Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

A studio portrait of Grace Green Alexander on the day of her daughter Eleanor Butler Alexander’s wedding to Theodore Roosevelt Jr.

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1910-06-20

Creator(s)

Unknown

Studio portrait of Eleanor Butler Roosevelt on her wedding day.

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1910-06-20

Creator(s)

Unknown

Crowds gather outside the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church in New York City where Theodore Roosevelt Jr. is marrying Eleanor Butler Alexander.

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1910-06-20

Creator(s)

Unknown

Guests for the wedding of Theodore Roosevelt Jr. and Eleanor Butler Alexander gather outside the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church in New York City.

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1910-06-20

Creator(s)

Unknown

Crowds gather outside the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church in Manhattan for the wedding of Theodore Roosevelt Jr. and Eleanor Butler Alexander.

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1910-06-20

Creator(s)

Unknown

Crowds gather outside 4 West 58th Street in Manhattan, the home of Charles B. Alexander and uncle of Eleanor Butler Roosevelt. The crowds await the arrival of Theodore Roosevelt Jr. and Eleanor for their wedding reception.

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1910-06-20

Creator(s)

Unknown

Theodore Roosevelt Jr. and Eleanor Butler Roosevelt arrive at 4 West 58th Street, Eleanor’s Uncle Charles Alexander’s home, for their wedding reception.

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1910-06-20

Creator(s)

Unknown

Article detailing the wedding of Theodore Roosevelt Jr. and Eleanor Butler Roosevelt.

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1910-06-21

Creator(s)

Unknown

Various headlines and articles detailing the wedding of Theodore Roosevelt Jr. to Eleanor Butler Alexander.

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1910-06-21

Creator(s)

Unknown

Theodore Roosevelt and Quentin Roosevelt arrive at the wedding of Theodore Roosevelt Jr. and Eleanor Butler Roosevelt. Theodore Roosevelt shakes the hand of a police officer.

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1910-06-20

Creator(s)

Unknown

A cartoon depicting Theodore Roosevelt and Theodore Roosevelt Jr., on Roosevelt Jr.’s wedding day. Theodore Roosevelt is pointing at a stork as Ted smiles reassuringly.

comments and context

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1910

An automobile drives away from the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church in New York City on the day of Theodore Roosevelt Jr. and Eleanor Butler Roosevelt’s wedding as crowds look on.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1910-06-20

Creator(s)

Unknown

Police officers stand guard as guests enter the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church in New York City for the wedding of Theodore Roosevelt Jr. and Eleanor Butler Alexander.

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1910-06-20

Creator(s)

Unknown

The drawing room at 4 West 58th Street, home of Charles B. Alexander, uncle of Eleanor Butler Roosevelt. Eleanor and her husband Theodore Roosevelt Jr. had their wedding reception at Alexander’s home.

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1910

Creator(s)

Unknown

The ballroom at 4 West 58th Street in New York City, the home of Charles B. Alexander. Theodore Roosevelt Jr. and Alexander’s niece, Eleanor Butler Roosevelt, received their wedding guests in this room in front of the big tapestry.

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1910

Creator(s)

Unknown

John Sutherland Bonnell, pastor of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church in New York City, writes to Eleanor Butler Roosevelt, telling her there is no record of her marriage to Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. at the church on June 20, 1910. At the bottom, Roosevelt has written that she did not care for the pastor that was there at the time and her uncle, Charles Beatty Alexander, said there was no reason for him to perform the ceremony. The result was he made no record of the marriage.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1945-03-12

Creator(s)

Bonnell, John Sutherland, 1893-1992; Roosevelt, Eleanor Butler, 1889-1960

Various photographs from the wedding of Theodore Roosevelt Jr. and Eleanor Butler Alexander, featured in the picture section of the New York Times.

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1910-06-26

Creator(s)

Unknown

A page from an unknown magazine featuring pictures of well-known guests at the wedding of Theodore Roosevelt Jr. and Eleanor Butler Roosevelt. Eleanor has handwritten corrections to some of the captions.

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1910-07-15

Creator(s)

Unknown

Former Rough Rider Alexander O. Brodie writes Grace Green Alexander, mother of Eleanor Butler Roosevelt, to thank her on behalf of the 1st U.S. Volunteer Cavalry for inviting them to the wedding of Eleanor and Theodore Roosevelt Jr.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1910-06-29

Creator(s)

Brodie, Alexander O. (Alexander Oswald), 1849-1918

Theodore Roosevelt Jr. and his new wife, Eleanor Butler Roosevelt, on their honeymoon.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1910-06

Creator(s)

Unknown