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Jerome D. Greene has deposited the copy of the inauguration medal designed by Augustus Saint-Gaudens with the Curator of Coins in the library at Harvard University.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-07-13
The Harvard University Library offers for sale a five volume guide to the Theodore Roosevelt Collection. The guide provides a comprehensive catalog of the collection up until the mid-1950s, and there are no plans to make it available online. This updated advertisement features a reduced price of seventy-five dollars for the set.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
2007
Gregory A. Wynn chronicles the search by the Roosevelt Memorial Association (RMA) for a home for its extensive Theodore Roosevelt Collection. Wynn highlights the choice between Columbia and Harvard University, and he highlights the group’s sensitivity to the feelings of Theodore Roosevelt’s widow, Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, as well as those of Nora E. Cordingley, the collection’s caretaker at its home at the Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace. Wynn reveals the disagreements and tensions between members of the RMA and the arguments made for and against each university gaining the collection, and he notes that the New York Public Library was also considered as the repository for the collection.
Three pieces of correspondence from the RMA and a photograph of John A. Gable with Hermann Hagedorn supplement the text.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
2020
The photographer Xiomáro describes the process of photographing Sagamore Hill National Historic Site while it was being emptied and prepared for a major renovation in 2012. Xiomáro recounts his experience photographing another unit of the National Park Service, and he notes how his photographs taken at Sagamore Hill became the basis for an exhibition in Oyster Bay, New York, and at Harvard University. One photograph accompanies the text which is followed by a photo album of eleven color photographs.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
2015
Wallace Finley Dailey provides a history of the Theodore Roosevelt Collection housed in the Harvard University libraries, and he highlights the interaction between the staff at Harvard and the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA). Dailey lists both recent works on Theodore Roosevelt that have made use of the collection and some of the acquisitions made to grow the collection. Dailey also writes at length about the continuing efforts to make the collection searchable and usable through an online catalog, and he notes collaborative projects with Google and the Theodore Roosevelt Center to scan items from the collection. Dailey also gives an update on his work, including assisting researchers and mounting exhibits, since his last report in 2008.
Two photographs, including one of Dailey, and an illustration of the collection bookplate, supplement the text.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
2013
Wallace Finley Dailey presents an exhibit, “Roosevelt Reading: The Pigskin Library, 1909-1910,” that opened at Harvard University in September 2003. Dailey provides an introduction to the exhibit which consists of photographs, excerpts of letters, and illustrations of the numerous pigskin bound volumes that Theodore Roosevelt took with him on his African safari. The exhibit is divided into three parts: “Classics and the Continent,” History and Romance,” and “Americans.” Many of the book illustrations have captions taken from letters or articles written by Roosevelt that comment on the book and its author.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
2013
The Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) announces the appointment of Laurence Pels as the new Executive Director of the TRA, and it also announces that Heather Cole has taken over as curator of the Theodore Roosevelt Collection at Harvard University, replacing Wallace Finley Dailey who retired after forty-one years of overseeing the collection. A text box lists the President and Executive Directors of the TRA, along with those responsible for assembling its journal, guidelines for submitting manuscripts, and information regarding the governance of the TRA.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
2012
Wallace Finley Dailey describes the October 3, 2008, presentation given by documentary filmmaker Ken Burns during a visit to Harvard University as part of its commemoration of the 150th anniversary of Theodore Roosevelt’s birth. Dailey also details a major photography exhibit chronicling Roosevelt’s life drawn from some 200 photographs from the Theodore Roosevelt Collection at Harvard. Dailey provides details about the photographs to be found in the five areas of the exhibit.
Three photographs accompany the essay, including ones of Dailey and Burns, along with a picture of the exhibit cases, and an illustration of Sagamore Hill.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
2008
Wallace Finley Dailey provides an update on the status of the Theodore Roosevelt Collection housed in the Harvard University libraries. Dailey notes his meetings with the staff of the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA), highlights recent works on Theodore Roosevelt that have made use of the collection, and lists some of the acquisitions made to grow the collection. Dailey also writes at length about the continuing efforts to make the collection searchable and usable through an online catalog. A photograph of the card catalog and online catalog systems at Harvard accompanies the report.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
2008
The Harvard University Library offers for sale a five volume guide to the Theodore Roosevelt Collection. The guide provides a comprehensive catalog of the collection up until the mid-1950s, and there are no plans to make it available online.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
2007
The Harvard University Library offers for sale a five volume guide to the Theodore Roosevelt Collection. The guide provides a comprehensive catalog of the collection up until the mid-1950s, and there are no plans to make it available online. This advertisement also reflects a drop in the sale price from $150.00 to $100.00.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
2007
Wallace Finley Dailey describes the changes and additions to the Theodore Roosevelt Collection at Harvard University since his last report in 1994. Dailey notes the repair and restoration of thousands of pamphlets, the addition of manuscripts from Roosevelt family members, and the addition of books and articles whose authors made use of the collection in writing their works. Dailey also describes the process of moving the collection’s guides online, and he highlights the various exhibits mounted by Harvard Library using material from the collection. He closes the report by noting that the collection received Theodore Roosevelt’s Pigskin Library, and that it served as the centerpiece of an exhibit.
A photograph of the Pigskin Library appears on the first page of the report, and a text box with a quote from Roosevelt about reading appears at its end.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
2004
The Harvard University Library offers for sale a five volume guide to the Theodore Roosevelt Collection. The guide provides a comprehensive catalog of the collection up until the mid-1950s, and there are no plans to make it available online.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
2006
Report on the 77th annual meeting of the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) held in and around Boston, Massachusetts in October, 1996. The report highlights the conferring of several awards sponsored by the TRA: the Theodore Roosevelt Distinguished Service Medal to author David McCullough; the Bertha B. Rose Award to Wallace Finley Dailey of Harvard; the Police Award for a member of the Boston, Massachusetts, Police Department; and the Junior Officer of the Year Award to a member of the USS Theodore Roosevelt. The report also details the annual elections of the TRA, including the selection of Lawrence H. Budner as the next president, and it notes that tours of Harvard, including the Theodore Roosevelt Collection, were given for those who attended. The report highlights the many years of service to the TRA of P. James Roosevelt and announces that a lecture series will be established in his name.
Thirteen photographs of those who attended the various events populate the report, including five of McCullough.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
1997
The combined “Books” and “Book Notes” sections contain four lengthy reviews, a brief review essay, and a notice about five works related to the life of Theodore Roosevelt. It also includes a short excerpt from Roosevelt’s writings on conservation and a report by Wallace Finley Dailey on the status of the Theodore Roosevelt Collection at Harvard University. Christopher Volpe praises Edward Renehan’s biography of John Burroughs and highlights Burroughs’s friendships with Roosevelt and the poet Walt Whitman. Volpe notes that Burroughs was a very popular figure as a nature writer in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, but that he fell into obscurity after his death in 1921.
John A. Gable admires the cartoons and commentary found in J. David Valaik’s Theodore Roosevelt, An American Hero in Caricature which reproduces forty-seven caricatures of Roosevelt found in the pages of Puck magazine. Gable also favors Caleb Carr’s historical novel, The Alienist, which revolves around Roosevelt’s tenure as Police Commissioner of New York City. Gable, deeply skeptical of fictional portrayals of Roosevelt, finds Carr’s treatment “entirely accurate,” and he notes how other characters that people the novel have roots in real persons.
James G. Lewis reviews Char Miller’s Gifford Pinchot: The Evolution of an American Conservationist and notes that the work challenges the established view of the relationship between Pinchot and John Muir. Lewis says that Miller is “writing revisionist environmental history” by providing a nuanced portrait of Pinchot. Some of the selections as well as some of the commentary found in Mario R. Di Nunzio’s Theodore Roosevelt: An American Mind are questioned by the anonymous reviewer.
Wallace Finley Dailey, Curator of the Theodore Roosevelt Collection at Harvard University, provides a detailed update on manuscript and book additions to the collection; the use of the collection holdings by numerous authors; and the adoption of new computer based cataloging technology. Dailey also discusses fundraising efforts, exhibitions using the collection materials, and donations from members of the Roosevelt family. Photographs of Burroughs, Pinchot, Carr, and Valiak appear in the sections along with a view of the Theodore Roosevelt Gallery at Harvard.
Six of the ten pages of this edition of the “News and Notes” column are devoted to the visit of a delegation from the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) to the Netherlands in October 1989. The TRA, for the first time, held its annual meeting and dinner outside of the United States. The column notes the group’s visit to various sites across the Netherlands, describes the activities of the Roosevelt Study Center, and discusses fundraising efforts to support the Center. The column also discusses efforts to increase the endowment for the TRA and to establish an endowment for the Theodore Roosevelt Collection at Harvard University.
The column is illustrated with fifteen photographs from the TRA’s visit to the Netherlands and two more from the fundraising dinner held to support the endowment of the Roosevelt collection at Harvard.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
1989
Advertisement for a six volume set of works from the Harvard University Library which serve as a guide to the Theodore Roosevelt Collection. The first five volumes cover materials added up to 1959 while the supplement includes material up to 1986. The ad describes the material in the six volumes and includes instructions for ordering.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
1987
Advertisement for a six volume set of works from the Harvard University Library which serve as a guide to the Theodore Roosevelt Collection. The first five volumes cover materials added up to 1959 while the supplement includes material up to 1986. The ad describes the material in the six volumes and includes instructions for ordering.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
1987
History of the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) that chronicles the TRA’s work to preserve historic sites associated with Theodore Roosevelt and its work in collecting documents, providing natural history research grants, and publishing books and a journal on Roosevelt.
A photograph of Theodore Roosevelt seated at a desk accompanies the article.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
1983
Report on the sixty-third annual meeting of the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) held on October 30, 1982 at the Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site in Buffalo, New York. The notice contains the remarks given by the TRA President, William Davison Johnston, and it details the reports given by the Executive Director, the Treasurer, and the chair of the nominating committee. The notice also lists some of the guests in attendance, lists the past presidents of the TRA, and provides brief biographies of some of the leaders of the association.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
1983