Making an Indian arrow, Indian camp, World’s Fair, St. Louis, 1904
This stereograph depicts the making of an Indian arrow at the St. Louis World’s Fair.
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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1904
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Weapons
Address of President Roosevelt at Columbia Gardens, Butte, Montana, May 27, 1903
Theodore Roosevelt emphasizes the importance of “spirit and hardihood” in the work that has been done in Montana. Roosevelt also states, “If you put two men about equally matched against one another the man with the best weapon will win.” He believes in the qualities of average citizenship.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1903-05-27
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Address of President Roosevelt at Helena, Montana, May 27, 1903
President Roosevelt says that he knows the eastern part of Montana well, the cow country. He highlights the accomplishments of soldiers in the Civil War, as well as the role of irrigation in Montana. He also emphasizes the importance of weapons.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1903-05-27
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The nations’ holiday feast
Uncle Sam and Puck offer a toast to the New Year and Peace, with several heavily armed representatives of nations labeled “France, J. Bull, Turkey, Russia, Germania, [and] Italy” sitting around a table.
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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1896-01-01
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Address of President Roosevelt at Pittsfield, Massachusetts
Theodore Roosevelt praises the courage of the men who fought in the Civil War. Roosevelt is irritated to see a division of the National Guard armed with black powder muskets. He wants the best modern weapons used. Roosevelt also mentions the importance of good and intelligent citizenship.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-09-03
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Remarks of the President at Millers Falls, Massachusetts
President Roosevelt reminds his audience that modern weapons and modern democracy are only as good as the men behind them. Just as the soldiers of the American Civil War needed “courage, honesty and intelligence, fertility of resource,” so do the Americans of today need them to overcome any evils that exist in the political realm.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-09-02
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Speech of President Roosevelt at Brattleboro, Vermont
President Roosevelt congratulates Governor Holbrook and other veterans of the American Civil War who followed the leadership of Abraham Lincoln. Roosevelt believes that during the American Revolution, the Civil War, and today the essentials of good government, good men, and good character are the same.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1902-09-01
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“Peace” assured
William E. Gladstone, dressed as an old woman wearing keys labeled “Suez, Gibraltor, [and] Herat,” pushes John Bull into a kissing embrace with Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia, who is, likewise, being pushed by a woman labeled “Empress of Russia.” They are suspended over a thin crevice emitting smoke as though it were a volcano about to erupt. A cut-away view shows a munitions foundry just below the surface of the ground, furiously producing ordnance.
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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1885-05-13
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History repeats itself
Julius Caesar or a Roman centurion, in the background, tumbles off a pillar of stones labeled “Rome, Etruria, Britain, Asia, [and] Africa.” In the middle distance, on a bit of land labeled “France,” Napoleon I is shown tumbling off a pillar of stones labeled “Egypt, Italy, Spain, Holland, Austria, Prussia, [and] Russia” and falling toward a rocky island labeled “St. Helena.” In the foreground, John Bull is standing atop a pillar of stones labeled “Scotland, Ireland, Malta, Gibraltar, India, Australia, Cyprus, Egypt, [and] Soudan [sic]” on a bit of land labeled “England.” The stones are propped up by various types of weapons, with the top two stones supported by a steamship, though the top stone “Soudan” appears about to fall off.
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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1885-03-25
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The food of our youth
Print shows a mean-spirited infant boy in a cradle labeled “Infant Indian Exterminators”, armed with a rifle, knives, and handguns, feeding from a large bottle filled with “Dime Novel” and “5 ct. Paper[back]” literature, with other action and adventure books about “Pirates” and an “Indian Killer” on the floor around the cradle.
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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1881-09-21
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“Father, dear father, come home with me now!”
A diminutive man labeled “Taxpayer” tugs on the coattails of a large man labeled “The World” with a globe-like head, who is leaning on the bar in a barroom, clutching a bottle labeled “Increased Armaments” and a wallet labeled “War Budget.” Behind the bar is the Roman deity Mars labeled “Barkeep Mars,” offering a bottle labeled “Airships.” On shelves and on the bar are bottles labeled “Infantry, Artillery, Cavalry, Fortifications, Battleships, Submarines, Munitions, Cruisers, [and] Ordinance.”
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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1913-07-09
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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to William Woodville Rockhill
President Roosevelt writes to William Woodville Rockhill, ambassador to China, to ask that Rockhill and his wife take care of Alice Roosevelt on her upcoming venture to the Orient. Roosevelt also asks for information on the “smashing overthrow” of the Russian naval fleet, specifically what military arms were used to execute the mission.
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Creation Date
1905-05-31