Boats and boating

Republican revelers in the foreground make music as they pass a reform ark being constructed in the background. Depicted are John Sherman playing pipes labeled “Southern Outrages,” John Logan playing cymbals labeled “Pensions,” Whitelaw Reid playing pan pipes labeled “Monopoly,” James Blaine playing a lyre, George Robeson riding on a donkey labeled “Surplus,” with George Hoar, John Roach, Joseph Keifer, and Roscoe Conkling among them. Among the crowd that follows are Ulysses S. Grant, Jay Gould, and possibly Rutherford B. Hayes, also a man playing a tambourine labeled “Bossism” and another carrying a standard labeled “Spoils,” and one with a sign labeled “River & Harbor Frauds.” In the background, John Carlisle stands at the head of those building the ark. Also shown are Henry Watterson with hammer and chisel, William Morrison holding up “Morrison’s Tariff Reform Plan,” and Abram Hewitt holding “Hewitt’s Free Trade Plank.” The ribs of the ship are labeled “Tariff Reform, Raw Materials Free, Lower Iron Tax, Lower Tax on Woolens, [and] Works of Art Free.”

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1884-03-05

Print shows an Irishman sailing in a top hat with a sail labeled “Money Wanted Fur to Free the Ould Country!” mounted on a clay tobacco pipe; his coattails are labeled “Land League” and “Free Ireland”. He is just offshore of land labeled “Michigan” where there is a crop of “American Greenback Corp.” labeled with “$”. Caption: “Wonst more, me byes, for Ould Oirland – the land of divilment and distriss!”

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1881-10-19

A staged image of William Wingate Sewall and Wilmot Dow in pursuit of boat thieves. In March 1886, three thieves stole a boat from Theodore Roosevelt’s Elkhorn Ranch. Sewall and Dow made a new boat, shown here, and pursued them with Roosevelt. They captured the thieves after several days, but were hindered in bringing them in by ice on the Little Missouri River. Roosevelt took the men in over land to Dickinson (N.D.), where they were indicted.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site

Creation Date

1886

Photograph of a re-enactment of Theodore Roosevelt keeping watch over boat thieves he captured with the help of William Wingate Sewall and Wilmot Dow.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site

Creation Date

1886

Photograph of a re-enactment of Theodore Roosevelt keeping watch over boat thieves he captured with the help of William Wingate Sewall and Wilmot Dow.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site

Creation Date

1886

Theodore Roosevelt hopes his sister Anna Roosevelt will spend her first winter married to William Sheffield Cowles in London. He and wife Edith watched the first cup races from the police patrol boat and is excited about the success he has had as Police Commissioner.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1895-09-08

Theodore Roosevelt writes his sister Anna Roosevelt on his last day in New York City with his father. Sister Corinne invited friends to Oyster Bay and he will take them out in the boat. Roosevelt’s horse has “rubbed” his back again.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1875-06-10

Diary kept by Theodore Roosevelt while at Elkhorn Ranch in North Dakota from January 1 to July 3, 1886. Pages for April 23 to June 17 are torn out. There were no entries from July 4 to December 31. April 1 tells of Roosevelt’s capture of boat-thieves, as described in Roosevelt in the Bad Lands by Hermann Hagedorn.

Also included are six typed transcript pages of diary text.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Theodore Roosevelt writes to his sister Anna Roosevelt about her upcoming trip to New York. He, along with Senator Lodge, would like to meet her for lunch. Roosevelt will be returning to Washington the following Sunday.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1893-08-01

William Emlen Roosevelt encloses information concerning Sohnlein & Co.’s Rheingold wine controversy surrounding the christening of German Emperor Wilhelm II’s yacht, The Meteor, at Shooters Island in New York on February 15, 1902. Roosevelt is looking forward to seeing the family when they get to Oyster Bay, New York.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-06-02

Wallace Downey, president of Townsend Downey Shipbuilding Company, replies to William Emlen Roosevelt’s request for a statement concerning a controversy over the selection of wine used for the christening of German Emperor Wilhelm II’s yacht, The Meteor at Shooters Island, New York, on February 15, 1902. Downey reassures Roosevelt that Moët & Chandon was the bottle used at christening and no trickery was involved.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-05-31

Rhinegold Champagne was not used at the christening of the Meteor, Kaiser Wilhelm’s yacht; President Roosevelt wants to make sure it is used from now on when the next battleships are christened, “if proper.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-05-15

“Red-headed Mike Finnegan” writes Theodore Roosevelt from the State Penitentiary in Bismarck, North Dakota, where he was imprisoned for having stolen Roosevelt’s boat on the Little Missouri River in April 1886. Finnegan asks Roosevelt’s assistance in having his prison sentence commuted.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1887