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Several close shots of five Roosevelt Memorial Association trustees, posing behind a desk filled with books and papers in what appears to be the library in the Roosevelt House. Three of the men are Hermann Hagedorn, Alexander Lambert, and William Loeb.
Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound
1923
On July 4, 1919, a mountain peak in the Black Hills is renamed and dedicated to Theodore Roosevelt. Located near Deadwood, South Dakota, in the region where Roosevelt hunted and ranched in the 1880s, Mount Roosevelt is dedicated by the Society of Black Hills Pioneers, of which Roosevelt had been an honorary member. Leonard Wood, a close friend of Roosevelt and principal speaker at the ceremony, and Captain Seth Bullock, Roosevelt’s neighbor in his ranching days, speak informally with crowd members. There are views of the speakers’ platform, with the following men speaking at various points in service: South Dakota Governor Peter Norbeck, Wood, and former South Dakota Representative to Congress, Eben W. Martin. Also identified on platform are Bullock, at whose suggestion the mountain is being renamed, and Roosevelt Memorial Association member, Hermann Hagedorn. There are long shots of Roosevelt Monument, a circular tower with a parapet. Wood is seen walking along the narrow ledge of the monument to reach the speakers’ platform, which is erected in front of the monument. A close shot of a bronze plaque set in the side of the monument, shows an inscription that reads “In Memory of Theodore Roosevelt, The American.”
Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound
1919-07-04
Film containing quotations and still photos interspersed with factual footage of Theodore Roosevelt’s home and family in Oyster Bay, New York.
Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound
1930
This film depicts Theodore Roosevelt’s commitment to the reclamation of desert land and his belief that natural resources exist for the public benefit. Included are close-up views of Frederick Haynes Newell, first director of the U.S. Reclamation Service and Gifford Pinchot, first chief forester and leader of the conservation movement in the U.S.; both influenced Roosevelt’s thinking and action on conservation. Roosevelt fought successfully for the passage of the Reclamation Act of 1902, which authorized the creation of the reclamation service. In 1906 work on the Roosevelt Dam on the Salt River in Arizona began and was completed in 1911. Film consists of views of desert area, including many varieties of cactus; construction of the dam; the completed dam, hydroelectric plant, reservoir, and irrigation system. Scenes of fields and orchards, sheep and cattle grazing, men clearing, plowing, and harvesting fields with various types of farm equipment, and scenes of crops of wheat, alfalfa, and melons, all represent the benefits brought to the Salt River Valley area by the availability of water.
At the formal dedication of the dam on March 18, 1911, Roosevelt presses an electric switch opening sluice gates, and speaks and shakes hands with workers. Behind him on the platform are, left to right: a woman who may be Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt; a bald man who is probably Louis C. Hill, supervising engineer of the project; an unidentified man; Benjamin A. Fowler, president of the National Irrigation Congress; another unidentified man; Richard E. Sloan, territorial Governor of Arizona; and a man who is probably John P. Orme, president of the Salt River Valley Water Users’ Association.
Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound
Members of the Roosevelt Memorial Association visit the home of President Roosevelt’s mother, Martha Bulloch Roosevelt. Photo caption: Photo made in front of Bullock Hall, Roswell, Ga., the home of Roosevelt’s mother, which officers of the Roosevelt memorial Assn. visited to secure data and pictures for the memorial home in N.Y.C.. Photo shows, L. to R., Hermann Hagedorn, W. C. McClure, an Atlanta friend of Roosevelt, and Harry Stillwell Edwards.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1923-10-19
Ray H. Mattison responds to Superintendent Hanks’s request for advice on the content of the address to be given at the dedication ceremony for Theodore Roosevelt National Memorial Park. Park Historian Mattison includes a number of Roosevelt quotations on a variety of topics and his opinion on the focus of the address.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1949-05-21
National Park Service Director Drury writes a detailed letter to Horace M. Albright about the recent dedication ceremony for Theodore Roosevelt National Memorial Park. Drury describes the ceremony, other events that took place while he was in North Dakota, and the time he spent with other government officials who also attended.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1949-06-08
Historian Ray H. Mattison writes to Hermann Hagedorn to request the names and addresses of the Board of Trustees for the Roosevelt Memorial Association, of which Hagedorn is secretary. Mattison hopes to invite Hagedorn and the members of the Board to the upcoming dedication ceremony for Theodore Roosevelt National Memorial Park.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1949-03-15
Superintendent Hanks writes to Hermann Hagedorn, Secretary of the Roosevelt Memorial Association, to thank him for the Association’s donation of a book to Theodore Roosevelt National Memorial Park. Hanks also thanks Hagedorn for the names of the Association’s Board of Trustees as Hanks intends to invite them to the dedication ceremony for the park. Hanks hopes Hagedorn can attend the dedication ceremony.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1949-03-31
Theodore Roosevelt National Memorial Park Superintendent Hanks informs National Park Service Regional Director Merriam that the park has compiled a list of people who should receive invitations to the dedication of the park. Hanks’s memorandum is two pages and the list of people is 40 pages.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1949-04-23
Ray H. Mattison, Theodore Roosevelt National Memorial Park historian, writes to Hermann Hagedorn, Roosevelt Memorial Association Secretary, requesting information on the descendants of Theodore Roosevelt’s associates in the North Dakota Badlands. Mattison wishes to invite them to the park’s dedication ceremony. Mattison also requests the Association’s help in deciding who to invite to the ceremony.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1949-02-14
Ansley Wilcox, with later revisions from Theodore Roosevelt, describes the events surrounding the Roosevelt’s succession to the presidency.
Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site
1919
Zelie Mercedes Eberstadt Leigh offers to donate a letter written by Theodore Roosevelt to the Roosevelt Memorial Association. The letter was written in response to a letter sent by Leigh relating the time her sister, Esther, announced that she could no longer play with one of her friends because that girl’s father was not going to vote for Roosevelt.
1931-01-05
President Harding contacts Hermann Hagedorn of the Roosevelt Memorial Association regarding attempts to collect Roosevelt memorabilia.
Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site
1921-09-27
Ray H. Mattison writes to Hermann Hagedorn regarding a revision of Hagedorn’s book Roosevelt in the Badlands. Mattison offers help with the revision and provides a list of “old timers” with whom Hagedorn could talk.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1949-08-19
Allyn F. Hanks writes to Howard Baker regarding a recent trip to New York City and Washington, D.C., and attending the Boone and Crockett Club dinner with Archibald B. Roosevelt.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1952-01-12
Allyn F. Hanks informs Howard W. Baker of Olaf T. Hagen’s request for a copy of Little Missouri Stockgrowers Association meeting minutes.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1949-06-24