American Red Cross

A receipt for Theodore Roosevelt’s 1917 Oyster Bay American Red Cross subscription for $1,000, written on wrapping paper and annotated by Guernsey Curran.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1917-12

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1917-08-14

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Recipient

Blair, William M.

Language

English

Theodore Roosevelt gives Henry Pomeroy Davison the Red Cross part of his speech which is being delivered on June 14th.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1917-06-02

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt appoints Assistant Attorney General Alford W. Cooley as the representative of the Department of Justice on the Central Committee of the American Red Cross.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-01-03

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Mrs. M. L. Tanner clarifies that in her previous note, the reference to Miss Barton meant Clara Barton, president of the American Red Cross.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-04

Creator(s)

Tanner, M. L., Mrs.

Secretary of State Hay has nothing to do with appointing delegates to the St. Petersburg conference, as the Red Cross selects their own delegates. Hay lists the people he knows will be attending the conference.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-04-05

Creator(s)

Hay, John, 1838-1905

Red Cross nurse helping a sick soldier from the Spanish-American War at railroad station.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1898

Creator(s)

Unknown

Lieutenant Colonel Roosevelt asks Douglas Robinson to send Samuel McMillan $100 to pay him back for money Roosevelt used, along with his own funds, to obtain food for his regiment. Roosevelt writes about the lack of food and clothing, but mentions that they were able to get some provisions from the Red Cross.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1898-07-22

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Mary Cadwalader Jones writes to Edith Roosevelt to tell her about seeing her sons while in Paris, the work the Red Cross is doing in France and about the morale of the French people and their attitudes about the American soldiers.

Collection

Sagamore Hill National Historic Site

Creation Date

1918-06-22

Creator(s)

Jones, Mary Cadwalader

Theodore Roosevelt thanks Dr. Hervey for the two books. In regards to the Red Cross matter, Roosevelt suggests that Hervey contact Elisabeth Marbury and provides her address.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1914-11-07

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

William Loeb encloses a check for Theodore Roosevelt, which should be applied through the Red Cross for relief of earthquake victims in Italy.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-12-31

Creator(s)

Loeb, William, 1866-1937

In the wake of a tornado outbreak in Mississippi, President Roosevelt informs Governor Noel of the legal channels through which the War Department will dispatch aid and personnel, and provides him with the names of people to ask for aid. The Red Cross is also sending aid and nurses.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-05-02

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt thanks Mabel Thorp Boardman and the Red Cross for the prompt action.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-05-02

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt has received the telegram sent by San Francisco Mayor Eugene E. Schmitz and others in the wake of the San Francisco earthquake and fire, and notifies him of a proclamation that he has just issued regarding disaster relief for the city which urges further charitable contributions be given not to the Red Cross, but rather to local committees. Roosevelt also informs Schmitz of other efforts that are currently in progress to send assistance to the city.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-04-25

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt defends the action he took in sending money to the Red Cross, in that the prime concern was to meet the immediate emergency in San Francisco, which it was able to do. Now that local relief organizations have been created, further funds will be sent to them. Previous scandals and allegations of mismanagement of funds by the Red Cross were linked with Clara Barton, who resigned from he organization in 1904, and the organization is now efficiently organized.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-04-25

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt has received a number of messages urging disaster relief funds for San Francisco to be given to local committees rather than the National Red Cross. He believes that the course he took at the time was the only possible one, but that now if the regular authorities believe they can do the necessary relief work they should be allowed to do so.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-04-25

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt tells Secretary of War Taft that he has read reports that the destruction of the San Francisco earthquake has fallen especially hard on the Chinese population there, and instructs him to telegraph Edward T. Devine that the Red Cross relief work in the city must be done equally for everyone, without regard to race. Roosevelt asks if it would also be worth telegraphing General Frederick Funston the same instructions.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-04-23

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt will be glad for Governor Mickey to issue the suggested proclamation. He suggests that the contributions should be made through the Red Cross association or through Red Cross members from Nebraska.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-02-14

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Wm. Cary Sanger writes President Roosevelt to see if he and his wife might visit the Roosevelts while they are in Washington, D.C. There are some matters connected with the Geneva Conference Sanger feels Roosevelt might want to discuss with him. Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt writes at the bottom of Sanger’s letter that she leaves town on Monday.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-11-28

Creator(s)

Sanger, Wm. Cary (William Cary), 1853-1921

In an address to the American Bankers Association, John L. Hamilton comments on the growth of the organization’s annual conventions, the enlargement of the executive council, and the organization’s aid sent for the San Francisco Earthquake relief effort. Hamilton then discusses the need for bank examinations to help deter bank failures, the responsibility the press bears for sensationalizing such failures, and his opposition to federal, state, or municipal ownership of public utilities. He praises President Roosevelt and Secretary of the Treasury Leslie M. Shaw for their leadership in financial matters, which has supported the country’s rapid growth. He believes new federal laws are needed to ensure this continues, and he urges members of the association to work for legislation that is in the interests of the country as a whole.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-10

Creator(s)

Hamilton, John L. (John Lawrence), 1862-1927