White House (Washington, D.C.)

Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt sits at a desk in the White House

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1903-03-02

William Jennings Bryan leads a donkey labeled “Dem” carrying a heavy load, including the “Democratic Platform” strewn with bunting, boxes labeled “Anti-expansion,” “Anti-trust,” and “Free riot,” two bars of silver labeled “16 to 1” and “Free silver,” a millstone labeled “Populism,” and a bomb labeled “Dynamite.” They are about to enter a large ear horn or trumpet labeled “To the White House,” which is visible in the background.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1900-07-18

Santa Claus is pictured in front of the chimney at the White House, where the stockings of the Roosevelt children are hung. Caption: “I don’t know when I’ve felt so at home here!”

Collection

Dickinson State University

Creation Date

1901

Cartoon depicting President Roosevelt leaving the White House in Washington, D.C. Next to Roosevelt are two figures. One is of a teddy bear holding a blanket and a suitcase and the other is of a man holding a sign with the words “66 days” written on it.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-04-02

President Roosevelt is shown holding a dead squirrel facing a cabin labeled the White House as a hunting dog cries.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-11-25

President Roosevelt, pictured with a cigar in his hand, greets guests at the White House. Many other guests appear in the background, dancing, smoking, and visiting.

comments and context

Comments and Context

Representative William Bourke Cockran (both Bourke and Cockran were spelled different ways during his lifetime) was a Democratic congressman, known as a great orator, who bolted his party in 1896 to support William McKinley, but returned shortly thereafter to the Democratic Party. In 1903, Cockran was one of several congressmen who criticized President Roosevelt for spending too much money on the White House refurbishment and on White House entertainments. Hence this cartoon, which shows a keg of beer instead of fine wines, a fiddler instead of an orchestra, men in hobnail shoes instead of dress boots, and guests with their feet on the table.

Myron T. Herrick makes himself at home as a guest at the White House.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-02-08

President Roosevelt stands annoyed as various workers give excuses for the delay. Item is regarding the remodeling and addition to the White House.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-10-25

Cartoon depicts General Nelson Appleton Miles protected in a bunker by heavy artillery from President Roosevelt’s and Secretary of War Elihu Root’s rebukes.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-04-01

A man with a feather in his hat labeled “I’m a Democrat” throws stones at a box labeled “My Policy,” as President Roosevelt looks out from a window of the “White House” in the background.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-04-16

Marcus Alonzo Hanna is shown sitting on a throne, using the White House as a footstool, holding out bail money to an incarcerated Estes G. Rathbone. Cartoon is regarding Hanna’s 1904 presidential aspirations.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-04-18

A “Corporate Leach” cheers for Senator Hanna outside the window of the White House as President Roosevelt looks on. Under the window, the “White House cat” says, “I’m off for the Philippines.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-06-08

President Roosevelt sitting at his desk in his private office.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1903-08-18

President Roosevelt sitting at his desk in his private office.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1903-02-19

President Roosevelt standing in his office with one hand in his pants pocket and holding a piece of paper in the other.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1902-06-20

President Theodore Roosevelt sitting in an arm chair at his desk. A globe and a bookcase can be seen in the background. Sold by Works and Studios.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1902-06-20

President Roosevelt sitting at his desk.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1902-05-26

Stereograph showing Roosevelt sitting at his desk in his White House office.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1906-07-09

President Roosevelt sitting at his desk writing.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1903-06-11

President Roosevelt standing in the cabinet room of the White House.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1902-05-26