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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Arthur William Merrifield

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Arthur William Merrifield

President Roosevelt asks U.S. Marshal Merrifield to write to Laura d’Oremieulx Roosevelt to tell her what steps her son, Oliver Roosevelt, should take to get out to a ranch in the coming year to do some hunting. He advises Merrifield that Roosevelt, being sixteen years of age, is small for his age and is not used to working outdoors, but is a fine musician.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-01-16

Hugh Hempel at McGregor Ranch

Hugh Hempel at McGregor Ranch

Hugh “Bill” Hempel, Civilian Conservation Corps engineering foreman, walks in front of a log cabin at the McGregor Ranch. The ranch is located one mile east of the North Unit at the Roosevelt Recreation Demonstration Area. The photograph is part of a three-binder set of pictures taken by Chandler D. Fairbank, Civilian Conservation Corps North Unit foreman at the Roosevelt Recreation Demonstration Area, taken between 1936 and 1937.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Creation Date

1936-1937

McGregor ranch cabin

McGregor ranch cabin

The photograph shows a log cabin from the McGregor Ranch located one mile east of the North Unit at the Roosevelt Recreation Demonstration Area. The photograph is part of a three-binder set of pictures taken by Chandler D. Fairbank, Civilian Conservation Corps North Unit foreman at the Roosevelt Recreation Demonstration Area, taken between 1936 and 1937.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Creation Date

1936-1937

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Anna Roosevelt

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Anna Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt writes to his sister Anna Roosevelt about how things are going on his hunting trip. His head is much better; Hector is not faring as well. He and his companion have had very little success hunting and the ranch looks melancholy all deserted.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1892-08-11

Old Smith Ranch land

Old Smith Ranch land

Aerial photograph of the land that was once the old Smith Ranch, located in the South Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park. The ranch house was razed by the Youth Conservation Corps in 1976.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Creation Date

Unknown

Old Smith Ranch land

Old Smith Ranch land

Aerial photograph of the land that was once the old Smith Ranch, located in the South Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park. The ranch house was razed by the Youth Conservation Corps in 1976.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Creation Date

Unknown

A strenuous job on the Cuban ranch

A strenuous job on the Cuban ranch

President Roosevelt appears as a cowboy, on horseback, with Cuban President Tomás Estrada Palma, on foot, driving cattle labeled “High Protectionist, Senatorial Pledge Breaker, [and] Beet Sugar Senator” into the “Reciprocity Corral.”

comments and context

Comments and Context

The specific context of this cartoon, and the reference to “reciprocity,” is the question of America’s policy regarding sugar, Cuba’s chief export commodity. There were expectations after the Spanish-American War among Cuba’s leaders and provisional government, Cuban sugar growers, the American sugar trust, American sugar-beet growers, and various senators representing conflicting interests. Those expectations and hopes were settled by the Platt Amendment and decisions of President Roosevelt that granted free trade of Cuban cane sugar (no or low import duties imposed by the United States — virtual reciprocity, not that Cuba needed beet sugar) offset by Cuban guarantees of other American commodities and foreign-trade concessions. Cuban President Tomás Palma, once an advocate of annexation, backed this compromise. It sometimes is difficult to remember that Puck was a Democratic journal when reviewing such noble depictions and caricatures as in this cartoon of Roosevelt. Alternatively, of course, history remembers the public’s approval and the popularity of Roosevelt at the time. Noted, also, another phrase of Roosevelt’s that entered the language: the cartoon’s caption “A Strenuous Job.”