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William Dinwiddie thanks Theodore Roosevelt for his kind words to the man “who went through my previous record with a fine tooth comb.” As publicity and advertising manager for the National Citizens’ League of Chicago, Dinwiddie will promote a sound banking system.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-08-16
William Dinwiddie has the opportunity to do confidential work for “some important commercial men in New York” who would like to know if he is up to the task. Theodore Roosevelt has known Dinwiddie in a professional capacity at some of his other roles. Dinwiddie asks if Roosevelt could tell the gentleman what he thinks of him.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-07-19
William Dinwiddie asks Theodore Roosevelt to look over an open letter by Dean C. Worcester, Secretary of the Interior of the Philippine Islands, which speaks out against “the men who have caused the United States Government thousands of dollars of expense in investigating a mass of allegations, misstatements and deliberate falsehoods, as to the situation in the Philippines.” Dinwiddie provides his impressions of the letter and more broadly of the Philippines, concluding that the islands are sparsely populated with a great deal of land that is ripe for cultivation.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-03-15
Photograph showing a Cuban village with people and houses during the Spanish American War.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1898
Photograph showing the battlefield at San Juan Hill, Cuba.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1898
Photograph showing people standing in the center of a village.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1898
Photograph showing American troops in the foreground moving forward holding rifles up, horses in front and behind them.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1898-07-01
Roosevelt and the Rough Riders atop San Juan Hill, Cuba, during the Spanish-American War.
Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site
1898
William Dinwiddie presents to Gardiner G. Hubbard a formal statement accusing ethnologist Frank H. Cushing of fraud. Dinwiddie attests that Cushing painted a shell found on an 1895 expedition to the Florida Keys and has been passing off the artifact as genuine. He further claims that Cushing did the same with an artifact from an expedition in Arizona. Dinwiddie states that when he attempted to report the fraud to the Bureau of American Ethnology, the Bureau refused to investigate and summarily dismissed him from his position.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1897-02-15