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Photograph showing President Theodore Roosevelt and seven other men seated in a horse drawn carriage at Inspiration Point in Yosemite Valley, California.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1903
A poem by James A. Metcalf describing the beauty of Montana.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-04-18
W. F. Bartlebaugh describes, in a three-stanza poem, the beautiful scenery of the Rocky Mountains and their calming influence.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-04-09
A poem by R. Raymond Raymoth dedicated to John Muir describing the “king of the open air’s” intimacy with nature.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-02-21
Ruthven Deane’s bookplate featuring a bird perched on a post against a mountain landscape. “From the Books of” appears across the top and “Ruthven Deane” near the bottom left. A possible family crest occupies the bottom right.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-01-11
Theodore Roosevelt and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt enjoyed Owen Wister’s recent collection of stories. He wants to meet with Wister and discuss his experience of passing “through my own old country.” Unlike Wister, Roosevelt is not sure that change is both subjective and objective, especially as the old country he used to know so well has “absolutely vanished.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-05-22
Attorney General Bonaparte received William Loeb’s confidential letter and asks him to send him a copy of the Washington Herald editorial. Bonaparte mentions that a newspaper indicated that Loeb would accept the presidency of the electric lines sooner than anticipated and looks forward to next summer in Maine if Loeb wants to “cast a line.” He finds great support for President Roosevelt in Maine and Massachusetts.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-09-08
A colored postcard featuring a landscape. A barbed wire fence is in the foreground, in front of a vast stretch of prairie grass and a few trees. In the background is a forest in front of a large rock formation.
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A colored postcard depicting the original site of Theodore Roosevelt’s cabin. A wooden fence is in the foreground. Behind the fence are trees and a rock formation.
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Various scenes of Oyster Bay, New York, and surrounding area, commissioned by the Roosevelt Memorial Association as part of its efforts to establish a memorial park in honor of Theodore Roosevelt. Most prominent views are of the mid-town intersection of East Main St. and South St., and the area around Oyster Bay railroad station, which borders the park site. Various shots of the intersection, in some of which campaign banners of the 1924 election are visible: pictures of President Coolidge, Charles Gates Dawes, and Ted Roosevelt, who unsuccessfully ran for New York governor against Alfred Emmanuel Smith in 1924, appear on the banners. Panning shots of a frame home by railroad tracks, steam engine with crew posed in front, and railroad station. Shots of a garbage dump and homes beside the bay, harbor area, row frame houses fronting on the garbage dump, and passenger train. These areas were to be included in the park.
Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound
1924
Clear exterior views of Sagamore Hill and surrounding land in summertime. Shots of the house, including veranda and side porch, from a variety of angles and distances.
Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound
1923
View of the badlands landscape near the Little Missouri River with a wooded valley at the center.
Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site
1884-1886
A young woman sits on a precipice, holding aloft a bouquet, and surrounded by mountainous wilderness. The faces of young women from around the world appear as cloud formations.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1911-06-14
Photograph of a badlands formation taken during the time of the Civilian Conservation Corps in the Roosevelt Recreation Demonstration Area.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1930-1939
National Park Service; Stafford, Milo N. (Milo Nathan), 1916-1999
Photograph of the Jones Creek Civilian Conservation Corps Camp next to the Little Missouri River in the South Unit of the Roosevelt Recreational Demonstration Area.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1939-1941
Photograph of the Jones Creek Civilian Conservation Corps Camp next to the Little Missouri River in the South Unit of the Roosevelt Recreational Demonstration Area.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1930-1939
Photograph of the Little Missouri River prior to the Civilian Conservation Corps camp being constructed in the North Unit of the Roosevelt Recreation Demonstration Area.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1930s
CCC workers walk on a road near the entrance station to the Roosevelt Recreational Demonstration Area.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1936-1937
National Park Service; Rebsom, Ralph N. (Ralph Nick), 1918-1997
Six trucks leave the Civilian Conservation Corps campground with CCC members on their way to Beach or Belfield for a weekend outing.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1934-1941
The Civilian Conservation Corps. job record #286 is in regard to landscaping around a section of constructed park road within the southern unit of Roosevelt Recreational Demonstration Area (SP-8) in western North Dakota. The project will restore the natural landscape around a section of constructed road (CCC job #283) off of the east entrance road; a memorandum and job documentation attached.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1939-40