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    Shall we prepare?
    Roosevelt Memorial Association title: TR speaking at Sagamore | Roosevelt Memorial Association title: TR in Metropolitan Magazine office, 1916 | Theodore Roosevelt speaking at Sagamore | Theodore Roosevelt in Metropolitan Magazine office, 1916
    Two sequences of TR: Sequence 1: views of TR walking onto the porch of Sagamore Hill, Oyster Bay, N.Y., facing the camera, and then speaking on military preparedness during WWI; Sequence 2: views of TR sitting at his desk in the Metropolitan Magazine office in New York City and speaking with a man who may be Carl Hovey, editor of the magazine.
    • Contributor: Hovey, Carl - Bray Studios - Roosevelt, Theodore - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Paramount Pictures Corporation
    • Date: 1916
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    TR speaking at the Battery, 1910
    Theodore Roosevelt speaking at the Battery, 1910
    Upon returning to the United States after an extended tour abroad, Theodore Roosevelt is welcomed with elaborate festivities in New York City on June 18, 1910. There are views of Roosevelt and Cornelius Vanderbilt, the chairman of the welcoming committee, walking toward the Battery Park platform, with photographers lining their approach. Mayor William J. Gaynor greets Roosevelt at the base of the Battery platform,...
    • Contributor: Gaynor, William Jay - Roosevelt, Theodore - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Vanderbilt, Cornelius
    • Date: 1910
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    TR's return to New York, 1910. [No. 1]
    Theodore Roosevelt's return to New York, 1910
    On June 18, 1910, Theodore Roosevelt returned to New York City after a fifteen-month tour abroad, having travelled through Africa and western Europe. An elaborate city celebration drawing a million people marked his homecoming. Aboard the ocean liner Kaiserin Auguste Victoria ex-President and Mrs. Roosevelt were met by a revenue cutter, the Manhattan, carrying the Roosevelt children. TR then went aboard a larger cutter,...
    • Contributor: Roosevelt Memorial Association - Braunstein, Nathan - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1910
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    Women suffragettes visit TR at Sagamore [1917]
    Women suffragettes visit Theodore Roosevelt at Sagamore, 1917
    Film is the opening of the second New York State suffrage campaign on Sept. 8, 1917 at Sagamore Hill. The first campaign, beginning in 1913, was unsuccessful; the woman suffrage amendment was rejected by the voters in 1915. On Nov. 6, 1917, the suffrage amendment to the New York State Constitution was approved by the voters. The suffragists invited to Sagamore Hill were headed...
    • Contributor: Reid, Helen Rogers - Roosevelt, Theodore - Whitehouse, Vira Boarman - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Laidlaw, H. B. (Harriet Burton)
    • Date: 1917
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    A visit to Theodore Roosevelt at his home at Sagamore Hill, Oyster Bay, L.I., 1912
    Original U.S. release title: Visit to the illustrious colonel | French language translation title: Visite à l'illustre colonel | Theodore Roosevelt
    First film footage taken of Theodore Roosevelt at his home at Sagamore Hill, Oyster Bay, Long Island, summer of 1912. Views of the house and surrounding grounds. Roosevelt reviews his mail, assisted by his son Archie. William P. Helm, Associated Press correspondent for New York City and Washington from 1910 to 1918, who was detailed to Woodrow Wilson and Roosevelt during the 1912 campaign,...
    • Contributor: Roosevelt, Archibald B. (Archibald Bulloch) - Helm, William P. (William Pickett) - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Roosevelt Memorial Association - Pathé Frères (U.S.) - Roosevelt, Theodore
    • Date: 1920
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    Leonard Wood lays cornerstone of Roosevelt House, 1921
    Pathé news
    On Jan. 6, 1921, the restoration of TR's birthplace by the Woman's Roosevelt Memorial Association is officially begun with the laying of the Roosevelt House cornerstone. Views of crowds pressing around platform; Major General Leonard Wood, TR's longtime friend and political associate, preparing to set stone in place; Corinne Robinson, TR's sister and a frequent participant in Roosevelt House activities, speaking to assembled crowd....
    • Contributor: Roosevelt Memorial Association - Pathé Exchange - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1921
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    TR speaking to a group of suffragettes from the porch at Sagamore Hill [1917]
    Theodore Roosevelt speaking to a group of suffragettes from the porch at Sagamore Hill, 1917
    TR addresses a group of men and women at the opening of the second New York State suffrage campaign on Sept. 8, 1917 at Sagamore Hill. Film includes a side view of TR and a frontal view shot from the rear of the crowd. A woman and a man appear on the porch behind TR; immediately in front of the porch, a man who...
    • Contributor: Roosevelt Memorial Association - International Newsreel Corporation - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1917
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    TR and Leonard Wood at the New York flower show, 1917
    Theodore Roosevelt and Leonard Wood at the New York flower show, 1917
    Shots of TR and Leonard Wood on March 20, 1917, at the 5th Annual International Flower Show, Grand Central Palace in New York City. Medium-close view of TR and Wood standing together and talking, facing camera; TR, seated, poses for photographer, with Wood and an unidentified man standing behind him.
    • Contributor: Roosevelt Memorial Association - International Newsreel Corporation - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1917
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    Jamestown Exposition, 1907 Scenes of Theodore Roosevelt at the Jamestown Exposition in Norfolk, Virginia, in April and June, 1907, participating in Jamestown's tercentennial celebration on April 26, its opening day, and later on Georgia Day, June 10. From an awning-covered platform, TR appears speaking to large crowd on Lee Parade Ground. Frederick Dent Grant, son of the former President, is visible beside him on the stand. At...
    • Contributor: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Bitzer, G. W. - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1907
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    The Prince of Wales visits TR's grave
    Prince of Wales visits Theodore Roosevelt's grave
    In the summer of 1919, Edward, the Prince of Wales, later King Edward VIII, embarked on a tour of the Dominions. After touring Canada for several months, the Prince decided to spend several days in the United States. His visit was the first visit of a Prince of Wales to the United States since that of his grandfather, Edward VII, fifty years earlier. On...
    • Contributor: Roosevelt Memorial Association - International Film Service - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress) - International Newsreel Corporation
    • Date: 1919
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    Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria greeted by his people Views of Francis Joseph I, Emperor of Austria-Hungary, and an entourage of military officers and civilians walking down a wide avenue; the street is lined with people greeting the Emperor. Interior title notes location as Vienna, Austria and notes TR as being entertained by the Emperor at the palace. TR visited the Emperor in April, 1910; there are no views of TR on film.
    • Contributor: Franz Joseph I - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1910
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    TR speaking to a group of men from the porch at Sagamore Hill, 1916
    Theodore Roosevelt speaking to a group of men from the porch at Sagamore Hill, 1916
    On May 27, 1916, groups of men, the 7th Regiment Band, and several children march on the road from the Oyster Bay railroad station to Sagamore Hill to demonstrate their support of TR for the 1916 Presidential nomination. Views of TR addressing the large crowd assembled on the lawn of Sagamore Hill. The rally was organized by the Roosevelt Non-Partisan League of New York...
    • Contributor: Roosevelt Memorial Association - International Newsreel Corporation - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1916
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    Cartoon--TR's arrival in Africa
    Cartoon--Theodore Roosevelt's arrival in Africa | TR's arrival in Africa
    Animated caricature of the animals' attitude towards TR's arrival in Africa. Views of a huge tree filled with frightened animals, as a monkey on the ground peers over a cliff; he begins jumping up and down, pointing and climbing the tree as TR appears over the rim of the cliff with gun in his hand.
    • Contributor: Roosevelt Memorial Association - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1909
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    TR in Norway and Denmark, 1910 [1]
    Theodore Roosevelt in Norway and Denmark, 1910 [1]
    While returning from Africa in 1910, Theodore Roosevelt visited many European countries, including Denmark, May 2-3, and Norway, May 4-6. Roosevelt, King Haakon, Edith Roosevelt, Queen Maud, Ethel Roosevelt, Kermit Roosevelt, and others enter carriages outside the railroad station in Oslo, Norway. Carriages arrive at the wharf in Helsingør, Denmark. Roosevelt and Kermit arrive by carriage outside the National Theater in Oslo where he...
    • Contributor: Haakon VII - Christian X - Derby, Ethel Roosevelt - Roosevelt, Edith Kermit Carow - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Maud - Egan, Katharine M. - Egan, Maurice Francis - Roosevelt, Theodore - Roosevelt, Kermit
    • Date: 1910
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    TR attends his son Archie's wedding at Boston, 1917
    Theodore Roosevelt attends his son Archie's wedding at Boston, 1917
    On April 14, 1917, Archie Roosevelt marries Grace S. Lockwood at the Emmanuel Church in Boston, Massachusetts. Side view of TR entering an automobile with two women, the one following TR may be his wife Edith; TR doffs his hat as he faces camera; view of crowd outside the Emmanuel Church; and long shot of woman holding blanket up, perhaps to shield the bride's...
    • Contributor: Roosevelt, Grace Lockwood - Roosevelt, Theodore - Roosevelt, Edith Kermit Carow - Roosevelt, Archibald B. (Archibald Bulloch) - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1917
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    Cartoon of TR's reception by crowned heads of Europe
    Cartoon of Theodore Roosevelt's reception by crowned heads of Europe
    Animated cartoon of Roosevelt's reception in Europe during his April-June 1910 tour. Sequences of crowned heads of Europe sitting in an open automobile, labeled Europe, located on a pier. TR, carrying a big stick, is in the bow of a ship that approaches the pier as the crowned heads wave. Caricatured are: TR; Victor Emanuel III of Italy; Manuel II of Portugal; Franz Joseph...
    • Contributor: Roosevelt Memorial Association - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1910
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    TR at Baltimore [1918] ; TR at Sagamore [Hill, 1918]
    TR at Sagamore Hill, 1918 | Theodore Roosevelt at Baltimore, 1918 | Theodore Roosevelt at Sagamore Hill, 1918 | Roosevelt Memorial Association title: TR at Baltimore; TR at Sagamore, 1917
    Sequences of TR speaking on two occasions: on Sept. 28, 1918, he addresses crowds in Baltimore in support of the fourth Liberty Loan; at Sagamore Hill on April 2, 1918, he encourages workers for the third Liberty Loan. At Oriole Park in Baltimore TR, wearing a mourning armband for his son, Quentin, helps open the fourth Liberty Loan campaign. Views of TR and man...
    • Contributor: Roosevelt Memorial Association - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Société Française Des Films Et Cinématographes Eclair
    • Date: 1918
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    TR Jr. with group of sailors and soldiers
    Pathe news. TR Jr. with group of sailors and soldiers--excerpt | Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. with group of sailors and soldiers
    Medium close view of TR Jr. talking with two sailors and two soldiers. Interior title identifies TR Jr. as one of the founders of the new Legion, which was incorporated by Congress on Sept. 16, 1919 as the American Legion.
    • Contributor: Roosevelt Memorial Association - Pathé Exchange - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1919
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    Close-up of TR's grave, 1920
    Close-up of Theodore Roosevelt's grave, 1920
    Close shot of TR's gravestone, Youngs Memorial Cemetery, Oyster Bay, N.Y. Birth and death dates of TR and birth date of his wife, Edith, are visible.
    • Contributor: Roosevelt Memorial Association - Urban, Charles - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1920
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    [Flag services for TR at Oyster Bay, October 1919]
    Flag services for Theodore Roosevelt at Oyster Bay, October 1919 | Children visit TR's grave, 1920
    On October 27, 1919 the Roosevelt memorial flag, which has been carried across New York State in TR's honor, is brought to rest at his grave in Youngs Memorial Cemetery, Oyster Bay, N.Y. View of two young girls and a boy placing flower bouquet and flag through fence surrounding TR's grave, event may not be part of flag ceremonies. Shots from different angles of...
    • Contributor: Roosevelt Memorial Association - Urban, Charles - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1919
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    RMA flag service on the steps of New York Public Library, 1919
    Roosevelt Memorial Association flag service on the steps of New York Public Library, 1919
    On October 27, 1919 the Roosevelt memorial flag, which has been carried across New York State in TR's honor, is brought to rest at his grave in Youngs Memorial Cemetery, Oyster Bay, N.Y. Views of Samuel Abbott, originator of the memorial flag idea, placing the flag on TR's grave. Sequence of two young girls and a boy placing flower bouquet and flag through fence...
    • Contributor: Roosevelt Memorial Association - Urban, Charles - Kinograms Publishing Corp - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1919
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    King Albert of Belgium visits TR's grave, October, 1919
    Fox News
    King Albert visits Theodore Roosevelt's grave in Youngs Memorial Cemetery, Oyster Bay, and is accompanied by his son Prince Leopold, Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., and several dignitaries. Identified in film are Brand Whitlock, Ambassador to Belgium, walking in the rear of the group, and a man who may be Joseph M. Nye walking beside King Albert. Interior title states that King Albert requested that no...
    • Contributor: Roosevelt Memorial Association - Fox Film Corporation - Fox, William - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1919
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    TR's funeral at Oyster Bay, 1919
    Theodore Roosevelt's funeral at Oyster Bay, 1919
    Views of Christ Episcopal Church, the funeral procession, and Youngs Memorial Cemetery during the funeral of Theodore Roosevelt on January 8, 1919, in Oyster Bay, N.Y. Medium close shot of specially delegated New York City mounted police guards, followed by hearse, passing on road in front of church; long shot at church entrance of flag-draped casket being placed in hearse, with line of funeral...
    • Contributor: Wood, Leonard - Straus, Oscar S. (Oscar Solomon) - Talmadge, George E. - Marshall, Thomas R. (Thomas Riley) - Roosevelt, Archibald B. (Archibald Bulloch) - March, Peyton Conway - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Winslow, Cameron McRae - Universal Film Manufacturing Company
    • Date: 1919
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    TR in New Mexico, 1916
    Theodore Roosevelt in New Mexico, 1916
    On Oct. 23, 1916, Theodore Roosevelt campaigns for Republican presidential nominee Charles Evans Hughes and assails the Wilson administration in Albuquerque, N.M. A young woman rides on horseback carrying a bouquet of flowers. There is an auto parade. Roosevelt passes by in an open touring car. Seated next to him is a man who appears to be Albert B. Fall, one of New Mexico's...
    • Contributor: Roosevelt Memorial Association - Pathé Exchange - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1916
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    Roosevelt scenes [1917-1918] Views of TR at various public functions in support of the war effort: 1) TR stands with Brigadier General Michael J. Lenihan, fellow-officer in the Spanish-American War, and speaks to camera during an informal visit to Camp Mills, near Garden City, N.Y., on Sept. 2, 1917; 2) on the lawn of Sagamore Hill on Aug. 22, 1917, TR and members of the Belgian mission...
    • Contributor: Roosevelt Memorial Association - Pathé Exchange - International Film Service - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1917