This uniquely comprehensive group of publications, pictures, ephemera, and other archival materials relating to Theodore Roosevelt was first assembled by the Theodore Roosevelt Association and opened as the Roosevelt Memorial Library in 1923, part of what is today the Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site in New York City.

Two decades later the collection was donated by the Association to Harvard University, TR's alma mater, where it was established as a special unit of the Harvard College Library, the center of Harvard's complex library system. Currently the collection includes 12,000 volumes of published writings by and about TR; extensive and widely used photograph and cartoon files; correspondence, diaries, and other personal papers of Theodore Roosevelt and his family; archives of the Progressive ("Bull Moose") Party of 1912; scrapbooks of clippings and campaign literature and other memorabilia; and interview and research files preserved by Roosevelt biographers.

Housed in the Houghton and Widener libraries in Harvard Yard, the Theodore Roosevelt Collection is a major research facility for the study of TR and his times. A gallery dedicated to displaying the collection's resources is located in adjacent Pusey Library, where it is open to the public year round, weekdays (except holidays), 9 AM to 4:45 PM.

For further information visit the collection's website:

http://hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/houghton/collections/roosevelt.html

Private tours and access to the collection for those from outside the Harvard community may be arranged through the collection's curator, who can be contacted as below:

[Theodore Roosevelt at Harvard ca 1877 in his sculling outfit]