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President Roosevelt thanks Edward Henry Harriman for the books and compliments him on the example set through the Harriman Alaska Expedition. Roosevelt would like to discuss “various matters” the next time Harriman is in Washington, D.C.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-11-12
Gregory A. Wynn explores the life of American photographer Edward S. Curtis who photographed Theodore Roosevelt’s family in 1904 and 1905. Wynn argues that Curtis’s 1904 portrait “is the single best studio photograph” of Roosevelt. Wynn details Curtis’s decades long struggle to photograph, write, and produce his multi-volume The North American Indian, and he highlights the roles played by Roosevelt and J. Pierpont Morgan in promoting and financing the project. In an addendum to his essay, Wynn notes that the Roosevelt collection of his friend Peter Scanlan came to auction, and he highlights the sale of pieces that have been featured in previous editions of his material culture column.
Five Curtis photographs supplement the text along with the title page of The North American Indian and illustrations of three items from the Scanlan auction.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
2014
John A. Gable reviews Looking for North: The Harriman Expedition to Alaska, 1899 by William H. Goetzmann and Kay Sloan. Gable focuses on the cast of famous figures, like John Muir and Edward S. Curtis, many of them friends of Theodore Roosevelt, who joined Edward Harriman’s scientific expedition.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
1983
Receipt for the first two volumes of Harriman Alaska Expedition courtesy of Doubleday, Page & Company.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-12-03
Luther S. Kelly has just returned from the Harriman Expedition to Alaska. The expedition went well. The expedition discovered a new inlet on Prince William Sound and killed one of the famous Kodiak bears. Kelly is also sorry to hear that in his absence all of the volunteer appointments to the Army have been filled leaving him unable to reenter the service.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1899-08-10