Camps

Chairman Edson solicits a donation from President Roosevelt for his Summer Outings Committee.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-06-01

Postcard showing President Roosevelt speaking to several men and soldiers at a camp in Newark, New Jersey. Text on the front indicates this postcard is part of the U.S. Army and National Guard Series.

Collection

Marple Collection

Creation Date

1905

Collection

Charles C. Myers Collection

Creation Date

1908

Creator(s)

Unknown

Language

English

President Roosevelt heard about Ernest Thompson Seton’s summer camp from John Burroughs and finds it “an admirable movement.” He will read The Birch Bark Roll immediately.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-09-04

Sheet music for “Camp Roosevelt,” which celebrates Camp Roosevelt, an R.O.T.C. summer camp for high school boys from the Chicago, Illinois, area. The camp was founded by Angus Hibbard and other Chicago-area civic-minded residents in 1918. The cover features an illustration of a camp with a bugler and an oval photograph of Theodore Roosevelt.

Collection

Dr. Danny O. Crew Theodore Roosevelt Sheet Music Collection

Creation Date

1924

Photograph of unknown Civilian Conservation Corps enrollee standing in camp within the Roosevelt Recreation Demonstration Area.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Creation Date

1930-1939

Photograph of two Civilian Conservation Corps enrollees walking near camp buildings in the Roosevelt Recreation Demonstration Area.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Creation Date

1930-1939

Photograph of the Jones Creek Civilian Conservation Corps Camp next to the Little Missouri River in the South Unit of the Roosevelt Recreational Demonstration Area.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Creation Date

1939-1941

Photograph of the Jones Creek Civilian Conservation Corps Camp next to the Little Missouri River in the South Unit of the Roosevelt Recreational Demonstration Area.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Creation Date

1930-1939

Civilian Conservation Corps enrollees, Andrew O. Mathson on the far left, standing in camp at the Roosevelt Recreational Demonstration Area.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Creation Date

1939-1941

A CCC member stands by the entrance sign to the camp of Company 2772.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Creation Date

1934-1941

Photograph of a Civilian Conservation Corps camp that housed camp 2772 in the North Unit of the Roosevelt Recreation Demonstration Area.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Creation Date

Unknown

Photograph of a Civilian Conservation Corps camp that housed companies 2771 and 2772 in the Roosevelt Recreation Demonstration Area.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Creation Date

1930-1939

Photograph of the Civilian Conservation Corps camp doctor, “Doc” Smith, in the Roosevelt Recreation Demonstration Area.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Creation Date

1930-1939

Photograph of unidentified Civilian Conservation Corps enrollees digging a ditch next to buildings within one of the camps in the Roosevelt Recreation Demonstration Area.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Creation Date

1930-1939

Photograph of unidentified Civilian Conservation Corps enrollees digging a ditch within one of the camps in the Roosevelt Recreation Demonstration Area.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Creation Date

1930-1939

Photograph of two unidentified Civilian Conservation Corps enrollees standing next the entrance sign for the camp that housed companies 2771 and 2772 in the Roosevelt Recreation Demonstration Area.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Creation Date

1930-1939

Photograph of Civilian Conservation Corps camp 2772 being relocated from the North Unit to the South Unit of Roosevelt Recreation Demonstration Area.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Creation Date

1930-1939