Album of photographs of the Alice Roosevelt in San Francisco

Object Details

See more items in: The Alice Roosevelt Longworth Collection of Photographs from the 1905 Taft Mission to Asia

Biographical / Historical: In her 1933 autobiography "Crowded Hours," Alice Roosevelt Longworth writes, "We got to San Francisco late that afternoon to spend four days before the steamer sailed. It was San Francisco before the fire—San Francisco of the old Palace Hotel, of the Poodle Dog Restaurant, of the Barbary Coast. I shall never forget those days. There was an exhilarating quality in the air, the place, the people that kept me on my toes every moment of the time there. Adventure seemed just around every corner and I was ready for it. I do not think that I ever slept."

Extent: 16 Gelatin silver prints (silver gelatin photographic prints, mounted in an album of 8 leaves wtih emboidered covers, 36 x 48 cm)

Archival Repository: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

Type: Archival materials; Gelatin silver prints; Photographic prints; Photograph albums; Photographs

Collection Citation: The Alice Roosevelt Longworth Collection of Photographs from the 1905 Taft Mission to Asia, FSA A2009.02. National Museum of Asian Art Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

Collection Rights: Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository.

Genre/Form: Photographic prints; Photograph albums; Photographs -- 1900-1910

Scope and Contents: An album of 16 photographs of Alice Roosevelt during her stop in San Francisco, July 5-8, 1905, and on the passenger ship Manchuria. An inscription states "To Miss Alice Roosevelt: This Album of Photographs Taken by its Artists Is Presented by the San Francisco Call As a Souvenir of Her vist to the Philippines 1905." on the inside cover is an oil painted scene of a ship leaving San Francisco Bay painted by the California artist Frederick John Behre.