Anniversaries

Governor Orman invites Vice President Roosevelt to attend Colorado’s centennial celebration.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-06-07

Robbins Gilman received Theodore Roosevelt’s letter and appreciates that Roosevelt will not be able to write anything about the University Settlement Society of New York until the spring. Gilman is grateful for anything Roosevelt is able to write about their work as it will help the society celebrate their 25th anniversary.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-12-12

Robbins Gilman is glad Theodore Roosevelt intends to visit the University Settlement Society before writing an editorial on its twenty-fifth anniversary. There will be two celebration events in December, of which Jane Addams will speak at one. Gilman proposes Roosevelt correlate the article’s release with the events. He suggests times that Roosevelt should visit and invites him to dinner.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-11-03

Robbins Gilman reminds Theodore Roosevelt of his previous visits to ask if he would write an editorial on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the University Settlement Society, the first social settlement in the United States. He sends reference materials and suggests Roosevelt visit the settlement.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-10-25

M. E. Hennessy invites Theodore Roosevelt to the Boston Press Club’s anniversary banquet.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-10-17

Wilson Zerfing invites Theodore Roosevelt to attend the centennial celebrations for the Industry Lodge No. 131 F. & A. M. of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-05-13

Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary regrets to inform Herbert Putnam that Roosevelt does not have any copies of the address he gave on the 100th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s birth. Nor does he have a copy of the article Roosevelt wrote in 1909 on Lincoln, but if Putnam writes directly to Collier’s, they may be able to send a copy of the article.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-10-24

Invitation from George William Carter to attend the 102nd anniversary of the founding of the New York Bible Society. The anniversary sermon will be given by John Henry Jowett on Bible Sunday.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-12

The Rubinstein Club is celebrating it’s 25th season with a banquet in honor of William R. Chapman and his wife Emma Louisa Faulkner Chapman. A musical program will be performed by artists from the Metropolitan Opera House. A card for Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt is attached as well as a business card for Florence Nightingale Lethbridge Gulick, the chairman for the event.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-11

President Roosevelt has already chosen a replacement for Assistant Treasurer of New York Hamilton Fish II. Hearing about the wedding anniversary from Christine Griffin Kean Roosevelt pleased Roosevelt.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-10-06

President Roosevelt would like to attend the centennial celebration for the founding of the Diocese of Boston, but as he can not, he asks that Archbishop William O’Connell share his well wishes with the participants.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-10-03

Samuel Kahan, secretary of the Public School 2 Manhattan Centennial Celebration Committee, invites Theodore Roosevelt to attend and give some remarks at the celebration on November 15.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Arthur C. Watkins asks Theodore Roosevelt to come speak at the fortieth anniversary of The First Presbyterian Church of Christian Hook’s founding on October 12.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-10-06

Thomas T. Wright asks Theodore Roosevelt if he could attend the 1914 Celebration to commemorate the peace between Canada and the United States.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-09-13

James S. Heberling asks Theodore Roosevelt to speak at the celebration of Founder’s Day in October.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-09-12

James Gibbons expresses to Theodore Roosevelt his gratitude for Roosevelt’s presence and words at his jubilee celebration, and explains that poor health prevented him from visiting at Oyster Bay.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-09-12

Second Assistant Secretary of State Alvey A. Adee sends William Loeb a copy of a memorandum by Eki Hioki, thanking President Roosevelt for the message he sent to Meiji, Emperor of Japan, on his anniversary.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-11-05

An article outlines the proceedings of the thanksgiving meeting of the British and Foreign Bible Society, celebrating the society’s centenary and the completion of a special fund in honor of the occasion. A portion recounting the speech by American Ambassador Whitelaw Reid which emphasized the close bond between Great Britain and the United States, and reading of a letter from President Roosevelt is highlighted.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-11-08

A young boy sits on the ground, leaning against a tree, asleep. Around him are clusters of fireworks waiting to be ignited.

comments and context

Comments and Context

A boy’s dream (as would have been specified in the Old Days) on the Fourth of July. Napping in a little country spot on the Fourth, as per the magazine’s issue date above his head, flowers have turned to pinwheels, Roman candles, and other fireworks.

A crowd of people celebrate a spinning fireworks display showing the head of Uncle Sam at center.

comments and context

Comments and Context

For Puck‘s celebratory holiday issue, July 4th, 1905, cartoonist Frank Nankivell, born in Australia, was given the task of creating a poster-like cover. The United States was at peace, was prospering economically, and had just re-elected a popular president whose exuberant optimism mirrored the nation’s own. It is interesting to note that, among the silhouetted hats on the crowd in the foreground, the most prominent is an army hat reminiscent of Theodore Roosevelt’s Rough Rider hat.