TR at Baltimore [1918] : TR at Sagamore [Hill, 1918] /

Sequences of TR speaking on two occasions: on Sept. 28, 1918, he addresses crowds in Baltimore in support of the fourth Liberty Loan; at Sagamore Hill on April 2, 1918, he encourages workers for the third Liberty Loan. At Oriole Park in Baltimore TR, wearing a mourning armband for his son, Quentin, helps open the fourth Liberty Loan campaign. Views of TR and man who appears to be Phillips L. Goldsborough, chairman of the Liberty Loan Committee for Maryland and former Maryland Governor (1912-1916), walking across Oriole field with other officials; TR stops and speaks with Cardinal James Gibbons of Baltimore, whose back is to camera; beside flag-decorated table TR speaks to packed stadium, with man who appears to be current Maryland Governor, Emerson C. Harrington, Mrs. Thomas J. Preston (who had been the wife of former President Grover Cleveland), and Dr. Thomas J. Preston among notables on platform; close-up of TR as he vigorously delivers address. At Sagamore Hill, with reporters behind him, TR addresses Liberty Loan workers from the New York District on Apr. 2, 1918.
Variant Roosevelt Memorial Association title from list in Theodore Roosevelt Association acquisition file.
Appearing: Theodore Roosevelt, James Gibbons, Phillips L. Goldsborough, Emerson C. Harrington, Mrs. Thomas J. Preston, Dr. Thomas J. Preston.
Duration: 0:55 at 18 fps.
Photographed on April 2, 1918 at Sagamore Hill, Oyster Bay, New York, and on September 28, 1918 in Baltimore, Maryland.
Roosevelt Memorial Association inventory number RMA 321-03-01.
Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as digital files.
Sources used: Baltimore American, September 28, 1918, p. 8; The Evening sun, Baltimore, September 28, 1918, p. 1; LC Prints & Photographs Division portrait file; Harvard University Library's Theodore Roosevelt Collection; The Theodore Roosevelt Association...catalog, p. 110-111.
Collection transferred to LC from National Park Service in 1967. Previous owners: Roosevelt Memorial Association; Eclair, Paris France.
The Theodore Roosevelt Association film collection : a catalog / prepared by Wendy White-Henson and Veronica M. Gillespie. Library of Congress, 1986.