Extra session proclamation
A disgruntled Senate is pictured holding several bills as a smiling President Roosevelt hands him an extra session proclamation.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1903-03-03
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Proclamations
Letter from David Jayne Hill to George B. Cortelyou
First Assistant Secretary of State Hill requests a copy of President Roosevelt’s proclamation announcing President McKinley’s death and designating a national day of mourning. The Department of State has not been able to publish the proclamation as it usually does, but wishes to have it on record.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1901-09-20
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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Chase S. Osborn
Theodore Roosevelt would appreciate the little book and admires Chase Osborn’s proclamation.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1911-05-15
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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Chase S. Osborn
Theodore Roosevelt compliments Chase S. Osborn on his Mother’s Day proclamation. Roosevelt congratulates the people of Michigan and the United States on what Osborn has done.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1911-05-12
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Telegram from Theodore Roosevelt to William H. Taft
President Roosevelt tells Secretary of War Taft to issue the proclamation as he suggested.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1906-10-12
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Telegram from Theodore Roosevelt to Eugene E. Schmitz
President Roosevelt has received the telegram sent by San Francisco Mayor Eugene E. Schmitz and others in the wake of the San Francisco earthquake and fire, and notifies him of a proclamation that he has just issued regarding disaster relief for the city which urges further charitable contributions be given not to the Red Cross, but rather to local committees. Roosevelt also informs Schmitz of other efforts that are currently in progress to send assistance to the city.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1906-04-25
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Telegram from Theodore Roosevelt to John H. Mickey
President Roosevelt will be glad for Governor Mickey to issue the suggested proclamation. He suggests that the contributions should be made through the Red Cross association or through Red Cross members from Nebraska.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1906-02-14
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Letter from Chase S. Osborn to Theodore Roosevelt
Chase S. Osborn sends Theodore Roosevelt a booklet inscribed for him by a “colored” man. He wonders if Roosevelt saw the reference in his official Mother’s Day proclamation to Roosevelt’s race suicide article.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1911-05-11
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Note from Elihu Root to Theodore Roosevelt
In a short note, Secretary of State Root tells President Roosevelt that he likes Roosevelt’s Thanksgiving proclamation very much.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1907-10-26
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Letter from Alvey A. Adee to William Loeb
Second Assistant Secretary of State Adee encloses a copy of an un-enacted, signed proclamation and asks William Loeb to have President Roosevelt determine what to do with it.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1907-07-09
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Letter from Alvey A. Adee to Charles Ray Dean
Alvey A. Adee instructs Chief of Bureau of Appointments Charles Ray Dean to refer the matter of destroying the signed, un-promulgated proclamation to William Loeb.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1907-07-08
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Letter from Ethan Allen Hitchcock to Theodore Roosevelt
Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock encloses a confidential letter addressed by him to William A. Richards, Commissioner of the General Land Office, which he think will provide the information President Roosevelt desires. Hitchcock also encloses a copy of a Circular giving instructions to Special Agents under the act of February 25, 1885, instead of the Proclamation Roosevelt had requested. Hitchcock explains that the substitution of the Circular for the Proclamation was a result of a conference had by Governor Richards with both Roosevelt and Hitchcock.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1906-10-11
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Telegram from William H. Taft to Theodore Roosevelt
William H. Taft issues a proclamation vacating his position as the provisional governor of Cuba and recognizing Charles E. Magoon as his successor.
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Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1906-10-12
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Letter from William H. Taft to Theodore Roosevelt
Secretary of War Taft suggests a draft of a proclamation establishing a provisional government in Cuba.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1906-09-28
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Telegram from Maurice Latta to William H. Taft
Maurice Latta informs Secretary of War Taft that his dispatches of the day were forwarded to President Roosevelt, who sent the included message before receiving Taft’s last communication and proclamation.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1906-09-28
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Theodore Roosevelt, half-length portrait, seated at desk, facing front
Painting of President Roosevelt, posed for writing with Panama Canal Zone document on his desk.
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1922-01-18
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President Roosevelt signing his 1902 Thanksgiving Proclamation act
President Roosevelt sits at his desk and signs the 1902 Thanksgiving Proclamation act.
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1902-12-03
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President Roosevelt signing his 1902 Thanksgiving Proclamation act
Theodore Roosevelt sits at his desk while signing the 1902 Thanksgiving Proclamation act.
Collection
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Creation Date
1902-12-03
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Letter from James Rudolph Garfield to Theodore Roosevelt
Secretary of the Interior Garfield submits for President Roosevelt’s signature the proclamation creating Pinnacles National Monument in California. Garfield explains the location of the proposed monument and offers a brief description.
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Creation Date
1908-01-14
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Letter from James Wilson to Richard Achilles Ballinger
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson writes to Secretary of the Interior Ballinger, notifying him that, following a proclamation by President Taft, Pinnacles National Monument has been removed from the National Forest, and is therefore under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior rather than the Department of Agriculture.
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Creation Date
1910-12-16