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General William R. Hamby regrets that Theodore Roosevelt cannot attend the Texas-Columbus Day celebration in Austin and asks him to reconsider. He describes the festival, which will feature a Catholic morning session and a patriotic-themed afternoon and evening. He offers to wire Roosevelt expenses.
President Roosevelt thanks Victor Geza Fischer for his birthday wishes and the etching of Christopher Columbus, which he and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt both admire. It will have a place of honor in the library at Sagamore Hill.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-10-27
President Roosevelt describes the pets aboard the U. S. S. Louisiana, including two dogs, a cat, three raccoons, and a “tiny Cuban goat.” One of the raccoons sniffed Roosevelt’s fingers, making him afraid of becoming something for the racoon to eat. The crew is very fond of the animals but is not allowed off the boat at landing, otherwise they would bring even more pets aboard. A few days later, Roosevelt recounts their passing by San Salvador, where Christopher Columbus first landed in the Americas.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-11-14
President Roosevelt tells his son Kermit Roosevelt that he has been a bit bored on the trip, but he has been reading a lot, and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt has been enjoying herself. The officers and crew have been very good to them. He describes the sight of the three battleships cruising at night and reflects on his current state as president helping to build the Panama Canal. He outlines their typical day. In an entry a few days later, Roosevelt comments on their reaching San Salvador, where Christopher Columbus first landed in the Americas. They are getting closer to Panama and hope to reach it that afternoon, just six days from when they left Washington, D. C.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-11-14
President Roosevelt thanks John S. Kennedy for the interesting copy of Christopher Columbus’s letter. He enjoyed Kennedy’s visit.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-12-26
Isaac Eldridge Wilson discovered the “Universal Law” in 1891 and solved many problems with it. However, he has run out of funds needed to advance the work and seeks Theodore Roosevelt’s counsel. According to Wilson, this law solves all educational issues and accomplishes what many prominent men in various fields have sought to explain.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-08-16
Victor Geza Fischer wishes President Roosevelt a happy birthday and discusses the origins of the Christopher Columbus portrait that he is sending. He believes that it is authentic, because it is an etched copy of a portrait that was in Columbus’s son Ferdinand’s house in Genoa. The etching is made by Victor Louis Focillon, who won a gold medal in graphic arts at the Chicago World’s Fair.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-10-27
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President Roosevelt wears a papal crown with dollar signs and holds a globe with a line down the middle. Caption: Pope Roosevelt: What lies to the left of this chalk line belongs to American politics, and what lies to the right of it belongs to American world trade! [After Columbus’ first trip to America, Pope Alexander VI. divided the world through a demarcation line and determined sovereignty in both halves of the world.]
Lyonel Feininger, the north German cartoonist, employed not so much anti-Catholic references as Catholic history in this cartoon characterizing President Theodore Roosevelt as a modern-day Pope Alexander VI. As per the pontiff, Roosevelt is depicted as diving the world in two parts… and laying claim and control over both parts.
The the decade largely filled by Roosevelt’s presidency, the United States officially achieved status as the world’s greatest manufacturing and agricultural exporting power. People sensed it would be the “American century” — not the least in Germany were those changes noted — and Roosevelt’s domestic and foreign policies took due note of the new status, and the importance of managing it well.
Sheet music for “America Admires Brother Harding,” which celebrates the election of Warren G. Harding. The cover features an illustration of Harding with historical figures; Christopher Columbus, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas A. Edison, and Theodore Roosevelt.
Dr. Danny O. Crew Theodore Roosevelt Sheet Music Collection
1921
Theodore Roosevelt has used a map of South America, where he has charted the Rio da Duvida, to knock over statues of the explorers Vasco Núñez de Balboa, Christopher Columbus, Amerigo Vespucci, and Hernando de Soto. A book by the Royal Geographical Society has also landed on the floor.
This cartoon is of a category of articles, speeches, and cartoons that often confronted Theodore Roosevelt through his career, about the Spanish-American War; His African safari; the Brazilian exploration. Critics sometimes doubted his accounts and accomplishments. The cartoonist implied that Roosevelt prioritized his Brazilian trip over campaigning for the Progressive Pin 1914 midterm elections.
Philippe Bunau-Varilla writes to John Hay with detailed explanations for portions of the Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty (Panama Canal Treaty) to be amended; he gives three main points of clarification for the Treaty.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-01-19