Documentary photography--Exhibitions

The photographer Xiomáro describes the process of photographing Sagamore Hill National Historic Site while it was being emptied and prepared for a major renovation in 2012. Xiomáro recounts his experience photographing another unit of the National Park Service, and he notes how his photographs taken at Sagamore Hill became the basis for an exhibition in Oyster Bay, New York, and at Harvard University. One photograph accompanies the text which is followed by a photo album of eleven color photographs.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

2015

Creator(s)

Xiomáro, 1960-

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.

An advertisement for the Roosevelt Savings Bank listing its various branch offices is found at the bottom of the article page.

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

Creator(s)

Gable, John A.