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Theodore Roosevelt in Baltimore during Liberty Loan drive, 1918

Theodore Roosevelt in Baltimore during Liberty Loan drive, 1918

On September 28, 1918, Theodore Roosevelt is the principal speaker at the opening of the fourth Liberty Loan campaign in Oriole Baseball Park, Baltimore, Maryland. Wearing a mourning armband for his son, Quentin, Roosevelt walks across the field with Liberty Loan officials, including a man who appears to be Phillips Lee Goldsborough, chairman of the Liberty Loan Committee for Maryland and former governor of the state. Roosevelt pauses and speaks with Cardinal James Gibbons. On the speaker’s platform, Roosevelt is cheered by the crowd. Among the notables behind him on the platform are Gibbons, a man who appears to be Governor Emerson C. Harrington of Maryland, Mrs. Thomas J. Preston, who was the wife of former President Grover Cleveland, and her second husband, Dr. Thomas J. Preston, with the dark mustache. Roosevelt addresses the crowd. There are long and close-up shots of the crowd.

Collection

Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound

Creation Date

1918

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to H. C. Sticher

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to H. C. Sticher

Theodore Roosevelt writes to H. C. Sticher of The Free Press, Osage City, Kansas, in response to reports of his over-indulgence of alcohol during the Republican National Convention in Chicago. Roosevelt contends that he is 33 years sober. He includes letters drafted by Dr. Abbott and family physician Dr. Lambert as proof of his sobriety.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1912-07-15

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Porter J. McCumber

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Porter J. McCumber

President Roosevelt asks if it is possible to give Frances Folsom Cleveland, the widow of former President Grover Cleveland, a pension. James A. Garfield and William McKinley both served in the army but their widows received a pension based more on their service as president. Roosevelt would like a similar arrangement for Cleveland.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-11-04

Letter from Constance Elise Gracie to Theodore Roosevelt

Letter from Constance Elise Gracie to Theodore Roosevelt

Constance Elsie Gracie asks President Roosevelt for the favor of a quick meeting on behalf of “a very tired officer” and “will give peace and happiness to a number of people.” She and her husband, Archibald Gracie, are currently in town and have received a guided tour of the White House, although Constance remembers it well from when she visited as a child.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-1909

Letter from Richard Watson Gilder to Theodore Roosevelt

Letter from Richard Watson Gilder to Theodore Roosevelt

Richard Watson Gilder, editor of Scribner’s Monthly, informs President Roosevelt about his struggle to highlight the latter’s presidency in one editorial. Gilder shares the closing paragraphs of the resulting work, a joint effort between himself and Robert Underwood Johnson, editor of The Century Magazine. He remarks that history will give credit to Roosevelt’s many accomplishments during his presidency.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1909-02-17

Chronology January 1884 to December 1891

Chronology January 1884 to December 1891

Chronology of the daily life of Theodore Roosevelt from January 1884 to December 1891. Notable events include the deaths of Alice Lee Roosevelt and Martha Bulloch Roosevelt, Roosevelt’s time on his ranch, the completion of Sagamore Hill, Roosevelt’s engagement and marriage to Edith Kermit Carow, Theodore “Ted” Roosevelt’s birth, the “Great-Dieup” of cattle in North Dakota, and the founding of the Boone and Crockett Club.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association

Creation Date

1985

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Henry C. Loudenslager

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Henry C. Loudenslager

President Roosevelt asks Representative Loudenslager, Chairman of the Committee on Pensions, if it is possible to pass a bill granting a pension to President Grover Cleveland’s widow, Frances Folsom Cleveland. He notes that the widows of Presidents James A. Garfield and William McKinley are granted pensions. Although Garfield and McKinley both served in the army, their widows received pensions because of their husbands’ service as Presidents.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-11-04

He keeps them worried

He keeps them worried

Former president Grover Cleveland and his wife Frances play with their children, Ruth, Esther, and Marion, in the backyard of their residence. Several men labeled “Morgan, Daniel, Pugh, Faulkner, Vest, Dana, [and] Gorman” spy on them from behind a fence, bushes, and over a hedge.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1897-06-09

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Quentin Roosevelt

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Quentin Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt understands Quentin Roosevelt’s exasperation at losing his “truck job” but is glad that Quentin is flying again. It is the 32nd anniversary of Roosevelt’s engagement to Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt and they are still in love. They have just returned from Princeton where most people had sound views on national politics. Roosevelt reviewed and addressed the undergraduate battalion and the men of the aviation training camp. He sat with Frances Folsom Cleveland, Grover Cleveland’s widow, at dinner and then delivered a speech to the students and townspeople. The senior and junior classes at colleges are “skeleton,” and Roosevelt is glad that Quentin was able to join the military when he did.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1917-11-17