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The finishing touch

The finishing touch

A young man wearing a robe sits in a chair by a window, reading a book. A young woman nurse is attending to him and an old man, the doctor, has arrived for a check-up. There are medicines on a table in the foreground. Caption: The Nurse — The Doctor has come to take your temperature. / The Convalescent — I suppose it’s all I have left.

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Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1903-08-26

Letter from Albin C. Geyer to Theodore Roosevelt

Letter from Albin C. Geyer to Theodore Roosevelt

Pastor Geyer asks Theodore Roosevelt’s permission to compile some of his quotations into a booklet for young people. He would like to distribute Roosevelt’s speeches and papers to a group of young people and have them choose the quotes to be included. Geyer would like to sell the booklets to raise funds to pay off debts incurred by his church’s building fund.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1909-06-08

Creator(s)

Geyer, Albin C. (Albin Carson), 1859-1951

The pink hand

The pink hand

A dastardly figure peers from behind a bush in the background, as a matronly woman pushes a young woman, looking starry-eyed and carrying a suitcase bursting with cash and stocks, out the front door, in response to a note which shows a pink handprint and states “Put ze girl and ze money on ze doorstep or I will slap you on ze wrist. Ze Pink Hand.”

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Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1908-04-29