Memorials

Renovation and furnishing of Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site

This film opens with brief clips of General Leonard Wood and Corinne Roosevelt Robinson participating in the renovation of the Theodore Roosevelt National Historic Site, laying the cornerstone and giving a speech, respectively. This film also shows movers unloading a number of objects from a moving truck and bringing them into the house, including many portraits, a chair, saddles, and hunting trophies.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association

Creation Date

1921-1923

Letter from Richard Watson Gilder to Theodore Roosevelt

Richard Watson Gilder of Century Magazine has no objection to President Roosevelt quoting his letter when he writes to Collier’s about the Abraham Lincoln cabin and memorial. He only asks that Roosevelt omits the reference to Robert Todd Lincoln.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-05-02

Roosevelt Kishi at Oyster Bay Yankee Stadium

This film includes brief shots of Japanese Prime Minister Nobosuke Kishi throwing out a pitch at Yankee Stadium and planting cherry trees at Sagamore Hill with Theodore Roosevelt Association President Oscar S. Straus. Following these is an interview with Kishi regarding his experiences during a trip through the United States and the differences between the United States and Japan.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association

Creation Date

1957

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Robert B. Brown

President Roosevelt greatly appreciates the bronze badge and speech that former Commander-in-Chief Brown sent him. He wishes Brown well and hopes to see him at the dedication of the McKinley National Memorial.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-09-26

Theodore Roosevelt at Napoleon’s tomb

Theodore Roosevelt visits the memorial of French Emperor Napoleon I.

Collection

Massachusetts Historical Society

Creation Date

1910

Leslie’s, October 22, 1921

This issue of Leslie’s magazine, published shortly before the celebration of Theodore Roosevelt’s birthday, collects a number of stories and anecdotes remembering Roosevelt. These stories include remembrances from Roosevelt’s boxing partner while Roosevelt was president, an article by Hermann Hagedorn on the collection of Roosevelt-related artifacts, and a report on the upcoming creation of Roosevelt-Sequoia National Park in California as a memorial to Roosevelt.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library Foundation

Creation Date

1921-10-22

Letter from A. Maurice Low to Theodore Roosevelt

A. Maurice Low has enclosed a letter from James Nicol Dunn in regard to the William Ernest Henley memorial.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-02-29

Postcard to William Graff

New York City postcard with photographs of President Roosevelt, the elevated subway, Grant’s Tomb, and City Hall. The reverse of the postcard contains a message in German to William Graff.

Collection

Fritz R. Gordner Collection

Creation Date

1908-03-20

Tomb of Lieutenant Quentin Roosevelt

A French postcard featuring a black and white photograph of Quentin Roosevelt’s grave in Aisne, France. The words, “CHAMERY (Aisne). – Tombe du Lieutenant Quentin Roosevelt tombé glorieusement en Combat aérien le 14 Juillet 1918,” at the top of the front side translate to “CHAMERY (Aisne) – Tomb of Lieutenant Quentin Roosevelt, fallen gloriously in aerial combat July 14, 1918.” Roosevelt was re-interred next to his brother Ted at the American cemetery in Normandy, France, in 1955.

Collection

Fritz R. Gordner Collection

Creation Date

1918-1925

Scenes of flag services for Theodore Roosevelt at Oyster Bay

On October 27, 1919, the Roosevelt memorial flag, which has been carried across New York State in Theodore Roosevelt’s honor, is brought to rest at his grave in Youngs Memorial Cemetery, Oyster Bay, New York. There are shots from different angles of memorial flag as it is borne by young men up the steep pathway to the grave site. Five girls sew the 48th and final star on the flag at what is probably Cove School in Oyster Bay with a group of children and Boy Scouts visible in the background. There is a view of children and adults on the cemetery grounds. The final scene is of Samuel Abbott, originator of the memorial flag idea, placing the flag on Roosevelt’s grave site.

Collection

Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound

Creation Date

1919-10-27

Quentin Roosevelt’s grave in France

A shot of Quentin Roosevelt’s grave in France. Several soldiers carry a wooden frame bearing a tombstone and adorned with flowers over the grave. The movie then cuts to a shot of the tombstone’s inscription.

Collection

Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound

Creation Date

1918

Airmen honoring Theodore Roosevelt by dropping wreaths on his grave

On October 20, 1919, as part of opening day ceremonies of Roosevelt Week, to honor Theodore Roosevelt and raise funds for the restoration of Roosevelt House in New York City, military aviators fly from Hazelhurst Field, Mineola, New York, to Oyster Bay to drop wreaths on Roosevelt’s grave site in Young’s Memorial Cemetery. The film has scenes of two pilots sitting in a biplane with an emblem showing the name of Mitchel Field, a picture of a dog, and the numbers 41866. The rear pilot is given two wreaths, one with a ribbon inscribed “American Legion” and the other “Spanish American War Veterans.” There is a scene of the biplane taking off, then aerial views of what is probably Oyster Bay and the surrounding area. The wreath is dropped, the a group of men retrieve it and carry both wreaths to Roosevelt’s grave site. The final views are of two men in uniform placing the wreaths on Roosevelt’s grave with the tombstone visible.

Collection

Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound

Creation Date

1919-10-20

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Lorraine J. Pitkin

President Roosevelt regrets that he cannot attend the unveiling of the union soldiers’ widows memorial at Elmwood Cemetery. He sends his best wishes.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-04-16

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to H. Holbrook Curtis

Theodore Roosevelt is willing to support H. Holbrook Curtis’s project to build a hospital as a “protest against the erection of meaningless mausoleums and monuments to the dead.” For most people mausoleums mean nothing and Roosevelt thinks that the Society of Friends have the better custom of plain stone slabs for the dead. The best memorial for a worthy person must be doing good for the living.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1916-05-18

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Mrs. A. W. Nicholson

Theodore Roosevelt played a small role in getting Mr. Homer’s son a railroad position and last he heard the boy was doing well. He cannot contribute to a movement to get a “stone” for Homer as he receives too many similar requests and cannot choose one over another. Roosevelt wishes he had met Mrs. A. W. Nicholson’s son.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1916-05-27

Address of President Roosevelt at Santa Barbara, California, May 9, 1903

President Roosevelt addresses the citizens of Santa Barbara, comparing their city to “a garden of the Lord.” He also discusses lessons learned from the Grand Army of the Republic and the memory of the civilizations that came before the pioneers. Roosevelt also discusses citizenship, agriculture, industrialization, and brotherhood.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-05-09

The sacrifice to a crumbling idol

A man labeled “Spanish War Party,” wearing a military uniform and holding a large knife, is about to sacrifice the “Youth of Spain” to a huge monument labeled “False Pride” with a large sword labeled “Colonial Oppression.” On the ground to the left of the sacrificial bier are bags of “Revenue” and “Taxes,” and kneeling in the foreground is the “Queen Regent”, holding a bag, with her right arm on the shoulders of “Alphonso XIII.”

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1898-08-24

In memory of the Grant monument dedication, April 27th, 1897

A large angel of peace stands atop a monument labeled “Grant,” on which a Union veteran and a Confederate veteran are placing wreaths labeled “North” and “South.”

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1897-04-28

U. S. Grant

At center is a bust portrait of Ulysses S. Grant, facing slightly right, with ribbon around him labeled with the places visited following his presidency. The portrait is surrounded by scenes showing Grant’s birthplace, his education at West Point, and places he served during the American Civil War. At bottom is an illustration of Grant’s inauguration in “Washington, 1869” attended by, among others, Roscoe Conkling and John Logan.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1885-04-08

Teddy

Piano score, by Ted Snyder, and lyrics, by William J. McKenna, written as a memorial to Theodore Roosevelt, “A song version of the famous motion picture of the same name. Dedicated to the Memory of the Fighting Father of the Fighting Roosevelts.” A sample of another piece of music is included on the back cover.

Collection

Gregory A. Wynn Theodore Roosevelt Collection

Creation Date

1919