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Theodore Roosevelt wrote an essay about the YMCA which drew protests. Roosevelt is excited to hear that the troops are in the trenches and is doing what he can to help rally support. Roosevelt’s grandchildren and daughters-in-law are visiting. He ends with reports of the political races.
1917-10-30
Former president Theodore Roosevelt holds his second grandson, Theodore Roosevelt III, while the child’s father, Theodore Roosevelt Jr., looks on.
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1915-1916
Theodore Roosevelt writes to his sister Anna Roosevelt about his upcoming travel plans west. He asks Anna if her employee Bob and Alec Lambert would like to go with him. He also updates her on the status of the family. They had a pleasant Fourth of July. Their uncle James King Gracie is sad over the death of his wife. Their brother Elliott is to leave New York Saturday.
1893-07-05
Article reporting the birth of Theodore Roosevelt Jr. and Eleanor Butler Roosevelt’s second child and first son, Theodore Roosevelt III. His grandfather, former president Theodore Roosevelt, was cabled the news in England, where he had arrived from Spain after attending the wedding of his son Kermit and Belle Wyatt Willard.
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1914-06-16
Cartoon depicting Theodore Roosevelt III, son of Theodore Roosevelt Jr. and Eleanor Butler Roosevelt, acting like his grandfather, former president Theodore Roosevelt.
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1914-06-17
Theodore Roosevelt reports that Grace Stackpole Lockwood Roosevelt is visiting for a fortnight. Little Richard is in the hospital with appendicitis. Ted Roosevelt was promoted. Roosevelt is very frustrated with the slow preparations for the war.
1917-08-08
Theodore Roosevelt Jr. photographed at military camp in Plattsburgh, New York.
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1915
Theodore Roosevelt Jr. training with other men at the Plattsburgh, New York, military camp.
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1915
Article about 1,000 men from Wall Street taking a month’s training at a military camp in Plattsburgh, New York, to better the military situation in the United States. Theodore Roosevelt Jr. was among the trainees.
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1915-06-30
Archibald Roosevelt (left) and Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (right) photographed at military training camp in Plattsburgh, New York, with an unidentified man.
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1915-1916
Theodore Roosevelt Jr. photographed on horseback as a company commander at military training camp in Plattsburgh, New York.
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1916
Theodore Roosevelt Jr. instructing men during bayonet drill at military training camp in Plattsburgh, New York.
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1915-1916
Theodore Roosevelt Jr.’s certificate verifying he completed a month long course of military instruction at Plattsburgh, New York. It also certifies him as a first lieutenant.
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1915-09-06
Article announcing the birth of Theodore Roosevelt Jr. and Eleanor Butler Roosevelt’s third child, Cornelius Van Schaak Roosevelt. Also included is information on Ethel Roosevelt Derby’s appendectomy.
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1915-10-22
Theodore Roosevelt Jr. and Eleanor Butler Roosevelt at the races with Snowden and Elizabeth Fahnestock.
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1912
Theodore Roosevelt Jr. and Eleanor Butler Roosevelt dressed for the cold weather.
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1912
Theodore Roosevelt Jr. and Eleanor Butler Roosevelt photographed at a ball in Newport, Rhode Island, given by Mary (May) Wilson Goelet.
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1912
Article describing how Theodore Roosevelt Jr. is leaving his job in the carpet industry in San Francisco, California, for a job at a Wall Street firm in New York City.
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1912
Article reporting that Theodore Roosevelt Jr. will lease a home at 165 East Seventy-fourth Street when he moves to New York City to take a job in a Wall Street banking house.
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1912
Theodore Roosevelt Jr., his wife Eleanor, and daughter Grace arrive for the wedding of Theodore’s sister Ethel to Richard Derby.
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1913-04-04