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Charles G. Bikle expresses his gratitude to Theodore Roosevelt for sending a photograph of himself. Bikle understands Roosevelt likely receives many similar requests. Bikle thanks Roosevelt on behalf of the babies who he hopes will be as successful as Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-09-29
William G. Cogswell recreates a local window advertisement he saw in Chicago that featured President Roosevelt unfavorably. The drawing was enclosed in a letter Cogswell wrote to Roosevelt’s secretary William Loeb on the matter.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-06-29
In response to a published statement by New York District Attorney Jerome, President Roosevelt wishes to make it clear to Jerome that he did not authorize the use of his picture or approve the article in Fads and Fancies. William Loeb looked in the Oyster Bay files for Roosevelt and found a letter from Judge Joseph M. Deuel to Loeb, requesting a photograph that Deuel gave the false impression of being approved by Roosevelt by Kate Phelan Hampton. Roosevelt was never informed of Loeb and Deuel’s correspondence and even sent back a copy of the book that William D’Alton Mann sent to him.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-01-27
John D. Rhoades reminds Theodore Roosevelt that he was the Rough Rider who accompanied him to Indianapolis, Indiana, the previous year. Upon meeting him, Rhoades’s wife, Mary Benbow Rhoades, was impressed with Roosevelt. She is an invalid and finds little interest in the barren Arizona landscape. Rhoades asks Roosevelt to sign a photograph and send it to her.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-08
Ambassador Reid thanks President Roosevelt for his well wishes. His father-in-law is still sick, and Mrs. Reid will be with him for some time. She is hoping Anna Roosevelt Cowles will come visit. Reid hopes to be in Washington for a few days before returning to his post. One of the pictures of Roosevelt with Kaiser Wilhelm II is back on the market and being held for Reid. He hopes to get the original of the other picture, but it may have to be redrawn.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-01-09
The Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) notes that this issue of the Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal reprints fourteen photographs from Stacey A. Cordery’s book Historic Photos of Theodore Roosevelt, and it also gives a preview of the next issue’s contents. A text box listing the leadership of the TRA and the association’s logo also appear in the section.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
2007
William N. Tilchin praises Stacey A. Cordery’s Historic Photos of Theodore Roosevelt not just for its collection of photographs, but because he feels that it merits reading as “a fine brief biography of TR.” Tilchin includes twelve selections from the work that include captions penned by Cordery. Henry J. Hendrix finds that Iestyn M. Adams’s Brothers Across the Ocean does an admirable job of explaining how Great Britain and the United States put aside their differences to forge an informal alliance during Theodore Roosevelt’s presidency, but he admonishes Adams for failing to utilize more American works in his study and for characterizing Roosevelt as “immature and bellicose.”
The book review section also includes a text box with the vision statement of the Theodore Roosevelt Association.
An image of various photographs of Theodore Roosevelt compiled together.
A print copy of what appears to be the same image held by the TR Center includes the following caption: “This is the most remarkable photograph ever made. It is composed of five hundred different pictures of President Roosevelt taken at all years of his public career, and showing five hundred of his different attitudes and expressions. Two, and only two, of the picures in this photograph are similar. They show the President in exactly the same position and dressed exactly the same. One is a little darker and larger than the other, but they are the same picture. See if you can find those two “Mysterious Mr. Roosevelt” pictures. After you find it it is a puzzle that will keep your friends busy for quite a while. This is probably the most expensive single photograph ever made. Its price was $1,000. No other photograph like it can ever be produced, and we have absolute control of its reproduction. Several men worked for months on the preparation of it. The pictures in it were taken in almost every state and territory in the Union, and at some of the most notable events that have taken place in American history. This great composite photograph will be an ornament to any home in America – a priceless ornament. Five years from now a reproduction of this great picture will be worth many dollars, and later on, when President Roosevelt has retired from public life, it will be a treasure to your children and grandchildren which will command a very high price.”
Newspaper clipping about St. Paul’s Church in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. Several weeks earlier, the church baptized thirteen babies in one service. Following the service, they sent photographs to several parts of the country, including to Theodore Roosevelt. Roosevelt responded by sending an inscribed photograph of himself.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-09-29
A blank postcard with a photograph of Theodore Roosevelt addressing a crowd. According to a letter from Frank H. Blighton, the photograph was taken on April 18, 1911 at the dedication of the Theodore Roosevelt Dam. Blighton is also pictured taking shorthand of Roosevelt’s speech.
President Roosevelt and Henry Cabot Lodge stand outside a building with a large group of people.
Massachusetts Historical Society
1902-09-01
President Roosevelt and Henry Cabot Lodge are in a horse-drawn carriage speaking with by-standers.
Massachusetts Historical Society
1902-09-01
An image of various photographs of Theodore Roosevelt compiled together.
A print copy of what appears to be the same image held by the TR Center includes the following caption: “This is the most remarkable photograph ever made. It is composed of five hundred different pictures of President Roosevelt taken at all years of his public career, and showing five hundred of his different attitudes and expressions. Two, and only two, of the picures in this photograph are similar. They show the President in exactly the same position and dressed exactly the same. One is a little darker and larger than the other, but they are the same picture. See if you can find those two “Mysterious Mr. Roosevelt” pictures. After you find it it is a puzzle that will keep your friends busy for quite a while. This is probably the most expensive single photograph ever made. Its price was $1,000. No other photograph like it can ever be produced, and we have absolute control of its reproduction. Several men worked for months on the preparation of it. The pictures in it were taken in almost every state and territory in the Union, and at some of the most notable events that have taken place in American history. This great composite photograph will be an ornament to any home in America – a priceless ornament. Five years from now a reproduction of this great picture will be worth many dollars, and later on, when President Roosevelt has retired from public life, it will be a treasure to your children and grandchildren which will command a very high price.”
Reproduction of print showing Theodore Roosevelt seated on a horse, saluting the American flag flying over a hill in the background, likely a reference to the Battle of San Juan Hill, as Roosevelt is in his Rough Riders outfit.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1904-03-11