School buildings

This pamphlet is a long list of reasons why someone should vote for Theodore Roosevelt to be president and continue the prosperity the Republican Party has brought to the United States over the last seven years. The author lists Roosevelt’s fearlessness, loyalty, and patriotism among other personal qualities. Deeds such as securing the Panama Canal, improving the Army and Navy, and his work for the workingman are also included.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904

Creator(s)

Unknown

President Roosevelt agrees to let Lodi’s Board of Education name their new schoolhouse after him. Through Jacob Van Hook, he thanks the board members for the honor and sends wishes for its success.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-08-23

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Photograph of a schoolhouse after having been prepared to be razed by fire in the North Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park in the winter of 1962.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Creation Date

1962

Creator(s)

National Park Service; Patterson, John R., 1923-1997

Photograph of a schoolhouse after having been prepared to be razed by fire in the North Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park in the winter of 1962.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Creation Date

1962

Creator(s)

National Park Service; Patterson, John R., 1923-1997

President Roosevelt sends his thoughts on the present movement towards building playgrounds in American cities to the Washington Playground Association through Cuno Hugo Rudolph. Roosevelt believes that play is important to the physical welfare of children, especially after most have been barred from employment.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-02-16

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

W. S. Scarborough, president of Wilberforce University, sends an appeal for financial contributions to the school for buildings and scholarships.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-10-31

Creator(s)

Scarborough, W. S. (William Sanders), 1852-1926

President Roosevelt is teaching in a schoolroom of chaos as President-elect William H. Taft opens the “Congress” door. The “House Resentment Committee” throws items at the president who holds his big stick. There are two notes on the blackboard: “Our teacher is no good. B. T.” and “Do we love our Teacher?” Ohio Senator Joseph Benson Foraker and South Carolina Senator Benjamin R. Tillman fold paper airplanes while Maine Senator Eugene Hale tries to take a “naval appropriations” stick. Caption: Getting square with the old teacher.

comments and context

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1909-01-14

Sheet music for “The School Where Lincoln Went,” a popular song with a chorus toasting Theodore Roosevelt attending Harvard University, President Taft attending Yale University, and Abraham Lincoln attending “the old red school house.” The cover features an eagle atop an illustration of a red school house surrounded by pendants for Harvard and Yale.

Collection

Dr. Danny O. Crew Theodore Roosevelt Sheet Music Collection

Creation Date

1910

Creator(s)

Hardy, Will

Theodore Roosevelt was pleased to receive the principal’s letter, especially because it was from Roosevelt School in Grand Forks, North Dakota. Roosevelt has a strong attachment to North Dakota, as he lived and worked there for several years. He is proud that the school is named after him and hopes that the students “become men and women of the finest type.”

Collection

America

Creation Date

1910-12-05

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

On either side of a broad street, “Vanderbilt’s Palace” and the “Cooper Institute to Science and Art” appear. In the distance is “Stewart’s Cathedral” (the Cathedral of the Incarnation, built as a memorial and mausoleum for Garden City’s founder Alexander Turney Stewart). Symbols of wealth frame the left side and symbols of art and science frame the right side. Puck is seated at center, over a quote by Joaquin Miller: “For all you can hold in your cold dead hand is what you have given away.”

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1883-04-18

Creator(s)

Graetz, F. (Friedrich), approximately 1840-approximately 1913

Alice Roosevelt laid the cornerstone at the Roosevelt Industrial School in Ponce, Puerto Rico to great local satisfaction.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-03-27

Creator(s)

Fritze, Cabrera