New York (State)--Oyster Bay--Sagamore Hill National Historic Site

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-03-11

Creator(s)

Waters, Charles S., 1855-1921

Recipient

Kimball, D. S.

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.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

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.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

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.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1912-1918

Chronology of the daily life of Theodore Roosevelt from January 1884 to December 1891. Notable events include the deaths of Alice Lee Roosevelt and Martha Bulloch Roosevelt, Roosevelt’s time on his ranch, the completion of Sagamore Hill, Roosevelt’s engagement and marriage to Edith Kermit Carow, Theodore “Ted” Roosevelt’s birth, the “Great-Dieup” of cattle in North Dakota, and the founding of the Boone and Crockett Club.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association

Creation Date

1985

Chronology of the daily life of Theodore Roosevelt between January 1879 to December 1883. Notable events include Theodore Roosevelt’s engagement and marriage to Alice Hathaway Lee, his appointment to the New York State Legislature, and his first visit and buffalo hunt in North Dakota.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association

Creation Date

1985

Postcard showing Sagamore Hill. A note on the reverse mentions a visit to Sagamore Hill and hearing Theodore Roosevelt speak.

Collection

Marple Collection

Creation Date

1910

Postcard showing a car being driven down a road to Sagamore Hill in Oyster Bay. On the left side of the road is the bay and on the right side of the road are trees behind a wooden fence. On the reverse, Elsie M. Early writes to her mother describing her trip to Oyster Bay and Sagamore Hill with her husband, Albert Early.

Collection

Marple Collection

Creation Date

1911

Various pieces of commonly known footage of Theodore Roosevelt from different times and places compiled into one film. He is seen speaking to and greeting guests at Sagamore Hill, and posing with Navy officers. The footage begins with a shot of ruined buildings, likely damaged in World War I. For unknown reasons, a shot of William F. Cody giving his Indian Scout handshake to a line of visitors is inserted near the middle of the footage.

Collection

Sherman Grinberg Film Collection

Creation Date

1955

Film of the exterior of Sagamore Hill. Closeup of a postage stamp depicting the home followed by several viewing angles of the exterior of the home.

Collection

Sherman Grinberg Film Collection

Creation Date

1955

Film of Sagamore Hill. Exterior still and panning shots of the porch from several angles. Interior panning shots of the Drawing Room, Nursery, Dining Room, Mother’s Room, Father’s Dressing Room, North Room, Front Hall, and Library. Closeups highlight certain household objects and trophies.

Collection

Sherman Grinberg Film Collection

Creation Date

1955

Film of the interior of Sagamore Hill. Panning shots of the Front Hall, North Room, and Library, with closeups of some trophies.

Collection

Sherman Grinberg Film Collection

Creation Date

1955

Film of the interior of Sagamore Hill. Panning shots of Father’s Dressing Room and the Drawing Room, as well as the Front Hall and North Room. Closeups highlight certain trophies.

Collection

Sherman Grinberg Film Collection

Creation Date

1955

Howard Ehrlich of the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) describes the visit of Albertine Bloemendal, the 2009 winner of the Theodore Roosevelt American History Award from the Netherlands, to Sagamore Hill National Historic Site. Ehrlich notes other members of the TRA who spent time with Bloemendal, and he highlights the tour he gave of Sagamore Hill.

Article that relays the mission statement and purpose of the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA). It also gives examples of the TRA’s work such as the preservation of historic sites associated with Theodore Roosevelt and the collection of documents and films relating to his life. It notes other work of the association such as publishing and sponsoring student contests, and it touches on its governance and leadership.

An illustration of Roosevelt’s head appears in the upper right corner of the article box.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Natalie A. Naylor offers a detailed survey of the contents of Cove Neck: Oyster Bay’s Historic Enclave and less in the way of analysis or scrutiny though she admits that the book demonstrates “the value of local history.” In her review, Naylor demonstrates how the book places Theodore Roosevelt’s life at his home, Sagamore Hill, in a larger context of his neighbors and relatives who lived nearby in the village of Cove Neck. Naylor relates information about numerous Roosevelt family members and highlights the prominence of Sagamore Hill to the history of the area.

Four photographs, a drawing, and a map, all taken from the book, join the work’s front and back covers in illustrating the review.

In a chapter titled “A Most Just and Proper Revolution,” taken from the second volume of his biography of Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Rex, Edmund Morris details the machinations in Washington, D.C. and Panama that resulted in the revolution against Colombian rule on the Isthmus and the establishment of the independent nation of Panama. Morris describes the careful actions and words of administration figures like Roosevelt and Secretary of State John Hay, and he charts the movement of ships of the United States Navy sent in support of the insurrection. Morris adds to his Panama narrative interludes about the November 1903 elections in the United States, Roosevelt’s visit to Sagamore Hill, and his compilation of a reading list.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

2001

Susan Sarna describes the poor state of Theodore Roosevelt’s health in the last year of his life, and she also details how the sculptor James Earle Fraser created plaster casts of Roosevelt’s face and right hand after his death to serve as molds for future bronze versions of the casts. Two photographs of the plaster face cast, two of the right hand plaster cast, and a photograph of the bronze cast of Roosevelt’s face illustrate the essay.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

2018

The front cover of Theodore Roosevelt’s 1915 book America and the World War appears on the front cover of this issue and a photograph of Roosevelt sitting in a chair in front of the piazza at Sagamore Hill appears on the back cover.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

1918

Susan Sarna discusses the death of Quentin Roosevelt in World War I and its effect on his father, Theodore Roosevelt. Sarna reveals that Sagamore Hill National Historic Site will feature an exhibit on Quentin Roosevelt at its Old Orchard Museum. The notice includes two photographs of Quentin Roosevelt and one of Theodore Roosevelt as well as photographs of a uniform and a suit belonging to each man respectively.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

2018