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Piano score for a one-step, march and two-step dedicated to the American Legion in memory of Theodore Roosevelt. Samples for other sheet music are included on the back cover.
Gregory A. Wynn Theodore Roosevelt Collection
1919
Score for a military march dedicated to the Rough Riders.
Gregory A. Wynn Theodore Roosevelt Collection
1898
Piano score for a march and two-step dedicated “To Colonel Roosevelt and his gallant Rough Riders.” The last two pages include samples of other music and an advertisement.
Piano score for a march, “inscribed to Mr. W. A. Corey of New York City,” concerning the Rough Riders led by Theodore Roosevelt in the Spanish American War. The back cover includes samples of other music.
Gregory A. Wynn Theodore Roosevelt Collection
1898
Score for a military march inspired by the Rough Riders during the Spanish American War. This copy includes pencil notation throughout. Samples of other music are included on the back cover.
Gregory A. Wynn Theodore Roosevelt Collection
1898
Score, by J. E. McClellan, and lyrics, by Joseph Maxwell Jones, for a 1904 march inspired by the Rough Riders during the Spanish-American War, 1898.
Gregory A. Wynn Theodore Roosevelt Collection
1904
Score for a military gallop, or dance, commemorating Colonel Roosevelt and his Rough Riders’ charge up Kettle Hill during the Spanish-American War in 1898. The yellow cover design is a sketch of Roosevelt on horseback, leading the Rough Riders in a charge. Roosevelt’s sword is upraised and he looks over his right shoulder at an oval framed portrait photograph of Roosevelt in uniform and seated horseback. The inside front cover and back cover advertise other sheet music.
Gregory A. Wynn Theodore Roosevelt Collection
1898
Sheet music for “The Rough Riders,” a march and two-step by Frederick P. Dowling “[d]edicated to Colonel Roosevelt’s Rough Riders.” Samples of other pieces of music are included on the back cover.
Gregory A. Wynn Theodore Roosevelt Collection
1898
Score for a march and two-step inspired by the Rough Riders. The back cover includes a sample of another piece of music.
Gregory A. Wynn Theodore Roosevelt Collection
1898
Theodore Roosevelt compliments Archibald Roosevelt on his promotion to captain. He cautions Archie against overworking himself and damaging his health. Roosevelt is disappointed in the inefficiency and unpreparedness of the military but the same problems existed during his service in the Spanish-American War. He believes that a regiment raised from volunteers at the outset would be superior to a regular regiment. Roosevelt continues to speak about speeding up the war and improving military training.
1918-01-05
Collection of correspondence between Theodore Roosevelt and Secretary of War Newton Diehl Baker regarding Roosevelt’s efforts to raise a division of volunteers for military service abroad in light of the conflict in Europe. Baker and Roosevelt have conflicting views on the potential composition of an American expeditionary force and a volunteer division is opposed by Baker and the Wilson administration. Published in Metropolitan Magazine, August 1917.
1917
Three cent, violet-brown postage stamp with an illustration of the William Owen “Bucky” O’Neill statue of a horse and rider. The stamp was issued to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the organization of the United States 1st Volunteer Cavalry, popularly known as the Rough Riders.
Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site
1948
Black and white portrait photograph of Theodore Roosevelt dressed in his Rough Rider uniform and hat.
Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site
1900
Commemorative first day of issue cover of 3 cent U.S. postage stamp celebrating the 50th anniversary of the organization of the Rough Riders. Stamp in the upper right corner is violet-brown with the image of the William Owen O’Neill statue of a horse and a rider. Postmarked in Prescott, Arizona, on Oct. 27, 1948. Has a portrait of “Bucky” O’Neill in the upper left and a drawing of the same horse and rider statue featured on the stamp.
Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site
1948-10-27
A battle scene from the Battle of San Juan Hill depicting Theodore Roosevelt and troopers of the 1st Volunteer Cavalry advancing, on foot, up a small hill towards a fort.
Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site
Unknown
Leslie’s Weekly centerfold with full-page, black and white photograph of Colonel Roosevelt in his Rough Rider uniform.
Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site
1898
Round brass disk embossed with the image of a rider on a charging horse. Disk is hanging from an American eagle that has a safety pin attached to the reverse side.
Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site
1898
Image shows a large group of Rough Riders in uniform on horseback.
Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site
1898
Draft of a speech with handwritten corrections. Governor Roosevelt rebukes several statements from William Jennings Bryan regarding economic policy, bimetallism, patriotism, and imperialism.
1900-09-06
Assistant Secretary Roosevelt escorted the newly commissioned John Jacob Astor to see Senator Thomas Collier Platt, Secretary of the Interior Bliss, and President William McKinley. Roosevelt is doing the “exasperating work” of moving arms and equipment around the usual delays. It will be a few days before he can join Leonard Wood for military service with the 1st Volunteer Cavalry.
1898-05-10