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President Roosevelt will do what he can to stop the parade form happening but encourages Representative Parsons to talk to others involved and to do his part to stop it himself.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-10-01
President Roosevelt discourages E. A. Drake from organizing the parade unless it is sure to be successful. Though Roosevelt has faith in Charles Hitchcock Sherrill, Vice President of the Business Men’s Republican Association, Representative Herbert Parsons, Chairman of the Republican County Committee, is against it.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-10-01
Sophia A. Preusch was inspired to write Theodore Roosevelt because she opened a dictionary at the word “delightful.” She says she saw Roosevelt during his 1910 parade in New York, and supposes he has read about her, describing herself as a troublemaker. She inquires after Oyster Beach, talks about museums, and sends well wishes to Roosevelt’s family.
A few days prior to this letter, an article was published in ‘The Evening World’ about Sophia A. Preusch that described her as the eccentric and estranged daughter of a rich man and detailed how she was staying in a lodging house despite her wealthy background. This is possibly what Preusch is referencing in her letter when she says she supposes Theodore Roosevelt has read all about her, as the article also calls her a trouble maker and claims she wears strange costumes.
President Roosevelt rides on an elephant and leads a Saint Patrick’s Day parade featuring the “G.O.P. band,” which includes Secretary of War William H. Taft, Speaker of the House Joseph Gurney Cannon, Pennsylvania Senator Philander C. Knox, Secretary of State Elihu Root, Vice President Charles W. Fairbanks, and Secretary of the Treasury Leslie M. Shaw. The parade has a banner with a three-leaf clover that has words in each leaf: “anti-rail-road rebate,” “Philippine tariff moderation,” and “Panama Canal—no grafting.” Roosevelt holds a “Spanish-American War” sword.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-03
On May 27, 1916, groups of men, the 7th Regiment Band, and several children march on the road from the Oyster Bay railroad station to Sagamore Hill to demonstrate their support of Theodore Roosevelt for the 1916 Presidential nomination. Views of Roosevelt addressing the large crowd assembled on the lawn of Sagamore Hill. The rally was organized by the Roosevelt Non-Partisan League of New York City.
Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound
1916
Three sequences of the funeral ceremonies held for President William McKinley: Sequence 1: McKinley’s body lay in state in the Rotunda of the Capitol, Washington, D.C., on September 17, 1901; views of officers on horseback, the Artillery Band (wearing dark headdresses), a squadron of cavalry, a battalion of artillery and coast artillery, Marine Band (wearing white helmets), battalion of Marines, civilians carrying umbrellas (may be the diplomatic corps), other civilians, guard of honor, pallbearers, and the horse-drawn hearse all turning the corner off what may be Pennsylvania Avenue on their way to the Capitol; camera pans the hearse, as a procession of carriages turns the corner. Sequence 2: McKinley’s body first lay in state for public viewing in Buffalo, New York, on September 15-16; views of carriages, the horse-drawn hearse, and marchers stopping in front of the Buffalo City Hall; medium close shots of the casket being unloaded from hearse and carried up stairs of City Hall; crowds of mourners lining up to view the body as group of soldiers enters City Hall; camera pans crowd gathered outside as mourners enter and leave City Hall. Unrelated sequence of Washington ceremonies follows; camera pans from different angles of crowds gathered at the east front of the Capitol. Sequence 3: McKinley’s body was conveyed to its final resting place at Canton, Ohio, on September 18-19; views of mounted military units, marching civilians, carriages, and the horse-drawn hearse turning and entering what is probably Westlawn Cemetery where McKinley is buried; military units marching down a street as gathered crowds watch; final pans of mourners, crowds, and soldiers outside the McKinley home in Canton.
Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound
1901
Views of Franz Joseph I, Emperor of Austria-Hungary, and an entourage of military officers and civilians walking down a wide avenue; the street is lined with people greeting the Emperor. Interior title notes location as Vienna, Austria, and notes that Theodore Roosevelt was entertained by the Emperor at the palace. Roosevelt visited the Emperor in April 1910; there are no views of Roosevelt on the film.
Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound
1910
Theodore Roosevelt returns from his African safari through the countries of Sudan, France, Denmark, Norway, Germany, Great Britain, and finally his reception in New York City. Edited by Mae Manning.
Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound
1925
The welcome home parade for Theodore Roosevelt in Manhattan winding its way from the Battery down Fifth Avenue.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1910-06-18
The welcome home parade for Theodore Roosevelt in Manhattan winding its way from the Battery down Fifth Avenue. Roosevelt can be seen in the first horse-drawn carriage waving his top hat.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1910-06-18
A welcome home parade for Theodore Roosevelt in Manhattan winds its way from the Battery down Fifth Avenue.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1910-06-18
Governor Roosevelt writes to Avery De Lano Andrews inquiring about what he should wear when leading the militia in the Dewey parade. Roosevelt would also like Andrews to obtain for the occasion a black horse that Roosevelt previously rode.
1899-08-08
Governor Roosevelt writes to Avery De Lano Andrews that he does not want to ride in a carriage in the Dewey parade and prefers to ride on horseback.
1899-09-12
Governor Roosevelt writes to Avery De Lano Andrews regarding the upcoming Dewey parade.
1899-09-14
Governor Roosevelt writes to Avery De Lano Andrews about the upcoming Dewey parade. Roosevelt will be changing his planned dress for the parade after hearing protest from friends.
1899-09-16
“Make any arrangements you wish about Admirals. I cheerfully waive question of precidence in naval parade and will go on Monmouth in place you suggest.”
1899-09-22
“Just a line to say that I think the parade went off splendidly and you had every arrangement made in literally perfect style. Mrs. Roosevelt particularly wishes me to say that she was very much pleased with the horse, the saddle, and the house.”
1899-10-02
A tattered, but happy, Russian army returns home after the end of the war with Japan. In the background, the rising sun of Japan is visible on the horizon.
Carl Hassmann’s double-page cartoon in Puck at the end of hostilities in the Far East — where the bold symbol of Japan, the sun, clearly rises; it is not setting, as history learned — is a very sardonic portrayal of the international situation. If anything, his depiction of the defeated Russian army as happy, though sotted, as retaining riches and even singing and occasionally smiling, was scarcely true, even in a cartoonist’s metaphor.
The Japanese had decimated the Russian fleet, and captured expanses of territories either Russian or under Czarist hegemony. Despite losses sustained by both empires, the Russians lost more — from international prestige to wealth.
President Roosevelt, as a Roman emperor, rides in a chariot being pulled by an elephant ridden by George B. Cortelyou. Three captives are tied to the back: William Jennings Bryan, Alton B. Parker, and Populist candidate Thomas Watson. Vice-President Charles W. Fairbanks rides in a smaller chariot with Henry G. Davis as a captive in tow. Next to them Benjamin B. Odell carries a banner labeled “G.O.P.”, except that the “P” has been crossed out and replaced with a “T.” Near Roosevelt’s chariot Secretary of State John Hay bears a standard that says “S.P.Q.R.” (acronym for a Latin phrase which means “The Senate and People of Rome”), except that the “Q” has been crossed out and replaced with a “T.” At the front of the parade, holding the elephant’s trunk, is Speaker of the House Joseph G. Cannon. In the foreground, William H. Taft is carrying a large club. An African American man appears in the lower right foreground.
Joseph Keppler Junior, owner and chief political cartoonist of Puck magazine, departed from his generally light treatment of Theodore Roosevelt to cast the triumphant Republicans in severe caricatures, including the exultant Roosevelt himself. This center-spread cartoon appeared only days before the inauguration; and the issue’s from cover was graced with a mild, even favorable, depiction of Roosevelt.
Defeated candidates and vanquished Democrats are portrayed, as well as cabinet members, Republican solons, and citizens. Keppler always had a facility for drawing Roosevelt’s face, and this portrayal seems spot-on but likely had no photographic reference.
At center, President Roosevelt shows Uncle Sam and Columbia a large plant with flowers showing the members of his cabinet. The surrounding vignettes show a springtime dance of putti, Alton B. Parker shoveling snow at his home in Esopus, an art gallery, Irishmen marching in the rain on Saint Patrick’s Day, a woman cleaning house by sweeping a dust cloud of policemen out the door, and Roosevelt grafting a branch labeled “Indian School Mission,” with blossom of an unidentified bishop of the Catholic Bureau of Indian Missions, onto the “Interior Dept. Tree.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1905-03-15