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Excerpt from the Library of Congress Quarterly Journal of Current Acquisitions, Fifteenth Anniversary Issue, including “Some Thoughts on the Roosevelt Papers” by Elting Elmore Morison and the “Catalog of the Theodore Roosevelt Centennial Exhibit.”
1958-05
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.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-03-01
Article about the opening of the exhibition Theodore at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum in Austin, Texas, on June 2, 1984. The article discusses some of the Theodore Roosevelt artifacts on display and lists the various museums, libraries, and archives that donated items. It lists members of the Johnson and Roosevelt families who attended the opening and shares excerpts from the exhibition catalog.
Four photographs of members of the Johnson and Roosevelt families at the opening, as well as a photograph of one of the original Teddy Bears featured in the exhibit, supplement the text.
Advertisement for the exhibition catalog for the exhibit Theodore at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum. The advertisement describes the contents of the catalog, including the introductory essays and their authors, and includes an order form for the catalog and for a poster used to promote the exhibit.
An illustration of Theodore Roosevelt based on a photograph appears to the left of the advertisement text.
This edition of “News and Notes” has five sections. Brief histories of the three ships and one submarine that have carried the name of Theodore Roosevelt are provided in “The Aircraft Carrier Theodore Roosevelt.” This section also highlights the five different Roosevelts who have served as Assistant Secretary of the Navy. “TR Exhibit at the LBJ Library in Texas” revisits the Theodore exhibit at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum. It lists fourteen of the archives, museums, and historic sites that lent items to the exhibit, and it promotes the sale of the exhibit catalogue and poster.
“Meadowcroft” covers a July 1903 visit by Roosevelt to the home of his cousin John Ellis Roosevelt on the south shore of Long Island. It also relates the events surrounding “Theodore Roosevelt Day at Meadowcroft” on July 28, 1984, which celebrated and recreated President Roosevelt’s visit. “Rough Riders Museum in New Mexico” examines why there is a museum dedicated to the Rough Riders in Las Vegas, New Mexico. It looks at the state’s contributions to the regiment and highlights some of the reunions held in Las Vegas.
The final and untitled section notes events involving the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) and its work: the conferring of a TRA award to a high school student, a radio interview of the TRA’s Executive Director John A. Gable, and a listing of programs at the Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace and Sagamore Hill National Historic Sites.
A photograph of President Ronald Reagan and First Lady Nancy Reagan at the graves of General Theodore Roosevelt and Quentin Roosevelt is found on the first page of “News and Notes.” Four photographs of the Paul Manship statue of President Roosevelt on Theodore Roosevelt Island in Washington, D.C. and an illustration of Mount Rushmore National Memorial accompany the text.