Collection An Artist Visits the White House Past
From its construction in 1792, until the 1902 renovation that shaped the modern identity and functions of the interior of the White...
President Roosevelt at Yosemite National Park
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- Sagamore Hill National Historic Site/NPS
President Roosevelt at Yosemite National Park
President Theodore Roosevelt at Glacier Point in Yosemite National Park, California, 1903. Five years later he assembled the state governors in a conservation conference in the East Room that resulted in the National Conservation Commission.
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Bio Woodrow Wilson
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Livery at the White House
On Saturday, October 24, 1903, the sensationalist New York World reported that President Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary, William Loeb Jr., outfitted the me...
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Memoirs of Isabella Hagner 1901-1905
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A Kinder Quiet Sense of Humor
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"He Stands for All the Fallen"
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