Roosevelt scenes [1917-1918]
CREATED/PUBLISHED United States : [s.n., 1917?]
SUMMARY 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 pose for camera; identified
in group are Capt. Thomas C. Cook, American Army officer;
Hector Carlier, a secretary of the mission; Major Leon
Osterrieth, Belgian Army officer; George T. Wilson and
Frederic Coudert, prominent New Yorkers; Baron Ludovic
Moncheur, former Ambassador to the United States and head
of the mission; General Mathieu Leclercq, Commander of
the Belgian Cavalry; Jean D. Mertens, a secretary of the
mission; T. P. O'Connor, Irish political leader and writer;
and Count Louis d'Ursel, Belgian Army officer and diplomat;
3) at Forest Hills, N.Y., on July 4, 1917, TR reviews
and marches with the Forest Hills Rifle Club; 4) on Sept.
28, 1917, TR speaks at a large pro-war parade in St. Paul,
Minn., with Minnesota Governor Joseph A. A. Burnquist
(1915-1921) standing behind him on platform; 5) supporting
the Liberty Loan effort in Billings, Mont., TR parades
through downtown Billings street, preceded by cowboys
on horseback; 6) at Camp Grant, Rockford, Ill., TR and
Thomas H. Barry, Commander of the camp, address troops
on Sept. 26, 1917; 7) TR speaks to crowds at the launching
of the U.S.S. Newburgh in Newburgh, N.Y., Sept. 2, 1918;
8) from the porch at Sagamore TR addresses volunteer workers
for the third Liberty Loan on April 2, 1918; 9) TR is
in Springfield, Ill. on Aug. 26, 1918 to endorse a rapid
ending of the war; 10) final sequence may be of TR arriving
at the Naval Service Club in Boston on May 2, 1918, in
an open car with man who is probably president of the
club, F. Nathaniel Perkins
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