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Nicholas Murray Butler confirms travel plans with William Loeb, President Roosevelt’s personal secretary. Butler has enclosed a letter and a newspaper clipping to be forwarded to Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-11-15
President Theodore Roosevelt shaking hands with the engineer after making a train journey.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1901-1908
Eleanor Butler Alexander sits in a train car and looks out the window. Noted in album: Eleanor’s mother, Grace Green Alexander, had a large folding Kodak, which took 5×7 negatives.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1895-1897
Galley proofs for Ray Stannard Baker’s article about railroad rebates: what rebates are, how they are paid, who pays them, and how they affect industry.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-09
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary invites Hamilton Wright Mabie and Mrs. Mabie to Oyster Bay, New York, for lunch on Thursday, June 1, 1911.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-05-25
President Roosevelt cannot accept William Dudley Foulke’s offer, but invites him to lunch with Vice President Charles W. Fairbanks and himself aboard their train near Indianapolis, Indiana.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-02-11
President Roosevelt instructs Secretary of War Taft on which train he should use to get to Oyster Bay, and hopes he can stay for lunch.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-07-06
William Augustus Patton, of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, tells William Loeb that there will be no objection to the man who is accompanying the horse riding in the caboose of the train, but asks for the exact date of the shipment to make sure that this is able to work.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-02-28
Herbert Parsons would like to come to Washington, D.C., to speak with President Roosevelt about the matter of Parsons’ recent letter. Parsons’ schedule is busy and would like to take an early train.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-10-24
Ray Stannard Baker writes to President Roosevelt to discuss a series of articles he will be writing about the railroad and asks for Roosevelt’s advice on articulating his position.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-09-07
Third Assistant Secretary of State Peirce writes to William Loeb regarding the schedule of the peace envoy’s trains.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-09-06
Maurice Latta, aide to President Roosevelt, should bring the telegram on the train to Cleveland to be used in connection with the Major Sylvester matter.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-07-06
William Augustus Patton of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company confirms that arrangements have been made according to William Loeb’s telephone request.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-04-13
Stereograph showing President Theodore Roosevelt, standing with twelve other men on railroad tracks, in front of a locomotive.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1906
Photograph showing William H. Taft speaking to a crowd from the back of a railroad caboose.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1908
President Roosevelt speaks with railroad workers and men next to a railroad car.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1906-06-15
President Roosevelt stands next to a railroad car speaking with a group of men.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1906-06-28
Reprint of portion of an article from Yankee magazine in which a train engineer, John Ticknor, recalls meeting President Roosevelt when the president visited the Vermont State Fair. Ticknor says that he met Roosevelt ten years later and that Roosevelt recalled their earlier encounter.
Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal
1979
Theodore Roosevelt writes to George von Lengerke Meyer that he unfortunately needs to leave for the Overseers’ meeting on December 12, and will return on December 14. He wishes Meyer could be on those trains, but guesses it is not possible.
Massachusetts Historical Society
1911-11-24
Secretary of War Taft, hat in hand, speaks from the rear of a train.
Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound
1908