- Founded in January,
1919, by Roosevelt's friends and followers a few days after
TR's death, and formally chartered by Act of Congress, May 31,
1920.
- Reconstructed Theodore
Roosevelt's birthplace, brownstone house at 28 East 20th Street,
New York City; opened to the public October 27, 1923.
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- Assembled TR Presidential
collection of over 12,000 books and pamphlets, 3,500 cartoons,
10,000 photographs, thousands of letters, manuscripts and other
materials, presented to Harvard as the "Theodore Roosevelt Collection"
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- Assembled collection
of motion pictures on TR's life and times, over 20 hours of
film, and presented to Library of Congress.
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- Purchased what was
then Analostan Island in the Potomac River in Washington, D.C.
for $364,000, and presented to Federal Government as "Theodore
Roosevelt Island" in 1932.
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- Publishes books,
including Memorial and National Editions of the Works of Theodore
Roosevelt (1923-1926), TR Cyclopedia (1941), and TR: Champion
of the Strenuous Life (1958).
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- Subsidized research
and publication of The Letters of Theodore Roosevelt (8 volumes,
1951-1954).
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- Purchased and restored
TR's home at Sagamore Hill, Oyster Bay, New York; opened to
the public on June 14, 1953.
- Donated both the
TR Birthplace and Sagamore Hill to National Park Service in
1962, together with a special endowment of $500,000 for support
of these sites.
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- Provides grants
for support of the Theodore Roosevelt Bird Sanctuary, Oyster
Bay, New York.
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- Sponsors student
contests and awards.
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- Established the
Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Fund at the American Museum of Natural
History in 1960 for annual grants in field research in North
American ecology and natural history; provides continuing funds
for these annual grants.
- Provides support
to maintain TR's gravesite in Youngs Memorial Cemetery, Oyster
Bay, New York.
- Publishes a quarterly
Journal, which was established in 1975.
- Recognizes police
officers who have overcome handicaps and continue to render
outstanding service with the annual Theodore Roosevelt Police
Awards, now given in several US cites.
- Works in cooperation
with National Park Service to support the TR Birthplace, Sagamore
Hill, TR Island, TR Inaugural Site in Buffalo, NY and TR National
Park in Medora, North Dakota.
- Awards the Theodore
Roosevelt Distinguished Service Medal to men and women who have
rendered outstanding service in the fields in which TR worked.
One hundred Medals awarded since 1923 to such Americans as Charles
A. Lindbergh, Helen Keller, Irving Berlin, Alan B. Shepard,
Former President George Bush and First Lady Barbara Bush.
- Provides research
and information to writers, historians, the media, school children
and general public.
- Worked closely with
TR's great grandson Tweed Roosevelt to reopen the case for the
awarding of the Congressional Medal of Honor posthumously to
Theodore Roosevelt
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