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Cartoon depicting the grim reaper at a gravestone for soldiers from the Spanish-American War. At the bottom it reads, “Shall this monument be erected to political incompetence and corruption?”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1898
President Roosevelt giving an oration before the statue of his predecessor
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1907-12-19
President Roosevelt asks if General Duke is interested in the position of commissioner to mark Confederate graves, as Colonel William Elliot has passed away.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-12-07
President Roosevelt thanks William Gibbons Preston for the letter and he will show the gravestone photo to Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-12-26
A. B. Spencer is editing a story of life among the Boers in which a character dies. An accompanying note instructs that a fitting headstone inscription be added. She asks Theodore Roosevelt for information on what would be a suitable inscription.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-11-01
Senator Bradley plans to introduce a bill for a monument honoring General George Rogers Clark and asks for help passing it. Due to his interest in Clark, Bradley named Theodore Roosevelt as a commissioner of the bill.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-04-15
Joseph Smith writes to President Roosevelt soliciting a contribution to help friends of the late James Jeffrey Roche place a memorial over his grave site, which currently sits unmarked.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-12-08
This edition of “News and Notes” opens with an obituary for Kermit Roosevelt, grandson of Theodore Roosevelt. The obituary highlights Kermit Roosevelt’s many years of service with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), in particular his role in the overthrow of the government of Iran in 1953. The section includes a two page advertisement from the state of New York promoting visits to the state to commemorate the centennial of Theodore Roosevelt’s governorship of New York. “News and Notes” also highlights efforts by the Theodore Roosevelt Association (TRA) to promote estate planning by its members; it lists four books recently reviewed in the TRA Journal; and it notes that the TRA recently was awarded two grants to promote conservation and to update a guide to Sagamore Hill National Historic Site.
Two photographs, one of Kermit Roosevelt with two of his sons and one of Sarah Alden Derby Gannett, appear in the section.
Daniel Carter Beard, founder of the Sons of Daniel Boone and Boy Scout leader, leads the annual Boy Scout memorial ceremony at the gravesite of Theodore Roosevelt. He is surrounded by Boy Scouts, some dressed as Native Americans. A bugler blows while standing in front of the headstone.
Sherman Grinberg Film Collection
1931-10-24
Boy Scouts and others march in a procession honoring the memory of Theodore Roosevelt. Boy Scout Founder Daniel Carter Beard and others lay wreaths at the gravesite, and a Boy Scout blows a bugle as others listen with their hats held over their hearts. A close-up shot shows the inscription on the headstone.
Sherman Grinberg Film Collection
1929
Photograph showing Theodore Roosevelt’s headstone.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1921-06-09
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1922
Theodore Roosevelt and Public Memory (1919-present)
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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1919-1931
Theodore Roosevelt and Public Memory (1919-present)
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View of headstone bearing both Theodore Roosevelt’s and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt’s names.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1957
Photograph shows tombstone of Theodore Roosevelt and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1919
Photograph shows a United States Army officer laying a wreath at the grave of Theodore Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1944
Photograph shows Boy Scout Alan Wallace kneeling next to a wreath at the grave of Theodore Roosevelt as National Scout Commissioner George J. Fisher looks on.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1950
Henry E. Huck briefly outlines three options for implementing his Proclamation for countries to remove their unwanted populations. The plans include means of granting land concessions to the United States and England, reimbursements, possible forms of governance, and international arbitration.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-04-03
Theodore Roosevelt is willing to support H. Holbrook Curtis’s project to build a hospital as a “protest against the erection of meaningless mausoleums and monuments to the dead.” For most people mausoleums mean nothing and Roosevelt thinks that the Society of Friends have the better custom of plain stone slabs for the dead. The best memorial for a worthy person must be doing good for the living.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1916-05-18
In this vignette cartoon Father Knickerbocker stands at center looking on in dismay at the site of a planned “49” story building near several other skyscrapers already under construction. The surrounding vignettes show an abundance of college athletes, excessive periods of mourning, a spate of frivolous lawsuits with juries that take “busy men” away from their work, “over-production of trashy newspapers and voracious newspaper readers,” and overly ostentatious “mausoleums.” Caption: Some New Year’s reflections on our great national weakness.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1896-12-30