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Theodore Roosevelt arrives back in New York on the Kaiserin Auguste Victoria. He is seen waving his top hat surrounded by a welcoming party of family and friends as the ship sits in quarantine.
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1910-06-18
Theodore Roosevelt arrives back in New York on the Kaiserin Auguste Victoria. He is seen waving his top hat under the flag pole surrounded by a welcoming party of family and friends as the ship sits in quarantine. Theodore Roosevelt Jr. is on the far left wearing a straw hat and his fiancee Eleanor Butler Alexander is in all white holding the railing. Franklin Delano Roosevelt can be see on the far right in a straw hat in profile.
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1910-06-18
A drawing of the Reina Cristina, the flagship of Spanish Admiral Patricio Montojo.
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1898
Theodore Roosevelt writes to Kermit Roosevelt from a troop ship in Tampa Bay, Florida while waiting to ship out to Santiago. Roosevelt discusses being separated from Marshall and his horses, doing his own laundry, and how Robert Munro Ferguson sleeps on deck because his bunk is too hot.
1898-06-10
In this incomplete letter to his sister, Colonel Roosevelt describes the trip across the Gulf of Mexico for the troops as they head towards Cuba.
1898-06-15
Theodore Roosevelt describes conditions on-board ship as hot and crowded. He says they let the men swim that day, but the activity was cut short by one man’s close encounter with a shark.
1898-06-10
As they may disembark that night, Theodore Roosevelt writes a quick note from off the coast of Santiago, Cuba, to tell his three children that he loves them. Included with the letter is a sketch of a dog labeled “Cuba” and signed by William Pollock, whom Roosevelt describes as “the Pawnee Indian.” The dog in the sketch, Roosevelt says, runs everywhere around the ship and howls sometimes when the band plays.
1898
A ship labeled “Life Insurance” is being taken over by pirates labeled “Pres. $100,000, 1st V.P. $50,000, 2nd V.P. $40,000, 3rd V.P., 4th V.P., 5th V.P. [and] Sonny,” who are forcing scapegoats to walk the plank, an “Old Clerk, Office Boy, Pensioner, Janitor, Scrubwoman, [and] The Goat.” The ship figurehead shows two men labeled “Hendricks & Kilbourn.” Caption: After the investigation the strictest economy.
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1905-10-11
Admiral Robley D. Evans saluting while leaving the Mayflower.
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1906-09-20
President Roosevelt and the Secretary of the Navy reviewing the fleet from a reviewing platform
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1906-09-28
President Roosevelt and Secretary of the Navy Charles J. Bonaparte on the bridge, as sailors on the deck look on.
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1906-09-28
President Roosevelt standing on the bridge of the Mayflower, as a battleship sails in the distance.
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1906-09-28
President Roosevelt leaving the Mayflower.
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1906-09-28
President Roosevelt and Secretary of the Navy Charles J. Bonaparte on the bridge of the Mayflower.
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1906-09-29
President Roosevelt and Secretary of the Navy Charles J. Bonaparte standing on the bridge of the Mayflower.
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1906-11-14
President Roosevelt on the deck of the Mayflower, amongst persons of import.
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1907-04-29
President Roosevelt aboard a flagship, addressing the eagerly listening sailors and officers
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1909-06-21
Senator Marcus Alonzo Hanna, wearing a sign “Please help the poor,” and J.P. Morgan, carrying a model ship labeled “Leyland S.S. Lines,” stand at the end of a pier with the “Ship Yard” behind them. They hold out their hats, one labeled “For a shipping subsidy,” to Uncle Sam standing in front of the U.S. Treasury. An enormous ocean-going steamship, flying a banner “American built ships,” floats offshore in the distance. Caption: Uncle Sam. — You are already building up a monopoly without help; – why should I pay you a subsidy?
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1901-06-26
President Roosevelt standing in a room alongside men on the Mayflower.
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1905-08-07
President Roosevelt standing on the deck of the steamer Tashmoo with a group of men.
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1902-11-13