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Photograph of the crowd gathered outside the presidential train upon the arrival of Theodore Roosevelt at the Grand Canyon train station. President Roosevelt is sitting upon a white horse in the middle of the crowd.
1903-05-06
Photograph of the crowd gathered outside the presidential train upon the arrival of Theodore Roosevelt at the Grand Canyon train station. President Roosevelt is sitting upon a white horse in the middle of the crowd.
1903-05-06
Photograph of the train on which Theodore Roosevelt arrived to the Grand Canyon. Several carriages, horses, and people are in the foreground.
1903-05-06
Henry L. Stimson tells Theodore Roosevelt he will be arriving in New York earlier than expected and will stop by The Outlook office to see Roosevelt Friday afternoon.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-12-14
Secretary of Theodore Roosevelt confirms with Charles Stelzle the plans for Theodore Roosevelt’s visit to the Labor Temple.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-12-15
Augustus Everett Willson informs Frank Harper that he, his wife Mary Elizabeth Ekin Willson, Governor Herbert S. Hadley, and Agnes L. Hadley Haskell, will take the eleven o’clock train on Saturday morning.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-09-14
James S. Heberling asks Theodore Roosevelt to speak at the celebration of Founder’s Day in October.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-09-12
Jacob A. Riis quotes a conversation he had with a fellow countryman, who told him of a time when President Roosevelt was leaving Seattle and had looked down on a crowd made up largely of Scandinavians, and seemed disappointed when they did not give him a sign of recognition. The man believes Roosevelt did not know that Scandinavians are “never demonstrative that way.” Riis also mentions Baron Hermann Speck von Sternburg’s poisoned face wound that will not heal, and recommends that he contact the Finsen Light Institute to seek treatment for it.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-01-23
Victor Howard Metcalf provides President Roosevelt with a series of correspondences regarding an immigration inspector, George C. Triick, who was accused of mistreating Mr. Chow Tszchi, a Chinese dignitary. The department agrees that the Government should provide the utmost courtesy to Chinese people but notes issues in proving citizenship or defining who could be classified as a Chinese laborer. Chinese merchants, teachers, students and bankers are welcome, but not laborers with falsified Chinese papers pretending to be of a higher class. A treaty written in 1904 sought to deal with falsified records but the Chinese thought it was too strict. Metcalf notes any concerns of harshness in the enforcement of exclusionary laws is necessary to combat those trying to skirt the system.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-06-07
“The Chief Executive thinks Senator Pritchard went too far in excluding qualified negro voters from the State Convention – he may give out a statement regarding the matter which will shock Blackburn and others who are declaring for the old order of things – Mr. Roosevelt shakes hands with 200 Asheville people.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-11-20
Schedule of trains traveling between Hartford, Connecticut and East Litchfield, Connecticut and between New Haven, Connecticut and Litchfield, Connecticut.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-08-12
Schedule of departures and arrivals as pertains to the visit to Rosario, Tucuman, Cordoba, Rio Cuarto by Theodore Roosevelt.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1913-11-15 to 1912-11-19
Schedule of departures and arrivals with the Ferro Carril de Buenos Aires al Pacifico
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1913-11-19 to 1913-11-21
Theodore Roosevelt writes his sister Anna that he is trying to keep his engagement to Alice Hathaway Lee a secret until Saturday and that his brother Elliott is coming to visit. He wants to know which train Anna will be coming on.
1880-02-10
Theodore Roosevelt telegraphs his sister Anna he will be arriving by the 9 o’clock train.
1878-02-09
In a short letter, Theodore Roosevelt explains to his sister Anna that he is in a hurry because he is late for the train and that he will be arriving at 11 o’clock.
1878-11-30
Quentin Roosevelt writes to his mother to describe the journey to Gallup and his difficulties meeting up with his friend Ben who had gone on a trip to the Grand Canyon. Once Roosevelt meets up with Ben, they head to Kayenta, Arizona for the night. Roosevelt then discusses his whole plan for his time in the area and includes a hand drawn map of their travel route. Roosevelt is hoping for good bear hunting and fishing. He closes hoping his father is keeping quiet and that he wishes he knew Belle, Kermit Roosevelt’s fiance, better but hopes they like his choice of a gift.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1915-07-11
An excerpt from a letter Quentin Roosevelt wrote about traveling in France during the summer of 1909. He discusses seeing a flying show, Notre Dame, and the Louvre. He does not like French train travel and discusses subjects of photographs he has captured with his camera.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1909
Passengers in a railroad sleeping car tell the porter to make sure to put them “off at Buffalo” so they can visit the Pan-American Exposition.
The humor in this non-political cartoon is noting the various social types flocking to the fair in Buffalo: society snobs, pretty girls, rural types, foreigners, cowboys, old maids, and children. A point of irony, certainly no prediction of any sort, is the brandishing of a handgun; within four months President William McKinley would be assassinated by an anarchist with a handgun at that very fair.
A huge man, representing “Transcontinental R.R. Interests,” holds many strings linked to members of the U.S. Senate to stall legislation on a “Nicaragua Canal Treaty.”
This cartoon is reminiscent of Puck‘s famous “Bosses Of the Senate” (1889) by Joseph Keppler Sr., showing many large figures representing the Trusts in the Senate galleries. Here, the Railroad Trust is depicted as manipulating the members on the floor in opposition to the proposed Isthmian canal (Nicaragua the likely route, in most speculation). Largely neglected by history is the opposition to the building of a canal by railroad monopolies that profited from coastal trade in the United States.