Souvenirs (Keepsakes)

On behalf of Theodore Roosevelt, his secretary thanks G. L. Spence for the souvenir.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1912-11-18

William W. Dimmick recalls Theodore Roosevelt’s address to the Mount Pleasant Military Academy, as he was headmaster at the time. He was able to visit Washington, DC two years after and met with Roosevelt at the White House. He believes Roosevelt might be interested in the Delaware Society of the State of New York’s souvenir publication and encloses a copy alongside a circular.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-09-21

William Hooker congratulates President Roosevelt on winning the election, and knows he must feel gratified. Hooker has a note from Abraham Lincoln to his grandfather, and wants a letter to himself from Roosevelt to hang alongside it. He asks Roosevelt to please do this for him sometime when he is feeling good-natured.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-11-09

Description and photograph of a souvenir handkerchief from the Louisiana Purchase Exposition featuring the event program and images of President Roosevelt, President Thomas Jefferson, Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, and exposition president David R. Francis.

Collection

Sagamore Hill National Historic Site

Creation Date

1904

Theodore Roosevelt writes his son Kermit after their return from their African hunting trip to say he is sending Kermit’s rifle to him in Paris and it has been very difficult getting everything from the shipping company they used to send materials home from Africa. Roosevelt is not looking forward to his trip through the country and speaking engagements but he wants to work until he is sixty if that is possible. He says Ethel Roosevelt is planning a Western trip and Archie Roosevelt has been helping him around Sagamore Hill.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1910-07-19

At center, Uncle Sam is drowning in the “Souvenir Post Card Craze.” Surrounding vignettes show scenes from the North Pole, North Africa, Hell, and with Robinson Crusoe on a desert island.

comments and context

Comments and Context

The century’s first decade was the high-water mark of “penny postals,” greeting cards, holiday cards and comic-themed cards. This is evidenced by the uncountable numbers of surviving cards at flea markets, antique shops, and collector sites.

Historian Ray H. Mattison has received permission from Harriett S. Harmon’s sister, Nancy S. Cunningham, to view their father’s papers. Harmon and Cunningham are the daughters of William Wingate Sewall. Mattison is interested in the North Dakota mementos mentioned by both sisters.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Creation Date

1958-12-22

A mailable souvenir folder that contains 18 pictures of the Little Missouri River Badlands. Pictures illustrate the Petrified Forest, buttes, and multiple Badlands formations.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Creation Date

Unknown

Mabel Helen Taft sends Theodore Roosevelt some postcards showing several scenes of the Charter Day Exercises at the University of California, and hopes that they are a pleasant souvenir of the event.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-03-24

On behalf of Theodore Roosevelt and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, his secretary thanks Mrs. E. P. Ford for the souvenir.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1912-10-26

Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary thanks Lewis T. Thayer for sending souvenirs of Roosevelt’s visit to Vermont and for his role in helping Roosevelt obtain support in Vermont.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1912-09-07

Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary tells Colonel Seeley that, if Seeley sends the souvenir booklets, he will ask Roosevelt to autograph them.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-06-28

Theodore Roosevelt sends to Charles D. Walcott a hippo foot ink stand as a reminder of his trip to Africa with Walcott as his “chief.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-04-21

Theodore Roosevelt sends a memento made from the skin of a rhinoceros he shot in Africa to Robert Harry Munro Ferguson. Roosevelt jokes about skunks suffering from hydrophobia in Arizona and New Mexico.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-02-02

President Roosevelt thanks James R. B. Van Cleave, president of Lincoln Bank in Illinois, for the Lincoln Centennial Anniversary Celebration souvenir.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1909-02-17

William Loeb sends Assistant Secretary of State Bacon President Theodore Roosevelt’s acknowledgement of the badge and spike that were sent to him by President Manuel Estrada Cabrera of Guatemala to commemorate the inauguration of the Interoceanic Railway of Guatemala, which Bacon should forward.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-03-07

President Roosevelt tells President Estrada Cabrera of Guatemala that he has received the letter that he sent, in addition to the gold badge and railroad spike that Estrada Cabrera sent as souvenirs of the inauguration of the Interoceanic Railway of Guatemala. Roosevelt appreciates the sentiment, and says that the work that they have done will help bind the American continents together in brotherly love.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-03-04

President Roosevelt thanks Clarence R. Slocum for mementos from the Congo.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-05-22

President Roosevelt thanks Louis W. Olms for sending a cigarette case that belonged to his late brother, Elliott Roosevelt. Roosevelt will send the case to Elliott’s daughter, Eleanor Roosevelt.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-03-14

President Roosevelt thanks M. Klos for the relic of the Vizcaya he sent.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-03-06