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    President McKinley speaking, 1901. Catalog Record Only President William McKinley speaks to a group of people. A platform draped with bunting is in the background; McKinley is standing near what may be a fence on the side of a street in undetermined location.
    • Contributor: Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1901
  • Film, Video
    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
  • Film, Video
    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
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    Moving exhibits into Roosevelt House, 1923
    Roosevelt relics arrive at Roosevelt House, 1924 Catalog Record Only
    In preparation for the ceremonial dedication of Roosevelt House, TR's birthplace at 28 E. 20th St., New York City, a moving van filled with TR memorabilia is unloaded in October 1923. Parking in front of the brownstone, restored by the Woman's Roosevelt Memorial Association and to be dedicated on TR's birthday, Oct. 27, the movers display for camera the following items: framed etchings, photographs,...
    • Contributor: Roosevelt Memorial Association - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1923
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    Mr. Hagedorn and Mr. Akeley at Roosevelt House, 1925. [No. 2] Catalog Record Only Various views from many different camera angles of Hermann Hagedorn, RMA Director and Secretary, and Carl E. Akeley, RMA Trustee, in Roosevelt House: Akeley standing and speaking on stage in the auditorium; view of Akeley speaking, Hagedorn sitting behind Akeley, and a bust of TR; close-up of Akeley speaking fades out to a motion picture screen; side view of Akeley speaking; final view is...
    • Contributor: Roosevelt Memorial Association - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Maase, E.
    • Date: 1925
  • Film, Video
    [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
  • Film, Video
    The River of Doubt. [No. 6]
    River of Doubt [6] Catalog Record Only
    A short compilation film of TR's voyage down the River of Doubt in early 1914. Included are views of ants that are a constant torment during the voyage; a still photo shows TR writing while wearing a headnet and gauntlets for protection. There are also close-up shots of a small monkey who visits Dyott's camp. The presence of Indians in the bordering jungle during...
    • Contributor: Roosevelt Memorial Association - Fiala, Anthony - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Roosevelt Memorial Association. Film Library
    • Date: 1928
  • Film, Video
    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
  • Film, Video
    Through the Roosevelt country with Roosevelt's friends
    Through the Roosevelt country | Thru the Roosevelt country with Colonel Roosevelt Catalog Record Only
    Sequences of TR's ranching life in the Dakotas, hunting grounds in Wyoming and Montana, and views of his friends and neighbors in the Little Missouri Badlands during the 1880's, with quotations from TR and his friends interspersed. Opening scene of TR speaking at Sagamore Hill, followed by various stills of TR. Panning shots and panoramic views of large geographic area, part of which is...
    • Contributor: Roosevelt Memorial Association - Hagedorn, Hermann - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1919
  • Film, Video
    [The River of Doubt--excerpts. No. 1].
    River of Doubt [1] Catalog Record Only
    Film is a combination of footage from both journeys and includes footage from the Brazilian Government and other sources, and still photos. Members of the Roosevelt party pose on board the ship Vandyck; left to right are: Anthony Fiala, photographer for a portion of the trip, George K. Cherrie, an ornithologist, Father John A. Zahm, a friend of TR's, Kermit Roosevelt, TR, Frank Harper,...
    • Contributor: Roosevelt Memorial Association - Fiala, Anthony - Roosevelt, Theodore - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1928
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    TR at Sagamore, 1917 Catalog Record Only Close shot of TR speaking on what appears to be the grounds of Sagamore Hill, Oyster Bay, N.Y.
    • Contributor: Roosevelt Memorial Association - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1917
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    African natives Catalog Record Only Views of what is probably part of the Kikuyu and Masai tribal dances performed for TR in the village of Nyeri, Kenya, in August 1909. A line of natives with spears and shields dance on an open hill and move toward camera; camera pans crowd of Kikuyu and/or Masai men in tribal dress, with men who may be members of TR's safari party visible...
    • Contributor: Kearton, Cherry - Roosevelt Memorial Association - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1909
  • Film, Video
    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
  • Film, Video
    TR's arrival in Panama, November 1906. [No. 1]
    Theodore Roosevelt's arrival in Panama, November 1906 Catalog Record Only
    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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    [Chauncey Depew, Senator Perkins, and Governor Whitman of New York, at GOP Convention, 1916, Chicago, Ill.]
    Pathe news
    Scenes from the 16th Republican National Convention held in Chicago, June 7-10, 1916. Long shot of delegates outside the Congress Hotel. Medium shots, from left to right, of Mrs. Olive H. Whitman; Governor Charles S. Whitman of New York (1915-1918); Francis Hendricks, former New York State Senator (1886-1891); George W. Perkins, a leader in the Progressive movement (1912-1916); Chauncey M. Depew, former New York...
    • Contributor: Roosevelt Memorial Association - Pathé Exchange - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1916
  • Film, Video
    TR at Camp Mills [1917]
    Theodore Roosevelt at Camp Mills [1917] Catalog Record Only
    On Sept. 2, 1917 during an informal call at Camp Mills near Garden City, N.Y., TR meets officers and old friends who saw action with him in the Santiago Campaign, Spanish-American War. Opening scene of TR, flanked on his immediate left by Colonel Charles Hine, Regiment Commander of the 165th Infantry, and Lieutenant Colonel Latham R. Reed, former commander of the 165th, and on...
    • Contributor: Roosevelt Memorial Association
    • Date: 1917
  • Film, Video
    The River of Doubt. [No. 3]
    River of Doubt [3] Catalog Record Only
    A shorter compilation film combining footage from TR's 1913-1914 trip to South America with footage from George M. Dyott's 1927 trip retracing TR's voyage down the uncharted River of Doubt in Brazil. Several maps show the location of the River of Doubt, renamed Roosevelt River by the Brazilian Government in honor of TR. Several members of TR's group pose aboard the Vandyck, the ship...
    • Contributor: Roosevelt Memorial Association - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Roosevelt Memorial Association. Film Library
    • Date: 1928
  • Film, Video
    President Roosevelt at the Canton station
    Title in Edison film company catalog, no. 135: President Roosevelt at Canton station | Variant title from AFI catalog, film beginnings, 1893-1910: President Roosevelt, Canton station
    "In this picture we show President Roosevelt and Cabinet standing at the station with bare heads, while the casket of President McKinley is being placed in the hearse. As the hearse leaves the station the President and his Cabinet start for their carriages. Our panoramic device is here started and this picture finishes with a circular panorama of the Canton station and Public Square....
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1901
  • Film, Video
    Roosevelt, friend of the birds. [No. 1]
    Title in Theodore Roosevelt Association catalog: Roosevelt, friend of the birds [1] | Copyright catalog title: Theodore Roosevelt, friend of the birds
    A narrative of TR's role in bird preservation which includes factual footage taken on his visit under the auspices of the National Audubon Society to bird sanctuary islands off the coast of Louisiana, June 1915. Mating habits and domestic life of snowy egrets and their plunder by hunters are dramatized. Scenes of egrets' nest and the hunt, kill, and plucking of birds serve as...
    • Contributor: Roosevelt Memorial Association - Job, Herbert Keightley - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress) - Gentry, Caroline - Roosevelt Memorial Association. Film Library
    • Date: 1924
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    Judge Alton B. Parker & Mayor McClellan at Esopus
    Judge Alton B. Parker and Mayor McClellan at Esopus | Copyright title: Judge Alton B. Parker and guests | Judge Alton B. Parker & guests
    From three camera positions, the Democratic presidential candidate, Judge Parker, bids farewell on the wharf at Esopus to Mayor McClellan and other important Democrats. Judge Parker was nominated at the Democratic National Convention in St. Louis, July 6, 1904.
    • Contributor: American Mutoscope and Biograph Company - Bitzer, G. W. - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1904
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    Pres. Roosevelt at the Dedication Ceremonies, St. Louis Exposition
    President Roosevelt at the Dedication Ceremonies, St. Louis Exposition | Variant title from the American Film Institute catalog: St. Louis Exposition exercises
    President Theodore Roosevelt is on the speaker's platform. He rises and doffs his hat. A carriage passes in front of the platform. The President then appears briefly below the platform, possibly preparing to enter the carriage. President Roosevelt was in St. Louis to dedicate the Louisiana Purchase Exposition buildings and to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Louisiana Purchase Treaty. The...
    • Contributor: Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress) - Selig Polyscope Company
    • Date: 1903
  • Film, Video
    Taking President McKinley's body from train at Canton, Ohio
    Title from Edison films catalog, no. 135: Body leaving the train at Canton, Ohio | Title from Edison films catalog, no. 225: Body leaving the train, Canton, Ohio
    "Here, as in the other pictures, we secured a most advantageous location, and we present a life-size view of the casket containing the body of President McKinley as it is slowly and carefully taken from the window of the car which bore it from the Capitol to Canton. The casket is placed upon the shoulders of ten stalwart sailors and soldiers and borne to...
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1901
  • Film, Video
    Arrival of McKinley's funeral train at Canton, Ohio
    Title in Edison films catalog: Funeral train arriving at Canton Station
    "It is apparent that the camera was placed on a platform of a train station. A steam locomotive pulling several passenger cars can be seen nearing the camera position and coming to a stop. The remainder of the film is concerned with the people who get off the train and walk off the platform"--Early motion pictures. "In recording this scene the position of our...
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1901
  • Film, Video
    Memorializing Roosevelt Catalog Record Only Still photos and interior titles describe the Roosevelt Memorial Association and the Women's Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Association activities, "To perpetuate the ideals of Theodore Roosevelt by spreading the knowledge of his character and career." Projects such as the cataloging of TR's correspondence at the Library of Congress by a woman who may be Elizabeth K. Fitzpatrick are described. Still of a woman who is...
    • Contributor: Roosevelt Memorial Association - National Council of the Young Men's Christian Associations of the United States of America. Motion Picture Bureau - Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1920
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    The mob outside the Temple of Music at the Pan-American Exposition "The camera was positioned at such a height behind a large group of people outside an exhibit building that mainly hats are visible"--Early motion pictures. On Friday, September 6th, 1901, we had our cameras in position to photograph the President as he left the Temple of Music, but the deplorable assassination, of course, prevented our getting this picture. We did, however, secure an excellent...
    • Contributor: Thomas A. Edison, Inc - Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1901