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Theodore Roosevelt encloses a letter to Theodore Lyman and asks if Charles Sheldon should bring his lantern slides.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-11-21
Theodore Roosevelt will speak at the Lyric Theatre on January 23 and for schoolchildren the following afternoon. J. Alden Loring will bring his lantern and slides and the presentation will require electricity.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-01-10
George Cherrie will send the slides to the Brooklyn Institute as Theodore Roosevelt requested.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1914-12-15
George Cherrie hasn’t gotten a “satisfactory” price for the tanning and mounting of some Jaguar rugs, which will cost at least $6.00 to $7.00 each. He asks after rolls of film brought with Harper up north so that he could make lantern slides of them. Cherrie has also been busy with farm work.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1914-08-02
George Kruck Cherrie met with Theodore Roosevelt in Cleveland, Ohio, at the home of James Rudolph Garfield. Cherrie has received Roosevelt’s jaguar skins and has sent them to be made up. Roosevelt may also have Cherrie’s slides.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1914-09-30
Bertha M. Clark, head of the science department at the William Penn High School for Girls, asks Theodore Roosevelt if it would be possible to purchase some lantern slide depictions of the various animals he caught in Africa. While Roosevelt was in office, he recommended that slides showing elements of forestry be sold to Clark, and they have been very useful in teaching her classes. Clark apologizes if her question is presumptuous, but emphasizes that she wants to help her students as best as she can.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-02-26