Wisconsin--Milwaukee

At an engagement at the Hotel Wisconsin, Margaret Sanger discussed birth control, claiming that wealthy women were aware how to prevent pregnancy but working class women did not have access to this information. Sanger indignantly protested that while former President Roosevelt was allowed to travel around the United States and urge couples to have large families, she was not allowed to provide information to women to prevent numerous pregnancies. She further argued that the immorality argument leveled against birth control was identical to the one leveled earlier against women in higher education.

Collection

The Margaret Sanger Papers Project

Creation Date

1916-04-27

Margaret Sanger writes about her nationwide speaking engagement tour about birth control and family planning. Sanger discusses events and responses in various cities. She indicates that in St. Louis more people came to hear her speak than had come when Theodore Roosevelt and William H. Taft spoke in the city. Sanger accounts various arrests related to obscenity laws and the distribution of birth control pamphlets.

Collection

The Margaret Sanger Papers Project

Creation Date

1916-08-09

President Roosevelt discusses “the trusts” in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He discusses the control and regulation of trusts, including recent legislation. Speech has applause noted.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-04-03

President Roosevelt responds to a gift of honorary membership to the Press Club in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He also discusses his personal friendship with various members of the press.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-04-03

President Roosevelt responds to a toast made in his honor by the President of the Deutscher Club in Milwaukee.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-04-03

President Roosevelt’s speech at the Exposition Building in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He thanks the citizens, mayor, and government officials of the city for setting an example for the country. He discusses the mixing of races and ethnicities in American history and the importance of learning from the past. Roosevelt also discusses the lessons of the Civil War and the virtues of citizenship.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-04-03

President Roosevelt addresses an audience at a soldiers’ home in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He discusses the lessons taught by those soldiers in the Civil War. Roosevelt also gives personal examples of the need to cultivate virtue from his own wartime experiences.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-04-03

Theodore Roosevelt stands, one arm aloft, holding his speech with a bullet hole through it in one hand, while holding a bloody handkerchief to his breast in the other.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1912-10-16

Vignettes show messages sent from various cities to philanthropist Andrew Carnegie, along with the scenic postcard views each is requesting: a mountain for Chicago, caves in Philadelphia (where the sun is too bright), a river connecting the Gulf of Mexico with the Pacific Ocean, a fountain of beer for Milwaukee, a sun in Pittsburgh (where the smog is too thick for the natural sun to penetrate), a “Palm Beach” oasis for the Eskimos, and a “natural bridge” crossing the East River into Brooklyn, New York. Caption: His gift of a lake to Princeton suggests other deficiencies of nature which Carnegie may supply.

comments and context

Comments and Context

This double-page cartoon by L. M. Glackens is an example of Puck‘s increasing reliance of humorous current-event news commentaries, with vignettes surrounding a major theme.

Typescript of a speech carried by Theodore Roosevelt in Milwaukee on October 14, 1912. The speech was folded in his jacket pocket at the time of the attempted assassination. Bullet holes indicate how the speech helped to break the force of the bullet. The speech is now bound and presented as a book. The speech attacks Woodrow Wilson for nativism and xenophobia while defending immigration and the racial, religious, and cultural diversity of the United States population.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site

Creation Date

1912-10-12

Alfred O. Crozier reports on the status of the Modern Woodmen of America’s dispersal of funds and need to expand membership. Crozier explains that the problems with the Equitable Life Assurance Society in New York do not reflect on fraternal benefit societies such as the Modern Woodmen of America.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-07-06

John Campbell Greenway congratulates President Roosevelt on the settlement of the Anthracite Coal Strike. He regrets they were unable to meet as Roosevelt could not make the trip to Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-10-21

Emlen Roosevelt has found the Rheingold wine and jewel case but it does not appear that the items were sent by the City of Milwaukee.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-05-22

Soehlein & Co. claims that the city of Milwaukee sent a silver jewel case and box of Rheingold wine to be used at the christening of the yacht The Meteor. Alice Roosevelt never received the jewel case.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-05-19

William A. Allan encourages Vice President Roosevelt to run for President in 1904. Several of Allan’s friends are already for Roosevelt and intend to advance his interests. Allan plans to travel and encourage others in Kansas and Texas to join.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-08-27