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Sheet music for “Garryowen,” a popular Irish tune distributed here as a newspaper supplement from the Boston Sunday Globe. According to a note at the bottom of this piece (not shown in the photo), President Roosevelt said on his New England tour that “Garryowen” was one of his favorite tunes.
Dr. Danny O. Crew Theodore Roosevelt Sheet Music Collection
1902-09-14
The two-page handbill includes “Camp Satire on Wilson,” a reprint of an article originally written for The Evening Post. The article describes the posting of a “bitter political satire on President Woodrow Wilson” on a military training camp bulletin board. The satirical placard apparently included Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt, and other prominent political figures as characters from Shakespeare’s Hamlet. The second page of the handbill is a dramatis personae, listing the characters and the political figure used to represent them in the satire.
Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site
1916-09-16
The two-sided handbill features a reprint from the Boston Evening Transcript. The first side includes text referencing the United States’ neutrality in the “European War” and calling attention to an “editorial which appeared in the Providence Journal, soon after the start of the European War, and which was reprinted by the Boston Transcript, as shown on the following page.” On the reverse side, the cartoon entitled “Convicted!” shows a small girl, labeled “Belgium,” pointing at an over-sized German soldier. Below the cartoon is an editorial condemning German atrocities in Belgium.
Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site
1914-10-16
Sepia tone portrait of Theodore Roosevelt that appeared as a supplement to the Chicago Sunday Tribune, on the eve of what would have been Roosevelt’s 61st birthday (he died on January 6, 1919).
Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site
1919-10-26
Color supplement to the Buffalo Sunday Times with a full-length portrait of a standing Theodore Roosevelt and four oval portraits from different time periods in Roosevelt’s life in the corners. Page includes biographical information about Roosevelt up to 1909 and a timeline of his African safari.
Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site
1910
Portrait of Alice Roosevelt that features a decorative design, the image has been adhered to a mat board. The image was clipped from an unknown newspaper.
Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site
1902
Unknown newspaper clipping from the 1904 presidential campaign of President Roosevelt and Senator Fairbanks sitting in rocking chairs outside on the grass with a backdrop of bushes.
Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site
1904