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Letter from Francis Davis Millet to Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt

Letter from Francis Davis Millet to Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt

Francis Davis Millet criticizes the design of a medal of George Washington discussed in a newspaper clipping he has enclosed, saying that it fails to capture Washington’s noble characteristics. Millet stresses the importance of a medallist’s duty to capture a President’s features, as a medal will survive after all other forms of art have disappeared. He hopes that Theodore Roosevelt will have a medal that will “hold its own.” He also sends a set of eight medals struck by the French mint as examples of what he means by “nobility in a medal.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-01-13

Creator(s)

Millet, Francis Davis, 1846-1912

House of Representatives

House of Representatives

Postcard showing the Hall of Representatives in the United States Capitol building consisting of an assembly room with desks and chairs arranged in a semi-circle around a central desk flanked by portraits of George Washington and the Marquis de Lafayette. Additional seating on the second story overlooks the area.

Collection

Charles C. Myers Collection

Creation Date

Unknown

Creator(s)

Unknown

A family party – the 200th birthday of the healthiest of Uncle Sam’s adopted children

A family party – the 200th birthday of the healthiest of Uncle Sam’s adopted children

Uncle Sam stands at the head of a table at a dinner party in honor of the “Bi-Centennial Celebration of the First German Settlement.” Columbia sits next to him. Around the table are a “Spaniard, Swede, German, Englishman, Russian, Chinese, Irishman” and at the far end an “Italian” hurdy-gurdy man, also a “French” chef entering on the left, carrying a large peacock on a tray, and an African American servant spilling trays of food on the Englishman and the Chinese man. In a cradle on the floor next to Columbia are two infants labeled “Malagasy” and “Corean.” Uncle Sam is offering a toast to the well-dressed German man standing at center. Puck, standing on the front side of the table, holding his lithographic pencil, offers a bouquet of flowers. Hanging from a garland on the wall in the background, beneath the heading “Germantown 1683-1883,” are portraits of Baron von “Steuben,” George “Washington,” and Marquis de “Lafayette.”

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1883-10-03

Creator(s)

Graetz, F. (Friedrich), approximately 1840-approximately 1913

Report from Horace Porter to Theodore Roosevelt

Report from Horace Porter to Theodore Roosevelt

Horace Porter reports to President Roosevelt from Paris regarding his search for Admiral John Paul Jones’ remains. Porter outlines the progress of his investigation and his involvement with the Prefect of the Seine, the City Council, the National Assembly, Governeur Morris, and archeologist M. Albert de Recardy. Porter mentions the Pere la Chase and Picpus cemeteries as possible burial locations; he asserts that the cemetery near the St. Louis Hospital on Rue Des Ecludes, St. Martin, and Rue Grange aux Belles is the most probable burial location. Porter suggests undertaking an archeological dig to excavate the remains.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-10-20

Creator(s)

Porter, Horace, 1837-1921