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On Oyster Bay, Theodore Roosevelt rows alone away from shore. In the second sequence, his son Archie and an unidentified boy beach the boat as Theodore Roosevelt looks on.
Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound
1914-1915
Theodore P. Shonts and Mr. Williams accept, with great pleasure, President Roosevelt’s invitation to lunch at Oyster Bay next Friday, July 14.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-07-10
Colorized stereograph of a ship at the naval review conducted by President Roosevelt in Oyster Bay in 1906. Several white ships with flags are visible on the water, and many individuals can be seen standing on the deck of the ship on the left. Text on the reverse of the stereograph discusses the distance covered by the ships involved.
As printed on the reverse of the stereograph, “Oyster Bay Naval Review: President Roosevelt in the summer of 1906 reviewed the great battleships of the American Navy in Oyster Bay and the Stereoscopic View shows the battleships in review order extending along about nine miles. It is almost impossible at this long distance to secure anything but an idea. However, this gives you a good idea of the battleships four miles away from the point of view.”
Colorized stereograph showing five battleships during the 1906 naval parade in Oyster Bay. Each ship is painted white and is decorated with colorful flags. Text on the reverse of the stereograph list the USS Louisiana, USS Connecticut, and USS Vermont as the ships in the image and describes the capabilities of the battleships in the squadron.
As printed on the reverse of the stereograph, “This is a view of the three great battleships on the day of the great naval parade at Oyster Bay in the summer of 1906. One of the great difficulties in photography is the getting of a view at a distance and still preserve the details, and if you will notice there are five battleships actually in sight in this view. These battleships compose, with the Kansas, the first division of the squadron of the battle fleet ordered to the Pacific.
The first battleship in view is the Louisiana, and the second is the Connecticut, the flagship, and the third the Vermont. All of these battleships are of the first-class type, having a displacement of 16,000 tons and sailing 18 knots an hour, all carrying 24 guns four inches and over in size, having four to six 12-inch guns mounted in turrets with a striking energy of three miles, or in other words, any one of the 12-inch monsters can hit and destroy at a distance of five miles.”