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Roosevelt at home

Roosevelt at home

This film includes a number of quotations from Theodore Roosevelt about his home at Sagamore Hill, as well as images of both the interior and exterior of his home. Additionally, this item includes film clips of Roosevelt on the property surrounding his house and in the community of Oyster Bay, New York, and highlights his love of family.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association

Creation Date

Unknown

A runaway at Coventry

A runaway at Coventry

British Prime Minister Henry Campbell-Bannerman, wearing a “Radical Promises” cloak, rides a horse with a “Radical Major” harness and a “Socialism” tail. The horse is kicking up the dust of “Distrust,” “Financial Insecurity,” “Faddism,” “Confiscation,” and “Experiment.” Caption: Lady Godiva:—”Good Gracious! If this covering blows off they’ll discover that I’ve nothing underneath!”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-08-08

Letter from Frederick Courteney Selous to Theodore Roosevelt

Letter from Frederick Courteney Selous to Theodore Roosevelt

Frederick Courteney Selous thanks President Roosevelt for the generosity of writing a foreword for his new book, African Nature Notes and Reminiscences, especially considering Roosevelt’s other important duties. Selous wishes he could get J. H. Patterson to contribute a chapter about his experiences with the man-eating lions of Tsavo, but Patterson has just written his own book on the topic. Selous discusses his dealings with the publishing industry and his recent works, A Hunter’s Wanderings in Africa and Recent Hunting Trips in British North America. Selous has had to cancel his hunting trips this year due to losses in many of his investments. Recently Selous was in Turkey, but had to leave because it was unsafe. Selous thanks Roosevelt for the photographs of him on his horse Roswell, noting that “he must be a splendid animal to carry a man of your weight over a brush hurdle.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-06-20

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Henry Cabot Lodge

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Henry Cabot Lodge

President Roosevelt describes a 62-mile horse ride to Cheyenne, Wyoming, he took with Presley Marion Rixey, Senator Francis E. Warren, and Mr. Van Tassel, the owner of the ranch at which Roosevelt’s party ate lunch. After the ride, Roosevelt led a procession into Cheyenne and made a 45-minute speech at the city’s Memorial Day services. Roosevelt adds a post-script describing a second, 30-mile, horse ride to Warren’s ranch.

Collection

Massachusetts Historical Society

Creation Date

1903-05-31

Theodore Roosevelt on horseback

Theodore Roosevelt on horseback

President Roosevelt gave this signed photograph to his close friend and confidant Senator Henry Cabot Lodge in May 1902. A skilled horseman, Roosevelt had become the youngest U.S. president in history following the assassination of President McKinley eight months earlier.

Collection

Massachusetts Historical Society

Creation Date

1902-05

Roosevelt family

Roosevelt family

Postcard of a 1904 photograph featuring the Roosevelt family and horses at Sagamore Hill. Original photograph was taken by Arthur Hewitt.

Collection

Fritz R. Gordner Collection

Creation Date

1912-09-23

Roosevelt family

Roosevelt family

Postcard of a 1904 photograph featuring the Roosevelt family and horses at Sagamore Hill. From L-R: Kermit Roosevelt, Archibald B. Roosevelt, President Roosevelt, Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, Quentin Roosevelt and Theodore Roosevelt. Original photograph was taken by Arthur Hewitt.

Collection

Fritz R. Gordner Collection

Creation Date

1904-1907

Letter from Kermit Roosevelt to John Wallace Riddle

Letter from Kermit Roosevelt to John Wallace Riddle

Kermit Roosevelt has a year of hard work ahead of him with his Harvard examinations. He is also trying out for the rowing crew in spite of the bad weather and had a good holiday riding and jumping horses every day. Roosevelt visited Robert Harry Munro and Isabella Ferguson in New York twice. The Roosevelts had plans to take the Mayflower down the Mississippi River, but Archibald B. Roosevelt is developing diphtheria, so it is out of the question.

Collection

Arizona Historical Society

Creation Date

1909-04-09