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Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt
Artist
Underwood & Underwood, active 1880 - c. 1950
Sitter
Theodore Roosevelt, 27 Oct 1858 - 6 Jan 1919
Unidentified Man
William Henry Moody, 23 Dec 1853 - 02 Jul 1917
George Cooper Pardee, 25 Jul 1857 - 01 Sep 1941
Presley Marion Rixey, 14 Jul 1852 - 17 Jun 1928
John Muir, 21 Apr 1838 - 24 Dec 1914
Nicholas Murray Butler, 2 Apr 1862 - 7 Dec 1947
William Loeb Jr., 09 Oct 1866 - 19 Sep 1937
Benjamin Ide Wheeler, 15 Jul 1854 - 02 May 1927
Date
1903
Type
Photograph
Medium
Gelatin silver prints (stereograph)
Dimensions
Image/Sight (each): 7.6 × 7.8 cm (3 × 3 1/16")
Mat: 12.8 × 20.6 × 1 cm (5 1/16 × 8 1/8 × 3/8")
Topic
Costume\Headgear\Hat
Nature & Environment\Plant\Tree
Personal Attribute\Facial Hair\Mustache
Personal Attribute\Facial Hair\Beard
Exterior\Forest
Costume\Footwear\Boots
Photographic format\Stereograph
Unidentified Man: Male
William Henry Moody: Male
William Henry Moody: Politics and Government\Cabinet member\US Attorney General
William Henry Moody: Military and Intelligence\Navy\Secretary of the Navy
William Henry Moody: Law and Crime\Judge\Justice\US Supreme Court Justice
Benjamin Ide Wheeler: Male
Benjamin Ide Wheeler: Education and Scholarship\Educator
Benjamin Ide Wheeler: Education and Scholarship\Administrator\University administrator\University president
George Cooper Pardee: Male
George Cooper Pardee: Politics and Government\Governor\California
George Cooper Pardee: Politics and Government\Public official\Mayor\Oakland, CA
John Muir: Male
John Muir: Natural Resource Occupations\Explorer
John Muir: Literature\Writer\Magazine article writer
John Muir: Society and Social Change\Reformer\Environmentalist
John Muir: Literature\Writer\Novelist
John Muir: Science and Technology\Scientist\Naturalist
John Muir: Literature\Writer\Nature writer
Theodore Roosevelt: Male
Theodore Roosevelt: Politics and Government\State Legislator\New York
Theodore Roosevelt: Literature\Writer
Theodore Roosevelt: Politics and Government\Vice-President of US
Theodore Roosevelt: Military and Intelligence\Army\Officer\Colonel
Theodore Roosevelt: Natural Resource Occupations\Explorer
Theodore Roosevelt: Politics and Government\Governor\New York
Theodore Roosevelt: Politics and Government\President of US
Theodore Roosevelt: Education and Scholarship\Scholar\Historian
Theodore Roosevelt: Society and Social Change\Reformer\Environmentalist
Theodore Roosevelt: Natural Resource Occupations\Agriculturist\Rancher
Theodore Roosevelt: Nobel Prize
Nicholas Murray Butler: Male
Nicholas Murray Butler: Literature\Writer
Nicholas Murray Butler: Education and Scholarship\Educator\Professor\University
Nicholas Murray Butler: Education and Scholarship\Administrator
Nicholas Murray Butler: Education and Scholarship\Administrator\University administrator\University president
Nicholas Murray Butler: Politics and Government\Government official\Presidential Advisor
Nicholas Murray Butler: Education and Scholarship\Scholar\Philosopher
Nicholas Murray Butler: Nobel Prize
Presley Marion Rixey: Male
Presley Marion Rixey: Medicine and Health\Physician\Surgeon
Presley Marion Rixey: Military and Intelligence\Navy\Officer\Rear Admiral
Presley Marion Rixey: Military and Intelligence\Navy\Navy physician
William Loeb Jr.: Male
William Loeb Jr.: Politics and Government\Public official\Secretary
Portrait
Place
United States\California\Mariposa\Mariposa Grove
Credit Line
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Restrictions & Rights
CC0
Object number
NPG.80.82
Exhibition Label
On May 15, 1903, President Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919; fourth from left) camped with naturalist John Muir (1838–1914; fourth from right) beneath the “Grizzly Giant,” the most famous giant sequoia tree in California’s Mariposa Grove. Afterward, Roosevelt persuaded Congress to add Mariposa Grove to Yosemite National Park (1906).
This effort was but one piece of Roosevelt’s bold conservationist agenda. He established the U.S. Forest Service (1905) to manage forest reserves and signed into law the Antiquities Act (1906), granting the president authority to designate national monuments. In 1908, Roosevelt cast conservationism as patriotic: “The conservation of our natural resources … is yet but part of … the patriotic duty of insuring the safety and continuance of the Nation.” He ultimately established 150 national forests, over fifty federal bird and wildlife refuges, eighteen national monuments, and five national parks. These federally protected places were not untouched wildernesses but the ancestral homelands of forcibly displaced Native peoples.
El 15 de mayo de 1903, el presidente Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919; cuarto desde la izquierda) acampó con el naturalista John Muir (1838–1914; cuarto desde la derecha) bajo el “Grizzly Gigante”, la secuoya gigante más famosa del bosque Mariposa en California. Luego Roosevelt convencería al Congreso de incorporar el bosque Mariposa al Parque Nacional Yosemite (1906).
Esta gestión fue apenas una parte de la audaz agenda conservacionista de Roosevelt, quien esta bleció el Servicio Forestal de EE.UU. (1905) para administrar las reservas forestales y firmó la Ley de Antigüedades (1906) que autorizaba al presidente a designar monumentos nacionales. En 1908 vinculó la conservación con el patriotismo: “La conservación de nuestros recursos naturales [...] es parte [...] del deber patriótico de garantizar la seguridad y continuidad de la Nación”. Roosevelt estableció un total de 150 bosques nacionales, más de 50 refugios federales de aves y vida silvestre, 18 monumentos nacionales y 5 parques nacionales. Estas áreas bajo protección federal no eran naturaleza intacta, sino tierras ances trales de pueblos nativos desplazados por la fuerza.
Data Source
National Portrait Gallery
Exhibition
Forces of Nature: Voices that Shaped Environmentalism
On View
NPG, North Gallery 220