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Acting Secretary of the Navy Newberry notifies President Roosevelt that the USS Kentucky and Indiana, as well as all marines from Admiral Robley D. Evans’s fleet, have been ordered to proceed to Havana, Cuba. About 1,000 more marines will be ready by Thursday.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-09-25
Sheet music for “Columbia Rules the Waves,” a tribute to the American fleet. The cover features illustrations of Columbia and a warship. There are oval portraits of President Roosevelt and American naval leaders.
Dr. Danny O. Crew Theodore Roosevelt Sheet Music Collection
1904
Souvenir booklet of sheet music commemorating the Great White Fleet’s circumnavigation of the world. The sheet music is primarily for the song “Our Star Spangled Banner” with arrangements for various instruments in a band or orchestra. The cover features a photograph of the battleship fleet leaving Suez, Egypt. There are photographs of President Roosevelt aboard a ship, the USS Kansas in the Sea of Japan, and of naval midshipmen marching in the 1904 inaugural parade.
Dr. Danny O. Crew Theodore Roosevelt Sheet Music Collection
1909
Sheet music for “The Golden West,” which celebrates the 300th anniversary of the landing of America’s “First settlers in Virginia, April 26, 1607.” President Roosevelt opened the 1907 Jamestown Exposition with a naval review at Hampton Rhodes, Virginia. The cover features a photograph with several ships, and according to a handwritten note, Roosevelt was present at the review aboard the presidential yacht, Mayflower.
Dr. Danny O. Crew Theodore Roosevelt Sheet Music Collection
1907
The brightly dressed Cracker Jack Bears stand on a Navy ship. The bears are surrounded by members of the Navy dressed in uniform. In handwriting on the back, the notation reads “Plainfield, Ill. Labor Day 1907.” Number eight in a series of sixteen cards that were sent for free to anyone who mailed in ten sides from Cracker Jack boxes or ten cents in “silver or stamps.”
1907
“Jack Tars March Song” is a patriotic celebration of the Navy. The front cover has a photograph of Theodore Roosevelt, two other men, and a ship. A page or pages of the song are missing.
Dr. Danny O. Crew Theodore Roosevelt Sheet Music Collection
Unknown
Sheet music for “Voice of the West,” which celebrates President Roosevelt sending the Great White Fleet on its circumnavigation of the globe. The cover features an illustration of a battleship and the likeliness of President Roosevelt and Secretary of War William H. Taft.
Dr. Danny O. Crew Theodore Roosevelt Sheet Music Collection
1908
Sheet Music for “Do Your Bit, Help Send a Kit,” a WWI patriotic song imploring the public to help ensure that the troops have tobacco products by buying a “kit” to be sent to France. The song is billed as the “Soldier’s and Sailor’s Official Tobacco Song.” In small print at the bottom of the cover there is quote from Theodore Roosevelt. “I wish you all possible success in your admirable effort to get tobacco to our boys in France.” Cover features illustrations of a solider and sailor using tobacco. The back cover contains instructions on how to buy a kit.
A postcard featuring illustrations of the return of the Atlantic fleet battleships, also known as the Great White Fleet, which completed a voyage around the world from December 16, 1907, to February 22, 1909. There is a poem entitled “WELCOME” by H. J. McKay printed in the bottom left corner, beneath an illustration of Uncle Sam shaking hands with a sailor. Portraits of Admiral Evans, President Roosevelt, and Admiral Sperry are printed on the bottom of the postcard. A list of all the ports visited on the voyage is printed on the right side of the postcard. The back of the postcard contains a printed list of the vessels which participated in the voyage. Albert Evans sends his love to his sister Marie in a handwritten message.
1909-03-25
Admiral Dewey returns to New York City on September 27, 1899, following his victory at Manila Bay in the Spanish-American War. He paces the deck of his flagship, the Olympia, anchored at Tompkinsville, Staten Island. Dewey and three of his officers await the arrival of visitors. A group of dignitaries, including several naval officers, board. The first person to step on deck may be Rear Admiral William Thomas Sampson, Commander of the North Atlantic Squadron. Dewey greets the visitors. These visitors may be members of the Washington or New York City reception committee.
Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound
1899-09-27
New York gives Admiral Dewey, hero of Manila Bay, a lavish welcome September 27-30, 1899, and one of the highlights of that welcome is the land parade of September 30. Cheering crowds waving flags line the street as a battalion of sailors from the cruiser Olympia, Dewey’s flagship, march by. Included in battalion are a color guard carrying the American flag and what is probably the battalion flag, men pulling a piece of artillery, and medical personnel. After the marching sailors, a long line of carriages follow. In the first carriage, drawn by four horses, ride Admiral Dewey and Robert A. Van Wyck, Mayor of New York City (1898-1902). Additional carriages containing dignitaries and naval officers follow. At ca. 53 ft. a carriage appears in which a hatless naval officer, who is probably Rear Admiral William T. Sampson, Commander of the North Atlantic Squadron, rides; the man wearing a top hat on the far side of the carriage is probably Thomas F. Woods, President of the Board of Aldermen of New York City.
Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound
1899-09-30
Sheet music with a title referring to an 1899 speech by Theodore Roosevelt in which he said, “I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life, the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife …” The cover features a large photo of an America warship which was part of the Great White Fleet that circumnavigated the globe from 1907-1909. The music was published during the voyage.
Dr. Danny O. Crew Theodore Roosevelt Sheet Music Collection
1908
Fold-out postcard with photos of sixteen United States Navy warships and their respective captains. The front of the case features photographs of President Roosevelt and Admiral Sperry.
1908
Admiral Dewey returns to New York City on September 27, 1899, following his victory at Manilla Bay in the Spanish-American War. He paces the deck of his flagship, the Olympia, anchored at Tompkinsville, Staten Island. Dewey and three of his officers await the arrival of visitors. A group of dignitaries, including several naval officers, board. The first person to step on deck may be Rear Admiral William Thomas Sampson, Commander of the North Atlantic Squadron. Dewey greets the visitors. These visitors may be members of the Washington or New York City reception committee. The film is out of sequence, and other individuals also appear on deck. The camera angle and distance make positive identification of visitors impossible.
Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound
1899-09-27
Anna Roosevelt Cowles acknowledges John Wallace Riddle’s very welcome letter. She has plans to see President Roosevelt and family before they go to Washington, D.C., and to see friends in Mexico.
1907-09-18
John Campbell Greenway encloses a report on Mexico. The report was received from an authentic source, an American writer who “should know exactly what he is writing about.”
1921-11-07
Outline of information desired that might indicate preparations for hostilities by any other nation. The information is requested by the Office of Naval Intelligence.
1921-09-16
John Campbell Greenway acknowledges receipt of a letter from Commander Galbraith. He has conveyed the information to John Foster and William Albert Davidson, who will report information to the Office of Naval Intelligence and consult with Greenway on any important matters.
1921-10-29
Captain McNamee acknowledges John Campbell Greenway’s letter containing a report on Mexico.
1921-11-14
Using his access to Theodore Roosevelt’s correspondence, Joseph Bucklin Bishop examines Roosevelt’s time as Assistant Secretary of the Navy and his contributions during the lead up to the Spanish-American War.
1919-11