Documents in Year 1902                     

Links of Interest:

• Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt, Twenty-sixth U.S. President

(1901-1909)

• Teddy Bear Cartoon Published

The Washington Post on November 16, 1902 published a cartoon by Clifford Berryman of President Teddy Roosevelt refusing to shoot a captive animal. This started the Teddy Bear craze.

• Edward S. Curtis

(American Photographer of Native Americans 1899-1929)

• Transatlantic Cable

With the completion of a line from British Columbia to New Zealand, telegraph cable now circumnavigates the globe.

• Animal crackers debut, Chili powder is packaged and sold in Texas.
  Anderson, Jean American Century Cookbook. p 19