Photographs

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1917-08-17

Creator(s)

Secretary of Theodore Roosevelt

Recipient

Bliss, Mignon E.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1917-07-23

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Recipient

Brush, Fletcher

The Secretary of Theodore Roosevelt directs Helen McAfee to Roosevelt’s “Rough Riders” volume to locate photographs of interest.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1917-06-01

President Roosevelt thanks Pennsylvania Assistant State Commissioner of Health Benjamin Lee for the photograph of Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt and Emily Tyler Carow as children. Roosevelt plans to take the photograph to Africa.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-10-04

President Roosevelt can not respond as Alfred E. Lunt, head of the National Republican College League, requests. Anything Roosevelt says must be public. He encloses a signed photograph.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-09-27

President Roosevelt thanks John A. Dohrman for the photograph of Joseph Taugwalder, with whom he climbed the Matterhorn, and he will write to Gabriel Taugwalder.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-09-19

President Roosevelt would like to frame the picture that Secretary of the Interior of the Philippine Islands Worcester sent to him.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-09-12

President Roosevelt does not wish to seem rude in his response to Herman Henry Kohlsaat’s suggestion, but nearly all of his previous experiences sitting for portraits or photographs have been failures and he wishes to avoid any more attempts.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-09-12

President Roosevelt wishes he could have seen the Olympic meeting of Cuba and has sent General Thomas Henry Barry’s photographs to Caspar Whitney. He enjoyed reading Colonel Millard F. Waltz’s general orders.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-09-12

President Roosevelt looks forward to seeing the lion photograph Arthur W. Lewis mentions. He will discuss with C. Hart Merriam the possibility of passing legislation regarding the preservation of elk.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-09-04

President Roosevelt thanks Thomas J. Dolan for the photograph of the committee. They are a fine group of men, and he is happy to have the picture.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-08-15

Rudolph Forster informs the Pach Brothers that Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt does not want to make the requested arrangement to take more pictures.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-08-07

President Roosevelt appreciated Burr C. Stephenson’s letter and sends him a photograph.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-04-24

President Roosevelt received the two pictures from Sumner W. Matteson. He does not know whether he likes the photo of the swimming cattle or the picture of the buffalo more.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-04-24

President Roosevelt thanks Sallie Kane for sending him the photograph of her late husband Woodbury Kane.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-04-24

President Roosevelt tells Henry. H. Washburn that he will inquire with the Department of the Interior about the topics raised in Mr. Brooks’s letter. Roosevelt will also send a photograph to Mary E. Washburn, and he appreciated the leaflet from Mr. Fenick.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-09-24

President Roosevelt thanks Laurence H. Grahame for the photograph. He does not think his children, Ethel and Theodore Roosevelt, will be able to go to Puerto Rico in the winter. Roosevelt invites Grahame to dine with him at the White House when he is next in the area.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-09-24

President Roosevelt’s secretary encloses a letter and a photograph from the President to Edward H. McKay, and asks Charles F. Swan to deliver it to the young man.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-07-31

President Roosevelt sends Edward McKay a photograph of him in the Rough Riders, and says he will always think of him as “one of Uncle Sam’s little boys,” and remembers him playing with Roosevelt’s son, Quentin. Roosevelt tells McKay about all the sports and activities his sons Quentin and Archie are involved in, and describes a camping trip where two bold young foxes visited the party.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-07-30

President Roosevelt thanks Robert H. Davis for sending him a photograph.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-07-23