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President Roosevelt thanks William Sturgis Bigelow for the book by the naturalist C.G. Schillings. Roosevelt tells Bigelow that he will look at the pamphlet about starting trouble with Japan, but that he has his doubts. Roosevelt is glad that all is well in Nahant, but hopes that Bigelow gets better soon.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-07-26
Photograph of Civilian Conservation Corps members under a medium size tent during the first summer prior to barrack construction in the Roosevelt Recreation Demonstration Area. The photograph is part of a three-binder set of pictures taken by Chandler D. Fairbank, Civilian Conservation Corps North Unit foreman at the Roosevelt Recreation Demonstration Area, taken between 1936 and 1937.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1936-1937
President Roosevelt writes to his sister and describes the summer he has spent with Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt and their children in Oyster Bay. Roosevelt is unsure if he has enough support to overcome the opposition to his reelection, but hopes his policy making will justify itself.
1903-09-23
A fashionably dressed young woman sits on the edge of a pool, fishing.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1904-08-17
At center, a young woman at seaside writes to her beau in the city, asking when he can come down (in verse by Edwin L. Sabin). Surrounding the main image are scenes of summer life at the sea, at the resort, on the road, and at home.
S. D. Ehrhart became Puck‘s go-to cartoonist of humorous and light social commentary in special holiday and seasonal issues of the magazine in the century’s first decade. As here, his format was to feature one large drawing or central joke (or illustrating a poem related to the theme), surrounded by one-panel gags. Seldom did they refer to political issues, as magazines like Puck, Judge, and Life increasingly desired to attract general, and not narrowly partisan, readerships.
Theodore Roosevelt thanks Oscar S. Straus for his invitation, but declines. Roosevelt and his wife, Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, will spend the summer in Oyster Bay. Roosevelt also had to refuse Alexander Lambert’s invitation. If Roosevelt is able, he will schedule a lunch with Straus.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1916-07-11
President Roosevelt writes to Ruth Moore Lee regarding two articles he sent her. He knows that she must be incredibly anxious and does not want to discuss domestic affairs with her. Instead, he updates her on how his family has been doing this summer.
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1915-08-06
Theodore Roosevelt would like his son Archie to travel to Alaska in the summer and would like to know if J. H. Kidder can help.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1914-12-08
President Roosevelt thanks Elsie Worthington Clews Parsons for the letter and comments on her husband, Representative Herbert Parsons, as a “mighty useful public servant.”
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1906-10-03
Gifford Pinchot will be contacted by Marion Oliver who is looking for a place where female shop assistants may take summer outings.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-01-23
Senator Bourne sends William Loeb and President Roosevelt and their families some Oregon cherries and hopes they enjoy the fruit. Bourne has been struggling to get any work done in the summer heat. He encloses a letter for delivery to Roosevelt, and will take his suggestion regarding John W. Foster. Bourne supports a “second elective term” for Roosevelt.
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1907-07-19
Hermann Speck von Sternburg asks William Loeb if Leo Vassen, a German chemist, might be able to secure a meeting with President Roosevelt. Sternburg understands that the president does not like to have his summer be constantly interrupted but would appreciate this meeting.
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1906-09-14
Senator Lodge is sorry that President Roosevelt has reached the time of life where physical exercise has ceased to be a rest. Lodge thinks that if William Randolph Hearst runs in any way in New York, the Republican party will be able to carry the state. The political situation in Massachusetts has revived Lodge’s hopes of retaining control of the House. The reciprocity revision movement appears less militant than last year, and higher wages in the cotton and wool industries has weakened agitation against Republicans on behalf of changing the tariff. Lodge thinks the unknown quantity in the Congressional elections is the labor vote under the direction of Samuel Gompers. Lodge agrees with Roosevelt that there is more baseless praise poured out over Thomas Jefferson than any man in our history.
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1906-08-08
Albert J. Beveridge quotes a letter from John C. Shaffer, publisher of the Indianapolis Star, who recently purchased the Dayton Journal. Shaffer plans to unequivocally endorse President Roosevelt and his policies. Beveridge has been traveling in the depths of the Maine woods, which he feels has restored him and urges Roosevelt to rest over the summer. After he opens the Maine campaign, Beveridge plans to go on another long trip with Gifford Pinchot.
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1906-08-08
Anna Roosevelt Cowles is glad President Roosevelt is at Sagamore and done with all of the hand shaking. Her husband William S. Cowles was home for the Fourth of July but has returned to Washington, D.C. Cowles recommends to her brother the volume Heretics by G. K. Chesterton. The Chinese minister mentioned while visiting that he plans to give suffrage to land owners based on a conversation he had with Roosevelt. Cowles’s son William Sheffield Cowles Jr. has been homebound much of the summer to avoid catching the whooping cough which is being passed around children in town, although he is canoeing, playing tennis, and vegetable gardening. The Chinese minister and Cowles both agree that horses are preferable to automobiles, as she is “in deadly terror of running into some one.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-07-08
A. P. Montant apologizes that he could not visit President Roosevelt’s home in Oyster Bay and hopes his friend understands. The illness and death of his dear brother Charley has meant Montant has not left his side all summer or enjoyed much of Oyster Bay. Montant is glad Roosevelt has returned safely and wishes the family a happy summer.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-07-11
John Joy Edson thanks Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt for her previous donation to the Summer Outings Committee, and asks if she would renew her subscription for the present year.
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1905-06-01
Nicholas Murray Butler wishes President Roosevelt well on an upcoming trip. Butler also notes that he has issues to discuss with Roosevelt when his trip is over.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-03-30
Postcard entitled ‘Busy Bears’ Vacation features illustration of bears standing outside a locked door with adjacent “School Closed Summer” note. The message on the postcard reads: “Is this the way you go home on the last day? Ethel.”
1907-06-22
Postcard entitled Summer St. John featuring two bears waterside. The larger bear fishes while the smaller bear pulls on the rope at the other end of the pole. Postcard contains no message.
1907