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Photographs of the library at Sagamore Hill, Theodore Roosevelt’s Oyster Bay, New York home. Various animal heads and portraits adorn the walls, including one of Roosevelt’s father, Theodore Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1912-1918
Photograph of the library at Sagamore Hill, Theodore Roosevelt’s Oyster Bay, New York home. Various animal heads and portraits adorn the walls, including one of Roosevelt’s wife, Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1912-1918
Photograph of the library fireplace at Sagamore Hill, Theodore Roosevelt’s Oyster Bay, New York home. Various animal heads and portraits adorn the walls, with chairs and couches spread about.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1912-1918
Louis J. Keller, a member of the Kendallville, Indiana library board, informs Theodore Roosevelt of the recent establishment of a public library in his city by the women’s Civic Club. They are now raising funds to help expand the library and get its own building. Keller wonders whether Roosevelt will be traveling nearby in the upcoming month and would be willing to help them by delivering an address.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-03-27
Newsletter from the Champlain Society detailing their history, membership fees, and publications, including volumes already published and works to be published.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-01
Patrons in a library are seated, each listening to a book through a phonograph. At the bottom right a patron is listening to The Strenuous Life by Theodore Roosevelt. Brander Matthews enclosed this cartoon in a letter to President Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
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James W. Eaton invites Theodore Roosevelt to speak at the opening of the Free Library in Babylon, Long Island, which the community funded for $10,000.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-10-10
Elizabeth Hamilton Muncie sends Theodore Roosevelt a copy of her book Four Epochs of Life and asks for his thoughts to help complete her next work. She believes it is important to teach sexual health education and that it should be in libraries, although library committees fear pushback from mothers.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-09-18
The library of 1942 Pacific Avenue in San Francisco, California, the home rented by Theodore Roosevelt Jr. and Eleanor Butler Roosevelt after their marriage. The home belonged to Rudolph Spreckels.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1910
Theodore Roosevelt Jr., aged five, is shown reading in the library of the house on Jefferson Place and 19th Street in Washington, D.C.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1892
Theodore Roosevelt Jr., aged five, is shown reading in the library of the house on Jefferson Place and 19th Street in Washington, D.C.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1892
Typed and handwritten list of books contained in President Roosevelt’s Pigskin Library.
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Puck tugs at the coat-tails of Andrew Carnegie, as he and John D. Rockefeller, Junior, pile money bags around the base of a statue labeled “Fame,” which they seek by endowing libraries and universities. Puck is suggesting that they could do more good for society by endowing places like a “Home for Consumptives.” Caption: Puck — You have qualified thoroughly as modern philanthropists, now why not do some good?
When Puck Magazine had opinions, they usually were expressed in written editorials or, in cartoons, through the character of its mascot-figure Puck. Here he suggests to the nation’s two greatest benefactors of the day, that their largesse might better be directed to the sick and poor than to libraries and universities.
View of President Roosevelt’s library at Sagamore Hill
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1904-07-18
View of President Roosevelt’s library at Sagamore Hill
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1904-07-14
View of President Roosevelt’s library at his summer home, “Sagamore”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1904-07-18
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary refers I. T. Warren to Roosevelt’s published speeches for the answer to Warren’s question.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-05-15
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary refers W. C. Redd to the published speeches of Roosevelt for the answer to his question.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-05-15
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary refers Robert M. Wagstaff to published copies of speeches by Roosevelt to obtain Roosevelt’s opinion on the question Wagstaff raised.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-05-13
On behalf of Theodore Roosevelt, his secretary informs Gustavus M. Middleton that they are unsure of what book he is referring to concerning the White House. They suggest that Middleton check out his local libraries to find the appropriate books that could tell him about it.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-09-07