Biographies & Memoirs

Photographs

Cornelius Van Schaack Roosevelt.

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Lincoln’s funeral procession approaches Union Square, April 1865. The Cornelius Van Schaack Roosevelt house is on the left, and the children watching from the second-story window are believed to be Theodore and Elliott.

Martha Bulloch Roosevelt (Mittie), considered one of the most beautiful women in New York.

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Theodore Roosevelt, Sr. (Greatheart), large, powerful, the idolized father and humanitarian.

Martha Stewart Elliott Bulloch (Grandmamma).

Uncle Jimmie—Captain James Dunwody Bulloch.

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Irvine Bulloch.

Two unidentified former slaves of the Bulloch family at Bulloch Hall, sometime after the Civil War.

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Bulloch Hall, Roswell, Georgia, as it looks today.

Robert Barnwell Roosevelt.

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Roosevelt & Son, 94 Maiden Lane, New York City.

Early work by the student naturalist, Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.

“Teedie” at age ten.

Theodore, Sr., and his beloved Anna (Bamie).

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Teedie, Elliott, Cousin Maud Elliott, Corinne, and Cousin John Elliott, Dresden, 1873.

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Interior of a typical dahabieh of the type the Roosevelts used to “do” the Nile.

a letter from Teedie to Edith Carow, written in 1869, during the family’s first tour abroad.

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Mittie, Dresden, 1873. (The necklace was a prized gift from Theodore, Sr., purchased in Egypt.)

Senator Roscoe Conkling.

Chester A. Arthur.

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The New York Customhouse.

The American Museum of Natural History.

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“Tranquillity,” Oyster Bay, New York. Mittie and Theodore, Sr., are on the porch. Figures in the foreground are believed to be Corinne and Edith Carow. (The house no longer stands.)

Teedie, Elliott, Corinne, and Edith at Oyster Bay, probably the summer of 1876, before Teedie left for Harvard.

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Theodore Roosevelt (now “Teddy”) at Harvard.

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The room Bamie chose and furnished for Theodore off campus.

Theodore in rowing attire.

Theodore as yachtsman.

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Theodore the hunter, in Maine with Bill Sewall (left) and Will Dow.

A page from Theodore’s diary, junior year.

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Alice Lee.

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The young politician with some Albany allies. The “best friend,” Isaac Hunt, is seated at left, and behind stands Billy O’Neil. At center seated is George Spinney of The New York Times. At right is an assemblyman from Brooklyn, Walter Howe.

The gentleman reformer is paired with New York’s new reform governor, Grover Cleveland, in a cartoon by Nast in Harper’s Weekly.

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The Roosevelt brothers (Elliott with pipe) pose in a photographer’s studio in 1880, the summer of their hunting trip in the West.

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Parlor of the Roosevelt mansion at 6 West 57th Street, with Elliott’s tiger as centerpiece.

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Anna Hall.

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Elliott at the Meadowbrook Hunt.

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Henry Cabot Lodge.

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Theodore in the Bad Lands in full cowboy regalia.

Theodore’s Elkhorn Ranch, as sketched by Frederic Remington.

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Studio portrait of Theodore as “the plainsman,” made to help promote one of his books. (The buckskin suit cost $100—the equivalent of $1,000 or more today. Knife and scabbard were custom-made by Tiffany.)