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Thomas W. Sidwell writes to President Roosevelt, inviting him to come speak to the students at Sidwells’ Friends Select School. They would particularly like him to come in February and speak about George Washington or some other “patriotic subject.” Sidwell praises Roosevelt for encouraging the country to “work a little harder for righteousness.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-01-26
Bishop Dougherty writes to Secretary of Public Instruction Smith to protest against the actions of Edward P. Sheehan, an American teacher, and Manuel Garcia, presidente municipal of Manaoag, who are preventing students from attending a parochial school.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-12-19
President Roosevelt flexes his bicep as he watches several boys leaving “Miss Democracy Select School”: David B. Hill, Alton B. Parker, New York Mayor George B. McClellan, Arthur P. Gorman, Richard Olney, and William Randolph Hearst.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-06-26
President Roosevelt reads a sign that several school boys show him: “Resolved that we are too big to be spanked. It injures our dignity and besides people might begin to think we needed it.” Speaker of the House Joseph Gurney Cannon holds the sign, and a number of Representatives and Senators are behind him. Caption: A revolt in the district school.
Researchers reading President Roosevelt’s last Annual Message, from early December 1908, and be startled by a short passage in the midst of many claims of policy achievements, and a host of prescriptions for the coming months and years. There was a brief please for Congressional approval to expand the functions, and the funding, of the Secret Service. The nation, the government, and concomitant challenges of investigation and law enforcement had all increased in the century’s first decade.
The Roosevelt bear, Teddy B, takes the role of class teacher. Number 5 in a series of postcards depicting scenes from Seymour Eaton’s “Roosevelt Bears” books.
1907
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
Newly appointed Assistant Secretary of the Navy Theodore Roosevelt writes his daughter Alice that he is homesick for his family and their new house will be very comfortable. He asks how she liked the Wild West show and says he arranged school for Ted and Kermit Roosevelt. He mentions the trees in Rock Creek Park are down.
1897-05-06
President of the Board Magnus L. Robinson discusses the change in namesake for the school from John Hay to William McKinley.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-01
An outline of the courses offered, students in attendance, and the cost of attendance for the William McKinley Normal and Industrial School.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-01
Donation slip for the William McKinley Normal and Industrial Institute of Alexandria, Virginia.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-01
The Alexandria, Virginia Daily Gazette reports on the school’s name change from John Hay to the William McKinley Normal and Industrial Institute.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-02-26