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President Roosevelt hopes Admiral Dewey will attend the dedication of the monument to William McKinley in Buffalo, New York.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-08-15
Statue of Theodore Roosevelt and facade of the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Hall at the American Museum of Natural History.
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Report submitted by Representative Welch from the House Committee on Public Lands supporting H. R. 731 which will establish Theodore Roosevelt National Park and erect a monument in memory of Theodore Roosevelt in Medora, North Dakota.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1947-02-18
Report submitted by Representative Cordon from the House Committee on Public Lands recommending the passage of H. R. 731, with amendments, which will create Theodore Roosevelt National Memorial Park and erect a monument in Medora, North Dakota, in memory of Theodore Roosevelt.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1947-03-17
Legislation to establish Theodore Roosevelt National Memorial Park and erect a monument to Theodore Roosevelt in Medora, North Dakota.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1947-04-25
In accord with North Dakota Senator Hanna’s request, Theodore Roosevelt sat for sculptor Gustav Vigeland while he was in Oslo, Norway. However, Roosevelt still believes that the statue Hanna wishes to create should be of a cowboy or a pioneer farmer in order to better reflect the frontier days of North Dakota. Roosevelt believes that “no man should ever have a statue until he has been dead some little time.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1910-05-06
President Roosevelt has received Representative Bates’s recent letter but cannot comply with his request to give a speech because it would make redundant his obligation to give an address at the dedication of the McKinley National Memorial in Canton, Ohio. Roosevelt will send Bates’s request to Secretary of State Root but cannot speculate on his reaction.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-06-28
Herman O. Fjelde thanks Frank Harper for the information about the “moving pictures” of Theodore Roosevelt and says he has written to Mr. Abernathy. The sculptor has the skeleton of the equestrian statue ready, but Fjelde does not know when the sculpture will be ready. However, he gets new subscribers and honorary members of the Roosevelt Monument Association every week, and notes that English Ambassador James Bryce recently expressed interest.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-07-15
Herman O. Fjelde tells Frank Harper that after he sent his letter, he received many photos of Theodore Roosevelt, which he sent to the sculptor Gustav Vigeland.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-07-17
Ralph E. Lum has received Frank Harper’s previous letter, and requests a lists of possible attendees to the unveiling of the Lincoln Monument in Newark, New Jersey. He has also enclosed a Sunday Call story that Theodore Roosevelt could use as inspiration for his speech at the unveiling ceremony.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-05-19
Nicole E. Goldstein recounts the activities undertaken and speeches given at the fiftieth anniversary celebration of the dedication of the Theodore Roosevelt memorial on Theodore Roosevelt Island on October 29, 2017. Goldstein lists the numerous events, highlighting the efforts of the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA), the Friends of Theodore Roosevelt Island, and the President of the D.C. Chapter of the Children of the American Revolution, Thomas Misiano, who designed discovery kits for visitors to the island to educate them about Roosevelt. Goldstein also summarizes her speech as well as those of Alexcy Romero of the National Park Service, historians John Milton Cooper and Clay Jenkinson, and Tweed Roosevelt. Goldstein concludes her report by touting Roosevelt’s conservation record and giving a brief history of Theodore Roosevelt Island.
Ten color photographs supplement the report.
The front cover of this issue features the cover of the March 1916 edition of Scribner’s Magazine which highlights an article by Theodore Roosevelt on bird refuges while a detail from a monument to Roosevelt in Boone, Iowa, sculpted by Vincenzo Miserendino appears on the back cover.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
2010-07-11
This edition of “News and Notes” focuses on the restoration and conservation of two Theodore Roosevelt memorials: an equestrian statue of Roosevelt as a Rough Rider located in Portland, Oregon, and a conservation themed memorial in Tenafly, New Jersey. Separate articles provide background for each memorial, detailing their donors, sculptors, and the reasons why they are in need of restoration. The section also highlights the Theodore Roosevelt Association’s (TRA) annual teddy bear drive, a controversy involving a Roosevelt related question on a quiz show, and the TRA’s goal to have 2,000 members in the year 2000. Three photographs supplement the text.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
2000
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Gregory A. Wynn chronicles the work of the sculptor Vincenzo Miserendino who Wynn believes has produced the finest likenesses of Theodore Roosevelt. Wynn highlights two Miserendino bronze sculptures of Roosevelt placed in Mount Vernon, New York, and Boone, Iowa. Wynn provides a biography of Miserendino and notes his body of work, but he focuses on the five different sculptures he created with Roosevelt as his subject. Wynn notes the location and status of Miserendino’s Roosevelt sculptures.
Six photographs of Miserendino’s sculptures supplement the text.
Alan R. Havig examines the effort of the Roosevelt Memorial Association (RMA) to secure a site on the Washington, D.C., mall to erect a memorial to Theodore Roosevelt. Havig argues that it was not the grandiose design by architect John Russell Pope that doomed the proposal, but that many in and out of Congress felt that constructing a memorial to Roosevelt in the 1920s was too soon after his death. Other critics argued that Roosevelt had not yet earned a place among the memorials to George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. Havig notes that Roosevelt, while denied a monument in the nation’s capital, would gain a memorial on Theodore Roosevelt Island in 1967, and he would earn a place on South Dakota’s Mount Rushmore among the figures that he was deemed unworthy of joining in the 1920s.
Four illustrations, three photographs of memorials to Roosevelt, and the logo of the Theodore Roosevelt Association populate the essay.
Gregory A. Wynn describes the nineteen page book produced by the Roosevelt Memorial Association to promote the construction of a Theodore Roosevelt memorial in Washington, D.C. Wynn also examines other projects undertaken in the nation’s capital by the project’s architect, John Russell Pope. Wynn discusses why the proposed memorial failed to be built, and he compares its design to the National World War II Memorial. A photograph of Wynn and photographs of the book’s cover and title page appear in the article.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
2011
List of twenty-six sites on Long Island, New York, associated with or dedicated to Theodore Roosevelt, including fourteen sites in Oyster Bay. The list includes four parks, three historic houses, and two statues, as well as office buildings, murals, and churches.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
2009
James F. Vivian describes the efforts of the Roosevelt Monument Association to have an equestrian statue of Theodore Roosevelt made for the state agricultural college in Fargo, North Dakota. Vivian highlights the sculptor chosen for the project, Gustav Viegland, and he details how Roosevelt, who initially sat for Viegland, decided that he did not want a statue made of him while he was still alive. An illustration of a model of the proposed statue appears in the article as does a reprint of a letter from the Roosevelt Monument Association on association stationery.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
2007
Max J. Skidmore recounts the establishment of the Theodore Roosevelt International Highway which stretches from Portland, Maine to Portland, Oregon, and encompasses much of what is known today as U.S. Highway 2. Skidmore focuses much of his attention on the completion of the final stretch of the highway at Marias Pass in Montana in 1930 and the subsequent construction of a granite obelisk monument to Theodore Roosevelt at the Pass. Skidmore highlights the Roosevelt family members in attendance at the monument’s dedication in 1931 and again at its rededication in 1991. A photograph of the obelisk monument supplements the text.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
1997
Variety marks this edition of the “News and Notes” section, beginning with the celebration of the 90th anniversary of Theodore Roosevelt’s inauguration at the Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site in Buffalo, New York, and the establishment of a Theodore Roosevelt Police Award for western New York. “News and Notes” also details the rededication of a monument to Roosevelt in Montana by Edith Roosevelt Derby Williams and provides a lengthy obituary for Cornelius V.S. Roosevelt, son of Brigadier General Theodore Roosevelt. A Roosevelt family reunion, bringing together the Oyster Bay and Hyde Park, New York, branches is also covered along with an appeal from Stephen V. Walker for music composed in honor of Theodore Roosevelt’s children.
“News and Notes” also features a text box “About the Theodore Roosevelt Association” that highlights the purpose, work, and history of the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA). A photograph of the Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site, an illustration of both sides of the TRA medallion, and Howard Chandler Christy’s painting of the Battle of Las Guasimas in Cuba illustrate the section.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
1991