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Theodore Roosevelt Jr. and Eleanor Butler Roosevelt photographed at a ball in Newport, Rhode Island, given by Mary (May) Wilson Goelet.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1912
One year old Grace Roosevelt photographed from behind walking while holding someone’s hand.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1912
One year old Grace Roosevelt photographed in a baby chair wearing a cap.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1912
Article describing how Theodore Roosevelt Jr. is leaving his job in the carpet industry in San Francisco, California, for a job at a Wall Street firm in New York City.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1912
Article reporting that Theodore Roosevelt Jr. will lease a home at 165 East Seventy-fourth Street when he moves to New York City to take a job in a Wall Street banking house.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1912
Headline from a New York Times article about the abdication of Chinese boy Emperor Pu-Yi of the Manchu family allowing for the establishment of a republic.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1912-02-13
A Progressive Party charter membership certificate given as a receipt for contributing $1 to their campaign fund. It features Theodore Roosevelt’s picture as candidate for president, Hiram W. Johnson’s as candidate for vice president, treasurer Elon Huntington Hooker’s signature, and the party slogan, “Pass Prosperity Around.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1912
Theodore Roosevelt at Glacier Point, with Yosemite Falls in background.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1903
List of 33 points that made up the Progressive Party’s platform in 1912. There is also a clipping from an article describing the closing scenes of their first National Convention and how deeply affected Theodore Roosevelt seemed when he was nominated for president.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1912
Theodore Roosevelt holds his first grandchild, eight month old Grace, the daughter of Theodore Roosevelt Jr. and Eleanor Butler Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1912-04
A list of 33 achievements of Theodore Roosevelt’s presidential administration, created while he was running for president on the Progressive Party ticket.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1911-1912
Front page of the New York Herald describing the attempted assassination of presidential candidate Theodore Roosevelt by John Schrank.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1912-10-15
Theodore Roosevelt drives his Haynes car with an unidentified man in the passenger seat and his son Archibald in the back seat.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1912
Part of the speech Progressive Party presidential candidate Theodore Roosevelt delivered at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, after being shot in the chest.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1912-10-14
Cartoon depicting Uncle Sam taking a break from the presidential campaign to look at a poster listing Progressive Party candidate Theodore Roosevelt’s vital signs after being shot.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1912
The headline from the New York American the day after the 1912 presidential election. It also says the Republicans lost Congress and the Progressive Party candidate Theodore Roosevelt beat Republican President William H. Taft.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1912-11-06
Studio portrait of Grace Roosevelt, aged one year.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1912
Studio portrait of Eleanor Butler Roosevelt and her one year old daughter Grace.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1912
Grace Green Alexander, mother of Eleanor Butler Roosevelt, and her friend Winifred Ives stand outside an automobile while motoring through France.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1912
Ethel Roosevelt poses with her fiance, Richard Derby.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1913