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President Roosevelt examines three new designs for coins: “The Great American Stork Design,” “The Great American Hen Design,” and “The Great American Eagle Design.” Caption: President Roosevelt has ordered some new and more suitable designs for the twenty dollar gold pieces.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-02-24
A stork holds a card with President Roosevelt’s face on it and a message that reads, “Sincere regards, T. Roosevelt.” The stork shows it to an eagle as they both stand right in front of the White House.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-03-19
President Roosevelt points to a stork that holds a basket with three infants. An eagle stands to the side and says, “I’m a dead one.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-03-16
John D. Rockefeller, dressed up as Uncle Sam, admires himself in a mirror. Uncle Sam is sitting on the left in his underclothes with an eagle perched next to him. A much larger eagle labeled “Aldrich” is perched on a large “Oil” can to the right of Rockefeller.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1906-03-14
Photograph of two young golden eagles in a nest with animal bones nearby in Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1966-07
Photograph of an eagle’s nest on the side of a cliff along the Wind Canyon Nature Trail in the South Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park in the spring of 1963.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1963
National Park Service; Maeder, Richard H. (Richard Henry), 1926-2001
A bald eagle, bruised and battered, stands on a pile of spent fireworks, following the celebration of the Fourth of July.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1905-07-05
An eagle stands on the “U.S.A.” portion of a globe with its wings extending from “Porto Rico” and “Panama” on the right to the “Philippines” on the left. Caption: “Gee, but this is an awful stretch!”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1904-06-29
Independence Day fireworks spell out the word “Freedom” above an eagle forming the great seal of the United States hovering over a bird nest with four chicks labeled “Philippines, Cuba, Hawaii, [and] Porto Rico.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1901-07-03
President Roosevelt thanks Judge Pritchard for the eagle, a “great wilderness bird.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-01-05
President Roosevelt thanks Edgar Buck for his gift of an eagle.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-05-28
A postcard showing the flags of the United States and Australia crossed above an eagle with outstretched wings holding a banner in its beak with the text “E Pluribus Unum.” Above the flags is the text “Independent Order of Odd Fellows.” Next to each flag is the address of the respective country’s head office of the organization.
Unknown
Portraits of William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt with an eagle and two United States flags.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1900
William M. Steward, on the left, and William McKinley, on the right, have a strangle-hold on a bald eagle that has a stars and stripes shield on its breast. They are plucking its feathers and stuffing them into large bags labeled “Silver Grab Bag” and “Tariff Grab Bag.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1893-08-23
Cuban General Máximo Gómez sits on a horse, listening to an eagle perched on the U.S. Capitol building singing “the song of freedom.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1898-05-11
Uncle Sam and a Chinese man are connected by a large firecracker. Caption: Sam and John, “the Siamese twins” of the Fourth of July.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1913-07-02
Letter size envelope with a round portrait of Colonel Roosevelt in blue ink surrounded by a ring of white stars on a red background. Above the portrait is an eagle with an American flag in its talons. A lasso reaches from the portrait to a charging bison in the lower right corner.
Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site
1898
Handwritten draft of chapter four of The Wilderness Hunter. The chapter was published as chapters four and five.
1893
John Burroughs enjoyed Ted Roosevelt’s visit and was impressed with his proficiency at climbing trees. He wishes Roosevelt would come back during eagle season.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1900-05-25