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Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary informs Daniel W. Hoff that Roosevelt receives many similar requests and cannot respond to all of them and declines to do so. Roosevelt is not able to assist in securing an alteration of the American flag as requested.
Postcard with a photograph of Alice Roosevelt Longworth and Nicholas Longworth with others on a decorated platform in front of a crowd.
1906-10-04
Tri-fold postcard showing Theodore Roosevelt giving a speech to a large crowd at Camp Grant. Roosevelt is standing on a covered platform decorated with American flags in the distance. A note from Henry Hysel on the reverse informs the recipient he attended this speech.
1917
Postcard featuring the statement, “I Suppose if I Vote for Roosevelt I Can Stick Around on My Job”. The word Roosevelt is in a large red and green pennant flag on the left side of the postcard and a cartoon drawing of a police officer is on the right. On the reverse is a handwritten note to Henry Losier that states “Solid ‘Bull Moose’ Here. Get Busy Henry!”.
The postcard was most likely produced in 1912 during the presidential campaign in which Theodore Roosevelt would run as a member of the Progressive Party, also known as the Bull Moose Party. Roosevelt would lose the election to Woodrow Wilson.
A patriotic demonstration will take place on Friday, May 18, and a flag purchased by the senior class of 1917 will be raised at Monroe Colored City Public School. Speeches by people of both races will be given.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1917-05
President Roosevelt asks Colonel Scott to pass on his thanks for the gift of a flag and his appreciation for the good work. The general orders issued by Scott pleased Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-09-04
President Roosevelt is unsure how to respond to S. Weir Mitchell’s novel idea concerning foreign flags, and wants to discuss the matter with Secretary of State Elihu Root before acting.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-08-24
President Roosevelt asks if the flag in the Navy Department can also be used as the president’s flag in the War Department.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-10-12
William N. Freeman thanks Frank Harper for his letter. He discusses a possible daily school exercise of a flag honor guard. He recalls a movement to assign a generic name to American soldiers, as British soldiers are called “Tommy Atkins”. He suggests “Johnny Trump”, and hopes that Roosevelt can endorse the idea. He would like to meet Roosevelt and give him a handshake.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-09-20
William N. Freeman informs Theodore Roosevelt about New Jersey’s law requiring schoolchildren to salute the flag and asks for his support.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-09-14
The Japanese flag of the Imperial Navy with a Japanese man’s head in the center appears on the horizon of the ocean.
It evidently was not only West Coast newspapers, like the sensationalist San Francisco Examiner of William Randolph Hearst, that provoked anti-Japanese sentiment at the turn of the century. A cartoonist named Robert Isbell, plugging a hole at the Washington Post left by the departure of Clifford Kennedy Berryman for the crosstown Star, trafficked in xenophobic alarums about the “Yellow Peril.”
Secretary of War William H. Taft and President Roosevelt, who wears a big stick, use an American flag to cover up “Jolo.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-03-16
President Roosevelt holds an American flag with a tag that reads, “let us have peace,” on the globe. The Japanese and Russian flags can also be seen. Caption: The flag of peace: Roosevelt unfurls it over the world.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-09
Photograph of a relocated entrance pylon with visitor center sign and the new visitor center and flag pole visible.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1961
The photograph of the Civilian Conservation Corps camp flagpole was taken at the Roosevelt Recreation Demonstration Area. The photograph is part of a three-binder set of pictures taken by Chandler D. Fairbank, Civilian Conservation Corps North Unit foreman at the Roosevelt Recreation Demonstration Area, taken between 1936 and 1937.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1936-1937
Photograph of an original picture of the Civilian Conservation Corps company standing outside camp buildings during roll call at the Roosevelt Recreation Demonstration Area. The photograph is part a three-binder set of pictures taken by Chandler D. Fairbank, Civilian Conservation Corps North Unit foreman at the Roosevelt Recreation Demonstration Area, taken between 1936 and 1937.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1936-1937
Photograph of James Rockne, Civilian Conservation Corps enrollee in company 2771, holding a guitar in front of an American flag at the Roosevelt Recreation Demonstration Area. Photograph is part a three-binder set of pictures taken by Chandler D. Fairbank, Civilian Conservation Corps North Unit foreman at the Roosevelt Recreation Demonstration Area, taken between 1936 and 1937.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1936-1937
Photograph of three Civilian Conservation Corps enrollees from company 2771 in front of an American flag: John Tandberg (left), Jerome F. Orf (center), James Rockene (right).
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1936-1937
Photograph of Chief James Rouse (Interpretation and Resource Management) and District Ranger Lary D. Barney on horseback holding the flags of the United States and the Department of the Interior near the entrance of the South Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Memorial Park.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1966-07-04
Colonel Brownell acknowledges Mr. McDonnell’s letter stating that he presented the flag from Quentin Roosevelt’s training camp in Mineola to Edith Roosevelt. Brownell reminisces about Quentin, remembering how he would wait for letters from his father when he was stationed at the Third Aviation Instruction Center, how he survived pneumonia, and how he had dinner with Brownell at the field hospital the night before he went overseas. Brownell suggests that McDonnell share his letter with Edith Roosevelt.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1932-12-05