foes, publisher Joseph Pulitzer and Senator Benson Joseph Foraker (Republican of Ohio).
President Roosevelt rides a Republican elephant and speaks into a megaphone, saying, “I’m it.” He carries several weapons and “the big stick.”
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1904-11-09
Secretary of War William H. Taft, Elihu Root, Secretary of the Treasury Leslie M. Shaw, Secretary of State John Hay, and Pennsylvania Senator Philander C. Knox all march out of “the Most Expensive Show on Earth” tent armed with weapons. President Roosevelt sits on a “sacred white elephant” that Alton B. Parker pokes with a pitchfork. A “postal frauds scandal that won’t come off” mailbag is chained to the elephant’s left leg.
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1904-11-01
Ted questions Japan’s strategy in the Russo-Japanese War and recommends that President Roosevelt meet with a Mr. Hassey, who adjusts guns in order to improve shooting ability.
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1904-02-28