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Postcard featuring a colored image of Theodore Roosevelt’s grave with the headstone, flowers, and small American flag. Above the picture is identified. Mildred has arrived safely and is having a “fine time” on the beach.
Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site
1924-07-01
The article provides a summary of the funeral service for Helen Long, Secretary Long’s daughter.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-10-08
Consul John G. Long passed away this morning after an accidental fall.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-07-28
Originally part of the newsreel series, Universal current events, this film shows scenes from Theodore Roosevelt’s funeral in Oyster Bay, New York on January 8, 1919.
Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound
1919
Father Time presents the new year labeled “1886” to Puck standing in the foreground, holding his lithographic pencil. Behind him are scenes of events from 1885, such as President Cleveland’s inauguration on March 4, Fredinand Ward’s conviction and William Mahone’s defeat, publication of Pope Leo XIII’s “Encyclical” Immortale Dei, Louis Pasteur’s anti-rabies vaccine, Chinese attacked in Rock Springs, Wyoming, and Tacoma, Washington Territory, and the Grim Reaper strikes down Ulysses S. Grant, Alfonso XII of Spain, William H. Vanderbilt, composer Leopold Damrosch, Cardinal McCloskey, Thomas Hendricks, and Victor Hugo. Fighting continues in Bulgaria, Sudan, Tonquin, and Spain.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1885-12-30
Print shows a group of men, probably President Garfield’s physicians, exiting Francklyn Cottage where Garfield died. The men hold slips of paper that state “Self Exoneration”. Three men standing on the left hold papers that state “Private Theory, Temperance Ideas, [and] Power of Prayer”. (They may represent physicians that were dismissed when Garfield appeared to be recovering).
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1881-09-28
The body of Ulysses S. Grant lies in state in front of an angel joining the hands of two female figures, one labeled “North” and the other labeled “South” under the heading “Let Us Have Peace.” Mars sits on the left and “Clio” sits on the right, with an incense burner between them.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1885-07-29
Theodore Roosevelt and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt have spent two weeks with Ethel Roosevelt Derby and her family. Eleanor Butler Roosevelt and Richard Derby have both written that Archibald Roosevelt should have been sent home for treatment. Quentin Roosevelt’s last letters are arriving and his grave is now within the French lines.
1918-08-09
Rumors about Quentin Roosevelt’s death arrived on July 16 but were not confirmed until today. Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt is suffering and Flora Whitney is brokenhearted. Quentin “died as the heroes of old died.” Congress returned some Nobel Prize money to Roosevelt and he has decided to donate it to the Salvation Army. He agrees with Archie Roosevelt’s thoughts on the government’s failure to prepare for war and that many people, like Quentin, will pay with their blood. Ted Roosevelt was recently injured with a “bullet through his leg.”
1918-07-21
Theodore Roosevelt thanks Colonel McCoy for writing about Quentin Roosevelt’s death. His death was dreadful but it would have been worse if he had stayed home. Archibald Roosevelt is home and hopes to be healthy for the spring fighting.
1918-09-12
Theodore Roosevelt offers his sympathy to Frances Theodora Parsons upon learning of her mother’s death.
1918-10-23
Governor Roosevelt offers his condolences after hearing of Thomas Watkins’s death.
1899-11-11
Theodore Roosevelt was sad to hear of the death of his childhood nurse, Dora Watkins. He regrets that he was not in the country and offers to reimburse Mrs. John Mott if she incurred any expenses during Watkins’s final illness and funeral. Original and typewritten copy.
1909-07-17
Commissioner Roosevelt sends his condolences to Frances Theodora Dana after the death of her husband, William Starr Dana.
1890-01-10
Due to a heated exchange with Commissioner Andrew D. Parker and Edward Lauterbach, Commissioner Roosevelt was unable to visit Frances Theodora Parsons’s house after the senate committee. Roosevelt was able to see James West Roosevelt before his death and Corinne Roosevelt Robinson is “terribly broken by the news.”
1896-04-12
President Roosevelt offers his condolences to Frances Theodora Parsons following the death of her husband, James Russell Parsons. He loves both of them and assures her that in time the grief will pass.
1905-12-12
President Roosevelt offered a job in Nogales, Mexico, to Charles C. Eberhart but he declined. Roosevelt told the State Department that Eberhart should be given the first available promotion for which he is suitable. Roosevelt learned the details of James Russell Parsons’s death and calls him a “quiet hero.”
1906-02-10
Reprinted in unknown newspaper and date – originally printed in the Chicago Tribune on August 30, 1905. Black ink cartoon with Theodore Roosevelt buried beneath a pile of flowers and a pile of congratulations cards, signed by various world leaders including Edward VII, Kaiser Wilhelm, and (Czar) Nicholas. In the background are two men walking off into the sunset, one with the Russian flag, and the other with the Japanese flag. At the top is a short paragraph highlighting Theodore Roosevelt’s accomplishments in negotiating the end of the Russo-Japanese War and advocating that Franklin Roosevelt do the same between England and Germany.
Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site
1939-1941
Magazine photographs of Theodore Roosevelt’s funeral procession, his headstone, and portrait.
Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site
1919
A newspaper clipping showing an image of the grave of Quentin Roosevelt found by an American aviator. The Germans had buried him and erected a cross bearing the words, “Roosevelt, American Aviator.” The grave was outlined with stones with the remnants of the wreckage piled at its head.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1918