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Theodore Roosevelt emphasizes the importance of a biological survey of the Panama Canal route in connection with a letter from Seth E. Meek of the Field Museum of Natural History. He urges Congress to authorize a broader study of Panama and Central America.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-09-07
Theodore Roosevelt declines the invitation from F. J. V. Skiff.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-02-20
Theodore Roosevelt thanks George A. Dorsey for the editorials he had written. Roosevelt also states that he enjoyed his afternoon at the Field Museum and for Dorsey to thank his collogues as well.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-12-18
W. P. Carr informs Theodore Roosevelt that he is planning a collecting trip to India and Ceylon, present day Sri Lanka, to obtain study specimens of small mammals, plants, and fungi to distribute to various American agricultural colleges and natural history museums. Carr would appreciate Roosevelt if he could secure a short interview with him for advice and help in the matter.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-10-21
F. J. Skiff asks Theodore Roosevelt to lecture on his African expedition at the Field Museum of Natural History.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-01-30
Carl Ethan Akeley, Taxidermist-in-Chief of the Field Museum, sends President Roosevelt a manuscript about an elephant hunt in which he and his wife, Delia J. Akeley, participated. The manuscript is bound in the leather of one of the elephants Mrs. Akeley killed, and Akeley hopes it encourages Roosevelt to take a hunting trip to British East Africa.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-11-04
Keith Muchowski focuses on the literary life of Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., the eldest son of Theodore Roosevelt. Muchowski shines a spotlight on two types of books written, co-written, or edited by Roosevelt: stories and tales from the battlefields of World War I and hunting stories based on expeditions to Asia with his brother Kermit Roosevelt. Muchowski also looks at Roosevelt’s role in the founding of the American Legion and his time as governor general of the Philippines, and he laments that Roosevelt’s death in July 1944 prevented him from chronicling his service in World War II.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
2016
Neil Edward Stubbs examines the influence that Theodore Roosevelt had on the novelist Ernest Hemingway. Stubbs looks at Hemingway’s childhood and notes how the culture that he was raised in the in the first decade of the twentieth century was dominated by Roosevelt. Stubbs explores Hemingway’s love of hunting, his desire to meld the strenuous life with the intellectual life, and his quest for military service as evidence of his desire to emulate Roosevelt. Stubbs speculates that Hemingway may have become disillusioned with Roosevelt after his service in World War I, but he notes that Hemingway pursued military service in the 1930s and 1940s.
Three photographs populate the essay, including one each of Roosevelt and Hemingway with lions they killed while on safari in Africa.
Charles W. Snyder examines the life of Theodore Roosevelt, President Theodore Roosevelt’s oldest son, who struggled to emerge from the long shadow cast by his famous father. Snyder provides a comprehensive biography of the younger Roosevelt, looking at his service in both world wars, his stints as Governor General of Puerto Rico and the Philippines, and his career in politics. Snyder also looks at the breach that developed between the Oyster Bay and Hyde Park, New York, branches of the Roosevelt family, and he examines Roosevelt’s opposition to the New Deal and his support of isolationism in the 1930s.
Ten photographs of Roosevelt appear in the article: three of these show Roosevelt with members of his family and six of them are from his service during World War II; a photograph of his home, Old Orchard, also illustrates the article. A text box with a listing of the officers of the Theodore Roosevelt Association is found on the second page of the article.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
1991
Three paragraph reminiscence by Carl Ethan Akeley about Theodore Roosevelt. Akeley describes visits with Roosevelt in Africa and at the White House, and asserts that Roosevelt was defined by his straightforwardness and simplicity.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
1982
David Eugene Conrad examines the relationship between President Theodore Roosevelt and retired naval officer George T. Emmons. Roosevelt made Emmons “his principal adviser on Alaska,” and tasked him with helping to resolve a boundary dispute with Canada and with examining the condition of Native American tribes who were suffering at the hands of white settlers and miners. Conrad notes how Roosevelt used Emmons to go around the federal government bureaucracy, especially in the Department of the Interior. He stresses Emmons’s concern for the plight of the native tribes of Alaska, and he notes that some of his recommendations to Roosevelt were made into law by acts of Congress.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
1977
Kermit Roosevelt will reach Chicago, Illinois, by Thursday afternoon and suggests they visit the Field Museum of Natural History.
1911-07-26
Captain White of the Cantonment Indian School of Indian Territory confirmed that an officer of the Bureau of Ethnology and an officer from the Field Museum of Chicago paid Cheyennes and Arapahoes to torture themselves in a “sun dance.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-08-06