Roosevelt, Theodore, 1914-2001

Citation for the Theodore Roosevelt Distinguished Service Medal awarded to Ethel Roosevelt Derby, eldest daughter of Theodore Roosevelt, in October 1977 by P. James Roosevelt. The citation recognizes her service as a nurse in World War I, her role as a trustee of the American Museum of Natural History, and her work on behalf of various causes in Oyster Bay, New York. The citation strives to give a sense of Mrs. Derby’s personality and how she employed it in service of preserving the memory of her father, President Roosevelt.

A picture of Ethel Roosevelt as a child with her father and another showing her receiving her Distinguished Service Medal accompany the citation.

Photograph of Theodore Roosevelt with his son and grandson.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1916

Creator(s)

Shinn, Walter Scott, 1884-1970

Photograph showing Theodore Roosevelt with his son and grandson.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1915

Creator(s)

Unknown

Horace M. Albright’s secretary informs Theodore Roosevelt National Memorial Park Superintendent Hanks that Albright has collected the addresses of Theodore Roosevelt’s family members per Hanks’s request. Hanks intends to invite them to the dedication ceremony for the park.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Creation Date

1949-04-13

Creator(s)

Shankland, Alice

Theodore Roosevelt congratulates Robert Grant on the recent birth of his grandchild and comments on a recent visit with Grant’s wife and son and London. Roosevelt also mentions the birth of his grandson, Theodore Roosevelt III, and accepts Grant’s invitation to visit him on his next trip to Boston.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1914-06-26

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Theodore Roosevelt writes “little Miss Marjorie” on behalf of his four grandchildren to donate $1.00 to help Marjorie and her school fellows “put our country in shape to ‘Fear God, and Take Her Own Part’.” He says a dime a piece is for his grandchildren: Gracie Roosevelt, Richard Derby II, Theodore Roosevelt III, and Cornelius Van Schaak Roosevelt. He goes on to describe each child. The remaining 60 cents are for his grandchildren yet to be born.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1916-02-05

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Former president Theodore Roosevelt holds his second grandson, Theodore Roosevelt III, while the child’s father, Theodore Roosevelt Jr., looks on.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1915-1916

Creator(s)

Shinn, Walter Scott, 1884-1970

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.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1914-06-16

Creator(s)

Unknown

Cartoon depicting Theodore Roosevelt III, son of Theodore Roosevelt Jr. and Eleanor Butler Roosevelt, acting like his grandfather, former president Theodore Roosevelt.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1914-06-17

Creator(s)

Ritchie, William Norman, 1865?-1947 or 1948

Eleanor Butler Roosevelt photographed with her children, three year old Grace and two month old Theodore III.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1914-08

Creator(s)

Unknown

Studio portrait of Eleanor Butler Roosevelt and her two children, Grace aged about 3 and Theodore III aged two months.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1914-08

Creator(s)

Unknown

Theodore Roosevelt III photographed at one year.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1915-06

Creator(s)

Unknown

Grace Roosevelt and her brother Theodore III photographed outside in 1915. Grace is around three years of age and Theodore III around one year.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1915

Creator(s)

Unknown

Theodore Roosevelt III at 1 year and 2 months, photographed at the beach holding on to what appears to be the pole of a beach umbrella.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1915-08

Creator(s)

Unknown

Grace Green Alexander is photographed with her grandchildren Grace Roosevelt, aged 3, and Theodore Roosevelt III, aged 1 year.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1915

Creator(s)

Unknown

Studio portrait of Theodore Roosevelt III, aged 1 year and 2 months.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1915-08

Creator(s)

Unknown

Theodore Roosevelt, III at age 1 year and 2 months on the beach at Southampton, New York. A note below the photograph indicates it was published as the entire front page of the rotogravure section of the New York Sun.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1915-08

Creator(s)

Unknown

Eleanor Butler Roosevelt photographed with her three children: Grace around age 4, Theodore III around age 2, and Cornelius Van Schaack around 8 months.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1916

Creator(s)

Unknown

Theodore Roosevelt III, aged about 2.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1916

Creator(s)

Unknown

Siblings Grace (aged 4-5), Theodore III (aged 2-3), and Cornelius Van Schaack (under 1 year) Roosevelt are photographed in Elizabethtown, New York.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1916

Creator(s)

Unknown