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Early 20th-century autograph album, 7.5 x 4.75, containing a large ink signature as president, “Theodore Roosevelt, Feb. 25th 1909,” which dates a week before he departed the White House. Also featured in the album is a wonderful Roosevelt-inspired ink sketch by Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Clifford K. Berryman, who has drawn a large Teddy bear presenting a doll of Rough Rider Theodore Roosevelt to two children, with a quote next to the bear reading: “Aint it cute?” Signed in the lower right corner, “C. K. Berryman, 1908.” Damage to the spine and partially detached covers; interior pages are all clean, fine, and unaffected.
Berryman, a legendary cartoonist for The Washington Post (1891 to 1907) and The Washington Star (1907 to 1949), drew thousands of cartoons commenting on American presidents and politics, lampooning former Presidents Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Harry S. Truman. His cartoons can be found at the Library of Congress, the National Archives, and George Washington University.
