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Historian Ray H. Mattison does not believe that his office has a particular copy of the Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia. He directs Theodore Roosevelt National Memorial Park Superintendent Jay to potential photographs of Joseph A. Ferris from other resources.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1959-05-25
Superintendent Hanks encloses a letter from John H. Reid, a former owner of the Elkhorn Ranch. He requests a purchase order to make copies of some photographs taken by Reid of the ranch.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1949-08-18
Stanley C. Joseph encloses copies and original photographs loaned to the National Park Service by John H. Reid, former owner of the Elkhorn Ranch. He also sends an article by Acting Regional Historian Merrill J. Mattes from 1946 that includes an interview with Reid.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1949-10-14
Historian Ray H. Mattison has received the photographs and will forward them to John H. Reid. He will discuss the potential for a Reid family article the next time he is in Bismarck, North Dakota.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1949-11-25
Historian Chester L. Brooks thanks Henry J. Walz for the photographs and reports that the Badlands are especially beautiful this year.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1953-06-22
Historian Ray H. Mattison thanks Helen MacLachlan for the Elkhorn Ranch photographs. While in Maine, Mattison was able to obtain a ground plan for the ranch house.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1959-01-20
Historian Chester L. Brooks thanks Major Anders for the photographs and is looking forward to Anders’s new book.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1953-05-06
No photographs of the 1873 Stanley expedition were found at the Smithsonian Institution or the National Archives.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1953-04-13
Background information on Medora, North Dakota, residents to accompany enclosed photographs.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1955-05-07
Two photographs of William Wingate Sewall visiting the Roosevelt Military Academy in West Englewood, New Jersey.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1921-02-13
Historian Chester L. Brooks has received the copy of his book The Badlands to 1879. Brooks disagrees with some of Major Frank L. Anders’s findings regarding the Custer and Sully trails. He has been collecting 1880s photographs from “old timers.”
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1954-02-15
Adrian C. Fox suggests that historian Chester L. Brooks contact M. B. Johnson and Lloyd R. Good in his efforts to locate 1930s era photographs of the area that now encompasses Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1954-12-09
Regional Historian Merrill J. Mattes believes that Jacob J. Tomamichel, who was interviewed by Historian Ray H. Mattison, is the same person connected to several photographs in the Fort Laramie National Monument research file. Mattes plans to interview Tomamichel in May.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1950-05-10
Perry S. Heath asks George B. Cortelyou for a picture of President Roosevelt to display in the office of the Salt Lake City Press Club. Heath wonders if the photograph could be framed. A handwritten note from Roosevelt on the bottom of the letter instructs to include the frame.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-03-26
Cornelius V. Collins sends George B. Cortelyou a picture of the brother-in-law of Leon Czolgosz, who assassinated President William McKinley. A Mr. Sutton from the post office had requested it, but Collins does not know how to find him to send him the picture.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-11-22
The photograph that Cornelius V. Collins sent has been placed in the proper hands. George B. Cortelyou thanks him for his prompt action.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-12-04
George B. Cortelyou encloses a picture from Cornelius V. Collins, the superintendent of the New York Prison Department, for Secret Service chief John E. Wilkie. Collins told Cortelyou that this man is more depraved and “of a lower order” than his brother-in-law.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-12-04
President Roosevelt tells Edward Henry Harriman that he is pleased Edward S. Curtis will be exhibiting his photographs of Native Americans and the American West in New York, and wishes the exhibition success.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-03-02
George B. Cortelyou informs Secretary of the Navy Moody that President Roosevelt does not believe that permission to take photographs of the Mayflower should be granted.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-07-02
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1918-01-30
Stricker, Josephine M., 1878-1944