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Photograph of the library at Sagamore Hill, Theodore Roosevelt’s Oyster Bay, New York home. Various animal heads and portraits adorn the walls, including one of Roosevelt’s wife, Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1912-1918
Photograph showing President Roosevelt on horseback, holding a rifle.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1905
Photograph showing President Roosevelt on horseback; mountains in background.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1905
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1918-11-15
Secretary of Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary informs C. J. Hendryx that Pach Brothers has a plate of Roosevelt and can fulfill his order.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1918-11-02
Theodore Roosevelt does not believe a portrait like the one Henry Fairfield Osborn requests exists. Roosevelt does have picture he might have copied.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-12-13
A description of a painting of Martha Bulloch Roosevelt given to President Theodore Roosevelt by Stephanie A. Porter on June 24, 1907. The note says the portrait was painted on porcelain and is in a red velvet frame. The information was verified by Mrs. Samuel C. Hopkins on November 25, 1929.
1929
President Roosevelt writes to Stephania A. Porter to thank her for sending him a picture of his mother, Martha Bulloch Roosevelt. He also invites her to bring her son and his family to dinner at the White House. There is an annotation in an unknown hand at the bottom regarding the original copy of the letter.
1907-06-24
A copy of a portrait of Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., in uniform by Lucien Levy-Dhurmer.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1918-07
Marie Giroud offers to sell a personal collection of eleven rare and valuable paintings for 1,500,000 francs, claiming the works were acquired at public auctions, appraised by experts, and admired by connoisseurs. She urges Theodore Roosevelt to consider the purchase or share the offer with other collectors, emphasizing the collection’s historic and artistic significance.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-10-08
On behalf of the Boy Scouts of Milford, Randall B. Greene thanks Theodore Roosevelt for the signed portrait Roosevelt sent and will make sure it is hung in their room.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-10-03
John A. Dix, the Governor of New York, requests a signed photograph of Theodore Roosevelt because he is creating a record of all the former governors who are alive during his time in office.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-09-30
Harper Pennington praises Charles M. Shean’s portrait of Abraham Lincoln.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-09-16
Charles Barmore would like Theodore Roosevelt to approve a copper etching portrait before publishing it as a limited-edition run of artist proofs. The etching was made from a photograph taken by Moffet of Chicago (Moffat). Barmore includes a clipping of reviews from New York Tribune and Chicago Times Herald praising his published portraits.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-09-16
Ernst Hertzberg asks Theodore Roosevelt to send a handwritten letter for his autograph collection and offers to bind a book for him in return.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-09-13
Abby Gunn Baker reminds William Loeb that she had received permission to photograph the lower rooms of the White House. Loeb felt like some of the photographs were not of high enough quality and encouraged her to come again, which she would like to do now. Baker requests several different views and states that she expects to include them in her White House book for the spring.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-09-05
Augustus Biesel, clerk at the American embassy in Paris, will deliver the photograph of President Roosevelt to Henri-Emile Lefort when the latter returns to Paris. Biesel recently spent time at the studio of the Marquise de Wentworth who is painting a portrait of Roosevelt which will soon be on exhibit.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-03-12
Secretary of the Treasury Shaw sends highest regards and best wishes to President Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-03-04
Portrait of Eleanor Butler Alexander in a yellow satin dress from Worth.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1907-1908
Formal studio portrait of unidentified man. Information regarding photograph is covered by other items in the scrapbook.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Unknown