Private libraries

Souter, John W. (John William), 1878-1925

Creation Date

1911-02-04

Creator(s)

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Katharine Medill McCormick

President Roosevelt has handed the Jack of All Trades over to his wife Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt to put in their library. He thanks Katharine Medill McCormick for thinking of him and wishes that he could have seen her with her husband.

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Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Creation Date

1906-01-17

Creator(s)

Pres. Theodore Roosevelt house, New York, library

Photograph of the library at President Roosevelt’s birthplace home in New York.

Collection

Creation Date

1923-12-17

Creator(s)

Pres. Theodore Roosevelt house, New York, “library”

Photograph of the library in President Roosevelt’s home in New York.

Collection

Creation Date

1923-12-17

Creator(s)

Roosevelt’s library [Stoner House]

Photograph showing interior of Roosevelt’s library at Stoner House with bookcases, a desk, chairs, sofa, photographs, a sculpture, and a portrait of George Washington hanging over the fireplace.

Collection

Bain, George Grantham, 1865-1944

Creation Date

1901-04-08

Creator(s)

President Roosevelt’s library

Photograph showing President Roosevelt’s library at Sagamore Hill with a bookcase, hearth and mantle, several photographs, sculpture, mounted antelope heads, a bear skin rug and other carpeting, chairs and end tables, one with a stuffed badger beneath.

Collection

Creation Date

1904-07-22

Creator(s)

Roosevelt House, New York, memorial library

Photograph showing the interior of the Theodore Roosevelt library with rows of bookcases, a card catalog with a bust of Roosevelt on top, a desk in the foreground, and tables and chairs in the back of the room.

Collection

Creation Date

1923-12-17

Creator(s)

Library and trophy room at Sagamore Hill

Photograph of the library and trophy room at President Roosevelt’s home, Sagamore Hill, with two elk heads on the wall.

Collection

Creation Date

1910

Creator(s)

Sagamore Hill, President Roosevelt’s country home, the office

Photograph of the interior of President Roosevelt’s library at Sagamore Hill with a bookcases, fireplace, several photographs, sculptures, mounted animal heads, a stuffed badger, a bear skin rug, and chairs.

Collection

Creation Date

1905-09-14

Creator(s)

Letter from William A. Baillie-Grohman to Winthrop Chanler

William A. Baillie-Grohman encloses a copy of a letter he sent to President Roosevelt and requests Winthrop Chanler’s help in the matter. He mentions an opportunity to buy “one of the most complete sporting libraries that exists.”

Collection

Baillie-Grohman, William A. (William Adolph), 1851-1921

Creation Date

1901-12-04

Creator(s)

Letter from William A. Baillie-Grohman to Theodore Roosevelt

William A. Baillie-Grohman inquires whether President Roosevelt wishes to purchase a sporting library being sold by Christian Biedermann of Dresden, Germany.

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