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Exposition president William J. Oliver and his assistant Sandford H. Cohen will escort Theodore Roosevelt. The locals are most excited to see him, the hero of the Pan-American War. The Appalachian Exposition has been very successful for the conservation movement and local development.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1910-09-23
This film shows part of the festivities at the Panama-California Exposition, where Theodore Roosevelt reviews the Annapolis Naval Academy’s midshipmen on July 28, 1915. Alongside Roosevelt, stands Governor Dunne of Illinois at his right, and Rear Admiral Fullam, Superintendent of the Academy, at his left.
Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound
1915-07-28
Theodore Roosevelt Thanks Louis W. Buckley for asking him to become a member of the Honorary Advisory Board of the first Kansas Land show but he must refuse. Roosevelt is part of hundreds of organizations and is trying not to join anymore because he does not want to be part of any organization unless he can be an active member, which he cannot do.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-12-14
A program detailing an Irish Industrial Exhibition. Also includes a list of patrons of the exhibit.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-08
President Roosevelt thanks Japanese diplomat Kentarō Kaneko for his letter. The Japanese government thoughtfully notified him of the decision to defer the exposition. Through Ambassador Kogoro Takahira, he sent a letter supporting the efforts of the Japanese government.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-09-05
President Roosevelt conveys to Japanese ambassador Takahira his deep appreciation of the Japanese government’s informal notification of its rescheduling the international exposition. Roosevelt inquires if he can do anything to help make the exposition successful, as he feels it is an admirable project.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-08-20
President Roosevelt asks if “Brother Unknown” is “Brother Mifflin”; he did not expect to come across a Porcellian Club brother at the special edition exhibition and is now looking forward to it.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-01-26
President Roosevelt tells Reverend Strong that he wishes he could attend the opening of the Exposition of Safety Devices and Industrial Hygiene held by the American Institute of Social Service, and remarks on the importance of such a conference. Roosevelt feels that the United States is lagging behind European countries in terms of laws that safeguard workers, noting that American industry has a casualty rate similar to that of a “great and perpetual war.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-12-13
Victor Howard Metcalf provides President Roosevelt with a series of correspondences regarding an immigration inspector, George C. Triick, who was accused of mistreating Mr. Chow Tszchi, a Chinese dignitary. The department agrees that the Government should provide the utmost courtesy to Chinese people but notes issues in proving citizenship or defining who could be classified as a Chinese laborer. Chinese merchants, teachers, students and bankers are welcome, but not laborers with falsified Chinese papers pretending to be of a higher class. A treaty written in 1904 sought to deal with falsified records but the Chinese thought it was too strict. Metcalf notes any concerns of harshness in the enforcement of exclusionary laws is necessary to combat those trying to skirt the system.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-06-07
A woman labeled “St. Louis” bows at the final curtain for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, with exhibition buildings visible in the background.
The 1904 “World’s Fair” was formally called the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. It marked the United States’ arrangement with France which doubled the country’s land mass and had uncountable other implications. President Roosevelt opened the fair by telegraph on April 30, and only attended during the few weeks between his re-election and the fair’s closure; he did not want his attendance to be perceived as a campaign event.
Puck largely ignored the fair, concentrating instead on presidential politics in 1904. A dozen years earlier, the magazine had an entirely different attitude toward the legendary Chicago World’s Fair (again, a nickname for the Columbian Exposition, which marked 500 years since Columbus’s discovery of America). For the 1892 Chicago Fair, Puck had its own pavilion, designed by the noted architect Stanford White. Visitors could walk through and see Puck‘s artists and writers at work; and a printing press produced a 26-week run of a compact World’s Fair Puck Magazine.
Photograph of an informational display entitled “Fort Union Formation,” which discusses the composition of the badlands; museum exhibit #9 in the South Unit visitor center of Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1967-03-30
Photograph of a petrified wood exhibit; museum exhibit #9 in the South Unit visitor center of Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1967-03-30
Photograph of an informational display entitled “Faded Trails,” which illustrates animals whose presence has declined in the badlands region; museum exhibit #11 in the South Unit visitor center of Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1967-03-30
Photograph of an informational display entitled “Life in the Badlands,” which illustrates animals adapted to life in the badlands region; museum exhibit #12 in the South Unit visitor center of Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1967-03-30
Photograph of an interactive informational display entitled “Flowers at Your Fingertips,” which illustrates flowers of the badlands region; museum exhibit #13 in the South Unit visitor center of Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1967-03-30
Photograph of an informational display entitled “Wings Over the Badlands,” which illustrates birds in the badlands region; museum exhibit #14 in the South Unit visitor center of Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1967-03-30
Photograph of and informational display entitled “Indian Days,” which discusses Native Americans in the badlands region; museum exhibit #15 in the South Unit visitor center of Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1967-03-30
Photograph of an informational display entitled “Les Mauvaises Terres,” which discusses early explorers’ perception of the badlands; museum exhibit #16 in the South Unit visitor center of Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1967-03-30
Photograph of an informational display entitled “Arrival of the Railroad,” which discusses the development of railroads in the badlands; museum exhibit #17 in the South Unit visitor center of Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1967-03-30
Photograph of an informational display entitled “The Open Range.” which discusses open range cattle grazing in the badlands; museum exhibit #19 in the South Unit visitor center of Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1967-03-30