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Located at 28 East 20th Street in Manhattan, New York, Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site is a reconstruction of the house Roosevelt was born in on that site in 1858. Acquired in 1919 by the Women’s Roosevelt Memorial Association (later a part of the Theodore Roosevelt Association), they began an extensive renovation of the property to revert it to an exact reproduction of how it would have looked when Roosevelt was a boy. After a three year renovation, the memorial opened to the public in 1923.
This collection has been digitized and cataloged on site at Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace and then received by digital library staff. The collection contains documents and artifacts relating to the 1905 Inauguration, the Roosevelts’ family life and publications by and about Theodore Roosevelt. See below to view items from this collection in the digital library.
Digitization of all images from the Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site made possible by a generous grant from the Leon Levy Foundation.
Theodore Roosevelt (center) with (left to right): R. J. Cuninghame, Kermit Roosevelt, Edmund Heller, and Hugh Heatley, standing in front of tent with American flag. Heads of three African buffalo are on the ground in front of the men.
Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site
1909-1910
Theodore Roosevelt standing with dead rhinoceros, holding dead buzzard and shotgun.
Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site
1909-1910
Theodore Roosevelt is shown on the Nile, arranging transport. An unidentified man with white jacket, hat, and riding crop is in the front, and unidentified African men in the background.
Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site
1909-1910
Theodore Roosevelt in Africa, hand on hips, in covered pith helmet, mounted. Another person partially visible behind horse.
Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site
1910
Russell J. Coles and Theodore Roosevelt are shown on a beach with two harpooned rays.
Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site
1917-03-26
The body of a leopard is suspended on a rope from a pole borne by two Africans with a tent in the background.
Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site
1909
Theodore Roosevelt in safari outfit, pith helmet, and cartridge belt, holds a rifle and stands behind a dead lion. This image was used as the frontispiece of his book African Game Trails.
Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site
1909-1910
Riders are shown on camels, including Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt second from the right in a light-colored dress and large, veiled hat.
Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site
1910
This cartoon shows three heads. On the left is a lion with a shaggy mane; in the center the lion has developed spectacles & large square teeth; on the right the lion has become an unmistakable Theodore Roosevelt with a checked neckerchief and pince-nez.
Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site
1910
Deck of 48 cards. On the back of the cards is the image of Theodore Roosevelt from the rear, shooting an animal. On the faces of the cards are various animals, people, and places associated with Roosevelt’s 1909-1910 safari.
Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site
1910
This verse, illustrated and with strategic cut-outs, satirizes Theodore Roosevelt’s African safari.
Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site
1909
Theodore Roosevelt is shown with water and tree-covered mountains in background.
Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site
1913
Theodore Roosevelt is shown on a plain with four other men (one on horseback) and several automobiles. The photographer is visible at the far left.
Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site
1913
Fifteen delegates to the North American Conservation Conference are shown outside the White House. Left to right, seated: from Canada, Henry S. Beland, Clifford Sifton, and Sydney George Fisher (missing – E. H. Outerbridge, Newfoundland); from the United States, President Roosevelt; from Mexico, Romulo Escobar, Carlos Sellerier, Miguel Angel de Quevedo. Left to right, standing: from Canada, Robert E. Young; from the United States, Secretary of State Robert Bacon, Gifford Pinchot, Senator Shelby M. Cullom, Secretary of the Interior James Rudolph Garfield, Ambassador James Bryce of Great Britain, Secretary of the U.S. Delegation Thomas R. Shipp, and Senator Philander C. Knox.
Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site
1909-02
Theodore Roosevelt at Glacier Point, with Yosemite Falls in background.
Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site
1903-07-18
Executive order No. 904, dated July 2, 1908, creating Sequoia National Forest, California.
Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site
1908-07-02
Executive order No. 888, dated July 1, 1908, creating Pike National Forest, Colorado.
Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site
1908-07-01
Box for deck of playing cards.
Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site
1910
Theodore Roosevelt is shown on horseback, surrounded by a group of unidentified men.
Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site
Unknown
Cartoon depicting the often contentious relationship between the New York City police force and Theodore Roosevelt as Superintendent of the Board of Police Commissioners. Script at bottom: “No 1 The policemen pay a boy to watch for Com. Roosevelt while they play cards. No. 2 The alarm No. 3 But it was only some boys with a Jack O’Lantern.”
Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site
1895-1897