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Herbert Putnam, librarian at the Library of Congress, looks through a book. Outside, he poses on the steps with the Capitol Building in the background. In a close up shot, he poses and speaks to the camera.
Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound
1920-1930
The film depicts multiple large ships in the Hampton Roads, Virginia, harbor. Each ship is decorated with flags of various nations.
Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound
1907
Scenes of President Roosevelt at the Jamestown Exposition in Norfolk, Virginia. Roosevelt is seen participating in Jamestown’s tercentennial celebration on April 26 1907, its opening day, and later on Georgia Day, June 10. From an awning-covered platform, Roosevelt appears speaking to large crowd on Lee Parade Ground. Frederick Dent Grant, son of the former President, is visible beside him on the stand. At the Lee Parade Ground he reviews West Point cadets and other military units. Naval and military officials of thirty-seven participating nations pass before the camera. Roosevelt appears with family members disembarking from a launch at Discovery Landing, the official docking area of the Exposition.
Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound
1907
View from the James River of the launching of the battleship USS Kentucky at Newport News, Virginia. Built by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, the Kentucky is launched shortly after the USS Kearsarge on March 24, 1898. Film contains a long shot of the ship on launching skids, sliding into the river, and moving past the stationary camera.
Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound
1898-03-24
Leonard Wood campaigns in southern Michigan for the Republican presidential nomination, March 1920. Greeted by residents of Battle Creek, Ann Arbor, and Detroit, Wood speaks in each community on the need for universal military training, Americanization of immigrants, and cooperative working relationships between labor and capital. Views of Wood on March 3 in Battle Creek as he is greeted by local officials; his wife, Mrs. Louisa Wood, poses outdoors for photographer; Wood enters and leaves the Masonic Temple, where he and his wife are greeted by local farmers. Prominent citizens identified by interior titles in Battle Creek segment include: Charles W. Ryan, mayor and physician; Paul A. Martin, editor of the Enquirer and evening news, and commander of the American Legion in Battle Creek; William H. Shippy, president of the Exchange Club; Frederick M. Alger, chairman of the Leonard Wood League of Michigan and active in the American Legion. Men who appear to be C. B. Baker, head of the Motor Transport Division of the Army (1918-1921), and Edwin Denby, who was to become Secretary of the Navy in 1921, accompany Wood in several scenes. On March 1, Wood is met by Ann Arbor reception committee as he steps from train; Wood poses in archway of unidentified building with committee, which includes Professor William H. Hobbs, director of the geological laboratory at the University of Michigan; Mayor Ernst M. Wurster; and William H. Faust, chairman of the reception committee. On the University of Michigan campus, Wood shakes hands with students in front of the school’s new clubhouse, Michigan Union. In Detroit on March 2, Wood poses with prominent citizens, speaks at a banquet, and visits with workers at the Dodge Brothers auto manufacturing plant. Officials identified by interior titles include: Alton T. Roberts, former state senator; Edwin Denby; Walter C. Piper, prominent realtor; and Frederick M. Alger. Panning shot of banquet table at Hotel Statler includes views of Harriet N. Atterbury, incorrectly identified on film as Mrs. H. M. Atterbury; Mary Eldridge (Mrs. Frederick M.) Alger; Louise Adriana Wood; Henry Martyn Leland, past president of General Motors and then president of the Lincoln Motor Company; Leonard Wood; Frank J. Hecker, Detroit financier and businessman; and C. B. Baker.
Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound
1920-03
Various views from many different camera angles of Hermann Hagedorn, Roosevelt Memorial Association director and secretary, and Carl Ethan Akeley, Roosevelt Memorial Association trustee, in Roosevelt House. Film begins with a stage in an auditorium, empty except for three chairs and a table with book and papers on it; Hagedorn and Akeley enter, Akeley sits, Hagedorn speaks and introduces Akeley who speaks as Hagedorn sits. There are various shots of Akeley speaking, Hagedorn sitting behind him, and a bust of Theodore Roosevelt. A close-up of Akeley speaking fades out to a motion picture screen. Hagedorn is then seen sitting at a desk, browsing through a notebook, and looking into space as if thinking. The film then returns to Hagedorn standing and talking in the auditorium, followed by two takes of Akeley sitting at a desk, unfolding a letter, putting on glasses, reading the letter, and marking it with a pen.
Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound
1925
Scenes of Owen D. Young, chairman of the board of General Electric and co-author with Charles Gates Dawes of the Dawes Plan for German reparations, in various locations. Young speaks at the dedication of buildings comprising the Graduate School of Business Administration, Harvard University, on June 4, 1927. Panning shots of campus buildings; Young speaks from podium, with donor of new buildings, George F. Baker, identified in group seated behind him; panning shots of audience seated during ceremony and standing informally. At separate location Young and other men are seated around a conference table surrounded by crowd. Close shot of Young outdoors at an unidentified location.
Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound
1927
President Roosevelt eats and then speaks to a crowd who have gathered to hear him. From another camera position, the crowd bids him farewell as he and his party enter a horse-drawn carriage and leave the vicinity.
Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound
1903-07-04
From the side of a broad avenue, a crowd of people await the arrival of President Roosevelt. The marching military that precedes his carriage can be seen at a distance of a quarter of a mile away. Four other camera positions along the march include the escort, the dignitaries, and at the conclusion, Roosevelt in his carriage.
Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound
1903-05-12
President Roosevelt arrives with other mourners at Canton, Ohio. He leaves the station and gets into his carriage. The film then scans the crowd gathered to watch the arrival of individuals attending the funeral of William McKinley.
Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound
1901
A shot of Quentin Roosevelt’s grave in France. Several soldiers carry a wooden frame bearing a tombstone and adorned with flowers over the grave. The movie then cuts to a shot of the tombstone’s inscription.
Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound
1918
This film shows a parade on a broad street in an undetermined location. Features a single line of mounted policemen, a military marching band, sailors or marines carrying rifles, and soldiers marching in formation. A dignitary riding in a closed carriage follows lines of marching policemen. The soldiers and sailors may be returning from the Spanish-American War.
Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound
1898
Several close shots of five Roosevelt Memorial Association trustees, posing behind a desk filled with books and papers in what appears to be the library in the Roosevelt House. Three of the men are Hermann Hagedorn, Alexander Lambert, and William Loeb.
Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound
1923
Film containing quotations and still photos interspersed with factual footage of Theodore Roosevelt’s home and family in Oyster Bay, New York.
Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound
1930
Theodore Roosevelt and other Rough Riders ride in formation as they wait departure from the military training camp in Tampa, Florida.
Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound
1898
Film of Theodore Roosevelt appearing in Billings, Montana, on October 5, 1918, to speak on behalf of the Liberty Loan drive. Film has long shots of a touring car with six men inside; Roosevelt may be one of them. The car is followed by a group of men on horseback who may be the Rough Riders. The street is lined with Billings citizens as the car and riders pass by.
Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound
1918-10-05
The first part of the film is from October 27, 1919, when the Roosevelt memorial flag, which has been carried across New York State in Theodore Roosevelt’s honor, is brought to rest at his grave in Youngs Memorial Cemetery, Oyster Bay, New York. Shots from different angles of the memorial flag as it is borne by young men up the steep pathway to the grave site. Five girls sew the 48th and final star on flag at what is probably Cove School in Oyster Bay with group of children and Boy Scouts visible in background. Final view is of children and adults on cemetery grounds.
The second part of the film contains views of Theodore Roosevelt’s funeral on January 8, 1919. New York City mounted police lead the funeral procession past crowds lining snow-covered roads. Roosevelt’s casket is borne from the entrance of Christ Episcopal Church with a flag-bearer behind, and Reverend George E. Talmadge visible beside the hearse. William H. Taft is seen with others at the cemetery grounds and the casket is carried up the path, followed by Archibald Roosevelt in uniform and other family members. The film closes with a shot of Vice-President Thomas R. Marshall, official U.S. Government representative at the funeral, and General Peyton Conway March, Army Chief of Staff, at what appears to be a train station followed by a shot of Taft, assisted by an unidentified man, walking down hill after ceremony at the grave site.
Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound
Film of French actress, Sarah Bernhardt, speaking at Prospect Park, New York, July 4, 1917, on behalf of French-American cooperation in the war effort. Addressing more than 50,000 people gathered around a decorated music platform, Bernhardt stands and speaks from an open touring car parked in front of the platform. Medium close shot of Bernhardt speaking and gesturing, with man who may be her personal physician, Dr. Felix Marot, and woman who is probably her secretary and translator, Miss Elizabeth Ormsby, seated in car.
Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound
1917
Film showing exterior views of the White House, flag flying atop, as camera pans down the South Portico.
Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound
Unknown
Film of various views of Dr. Frank M. Chapman, ornithologist, Curator of Ornithology at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City (1908-1942) and recipient of the Roosevelt Distinguished Service Medal (1928). Medium shot of Chapman sitting at a desk in undetermined location; view of him walking towards the camera, down what may be the staircase of the museum; and long shot of a man who may be Chapman walking across the street with the museum visible in the background.
Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound
1921