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Collection Photo, Print, Drawing Scrapbooks documenting the families of Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., and Eleanor Butler Alexander Roosevelt

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Title

  • Scrapbooks documenting the families of Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., and Eleanor Butler Alexander Roosevelt

Summary

  • Vol. 1: genealogical data about the Roosevelt, Carow, Butler, and Alexander families; vol. 2: the early life of President Theodore Roosevelt; his marriage to Edith Kermit Carow; his military service and presidency; the birth of the Roosevelt children; family life; the Roosevelt home at Oyster Bay, N.Y.; also photographs of the Butler Alexander family, including Eleanor Butler Alexander as a child and young adult; vol. 3: the engagement, wedding, and marriage of Eleanor Butler Alexander and Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.; vol. 4: World War I; President Roosevelt's four sons in the war; some documents related to Eleanor's involvement with the YMCA and the Allied Women on War Service; vols. 5-25: the lives of Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., and Eleanor Butler Roosevelt; their wedding; children; views of their homes; family travel in the U.S. and abroad; other family activities; the marriage of their children; the birth of grandchildren; Theodore Jr.'s hunting expeditions to Asia in 1925 and 1928 (vols. 6-7); his political and military career, including his term as Governor of Puerto Rico from 1925-32 (vols. 8-9) and his term as Governor General of the Philippines from 1932-33 (vols. 11-12); the family's involvement in World War II through military service and war work (vols. 16-18); Eleanor's work with the Red Cross during World War II (vol. 17); and Theodore's death in France in 1944 (vol. 18). Many of Eleanor's travel photographs are represented (vols. 8, 10, 13, 16, 22-25); photographs of her needlework projects and portraits of family members are also scattered throughout the albums.

Names

  • Roosevelt, Eleanor Butler, 1889-1960, compiler
  • Roosevelt, Eleanor Butler, 1889-1960, photographer

Created / Published

  • 1910?-1955.

Contents

  • v. 1 (1650-1885) -- v. 2 (1875-1908) -- v. 3 (1908-17) -- v. 4 (1917-19) -- v. 5 (1919-22) -- v. 6 (1923-26) -- v. 7 (1926-29) -- v. 8 (1929-31) -- v. 9 (1931-32) -- v. 10 (1932) -- v. 11 (1932-33) -- v. 12 (1933) -- v. 13 (1933-35) -- v. 14 (1935-37) -- v. 15 (1937-39) -- v. 16 (1939-41) -- v. 17 (1941-43) -- v. 18 (1943-44) -- v. 19 (1944) -- v. 20 (1944-45) -- v. 21 (1945-47) -- v. 22 (1947) -- v. 23 (1948-49) -- v. 24 (1949-53) -- v. 25 (1954-55).

Headings

  • -  Roosevelt, Theodore,--1858-1919
  • -  Roosevelt, Theodore,--1858-1919--Family
  • -  Roosevelt, Edith Kermit Carow,--1861-1948
  • -  Roosevelt, Edith Kermit Carow,--1861-1948--Family
  • -  Roosevelt, Theodore,--1887-1944
  • -  Roosevelt, Theodore,--1887-1944--Family
  • -  Roosevelt, Eleanor Butler,--1889-1960
  • -  Roosevelt, Eleanor Butler,--1889-1960--Family
  • -  Roosevelt family
  • -  Alexander family
  • -  Butler family
  • -  American Red Cross--1940-1950
  • -  World War, 1914-1918--Social aspects
  • -  World War, 1939-1945--Social aspects
  • -  World War, 1914-1918--Women
  • -  World War, 1939-1945--Women
  • -  Families--1650-1960
  • -  Travel--1900-1960
  • -  Women--Social life--United States--1880-1960
  • -  Needlework--1910-1960
  • -  War work--1940-1950
  • -  Big game hunting--Asia--1920-1930
  • -  Foreign service--Philippines--1920-1930
  • -  Governors--Puerto Rico--1920-1930
  • -  Houses--1900-1960
  • -  Interiors--1900-1960

Format Headings

  • Group portraits--1880-1960.
  • Photographic prints--1880-1960.
  • Portrait photographs--1880-1960.
  • Scrapbooks--1940-1960.

Genre

  • Photographic prints--1880-1960
  • Scrapbooks--1940-1960
  • Portrait photographs--1880-1960
  • Group portraits--1880-1960

Notes

  • -  Arrangement: Albums arranged in chronological order.
  • -  Eleanor Butler Alexander married Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., (son of President Theodore Roosevelt) in 1910. She began assembling scrapbooks sometime after her marriage to document both the Alexander and Roosevelt families. By the mid-forties she began work to re-assemble her first nine albums into the format they are now and she continued constructing family scrapbooks through the late fifties. Eleanor Roosevelt made many of the original and copy photographs in the albums.
  • -  LOT title devised by Library staff.
  • -  Albums include the following types of materials: b&w photographs, cartoons, certificates and citations, clippings, correspondence, drawings, family records, ephemera. Original documents as well as reproductions are included.
  • -  Most album pages include captions or commentary written by Eleanor Roosevelt.
  • -  Gift; Grace Roosevelt McMillan; 1986; (DLC/PP- 1986:196).
  • -  Exhibited: "Echoes of the Great War : American Experiences of WW I" in the Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Nov. 2017 - June 2018.
  • -  Vol. 3 Exhibited: "Echoes of the Great War : American Experiences of WW I" in the Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., May - June 2018.
  • -  Vol. 4 Exhibited: "Echoes of the Great War : American Experiences of WW I" in the Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., June 2018 - January 2019.

Medium

  • 25 albums ; 32.5 x 26.5 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • LOT 13455 (G) [P&P]

Repository

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 00650023

Reproduction Number

  • LC-DIG-ppmsca-24400 (digital files from original items, Vol. 2) LC-DIG-ppmsca-24955 (digital files from original items, Vol. 3)

Rights Advisory

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  • Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-24400 (digital files from original items, Vol. 2) LC-DIG-ppmsca-24955 (digital files from original items, Vol. 3)
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Roosevelt, Eleanor Butler, photographer. Scrapbooks documenting the families of Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., and Eleanor Butler Alexander Roosevelt. Asia United States Philippines Puerto Rico, 1910. composeds by Roosevelt, Eleanor Butler, Iler ?-1955. Photograph. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/00650023/.

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Roosevelt, E. B., photographer. (1910) Scrapbooks documenting the families of Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., and Eleanor Butler Alexander Roosevelt. Asia United States Philippines Puerto Rico, 1910. Roosevelt, E. B., comp ?-1955. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/00650023/.

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Roosevelt, Eleanor Butler, photographer. Scrapbooks documenting the families of Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., and Eleanor Butler Alexander Roosevelt. comp by Roosevelt, Eleanor Butler, Iler ?-1955. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/00650023/>.