Curtis, Edward S., 1868-1952

President Roosevelt thanks Albert Westlake for the beautiful book, and anticipates reading it with pleasure.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-08-21

President Roosevelt tells Edward Henry Harriman that he is pleased Edward S. Curtis will be exhibiting his photographs of Native Americans and the American West in New York, and wishes the exhibition success.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-03-02

Theodore Roosevelt encloses $50 and discusses Archie’s allowance and his visit to their school. Roosevelt tells his son about some social engagements and his horse.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-01-05

Theodore Roosevelt regretfully turns down an invitation for him and his wife to attend an event with Gutzon Borglum.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1914-12-03

President Roosevelt expects he will receive two copies of Edward S. Curtis’s series of volumes The North American Indian, and he asks Herbert Putnam whether the Library of Congress has a copy. If not, Roosevelt may donate one of his.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-05-15

President Roosevelt profusely thanks Andrew Carnegie for his gift of Edward S. Curtis’s books.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-05-04

Isabella Hagner informs A. H. Vincent that there will be no photos of the wedding or Alice Roosevelt’s gown taken. Her latest photograph can be obtained from Edward S. Curtis at the Waldorf-Astoria.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-02-10

William Loeb refers A. H. Vincent to a previous note which informed him that his wishes could not be accommodated, and that the latest photograph of Alice Roosevelt could be obtained from Edward S. Curtis.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-02-12

William Loeb informs S. S. McClure that Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt has no objection to McClure’s publishing the photographs of the Roosevelts taken by Edward S. Curtis, but does not want an accompanying article.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-03-11

Robert Bridges returns the materials used for illustrating President Roosevelt’s book and is glad he is pleased with the regular edition of Outdoor Pastimes, which Bridges sent to Philip Battell Stewart and Alexander Lambert.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-11-02

Edward Henry Harriman asks President Roosevelt to write something to be included in a catalog for photographer Edward S. Curtis’s exhibit of Indian photographs. Curtis had accompanied Harriman to Alaska a few years earlier.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-03-01

Gregory A. Wynn explores the life of American photographer Edward S. Curtis who photographed Theodore Roosevelt’s family in 1904 and 1905. Wynn argues that Curtis’s 1904 portrait “is the single best studio photograph” of Roosevelt. Wynn details Curtis’s decades long struggle to photograph, write, and produce his multi-volume The North American Indian, and he highlights the roles played by Roosevelt and J. Pierpont Morgan in promoting and financing the project. In an addendum to his essay, Wynn notes that the Roosevelt collection of his friend Peter Scanlan came to auction, and he highlights the sale of pieces that have been featured in previous editions of his material culture column. 

Five Curtis photographs supplement the text along with the title page of The North American Indian and illustrations of three items from the Scanlan auction. 

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

John A. Gable reviews Looking for North: The Harriman Expedition to Alaska, 1899 by William H. Goetzmann and Kay Sloan. Gable focuses on the cast of famous figures, like John Muir and Edward S. Curtis, many of them friends of Theodore Roosevelt, who joined Edward Harriman’s scientific expedition.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

1983

Brief article about the relationship between Theodore Roosevelt and the photographer Edward S. Curtis that acts as a preface to an announcement about an exhibit in Sea Cliff, New York, featuring Curtis’s photographs of Native Americans. The article discusses Roosevelt’s support of the arts and letters and explains his assistance to Curtis in publishing his magisterial The North American Indian.

One of the photographs from the exhibit accompanies the article.

 

John A. Gable elaborates on the visit by members of the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) to Medora, North Dakota, and on the Edward S. Curtis photography exhibit in Sea Cliff, New York. He endorses Edmund Morris’s The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt,  notes Theodore Roosevelt books by Nathan Miller and Jerome Alden, and discusses the extensive Theodore Roosevelt collections of Governor James Thompson of Illinois and his friend Daniel Weil. Gable closes with a paragraph discussing the Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal, the work of the TRA, and the need to grow the association’s membership.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

1979