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Black and white cartoon portraying Theodore Roosevelt, Gifford Pinchot, George W. Perkins, Frank Andrew Munsey, and Everett Colby as frogs. Roosevelt is perched on a log labeled “Big Stick.”
Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site
1912
Photograph of President Roosevelt and Gifford Pinchot on the river steamer Mississippi, taken on the trip of the Inland Waterways Commission down the Mississippi River in October 1907.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1907-10
President Roosevelt sends payment for the judo lessons given to himself and Gifford Pinchot. He very much enjoyed himself and appreciated the care Yoshiaki Yamashita and Saburo Kawaguchi took to not injure him.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-04-23
While president, Theodore Roosevelt owed the most to Elihu Root, Gifford Pinchot, and William H. Moody. Afterwards, Root sacrificed idealism for practicality and Pinchot sacrificed practicality for idealism. However, Moody’s views remained in “complete sympathy” with Roosevelt’s own. If Moody had not been appointed to the Supreme Court, his influence for “progress in the right direction” would have been the largest in the Roosevelt administration. Roosevelt wishes that Moody’s counsel, intelligence, and high purpose were influencing the current government.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1916-05-18
Theodore Roosevelt emphasizes the importance of preserving forests, while at the same discussing the role timber plays in industries like mining. Members of the Society of American Foresters must work harmoniously together.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-03-26
Index to speeches given by President Roosevelt between November 1, 1902, and March 26, 1903.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-1903
On the left is Theodore Roosevelt, hand resting on a sledgehammer labeled “My Policies,” standing at the entrance to his shop “T. Roosevelt Horseshoer & Wheelwright” with “Dr. Abbott” at his side. A sign on the wall states, “Autos, Air-ships & Bicycles Repaired.” Road signs labeled “Republican Turnpike” are pointing into the background. At center and right is a jumble of ruined vehicles. A small wagon labeled “Direct Primaries” is being pulled in opposite directions by “Gov. Hughes” and “Wadsworth.” “Beveridge” gestures toward a wagon labeled “Indiana Campaign” that has lost a wheel. President Taft is driving a sulky labeled “Aldrich Tariff,” drawn by the Republican elephant, that has lost the rim to one wheel. A woman labeled “Woman’s Suffrage” is holding a bicycle with damaged tires. “La Follette” is pointing to the foot of a horse labeled “Wisconsin Campaign.” “Parsons” and “Woodruff” are in an automobile that has had an accident, while “Murdock” appears to be kicking one of the tires. An airplane labeled “Conservation,” with “Pinchot” and “Garfield” on board, has crashed into a tree labeled “Ballinger.” Also in the mix is a man labeled “Poindexter,” and in the background is “Penrose” walking away from an automobile accident labeled “Pennsylvania.” In the lower left corner is the shadow of the Democratic donkey.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1910-08-03
Gifford Pinchot, Chief of the U.S. Forest Service, fights alone against a raging forest fire which is billowing finger-shaped clouds labeled “Timber Grab,” “Land Graft,” and “Greed.” Caption: The Chief Forester and the consuming element.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1909-09-15
In a dark, bleak mountainous landscape is a tunnel labeled “Private Monopoly.” Carved into the mountainside is “All Hope Abandon Conservationists Who Enter Here.” Two mountains have faces and are labeled “Water Power” and “Timber Interests.” A man is standing in the foreground holding a rolled-up paper labeled “Forest Preservation.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1910-01-19
Theodore Roosevelt forwards to Secretary of War Stimson a letter from Joseph Bucklin Bishop. Roosevelt praises the work of both Bishop and Colonel George W. Goethals on the Panama Canal. Roosevelt says that he, Gifford Pinchot, and James Rudolph Garfield are all pleased that Stimson has accepted the appointment as Secretary of War, even though Pinchot and Garfield “are still inclined to be entirely off in matters political.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-05-31
Fifteen delegates to the North American Conservation Conference are shown outside the White House. Left to right, seated: from Canada, Henry S. Beland, Clifford Sifton, and Sydney George Fisher (missing – E. H. Outerbridge, Newfoundland); from the United States, President Roosevelt; from Mexico, Romulo Escobar, Carlos Sellerier, Miguel Angel de Quevedo. Left to right, standing: from Canada, Robert E. Young; from the United States, Secretary of State Robert Bacon, Gifford Pinchot, Senator Shelby M. Cullom, Secretary of the Interior James Rudolph Garfield, Ambassador James Bryce of Great Britain, Secretary of the U.S. Delegation Thomas R. Shipp, and Senator Philander C. Knox.
Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site
1909-02
A group of Native Americans on horseback, including “Dixon, Teddy, Perkins, [and] Pinchot,” circle a water hole labeled “The Presidency,” which is being guarded by two men labeled “Taft” and “Brother Charlie.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1912-04-17
A disagreement has broken out among Republicans who were working to construct a tower labeled “Republican Harmony.” They have broken off into small factions clustered around building blocks labeled “Progressivism” with the Republican elephant sitting against it sniffing “Smelling Salts,” “Radicalism” over which “Munsey” and “Woodruff” are engaged in a discussion, “Conservatism” on which President Taft sits gesturing toward “La Follette” who is standing on his head and “Pinchot” trying to make a point to “Barnes” who is facing a diminutive “Job Hedges,” “Standpatism” around which “Cummins, Cannon, Sherman, Penrose, [and] Root” are involved in a heated discussion, and “Meism” upon which Theodore Roosevelt is jumping up and down and gesturing wildly. Others present are “Dixon [and] W.B. McKinley” who appear about to come to blows, as are “Perkins [and] Garfield.” “Lorimer,” wearing a bandage labeled “Vindication,” addresses “Lodge [and] “Gov. Stubbs” and, in the background, on the right, the man standing on a block addressing a crowd may be Charles W. Fairbanks. The few tools visible sit idle. Caption: Sad finish of the Republican tower of Babel.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1912-06-12
Theodore Roosevelt, looking somewhat devilish, appears as a minister standing in a pool labeled “Teddyism,” attempting to pull the Republican elephant in for an immersion baptism. A small “Third-Party Choir” stands behind him composed of “Perkins, Munsey, Pinchot, [and] Garfield.” President Taft and others labeled “Sherman, Barnes, Lodge, Penrose, Crane, Root, [and] McKinley” are holding the elephant back. Crowds of people watch from a boardwalk, wharf, and a nearby pavilion. Caption: Third-Party Choir — “And sinners bathed beneath that flood lose all their guilty stains.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1912-08-07
Theodore Roosevelt is on an extended trip in the upper Nile region with his son Kermit Roosevelt. He describes the native people, a variety of wildlife, and the big game and birds they are hunting on safari. Kermit’s health is excellent and Roosevelt is pleased at the quality of his own health during their nine-month excursion in Africa. Recently he received a telegram notifying him that Gifford Pinchot had been dismissed as head of the United States Forest Service, which Roosevelt found surprising. He looks forward to seeing his wife Edith Roosevelt.
1910-01-21
Proceedings of the first National Progressive Convention held in Chicago, Illinois, on August 5-7, 1912. Through a number of speeches, party leaders justify the party’s founding and define its political goals. Theodore Roosevelt is nominated as the Progressive candidate for president and Hiram Johnson is nominated as his running mate. Both deliver speeches accepting their nomination and expounding on progressive ideals. TR’s speeches are found on pages 60-145 and 298-301.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1912-08-07
President Roosevelt discusses the importance of improving social and economic conditions for farmers, arguing that “with the single exception of the conservation of our natural resources, which underlies the problem of rural life, there is no other material question of greater importance now before the American people.” He asks Walter Hines Page to serve upon a Commission on Country Life.
1908-08-10
President Roosevelt thanks Walter Hines Page for his work on the Country Life Commission and emphasizes that the farmers “should feel a sense of ownership in this Commission,” and that the commission should “get in touch with and represent the farmers themselves.” He advises the commissioners to arrange for meetings of farmers so that the commission can gain insight into the needs, desires and problems of farmers and “all those who live in the open country and are intimately connected with those who do farm work.” He suggests topics such as “the efficiency of the rural schools, farmers organizations, the need of good roads, improved postal facilities” and “sanitary conditions on the farm.”
1908-11-09
Stewart Edward White offers to start a petition for removal of Charles S. Newhall as Superintendent of Forest Reserves in California. He requests that a circular letter be sent to “all rangers, military commanders and park keepers” informing them that he is “a respectable member of society.” The adventure and travel writer, accompanied by his future wife and co-writer, Elizabeth “Betty” Grant, was planning a visit to national parks in the West.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-01-12
James Bronson Reynolds informs President of Columbia University Nicholas Murray Butler that, before pursuing studies in the law, he will take a year sabbatical traveling across Europe and in parts of Asia and Africa with Mrs. Reynolds. Reynolds relays that he will visit Gifford Pinchot in Washington, D.C., and inquires about employment possibilities with the National Government.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-12-01