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This film shows part of the festivities at the Panama-California Exposition, where Theodore Roosevelt reviews the Annapolis Naval Academy’s midshipmen on July 28, 1915. Alongside Roosevelt, stands Governor Dunne of Illinois at his right, and Rear Admiral Fullam, Superintendent of the Academy, at his left.
Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound
1915-07-28
Soldiers walk in formation on a road accompanied by several mounted men. Judging by the soldiers’ heavy clothing, it must be winter. This group may be the 26th Infantry, Theodore and Archibald Roosevelt’s regiment. Following sequence is of biplanes flying in formation. Third sequence is shot at a hangar where men appear to be preparing a plane for flight. The second and third sequences may be of Quentin Roosevelt’s squadron, the 95th. The last sequence probably represents Kermit Roosevelt’s regiment, the 7th Field Artillery. In this sequence a group of men load and fire a cannon. Location undetermined; film, or portions of it, probably shot in France.
Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound
1918
Richard Harding Davis offers his thoughts on the most important elements to bring along while hiking or marching long distances, backed up by his experiences as a war correspondent.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-04
In a letter to General Bell, President Roosevelt communicates the need to get rid of “worthless” cavalry field officers and infantry field officers currently in the United States Army.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-04-20
President Roosevelt congratulates Captain Gatchell and his men on their successful 1000 mile march from Fort Riley, Kansas, to Fort Sam Houston, Texas.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-01-23
President Roosevelt hopes that the New York docks can be extended to the length desired by the New York municipal authorities. In a post script, President Roosevelt requests a report on the military’s peacetime marching practices. Roosevelt believes that the troops should march exactly as they do in wartime.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-11-12
The opening scene is of men, who may be Bolshevik prisoners, standing behind barbed wire as a group of soldiers march past in Ekaterinburg (Sverdlovsk), Russia. The second sequence begins with an interior title that reads “In far off China, Mr. Rainey had the distinction and pleasure of photographing the President of China reviewing detachments of the Allied Armies.” The sequence consists of views of dignitaries reviewing detachments from the allied armies in Peking (Beijing), China. The camera pans past the soldiers from various nations as they stand in formation. A group of dignitaries reviews them. The film ends with scenes of soldiers marching and carrying flags.
Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound
1917-1918
Theodore Roosevelt praises Frederick Trevor Hill for marching “young boys” a long distance in “army fashion.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1916-05-21
A group of men and women march under such banners as “The Lips That Touch Corn Likker Shall Never Touch Ourn,” “W.C.T.U.,” and “Carrie Nation Cadets,” with one man carrying a small barrel labeled “Vegetable Tonic,” and a large wagon labeled “Water Wagon No. 1” immediately behind the leaders, to show their support for prohibition. They are all colored blue.
Puck celebrated –or, rather, observed — the passage of statewide Prohibition in Georgia in this cartoon by L. M. Glackens. To the surprise of many, given backwoods Georgians’ reputations, the manufacture and sale of intoxicating beverages was banned statewide — the first state besides Maine (which long ago repealed such restrictions in many of its counties) to do so. On the other hand, in the deep South, the hold of moralistic Christians, represented by the Women’s Christian Temperance Union was strong.
E. L. Beach requests verification from Samuel Allen Otts that 2,000 soldiers collectively marched from Panama to Cauca during last revolution and asks if Otts wants money.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-12-06