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Theodore Roosevelt writes to his sister Corinne Roosevelt Robinson of his satisfaction with the safari and how he has collected many scientific specimens for the museum. The letter is incomplete.
1910-01-21
Article describes South America journey of Theodore Roosevelt and his party. Details animals collected and Frank Harper, Roosevelt’s secretary, arrives in New York with a tortoise. The tortoise was presented to New York Zoological Park.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1914-02
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary Frank Harper describes their journey through South America along with George Kruck Cherrie and Leo E. Miller, representatives of the American Museum of Natural History. It details specimens collected for donation to various museums. Photograph of Anthony Fiala, Cherrie, Father J. A. Zahm, Theodore Roosevelt, Kermit Roosevelt, Harper, and Miller is included.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1914-04-05
Anthony Fiala asks Frank Harper to purchase a helmet for him; Cherrie and Miller collected birds and mammals. He discusses the extreme heat, mosquito infestations and Sigg curing natives and Miller.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1913-11-17
Theodore Roosevelt regrets that he cannot loan out his own personal specimens to B. H. Warren. If Roosevelt did he would have to loan them out to many other people.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-08-16
Mrs. A. S. Buckman asks Theodore Roosevelt if he has a spare specimen to share with her from one of his African safaris for her son who is an Organist at a Baptist Church.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-10-23
Ohio Senator Marcus Alonzo Hanna stands on a “ship subsidy” and holds “my defence of labor” as he attempts to use the Republican elephant’s trunk as a phone, saying, “Central! Hello! Central!” The elephant looks at President Roosevelt who waves, bearing “stories,” “speeches,” “interviews,” and “specimens” and says, “Ah there, Teddy!”
Luther Bradley’s cartoon refers to the publicized and futile efforts of Senator Marcus Alonzo Hanna to make himself relevant to the broader Republican Party at this time, reaching beyond his base as a senator still identified with his ally, the late President William McKinley, and as chairman of the Republican National Committee. He was engaged in an ill-concealed and delicate campaign to wrest the 1904 presidential nomination from the incumbent, Theodore Roosevelt.
That ambition was being thwarted at the time of this cartoon’s publication, but Bradley correctly identified the gambits employed by Hanna. He was, for instance, heavily indebted to shipbuilding interests who potentially were campaign contributors (Ohio ports on Lake Erie were centers of steel manufacturing and ship construction). The cartoon’s acknowledgement of Hanna’s earnest attempts to prove himself a “friend of labor” is ironic since he largely lives in history by portrayals of another caricaturist, Homer Davenport. The Hearst cartoonist frequently pictured “Dollar Mark” Hanna as a bloated plutocrat with his foot on skull of “Labor.”
Theodore Roosevelt requests that Dora Watkins collect plant and animal specimens for him. Roosevelt misses Watkins and heard that the voyage was unpleasant. He requests that Corinne Roosevelt write more often. Yesterday was the last day of dancing class.
1868-04-30