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Photographs of the library at Sagamore Hill, Theodore Roosevelt’s Oyster Bay, New York home. Various animal heads and portraits adorn the walls, including one of Roosevelt’s father, Theodore Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1912-1918
Photograph of the library fireplace at Sagamore Hill, Theodore Roosevelt’s Oyster Bay, New York home. Various animal heads and portraits adorn the walls, with chairs and couches spread about.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1912-1918
Photograph of Thomas H. McKee and Uncle Jimmy Owens sitting at Wylie Camp in the North Rim of the Grand Canyon.
1913
Assistant Secretary of State Herbert H. D. Peirce denies that President Roosevelt has an interest in acquiring the chairs used by Count Vitte and Baron Komura during the signing of the peace treaty.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-09-13
Several vignettes illustrate the difficulty of catching a vice presidential candidate, including offering some “Possible Premiums,” such as a “Cabinet Portfolio,” a “Carnegie Hero Pension,” use of the “Vice Pres’ yacht Tailenda,” and a “10 years lease for pedestal in the Hall of Fame.” Caption: What’s the matter with the Vice-Presidential Chair?
As the presidential nominating conventions of the political parties approached in 1904, Puck asked a question regarding the vice presidency that was not only humorous but legitimate. The country had been without a vice president since Theodore Roosevelt succeeded the assassinated William McKinley in September of 1901.
President Roosevelt is sorry that he cannot give Senator Knox the chair as promised, as Justice William H. Moody has purchased it.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-02-06
Theodore Roosevelt thanks George A. Nowland for the two Mount Vernon chairs that he sent, which Roosevelt has just received through Senator Henry Cabot Lodge.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-03-26
President Roosevelt thanks the reception committee for the “very handsome chair.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-10-25
Earl Grey thanks President Roosevelt for sending his photographic portrait and is happy to hang it among his portraits of other American politicians. Grey also sends a facsimile of a chair owned by James Wolfe and gifted to George, Prince of Wales, and thanks Roosevelt for sending his sister, Alice Roosevelt Cowles, to Québec’s tercentenary celebration. In the postscript, Grey notes how he has been “haunted” by the illustrations of mountains that Roosevelt appended to his last message.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-01-13
Caspar Whitney sends the bill for the two Roorkee chairs that Major Roller purchased for President Roosevelt at the Army and Navy store.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-10-21
Governor General of Canada Earl Grey reports the success of Quebec’s tercentenary celebrations to President Roosevelt. He thanks Roosevelt for sending Vice President Charles W. Fairbanks as representative of the United States and his sister Anna Roosevelt Cowles as his personal representative. Grey comments on the lessons of nationalism found in J. Ellis Barker’s history of the Netherlands. Additionally, Grey is having a duplicate of a historical chair made for Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-08-11
William Lowell Hill writes to President Roosevelt regarding the chair used by Count Vitte during the peace negotiations, which Roosevelt has since acquired. The chair had been purchased by Mrs. Parks, but when she learned that the President was interested, she was happy to allow him to have it.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-09-09
Postcard showing the Hall of Representatives in the United States Capitol building consisting of an assembly room with desks and chairs arranged in a semi-circle around a central desk flanked by portraits of George Washington and the Marquis de Lafayette. Additional seating on the second story overlooks the area.
In Charles C. Myers’s own words, “This is an interior view of the Hall of Representatives. This room is 139x93ft with a 30ft ceiling. At either side of the Speakers desk are the portraits of Washington and Layfaette [sic].”
Postcard showing people walking down a broad, chair-lined avenue in an open area with a row of buildings in the background. Charles C. Myers notes that Southsea is a suburb of Portsmouth, England, and is a beautiful beach resort.
In Charles C. Myers’s own words, “This is a suburb of Portsmouth, Southsea, a beach resort and quite a prominent promenade for society leaders. As you see here there are rows of seats on either side of a broad walk which is quite a place for display.”
Postcard showing the interior of a cathedral with rows of chairs. Charles C. Myers identifies it as St. Paul’s Cathedral in London, England. He notes the seats are under the cathedral’s dome.
In Charles C. Myers’s own words, “St Pauls [sic] Cathedral is one of the most noted buildings in London and said to be the fourth largest church building in the whole world. This church is 500 ft long and 250 ft wide and was built in the latter part of the 16th century at a cost of $3,700,000, this money being raised by an extra tax on coal that came into the harbor at london [sic]. The large dome is 102 ft in diameter and by going up a stairs of 260 steps from the floor of the church you are far up inside the dome and in what is called the whispering gallery where you can distinctly hear the whisper of a person on the opposite side of the gallery 102 ft away. It is quite equal to the hall in the Tabernacle at Salt Lake City where you can distinctly hear the drop of a pin in the far end of the hall 250 ft away. While in this whispering gallery in the dome of St Pauls [sic] Cathedral you can look below and see these seats in the main chapel 260 steps below. This is the main chapel of the church and situated in the center of the building. The seats for the choir and the High Altar are seen in the distant [sic].”
Photograph showing Civil Service Commissioners George R. Wales, Helen H. Gardener, and William C. Deming looking over the desk and chair used by Theodore Roosevelt while he was serving as Civil Service Commissioner. A portrait of Roosevelt hangs above the desk.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1923
Cartoon shows an empty office chair at a desk , possibly that of Henry Osborne Havemeyer, with a calendar ‘Mch 26″ and a notice “Will not return today.” On the wall are “Orders” : No. 1 A 1/16 on raw; No. 2 for cartel buyers cable to Germany; No. 3 to brokers. Buy Java stock, refuse beet and Cuban sugar; No. 4 For lobby, Congratulate Washington; No. 5 for brokers, Am. Sug.R. Co. bear – stand ready to buy all offers; Trust Democratic disinclination to untie a Republican Cuban knot.” On the floor lies a sheet of paper “Telegram A. S. Ref. Co. [i.e., American Sugar Refining Co.] 117 Wall St.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1902
Senator Lodge writes to President Roosevelt regarding chairs given to Roosevelt by George Nowland. The chairs were purchased from the estate sale at Mount Vernon after the death of Bushrod Washington. Lodge describes the chairs as “relics.” Lodge asks that Roosevelt acknowledge receipt of the furniture by sending Nowland a note. Lodge also asks if Edith could invite Mrs. Batcheller to an unnamed event.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-03-26
Print of photograph showing chair decorated with flags, bows, portrait of President Roosevelt, and other graphics.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1904-12-14
Photographs of the library at Sagamore Hill, Theodore Roosevelt’s Oyster Bay, New York home. Various animal heads adorn the walls.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1912-1918