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Emily Tyler Carow thanks Theodore Roosevelt for sending her The Outlook each week, she always looks forward to it arriving. She went walking on a glacier yesterday and appreciates the air in Switzerland.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-09-03
Photograph of a wooden informational sign entitled “Edge of a Glacier,” which describes modern evidence of an ancient glacier in the North Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1961-04
National Park Service; Maeder, Richard H. (Richard Henry), 1926-2001
Charles M. Taintor asks President Roosevelt’s permission to name three glaciers in Yellowstone National Park after Roosevelt. Taintor believes he and his party were the first to visit these glaciers.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-02-01
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English
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Two lines of Mountaineers on the Upper Hoh Glacier, roughly an hour and a half away from the summit pictured in the background.
1913-08-11
C. M. Jones writes to the editor of The Sun correcting the events of the Alaskan earthquake and explaining how the melting of a glacier caused it.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-10-21
Postcard with black and white photograph of the Roosevelt, a ship built for Robert E. Peary’s 1905 and 1908 Arctic explorations, alongside a glacier near Cape York, Greenland, August 1906. The ship was named for Theodore Roosevelt, who had been very supportive of Peary’s expeditions.
1907-1914
Theodore Roosevelt enjoyed Switzerland and Scotland. He describes a carriage ride from Geneva to Chamonix. They ascended a mountain on mules to visit the Mer de Glace, a glacier on Mont Blanc. Roosevelt has been collecting stamps from the countries he has visited.
1869-11-11