Dresses

A typical advertisement from the fashion journals of the time. This one featured four types of dresses.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1908-1910

Creator(s)

Unknown

Article about the dresses designed for Theodore Roosevelt Jr.’s fiancee, Eleanor Butler Alexander, by the fashion designer Lady Lucy Duff-Gordon. A typed note under the article in the scrapbook says the accounts of Eleanor’s trousseau in the papers annoyed her mother, Grace Green Alexander, who felt their privacy was being invaded.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1910-06-15

Creator(s)

Unknown

A magazine presents drawings of Alice Roosevelt’s bridal gown. Eleanor Butler Roosevelt’s notation in the scrapbook reads: “All invented by an English magazine.”

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1906

Creator(s)

Findeville, S.

President Roosevelt, Alice Roosevelt Longworth & Hon. Nicholas Longworth posing under floral arrangements.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1906

Creator(s)

Wasson, C. L. (Charles L.)

Collection

Charles C. Myers Collection

Creation Date

1908

Creator(s)

Denniston's

Language

English

Period

(1905, March-1909, February) U.S. President – 2nd Term

Full-length standing portrait of Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1901

Creator(s)

Unknown

Theodore Roosevelt has been anxiously expecting a letter from Alice Lee and Rose Saltonstall. He has been avoiding making any engagements for Saturday. Roosevelt would like Saltonstall to know that he enjoyed the pleasant Thanksgiving at her home. From the accounts he has heard, Lee’s dress must have been a success at the New Bedford party.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1878-12-06

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919