Railroad stations

President Roosevelt speaks to a crowd of assembled citizens at Independence, Iowa, from the back of his train car.

Collection

America

Creation Date

1903-06-02

Creator(s)

Unknown

Photograph showing a crowd at the train station to see Theodore Roosevelt at a Dutch frontier.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1910

Various scenes of Oyster Bay, New York, and surrounding area, commissioned by the Roosevelt Memorial Association as part of its efforts to establish a memorial park in honor of Theodore Roosevelt. Most prominent views are of the mid-town intersection of East Main St. and South St., and the area around Oyster Bay railroad station, which borders the park site. Various shots of the intersection, in some of which campaign banners of the 1924 election are visible: pictures of President Coolidge, Charles Gates Dawes, and Ted Roosevelt, who unsuccessfully ran for New York governor against Alfred Emmanuel Smith in 1924, appear on the banners. Panning shots of a frame home by railroad tracks, steam engine with crew posed in front, and railroad station. Shots of a garbage dump and homes beside the bay, harbor area, row frame houses fronting on the garbage dump, and passenger train. These areas were to be included in the park.

Collection

Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound

Creation Date

1924

Black and white photograph of Theodore Roosevelt shaking hands at a railroad station.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site

Creation Date

1901-1905

A crowd gathered at a railroad station waits for Theodore Roosevelt to arrive by train in Missouri Valley, Iowa.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1910-08-26

President Roosevelt greets citizens at a train depot in Fargo.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-04-07

A dejected soldier sits at a train station beneath a sign that states “Trains Leave Every Hour for Fort Tombstone Fort Lonesome Fort Scalp’em and all Western Army Outposts” and near another sign that states “Special Accommodations for Transferred Army Officers,” with an infant on his lap and his traveling orders labeled “Ordered to go West Secy. Endicott” between his knees. His extended family of wife, mother-in-law(?), children’s nanny, and several rambunctious children accompany him. In the lower right foreground is a valise labeled “Major Dunerfull.” Caption: The effect of government reform on a military man of quiet domestic ambitions.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1885-08-26

A guest arrives at a suburban family’s home on Christmas Eve. The guest is welcomed and given a drink and a large meal where he carves the turkey. After the children are put to bed, he helps decorate the Christmas tree, reviews building plans while standing in the snow at midnight, and sleeps under a pile of blankets. He wakes at 5:00 a.m. on Christmas day to a “chorus” of children playing musical instruments and cries of delight over their Christmas presents. He is fed a huge breakfast, after which he pulls the children on their sleds. Finally, he announces that he must get back to the city and makes his departure, only to be left sitting on an outdoor bench, in the cold, at the “Welcomehurst” train station.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1909-12-01

Photograph of the Oyster Bay railway station shown with automobiles parked outside.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1917