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Postcard showing an angled view of the summer home of President Taft in Beverly, Massachusetts.
In Charles C. Myers’s own words, “The Presidents [sic] summer home at closer view.”
Three photographs of the German royal family’s Mediterranean trip. In the first photograph, German Emperor William II, his wife Empress Auguste Viktoria, and their children Princess Viktoria Luise and Prince August Wilhelm disembark from a boat at Messina. The second photograph shows the same group on a carriage ride in Syracuse. The third photograph likely depicts Achillion Palace in Corfu, the family’s summer home.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908
Theodore Roosevelt describes the little house the family is staying in. There are crawfish, minnows, and eels in the nearby brook. Roosevelt caught an eel yesterday and has two bird nests.
1868-08-21
The exterior of Pine Knot is shown head-on from across a wooded lot in winter. The broad porch runs the full width of the house with a gable at the center. Pine Knot, located in Albemarle County, Virginia, was a country home for the Roosevelts during the presidential years.
Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site
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President Roosevelt tells his son Archibald B. Roosevelt about his and Edith’s trip to Pine Knot with John Burroughs. Burroughs had a run-in with a family of flying squirrels who live in Archie’s old bedroom.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-05-10
President Roosevelt tells Kermit Roosevelt that he heard about his experience with one of Robert Bacon’s horses, and tells his son about the Roosevelt family vacation to Pine Knot. Roosevelt wants Kermit to learn how to shoot a shotgun so they can go prairie chicken hunting soon.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-05-22
President Roosevelt thanks his sister-in-law Emily Tyler Carow for the book that Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt got him on her behalf. The Roosevelts have had their “usual type of Christmas,” though with fewer toys as the children get older. Soon they will go to the Pine Knot cabin with friends. Roosevelt has much to worry him in his work, but the incidents “will all go downstream.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-12-26
President Roosevelt informs Dr. Abbott that Edith Roosevelt thoroughly enjoyed seeing the holiday vacation home and feels that it is a worthy charity. She was especially pleased with the dining-room window and told him about it that morning.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-09-01
John Burroughs was very interested to hear Buffalo Jones and the Yellowstone grizzly bears with tin cans stuck on their feet. If President Roosevelt has read any of his latest articles, Burroughs would be glad to receive his thoughts and criticism. Burroughs is considering buying a farm in the southern Catskill region and offers it as a place of rest for Roosevelt and his family.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-08-15
Edward J. Hammond offers President Roosevelt the use of his summer house at Winter Harbor, Maine and describes its many advantages.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-12-28
Edward J. Hammond offers President Roosevelt the use of his summer home in Winter Harbor, Maine.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-12-28