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Film, VideoTR'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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Film, VideoWilliam H. Taft in Panama
William Howard Taft in Panama On one of many visits to Panama, William Howard Taft inspects canal construction and visits ruins in what may be the Panamanian jungle. Views of crowd of men and women on dock, posing for camera; a tugboat pulls into unidentified harbor, with Taft and General George W. Goethals, chief engineer of the Panama Canal project, seated on upper deck; Taft and entourage in formal...- Contributor: Goethals, George W. (George Washington) - Taft, Helen Herron - Pezet, Federico Alfonso - Taft, William H. (William Howard) - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1910
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Film, VideoPanama Canal--scenes of the finished Canal Scenes of the Panama Canal, generally in the natural order of passage, from a ship moving from the Atlantic to the Pacific. The ship passes by the Panamanian city of Colón on the Atlantic end, through the channel to Gatun Locks and into Gatun Lake, views of the Gatun spillway and the Chagres River. From here she passes from Gaillard Cut (Culebra Cut), into...
- Contributor: Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1919