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The Hoosier Don Quixote

The Hoosier Don Quixote

Vice President Charles W. Fairbanks as Don Quixote stands with shield and lance next to a well on which stands a suit of armor labeled “Indiana Organization.” To the right of Fairbanks, in the background, is a hobby horse. The full moon above shows the face of President Theodore Roosevelt. Caption: The flower of Indiana knighthood keeping watch over his boiler-plate.

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Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1905-06-14

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Charles Hallam Keep

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Charles Hallam Keep

President Roosevelt has heard about US Geological Survey Director Charles D. Walcott’s difficulties publishing with the Interior Department, and asks Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Keep to give the matter special attention as he examines the organization of the Department of the Interior. Roosevelt also asks Keep to consider the question of scientific publications of the government more generally, in case more is needed than the the committee Keep already recommended.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-05-19

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919