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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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    President Wilson arrives in New York to lead fourth Liberty Loan parade [1918] Views of fourth Liberty Loan ceremonies in New York City and Washington, Sept. 1918. Inaugurating a national drive for the sale of liberty bonds, President Wilson, his wife Edith, and mother-in-law, Mrs. W. H. Bolling, arrive in New York on Sept. 27, 1918. At Pennsylvania Railroad Station they are greeted by crowds and joined by the President's two daughters, Margaret Wilson and Eleanor McAdoo,...
    • Contributor: Roosevelt Memorial Association - Pathé Exchange - International Film Service - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1918
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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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    President McKinley's funeral, 1901. [No. 1]
    Title in Theodore Roosevelt Association film collection catalog: President McKinley's funeral, 1901 [1]
    Three sequences of the funeral ceremonies held for President William McKinley: Sequence 1: McKinley's body lay in state in the Rotunda of the Capitol, Washington, D.C. on Sept. 17, 1901; views of officers on horseback, the Artillery Band (wearing dark headdresses), a squadron of cavalry, a battalion of artillery and coast artillery, Marine Band (wearing white helmets), battalion of Marines, civilians carrying umbrellas (may...
    • Contributor: Roosevelt Memorial Association - Biograph Company - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1901
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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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    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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    Lieutenant-Colonel Theodore Roosevelt arrives in New York after the World War Theodore Roosevelt Jr., suffering from a machine gun wound in the leg, returned as a casual from France to New York City aboard the Mauretania on March 6, 1919. Medium close shot of TR Jr., dressed in uniform, aboard what may be the liner Mauretania, docked at the Cunard pier, North River, New York City.
    • Contributor: Roosevelt, Theodore - International Newsreel Corporation - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1919
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    TR in a rowboat on Oyster Bay, Archie assists with boat to shore, 1914
    Archie assists with boat to shore, 1914 | Theodore Roosevelt in a rowboat on Oyster Bay, Archie assists with boat to shore, 1914
    On Oyster Bay, Theodore Roosevelt rows alone away from shore. In the second sequence, his son Archie and an unidentified boy beach the boat as Theodore Roosevelt looks on.
    • Contributor: Roosevelt, Archibald B. (Archibald Bulloch) - Roosevelt, Theodore - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1914
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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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    TR, Mayor Mitchel, Governor Charles Whitman of New York, and Myron Herrick, 1917
    Theodore Roosevelt, Mayor Mitchel, Governor Charles Whitman of New York, and Myron Herrick, 1917
    Close-up view of New York Governor Charles S. Whitman (1915-1918), Myron T. Herrick, formerly governor of Ohio and United States ambassador to France, and New York City Mayor John P. Mitchel (1914-1917) reviewing a parade of New York National Guardsmen from the balcony of the Union League Club in New York City, Aug. 30, 1917. TR steps forward between Herrick and Mitchel and tips...
    • Contributor: Mitchel, John Purroy - Herrick, Myron T. (Myron Timothy) - Roosevelt, Theodore - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Whitman, Charles S.
    • Date: 1917
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    TR seated at his desk in the Outlook office [1914?]
    Theodore Roosevelt at his desk in the Outlook office [1914?]
    TR works at his desk in the New York City office of The Outlook, a small but influential weekly journal of opinion for which he became a special contributing editor early in 1909.
    • Contributor: Roosevelt, Theodore - International Newsreel Corporation - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1914
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    TR receiving Belgian envoys at Sagamore Hill [1917]
    Theodore Roosevelt receiving Belgian envoys at Sagamore Hill 1917
    TR entertains members of the Belgian Mission at Sagamore Hill, Aug. 22, 1917. The mission is headed by Baron Ludovic Moncheur, former Ambassador to the United States and includes General Mathieu Leclercq, Commander of the Belgian Cavalry, Major Leon Osterrieth, Hector Carlier, Count Louis d'Ursel, and Jean D. Mertens. Those accompanying the Belgian Mission include George T. Wilson, Major General Daniel Appleton, Lieutenant Harry...
    • Contributor: Mertens, Jean D. - Cook, Thomas C. - Wilson, George T. - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Coudert, Frederic R. (Frederic René) - Osterrieth, Leon - Ursel, Louis - Carlier, Hector - Moncheur, Ludovic - Leclercq, Mathieu - Roosevelt, Theodore - O'Connor, T. P. (Thomas Power)
    • Date: 1917
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    TR at Sagamore Hill [1916]
    Roosevelt Memorial Association title: TR at Sagamore Hill, 1917-1918 | Theodore Roosevelt at Sagamore Hill, 1916
    On May 27, 1916, shortly before the Republican Party and Progressive Party conventions, the newly formed Roosevelt Non-Partisan League sponsors a demonstration of support for TR at Sagamore Hill. Many prominent men are included in the over 2,000 people who traveled from New York City to Oyster Bay to see TR and hear him speak on "Americanism." Panning shots of crowd gathered around porch;...
    • Contributor: Hurd, Richard M. (Richard Melancthon) - Roosevelt, Theodore - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1915
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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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    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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    TR on Fifth Avenue, New York, near St. Patrick's Cathedral after attending Mayor Mitchel's funeral
    Theodore Roosevelt on Fifth Avenue, New York, near St. Patrick's Cathedral after attending Mayor Mitchel's funeral
    As an honorary pallbearer at the funeral of former New York City Mayor John P. Mitchel on July 11, 1918, TR appears with other funeral participants on Fifth Avenue. Surrounded by men in formal dress, TR speaks briefly with unidentified military officer; standing in group are men tentatively identified as Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia University, and financier George W. Perkins, both pallbearers...
    • Contributor: American Motion Picture Company - Perkins, George W. (George Walbridge) - Butler, Nicholas Murray - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Mitchel, John Purroy - Roosevelt, Theodore
    • Date: 1918
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    TR speaking at Sagamore Hill [1916-1918] [1]
    Theodore Roosevelt speaking at Sagamore Hill [1916-1918] | Roosevelt Memorial Association title: TR speaking at Sagamore Hill, 1917 | Roosevelt Memorial Association title: TR speaking at Sagamore Hill, 1917-1918 | Theodore Roosevelt speaking at Sagamore Hill, 1917 | Theodore Roosevelt speaking at Sagamore Hill, 1917-1918 | Title from film leader: Editorial by the late Theodore Roosevelt
    Three sequences of TR addressing groups from the porch at Sagamore Hill. First sequence is TR speaking to a group of people on Sept. 8, 1917 at the opening of the second New York State suffrage campaign at Sagamore Hill. Second sequence is probably TR encouraging New York District volunteer workers for the third Liberty Loan on Apr. 2, 1918. Final views of TR...
    • Contributor: Community Motion Picture Service, Inc - Roosevelt, Theodore - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1916
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    Sarah Bernhardt addresses crowd in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, 1917 On July 4, 1917, French actress Sarah Bernhardt speaks in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, N.Y., on behalf of French-American cooperation in the war effort. Addressing more than 50,000 people gathered around a decorated music platform, Mme. Bernhardt stands and speaks from an open touring car parked in front of the platform. Medium close shot of Mme. Bernhardt speaking and gesturing, with man who may be...
    • Contributor: Roosevelt Memorial Association - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1917
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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