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General Wood is pleased that Theodore Roosevelt will present Guzon Borglum’s General Sheridan Statue to Circulo Militar of Buenos Aires. Sent care of “Van Dyck” in two boxes. Encloses letter to president of club, Hammond letters, and Gorham letter. Letterhead from “War Department, Office of the Chief of Staff.”
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1913-10-01
Lieutenant John G. Hammond asks Theodore Roosevelt to present Gutzon Borglum’s General Philip H. Sheridan miniature statue to “Circulo Militar (Army Club) of the Argentine Republic at Buenos Aires on behalf of American officers and civilians who have visited “Argentina and received courtesies, ” and “an expression of American friendship.” Describes statue, lists names of subscribers, encloses Gorham letter and General Leonard Wood’s letter.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1913-09-07
Lieutenant John Hammond encloses letter to Theodore Roosevelt and requests approval of letter from General Leonard Wood, regarding Gutzon Borglum’s General Philip H. Sheridan miniature statue.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1913-09-07
Gorham Co. bronze department will ship General Philip H. Sheridan statue and pedestal in separate boxes. The cast from original sketch, lost wax process. Reflects “labor of love,” “master mind” of Borglum. Letterhead from “The Gorham Co.”
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1913-08-04
Major General Leonard Wood sends miniature of General Philip H. Sheridan statue, by Gutzon Borglum, on behalf of American officers who have visited Argentina. Letterhead from “War Department, Office of the Chief of Staff.”
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1913-06-26
Black and white photo of Gutzon Borglum in a boatswain’s chair going down the side of Mount Rushmore.
Mount Rushmore National Monument
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Black and white print of the four heads on Mount Rushmore with Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln under early construction. Text below discusses the national memorial.
Mount Rushmore National Monument
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A black and white photo of a bronze bust of Theodore Roosevelt in foreground and plaster cast of Abraham Lincoln in back, both sculpted by Gutzon Borglum.
Mount Rushmore National Monument
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Theodore Roosevelt was pleased by the telegram from Gutzon Borglum, whose support he values.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-08-14
Theodore Roosevelt apologizes to Gutzon Borglum for being unable to attend his lecture. He wished to meet with Borglum on another matter.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1915-03-01
Theodore Roosevelt writes to Belle da Costa Greene in response to her request for some original documents. Roosevelt is not able to provide the requested papers but offers to send her other documents.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1915-02-18
President Roosevelt asks Augustus Saint-Gaudens if it is wise to select Gutzon Borglum to do the work in question.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-12-20
Uriah Seely recently sent Theodore Roosevelt several souvenir booklets from the unveiling of the Lincoln Monument that he hoped Roosevelt would sign for his sons, and was advised by Gutzon Borglum that he should contact Frank Harper for help in the matter. He asks Harper for any assistance he can give in placing the matter before Roosevelt, and thanks him for his assistance.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-06-22
George W. Brush discusses timing and travel arrangements with Frank Harper for Theodore Roosevelt’s engagements on Memorial Day in Newark, New Jersey, and New York City, New York.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-04-28
Dr. John Allen Gable, Executive Director of the Theodore Roosevelt Association, offers an address at Richland College giving an overview of the five phases he sees in the historiography of Theodore Roosevelt. Moving from the early hero-worship of Roosevelt in the years after his death, Gable sees historical opinion vary between critical perspectives of Roosevelt and more favorable representations, frequently moving in conjunction with the issues of the era the author is writing in. The most contemporary era, Gable believes, is a revival of Roosevelt’s reputation and scholarship. Further developments in the field of Roosevelt studies, Gable believes, will come from a stronger holistic understanding of the various facets of Roosevelt’s personality. Throughout his address Gable relies on a number of instances from Roosevelt’s life to illustrate his points, including the Venezuela Crisis, the Storer Controversy, and the 1912 Assassination Attempt.
Theodore Roosevelt Association
1981
Dr. John Allen Gable, Executive Director of the Theodore Roosevelt Association, offers an address at Richland College giving an overview of the five phases he sees in the historiography of Theodore Roosevelt. Moving from the early hero-worship of Roosevelt in the years after his death, Gable sees historical opinion vary between critical perspectives of Roosevelt and more favorable representations, frequently moving in conjunction with the issues of the era the author is writing in. The most contemporary era, Gable believes, is a revival of Roosevelt’s reputation and scholarship. Further developments in the field of Roosevelt studies, Gable believes, will come from a stronger holistic understanding of the various facets of Roosevelt’s personality. Throughout his address Gable relies on a number of instances from Roosevelt’s life to illustrate his points, including the Venezuela Crisis, the Storer Controversy, and the 1912 Assassination Attempt.
Theodore Roosevelt Association
1981
Gregory A. Wynn chronicles the work of the sculptor Vincenzo Miserendino who Wynn believes has produced the finest likenesses of Theodore Roosevelt. Wynn highlights two Miserendino bronze sculptures of Roosevelt placed in Mount Vernon, New York, and Boone, Iowa. Wynn provides a biography of Miserendino and notes his body of work, but he focuses on the five different sculptures he created with Roosevelt as his subject. Wynn notes the location and status of Miserendino’s Roosevelt sculptures.
Six photographs of Miserendino’s sculptures supplement the text.
Alan R. Havig examines the effort of the Roosevelt Memorial Association (RMA) to secure a site on the Washington, D.C., mall to erect a memorial to Theodore Roosevelt. Havig argues that it was not the grandiose design by architect John Russell Pope that doomed the proposal, but that many in and out of Congress felt that constructing a memorial to Roosevelt in the 1920s was too soon after his death. Other critics argued that Roosevelt had not yet earned a place among the memorials to George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. Havig notes that Roosevelt, while denied a monument in the nation’s capital, would gain a memorial on Theodore Roosevelt Island in 1967, and he would earn a place on South Dakota’s Mount Rushmore among the figures that he was deemed unworthy of joining in the 1920s.
Four illustrations, three photographs of memorials to Roosevelt, and the logo of the Theodore Roosevelt Association populate the essay.
Seven books receive scrutiny in the “Reviews” section, including two biographies of Theodore Roosevelt, specialized studies of the White House and Memorial Day, a collection of Roosevelt’s writings, a look at the Rough Riders of Arizona, and a study of turn of the twentieth-century American foreign policy. John A. Gable notes that Stacey A. Cordery’s biography of Roosevelt serves as a comprehensive historiographical study as it draws on thirty years of Roosevelt scholarship in its quotes and analysis. Gable also offers thoughts on Kathleen Dalton’s biography of Roosevelt, and he provides excerpts from five other reviews of the work that highlight Dalton’s coverage of the role of women in Roosevelt’s life and that affirm Roosevelt as a moderate radical. Of Brian Thomsen’s collection of Roosevelt’s writings, The Man in the Arena, Gable says: “there is no reason to buy this book.”
Gable also reviews Marty F. Feess’s Theodore Roosevelt’s Arizona Boys which examines the life of the Arizona Rough Riders after the Spanish-American War and the many actions taken by their Colonel to help them succeed in their post-war lives. Henry J. Hendrix faults Warren Zimmermann’s First Great Triumph for injecting present day views into his analysis of the makers of foreign policy in Roosevelt’s presidency. Hendrix also examines A History of Memorial Day which traces the transformation of the holiday from a solemn occasion to a day of recreation. Jeremy M. Murphy highlights Gable’s chapter on the Roosevelts in his review of The White House: Actors and Observers, and he also notes the work’s use of the photographs of Frances Benjamin Johnston.
An illustration and a photograph of Roosevelt supplement the text.
The front cover of this issue features a photograph of the library at the Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace in New York City while the back cover has a photograph of busts of Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln made by sculptor Gutzon Borglum.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
1994-1995