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Assistant Secretary Roosevelt is unsure how an unnamed matter will be handled, perhaps with a bill in Congress. Roosevelt compliments Alexander Phimister Proctor’s work and suggests that he contact a congressman for help.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1897-08-02
Gifford Pinchot recommends Alexander Proctor as the sculptor for a statue of Buffalo Bill. Pinchot thinks Proctor “knows and understands the West, and the spirit of the West.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1917-03-10
Robert T. Walker shares with Theodore Roosevelt that he wishes Johannes S. Gelert, a sculptor he represents, to be considered for the memorial monument of George Rogers Clark to be built in Jefferson County, Kentucky. Walker praises Gelert’s past work and accomplishments. He would be pleased to share photographs of Gelert’s past work with Roosevelt, and Gelert would be pleased to create a sketch for the committee to consider.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-10-18
Herman O. Fjelde tells Frank Harper that after he sent his letter, he received many photos of Theodore Roosevelt, which he sent to the sculptor Gustav Vigeland.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-07-17
Charles Henry Davis asks Theodore Roosevelt’s permission to commission Victor D. Brenner to produce a plaque showing George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Roosevelt himself.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-06-30
Victor D. Brenner wishes to model a portrait relief of Edith Roosevelt, and writes to Theodore Roosevelt inquiring if she is interested.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-05-25
Henry Adams jokingly chides President Roosevelt for having referred to a statue of Adams’ as a woman, as Adams believes that the sculpture by Augustus Saint-Gaudens aimed higher than depicting either a man or a woman, but meant to represent a genderless humanity.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-12-16
Samuel Harden Church informs President Roosevelt’s secretary William Loeb that the sculptor Rodin has expressed interest in sculpting a bust or statue of the president that expresses his “tremendous energy and vitality.” Church recommends the Art Halls of the Carnegie Institute as a logical location for the statue.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-08-02
Sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens writes to President Roosevelt regarding the design of a coin.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-01-09
Senator Wetmore writes to President Roosevelt, returning two letters, one from Emily Tuckerman and the other from Augustus Saint-Gaudens. Wetmore has written Saint-Gaudens regarding a sculptor to do a bust of the president, and he will notify Roosevelt when he receives a reply.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-01-04
Jacob A. Riis writes to President Roosevelt to discuss a French sculptor, Paul Nocquet, who wants to mold Roosevelt’s head in clay.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-09-11
The sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens provides the names and addresses of several other sculptors whom President Roosevelt might use, including Adolph A. Weinman, John F. Flanagan, and James Earle Fraser.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-07-14
Color postcard featuring a photograph, description, and brief history of the Mount Rushmore National Memorial.
1941-1960
Theodore Roosevelt Jr. thanks Henry E. Nebrick for the plaster cast of his father, Theodore Roosevelt.
Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site
1931-08-05
Unsigned letter from artist Henry E. Nebrick to Theodore Roosevelt Jr. Nebrick includes this letter with the gift of a framed, plaster cast of Theodore Roosevelt.
Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site
1931-07-28
A framed portrait of Theodore Roosevelt executed in plaster.
Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site
1931
The equestrian statue of De Soto is displayed at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1904
This stereograph shows a large sculpture of a cowboy and a horse at the gondola landing of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1904
The “Destiny of the Red Man” statue sits in the Sunken Gardens at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1904
“Sweet Dreams” and “Sensualita,” Italian statues, at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1904