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    TR's arrival in Panama, November 1906. [No. 2]
    Theodore Roosevelt's arrival in Panama, November 1906
    TR became the first President in office to visit a foreign country while on an inspection tour of the Panama Canal. On November 15, 1906, in Panama City there are views of the processional, including a marching band and escorts on horseback, as spectators gather; long shot of TR, accompanied by Manuel Amador Guerrero, first President of Panama, and two unidentified men standing on...
    • Contributor: Roosevelt Memorial Association - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Miles, Herbert J.
    • Date: 1906
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    President McKinley's funeral cortege at Washington, D.C. "When photographing the funeral of President McKinley we secured an excellent position at the foot of Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., having had the exclusive right for animated picture apparatus inside the lines. Our camera is focused looking up Pennsylvania Avenue and shows countless thousands of mourning people who line the streets along the way. As the funeral procession which accompanies the body of...
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - McKinley, William - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1901
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    President McKinley's funeral cortege at Buffalo, N.Y. "This starts with the funeral procession leaving the Milburn house on Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, N.Y., headed by the mounted police of Buffalo, followed by Companies I and F, of the 14th U.S. Infantry, under personal command of Major General John R. Brooke. Following them come a company of the 73d Coast Artillery, which was then on duty at the Pan-American Exposition. The National Guard...
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1901
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    Scenes of TR and his sons Quentin and Archie, 1917-1918 [2]
    Scenes of Theodore Roosevelt and his sons Quentin and Archie, 1917-1918 [2]
    Unrelated segments of Quentin, Archie, and TR at various times and locations. Medium close view of Quentin wearing a WWI uniform standing by a wooden shed in Mineola, New York, May 1917; long shot of Archie in uniform astride a horse possibly in 1917; Archie in uniform, with a cane, standing by a building possibly in 1918; medium shot of TR speaking from the...
    • Contributor: Roosevelt Memorial Association - Roosevelt, Archibald B. (Archibald Bulloch) - Roosevelt, Quentin - Roosevelt, Theodore - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1917
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    Troops at evacuation of Havana
    Title in Edison films catalog: U.S. troops at evacuation of Havana | Variant title: United States troops at evacuation of Havana
    "The troops are turning into the Prado from a side street, where stands a triumphal arch erected by the Cubans, but which Gen. Brooke, the Military Governor of Cuba, would not permit to be finished, as he allowed no demonstrations of any kind. The soldiers are the First Texas troops. The streets are crowded with people. Many typical Cubans are seen lounging in the...
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - White, James H. (James Henry)
    • Date: 1899
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    McKinley's funeral entering Westlawn Cemetery, Canton [Ohio]
    McKinley's funeral entering West Lawn Cemetery, Canton | Title from Edison films catalog: Funeral cortege entering Westlawn Cemetery at Canton, Ohio
    "Funeral Cortege Entering Westlawn Cemetary at Canton, Ohio. Another of our cameras is in an excellent position at the entrance to the Westlawn Cemetery, Canton, Ohio, and as the funeral procession approaches, it is set in motion. The first to appear in this scene is the Black Horse Cavalry, Troop A, of Cleveland, Ohio, followed by the G.A.R. escort, the members of which make...
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1901
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    TR reviews and addresses troops [Fort Sheridan, Ill.]; TR riding in auto, Chicago, 1917
    TR riding in auto, Chicago, 1917 | Theodore Roosevelt reviews and addresses troops [Fort Sheridan, Ill.] | Theodore Roosevelt riding in auto, Chicago, 1917
    Two segments of TR during a midwestern speaking tour in support of military preparedness. On September 27, 1917, TR visited the officers' training camp at Fort Sheridan, Illinois. Views of troops marching past a reviewing stand for inspection by TR and several civilian and military personnel; identified on the platform with TR are Captain Georges Etienne Bertrand (wearing beret), a visiting Frenchman who instructed...
    • Contributor: Meeker, Arthur - Bertrand, Georges Etienne - Insull, Samuel - Roosevelt, Theodore - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Ryan, James A. - Universal Film Manufacturing Company
    • Date: 1917
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    TR's reception in Albuquerque, N.M., 1916
    Theodore Roosevelt's reception in Albuquerque, N.M., 1916
    TR is cordially received on October 23, 1916 in Albuquerque, N.M. where he speaks on behalf of the Republican presidential candidate, Charles Evans Hughes, and attacks President Wilson's Mexican policies. There are long shots of TR being greeted in the courtyard of the Alvarado Hotel; TR walks with a group of men that includes former Rough Rider George Curry, appointed territorial Governor of New...
    • Contributor: Curry, George - Roosevelt, Theodore - International Newsreel Corporation - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Fall, Albert B. (Albert Bacon)
    • Date: 1916
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    [TR's inaugural ceremony, 1905]
    Theodore Roosevelt's inaugural ceremony, 1905 | Roosevelt Memorial Association title: TR's inaugural address, 1905 | Theodore Roosevelt's inaugural address, 1905
    On Mar. 4, 1905, TR is inaugurated in Washington, D.C. with much celebration and fanfare. TR rides in an open landau on Fifteenth St., NW, escorted by mounted Rough Riders; Secret Service men and detectives walk on either side of the carriage; TR tips his hat to the crowd. Sitting beside him is Sen. John C. Spooner of Wis., Chairman of the joint Congressional...
    • Contributor: Lodge, Henry Cabot - McKenney, James Hall - Fuller, Melville Weston - Dalzell, John - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Spooner, John C. (John Coit) - Roosevelt, Theodore
    • Date: 1905
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    San Francisco Chinese funeral Shows most of the ceremonial portion of the funeral procession of Tom Kim Yung, military attache to the Chinese Legation to the United States. The camera looks slightly north of east across Dupont Street, the main street of Chinatown. All business in Chinatown was suspended for the day. Note the traditional ponytails, or queues, worn by Chinese men, a universal custom during the Quing...
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Kleine (George) Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1904
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    General Lee's procession, Havana "A magnificent view of the Prado, from the balcony of the United States Club. The procession is headed by a troop of horsemen. Prominent among them is General Lee. Then come the soldiers, file after file and company after company; filling the broad avenue from curb to curb and as far as the eye can reach with marching men. It is the Seventh Army...
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - White, James H. (James Henry)
    • Date: 1899