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John A. Gable reviews Looking for North: The Harriman Expedition to Alaska, 1899 by William H. Goetzmann and Kay Sloan. Gable focuses on the cast of famous figures, like John Muir and Edward S. Curtis, many of them friends of Theodore Roosevelt, who joined Edward Harriman’s scientific expedition.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
1983
In this edition of “Notes from the Executive Director…,” John A. Gable reviews and praises an article on President Theodore Roosevelt’s foreign policy by historian Frederick W. Marks III that appeared in Diplomatic History. Gable notes that the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) has printed the citation that accompanied Ethel Roosevelt Derby’s TRA Distinguished Service Medal. He notes the publication of a guide book to Sagamore Hill National Historic Site, describes the Roosevelt gallery in the headquarters of the Roosevelt Savings Bank in Garden City, New York, and lists the talks he gave in his capacity as Executive Director of the TRA. He congratulates author David McCullough for winning the National Book Award for his work on the Panama Canal and lists the TRA publications that preceded the publication of the TRA Journal.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
1978
The “Book Notes” column has two separate articles dealing with the historiography of Theodore Roosevelt. In “Paperbacks on T.R.,” John A. Gable looks at seven works, mostly biographies and mostly published in the 1960s, about Theodore Roosevelt and notes the contributions that each makes to the study of Roosevelt. Frederick W. Marks reviews ‘A Good Innings’: The Private Papers of Viscount Lee of Fareham in “A Special English Friend: Arthur Hamilton Lee.” Marks traces the history of the Roosevelt-Lee friendship, examines the editing of the volume by Alan Clark, and remarks on Lee’s descriptions of prominent Americans.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
1977
David Eugene Conrad examines the relationship between President Theodore Roosevelt and retired naval officer George T. Emmons. Roosevelt made Emmons “his principal adviser on Alaska,” and tasked him with helping to resolve a boundary dispute with Canada and with examining the condition of Native American tribes who were suffering at the hands of white settlers and miners. Conrad notes how Roosevelt used Emmons to go around the federal government bureaucracy, especially in the Department of the Interior. He stresses Emmons’s concern for the plight of the native tribes of Alaska, and he notes that some of his recommendations to Roosevelt were made into law by acts of Congress.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
1977
Following a number of legislative items, including voting on an amendment to a bill and a motion to investigate participation in international expositions, Senator Robert M. La Follette delivers a speech beginning with proposed tariff reciprocity with Canada, but quickly turning to his view that President William H. Taft has abandoned his campaign promises to continue the progressive policies of his predecessor Theodore Roosevelt. La Follette excoriates Taft on his stances on taxes and conservation, among other issues.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-07-15
Theodore Roosevelt recently wrote an article for The Outlook offering his opinion regarding what factors are slowing development there, and specifically addressing the action of the Department of the Interior in selling off the area around Controller Bay.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-07-23
The June 17,1911 edition of Collier’s. The articles “Coming and Going,” “North Dakota,” “Are They Dead?,” and “Guidance,” are marked in a square shape.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-06-17
Anna Knight translates and summarizes a letter from Charles Vogelreiter to Theodore Roosevelt. Vogelreiter describes some of his personal history, including his experience finding gold in Alaska and defending his claim, helping spark a gold rush in the United States. Knight editorializes some of the letter, saying Vogelreiter “rambles on through two or three more pages, which [she did] not think it necessary to translate,” and sums up the letter as “an indirect appeal for aid.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1910-08-01
A quote that is to be inserted after the reference to the Alaskan boundary dispute reads, “Whenever crimes against humanity have been perpetrated that have shocked our people, his protest has been made, and our good offices tendered, but always within conservative lines.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-1904
August Belmont holds a whip as a Republican elephant jumps over a large barrier with slats that read, “Panama Canal,” “coal strike settlement,” “open door in China,” “reciprocity with Cuba,” “curbing of trusts,” “Dept Commerce and Labor,” and “Alaskan boundary decision.” A donkey jumps through the space just above the “curbing of trusts” slat.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-08-14
In the left-hand cartoon, an eagle stands beside two bones: “Alaska” and “Panama.” Caption: “American Aggression. American Eagle—”Let me see; what else is there in sight now?” Star (Montreal). In the right-hand cartoon, “South America” walks two dogs—”Colombia” and “Panama”—who are trying to catch a “10 millions” bone. In the next vignette, the two dogs fight over the bone. In the final vignette, Uncle Sam holds “Panama,” the bone, and kicks “Colombia.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-01
This cartoon depicts various components of President Roosevelt’s annual message, including international relations with Colombia, Canada, the Philippines, Turkey, and China; support for Civil War veterans and General Leonard Wood; and “more lighthouses for Hawaii.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-12
Postmaster General Henry C. Payne and President Roosevelt ride on a Republican elephant that pulls a woman out of a Delaware Post Office by its trunk. On its leg is a “postal scandal” covering and Delaware Senator J. Frank Allee points at the woman. As Roosevelt sits on the elephant, he holds several papers, including “canal treaty” and “Alaskan boundary.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-09-09
President Roosevelt uses an axe to cut down the “postal inquiry” tree. He is surrounded by a forest of trees: “League island improvements,” “Alaskan boundary,” “Turkey,” “Finance,” “Panama Canal,” and “Trusts.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-09-04
President Roosevelt returns home to Washington, D.C., to shake Uncle Sam’s hand. Roosevelt brings a horse that carries many items, including “indorsement of Ohio,” presents, a silver plate, and a miner’s pan.
This humorous political cartoon celebrated President Theodore Roosevelt’s return from an extensive “swing” through the northern plains states, the Pacific Northwest, California, the Midwest — as well as stops at Cheyenne’s Pioneers days and at Yellowstone Park and the Grand Canyon. It portrays a welcoming Uncle Sam, representing a grateful nation; and offers a multitude of the president’s accomplishments, visits, and controversies accumulated during his trip.
The cartoonist was Tom May of the Detroit Journal, no relation to Ole May of Pittsburgh and Cleveland, with whom he is sometimes confused. Their styles were not similar, and neither their politics; Tom May leaned Republican, Ole May toward the Democrats.
President Roosevelt asks Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock to issue an amendment to the orders withdrawing coal lands in the United States and Alaska from entry.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-01-14
President Roosevelt thinks the suggestion enclosed is admirable, and asks if John W. Foster could do his part in bringing it about. The suggestion, from Assistant Secretary of State Francis B. Loomis, is that Foster, Secretary of War Elihu Root, and Senator Henry Cabot Lodge write articles for magazines that explain the scope and meaning of the Alaska boundary award.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-10-20
Assistant Secretary of State Adee sends William Loeb information for President Roosevelt regarding recommendations about the delimitation of the boundary in Alaska. The concurrent recommendations were made today under both Adee’s and British Ambassador H. Mortimer Durand’s signatures.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-03-25
A photograph and caption show the skin of a bear that was shot in Africa that is ten feet long and six feet wide.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-06-08
President Roosevelt provides updates on the Post Office investigation and the Alaska boundary dispute. Roosevelt would prefer that the Alaska negotiations end before the presidential campaign.
Massachusetts Historical Society
1903-06-29