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A woman, “Peace,” crowns President Roosevelt, who is already wearing an enormous “Nobel Peace Prize” and holding his big stick, with a laurel wreath. On the ground are three laurel wreaths beside a paper that reads, “Amicable adjustment of Japanese question.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-02-15
Santa Claus kisses a young woman on the cheek, framed by a holly wreath.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1905-12-06
Alice Hoffman describes to her niece Eleanor Butler Roosevelt a ceremony held at Quentin Roosevelt’s grave. Dr. Paul van Dyke and others spoke, and French children placed flowers on the grave. Mrs. Hoffman also thanks Eleanor for some books she sent, and comments that she has lost her case and must give up her house.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1922-05-30
President Roosevelt tells Mary Lord Harrison that he visited Benjamin Harrison’s grave on Memorial Day and laid a wreath there. “He was my old chief,” Roosevelt says.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-06-24
President Roosevelt tells Ambassador Reid to send the wreath, as suggested.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-07-20
Postcard showing a woman wearing floral wreaths.
1911
Photograph shows Boy Scout Alan Wallace kneeling next to a wreath at the grave of Theodore Roosevelt as National Scout Commissioner George J. Fisher looks on.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1950
Photograph shows a United States Army officer laying a wreath at the grave of Theodore Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1944
On October 20, 1919, as part of opening day ceremonies of Roosevelt Week, to honor Theodore Roosevelt and raise funds for the restoration of Roosevelt House in New York City, military aviators fly from Hazelhurst Field, Mineola, New York, to Oyster Bay to drop wreaths on Roosevelt’s grave site in Young’s Memorial Cemetery. The film has scenes of two pilots sitting in a biplane with an emblem showing the name of Mitchel Field, a picture of a dog, and the numbers 41866. The rear pilot is given two wreaths, one with a ribbon inscribed “American Legion” and the other “Spanish American War Veterans.” There is a scene of the biplane taking off, then aerial views of what is probably Oyster Bay and the surrounding area. The wreath is dropped, the a group of men retrieve it and carry both wreaths to Roosevelt’s grave site. The final views are of two men in uniform placing the wreaths on Roosevelt’s grave with the tombstone visible.
Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound
1919-10-20
President Roosevelt, dressed as a victorious Roman conqueror, drives a chariot that contains a teddy bear. Two unsavory men labeled “Enemy’s Country” and “Populist Vote” are chained to the chariot and are being dragged behind it.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1904
Large hands representing the District of Columbia shake President Roosevelt’s hands as he is welcomed to Washington, D.C. A teddy bear reaches to pick up the roses thrown to Roosevelt. Lady Freedom holds a welcome banner.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1904
Bust portrait of George Dewey, facing left, wearing military uniform, framed by a laurel wreath draped with the American flag. A vignette at the upper right shows Admiral David G. Farragut on the rigging of a ship during a battle labeled “New Orleans 1862,” and a vignette on the lower left shows the destruction of the Spanish fleet labeled “Manila 1898.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1898-05-25
Columbia and Britannia place laurel wreaths at a monument for Thomas F. Bayard that states, “Bayard who earnestly fought to promote good feeling between England and the United States and for which he was censured by Congress.” Caption: Columbia and Britannia–Let us not forget the man who did more than any other to bring us together. Time has justified him in the eyes of his countrymen.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1898-10-12
Print shows a female figure labeled “Civilization” placing laurel wreaths on bust sculptures of “Baron Hirsch” and “Baroness Hirsch” that sit on a foundation labeled “In Honor of the World’s Two Greatest Philanthropists.” Caption: Spirit of Civilization–By your great gifts and your noble work for the poor of all creeds and races you have taught more of brotherly love than all the social theorists the world has ever known.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1899-05-24