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President Roosevelt reports on the snowy weather and riding the horses through Rock Creek Park. Edith traveled to Philadelphia, so Roosevelt told stories to Archie and Quentin. He had his last sitting with John Singer Sargent and likes Sargent’s portrait.
1903-02-19
President Roosevelt talks of horseback riding with Edith, and how he has been reading to Archie and Quentin while she is sick. Roosevelt attended the Army and Navy reception where Chief Joseph and seven other Nez Perce Indians came in full war dress. John Singer Sargent is staying at the White House and painting Roosevelt’s picture.
1903-02-15
Henry Bainbridge Chapin sends President Roosevelt a letter from Edward Robinson, Director of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Chapin asks that Roosevelt let Robinson know if he will be in Washington in May so that John Singer Sargent can can come over for the presentation of Roosevelt’s portrait before commencement.
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1905-03-20
President Roosevelt is glad to hear about Edward C. Armstrong’s family and sends a photograph for the baby.
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1908-09-19
President Roosevelt does not wish to seem rude in his response to Herman Henry Kohlsaat’s suggestion, but nearly all of his previous experiences sitting for portraits or photographs have been failures and he wishes to avoid any more attempts.
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1908-09-12
Ida M. Tarbell expresses her appreciation of Charles M. Shean’s portrait of Abraham Lincoln.
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1911-09-22
Harper Pennington praises Charles M. Shean’s portrait of Abraham Lincoln.
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1911-09-16
Douglas Robinson and his wife, Corinne Roosevelt Robinson, request the latest photos of President Roosevelt.
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1907-02-02
Francis Davis Millet criticizes the design of a medal of George Washington discussed in a newspaper clipping he has enclosed, saying that it fails to capture Washington’s noble characteristics. Millet stresses the importance of a medallist’s duty to capture a President’s features, as a medal will survive after all other forms of art have disappeared. He hopes that Theodore Roosevelt will have a medal that will “hold its own.” He also sends a set of eight medals struck by the French mint as examples of what he means by “nobility in a medal.”
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1905-01-13
President Roosevelt stands by a table with his right hand on some papers.
Theodore Roosevelt was always on particularly good terms with members of the press. When was he was president of the New York City Board of Police Commissioners, for instance, he fraternized with reporters in his offices or, frequently, made the rounds on city streets to understand situations and check on cops on duty. Roosevelt was famously gregarious, but he also realized the advantages of favorable treatment in the press.
President Roosevelt’s face is blended with George Washington’s face. Caption: “First in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen.”
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1905-09-01
Formal portrait of Theodore Roosevelt.
Theodore Roosevelt Medora Foundation
1900-1915
Professional portrait photograph of Theodore Roosevelt.
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Professional portrait photograph of Theodore Roosevelt.
1915
Advertisement for reproductions of a portrait bust of Theodore Roosevelt originally designed in bronze by Gleb W. Derujinsky.
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On behalf of President Roosevelt, William Loeb acknowledges receiving Colonel Mann’s letter about the book Fads and Fancies. Roosevelt, however, cannot accept the book because, as Kate Phelan Hampton has stated, he did not authorize the use of his picture for the book, of which he was unaware. Loeb, then, must decline and return the book on the President’s behalf.
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1905-11-01
Theodore Roosevelt does not have the photograph. At one point he tried to keep up with all the demands, but it is no longer possible.
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1915-03-01
President Roosevelt and his wife Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt were pleased to receive reproductions of Gari Melcher’s portrait of President Roosevelt.
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1909-01-18
President Roosevelt tells Frank Basil Tracy that while he greatly likes the portrait that Joseph DeCamp painted of him, he does not want to write a letter specifically about it because then he would be asked to write letters about every other portrait. Roosevelt does not object to Tracy making a statement that he knows that Roosevelt likes the portrait. John Woodbury has a letter that Roosevelt gives Tracy permission to quote from. Roosevelt likes Albert Bushnell Hart, especially recently since “his action in connection with the Englishman at Tokio.”
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1908-12-29
President Roosevelt warns President-Elect Taft not to let the “horrid female creature” Cecile de Wentworth paint his portrait. In a moment of weakness, Roosevelt let her “make believe” painting his portrait that she then tried to hang in the Paris Salon. She tried to get the American ambassador in France to convince the French that it was disrespectful to Roosevelt not to hang the “awful daub” in a good place. Roosevelt has also directed Rear Admiral Charles S. Sperry’s fleet to stop, and thinks that Sperry is an “old jack” to get misled about it.
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1908-11-21