Scouts and scouting

A newspaper clipping describing the Zillah Marine Scouts showing in the Loyalty parade.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1918-04-27

Language

English

No change in the positions of the Russian and Japanese armies were noted this week. It is rumored that Japan has occupied a strategic point eighty miles east of Kirin. The defeat of Admiral Zinoviĭ Petrovich Rozhestvenskiĭ in the Sea of Japan leaves the Japanese a more direct route through which to deliver troops and supplies to armies in the field.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-06-09

Creator(s)

United States. Office of Naval Intelligence

At top, a man is being carried in a sedan chair, with many porters carrying furniture from a train on the right to his cabin in the wilderness on the left. At bottom, on the left, is a buck holding up a young hunter, exclaiming “To think of anybody mistaking a thing like this for me!” At bottom, on the right, is “The Guide’s Farewell” where a hunter stands outside the door as his guide takes leave of his family. The guide’s wife is weeping into a handkerchief, an infant sitting on the floor is crying, and his son hands him a rifle. The expectation is that he will be shot by accident by the hunter. At center, a man gestures toward his trophy wall and boasts about having “shot every one of them myself.” On the wall are portraits of many men mistaken for one animal or another, and one deer, which was shot “By Accident.”

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Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1905-10-04

Theodore Roosevelt cannot review Arthur Astor Carey’s book. He agrees that the Boy Scouts should be trained to make them “first-class citizens” in peace and to be available to defend the country during war. No one can defend the right if they are not prepared to “stand up fearlessly against what is wrong.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1915-12-09

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Theodore Roosevelt cannot make a speech on such short notice. Additionally, there are several matters he would like clarified before he could agree to speak. Roosevelt is concerned about the distribution of pacifist literature amongst the Boy Scouts. He states that the effort to prevent boys from being prepared to serve their country is treason. Boy Scouts should be taught to be “eager and willing to bear their part in any war” deemed necessary by their country.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1915-11-30

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Theodore Roosevelt congratulates Charles D. Hart on the success of the Boy Scout campaign in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The rapid and widespread fund raising shows that the Boy Scouts have “taken a deep and firm hold upon the sympathies of our people.” Roosevelt views the Boy Scouts as a valuable movement to the country.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1915-01-04

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

James M. Davis tells Theodore Roosevelt that forty boys are soon joining a Boy Scout troop and hopes Roosevelt will write a message of “greeting and advice,” particularly if he could make comment on “profanity and the use of tobacco.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-10-16

Creator(s)

Davis, James M. (James Monroe), 1876-1941

Charles E. Cragg tells Theodore Roosevelt of an upcoming excursion he has planned for a troop of Boy Scouts to a location near Roosevelt’s home, and asks either if Roosevelt would be willing to visit them, or if he could lead the boys to visit Roosevelt’s home at Sagamore Hill.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-07-08

Creator(s)

Cragg, Charles E., 1854-1936

Judge Lindsey expresses his support for the scouting movement.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-06-19

Creator(s)

Lindsey, Ben B. (Ben Barr), 1869-1943

Charles Fletcher Lummis wishes President Roosevelt “Good Hunting” while he is in Africa, and hopes to give him “a lot of good stuff” from his collection on Spanish America once he gets back. Lately, Lummis has been receiving “nice reminders” from those involved in the Apache Wars. Lummis attaches a signed photograph of himself and would like Roosevelt to send one of himself.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1909-01-21

Creator(s)

Lummis, Charles Fletcher, 1859-1928

Kansas has been struggling to deal with a spread of disease amongst children from the “typhoid fly.” The State Board of Health is printing literature about building up children’s physical strength and recreation, and Walter Burr suggests approaching areas with scouting organizations in order to spread this information. 

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-05-23

Creator(s)

Burr, Walter

Boy Scouts of America’s April 17, 1911 newsletter contains seven articles. Ernest Thompson Seton compares the American Boys Scouts with the British Boy Scouts. The British scouts are more disciplined, whereas the American scouts are skillful at camping and have “greater lung power.” There is a discussion on doing a troop exchange. National Scout Commissioner Daniel Carter Beard discusses how scouts should regard men like Davy Crockett and Daniel Boone as heroes rather than Jesse James or Robin Hood-type characters. The Executive Board plans to establish a Scout Masters’ School at Silver Bay, New York, in conjunction with the Boys’ Workers Camp. The two new manuals are almost ready to be published. Lorillard Spencer is planning summer activities for New York scoutmasters. New Jersey scouts are cleaning up areas to prevent mosquitoes. Italian scouts are working on propagating universal peace.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-04-17

Creator(s)

West, James E. (James Edward), 1876-1948

Vignettes depict man’s return to nature through scenes of hiking, hunting, and camping. Some scenes show a palatial “shack in the woods,” deer being groomed and fed on “The day before open season,” a woman camping with several of the comforts of home, and men hunting moose from an automobile.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1910-07-20

Creator(s)

Levering, Albert, 1869-1929

On the left, “as they pictured it in advance,” a group of men finds an orderly campsite, canoes and serenades by moonlight, has a well appointed guide, and finds plenty of wild game to eat. On the right, “as it panned out in reality,” the men find a disorganized campsite in the rain, take a disastrous canoe trip, have a buffoonish guide, and eat canned food.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1911-10-04

Creator(s)

Glackens, L. M. (Louis M.), 1866-1933

Rear Admiral Glass reports to Secretary of the Navy Moody that he has relayed Moody’s questions to Joseph Bullock Coghlan. Glass thinks an attack via Titumati is possible. Panama is well covered by scouts.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-01-30

Creator(s)

Glass, Henry, 1844-1908

Rear Admiral Glass informs Secretary of the Navy Moody that Native peoples had reported that Colombian troops had landed at Acanti, and this was being investigated by scouts.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-02-01

Creator(s)

Glass, Henry, 1844-1908

Captain Little reports on the exploration of trails near Empire, Panama, by the Marine Corps. Little details the trails they explored and their defensibility in case of an attack by Colombia.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-01-22

Creator(s)

Little, Louis McCarty, 1878-1960

Lieutenant Commander Gleaves reports to Rear Admiral Coghlan on his meetings with the Native peoples in the Mandingo Harbor area, Gulf of San Blas, where he had done his previous expeditions. He continued scouting and mapping where they had left off on the previous expedition. Gleaves also reports that the Rio Diablo Indians continue to be friendly, and have met and decided to support Panama, and end relations with Colombia. Gleaves’s men are finishing mapping the Gulf of San Blas, and sailing directions will be available soon.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-01-22

Creator(s)

Gleaves, Albert, 1858-1937

Midshipman Burwell reports on the waterways and trails of the Chucunaque River district.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-01-19

Creator(s)

Burwell, J. T.

Extract from a letter from the commanding officer of the USS Marblehead regarding the Colombian forces at Titumati and the attitudes of the region’s indigenous tribes.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-01-15

Creator(s)

Unknown