BIBFRAME Work

Title

Dedication of Roosevelt Mountain at Deadwood, S.D., 1919

Type

• Moving Image
• Monograph

Contribution

• Theodore Roosevelt Association Collection (Library of Congress) (contributor)
• Kinogram Publishing Corporation (contributor)
• Urban, Charles, source (contributor)

Subject

• Roosevelt Memorial Association (LCNAF)
• Dedication services
• Mount Roosevelt, S.D.
• Bullock, Seth (LCNAF)
• Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919--Monuments, etc.
• Society of Black Hills Pioneers
• South Dakota. Governor, 1917-1921 (Norbeck)
• Hagedorn, Hermann
• Norbeck, Peter
• Memorial service
• Martin, Eben W.
• Black Hills, S.D.
• Deadwood, S.D.
• Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919--Funeral and memorial services.
• Wood, Leonard
• Legislators--South Dakota
• Roosevelt Monument, S.D.

Genre Form

• Motion pictures (LCGFT)
• Silent films (LCGFT)
• Nonfiction films (LCGFT)

Language

• eng

Classification

• LCC: FAB992 (print); (Assigner: dlc) (Status: used by assigner)
• LCC: FRA5972 (arch pos) (Assigner: dlc) (Status: used by assigner)

Content

• two-dimensional moving image

Summary

On July 4, 1919, a mountain peak in the Black Hills is renamed and dedicated to Theodore Roosevelt. Located near Deadwood, S.D., in the region where TR hunted and ranched in the 1880's, Mount Roosevelt is dedicated by the Society of Black Hills Pioneers, of which TR had been an honorary member. Panoramic views of the Black Hills taken from Mount Roosevelt; crowd gathers for dedication service, with Leonard Wood, a close friend of TR and principal speaker at the ceremony, and Capt. Seth Bullock, TR's neighbor in his ranching days, speaking informally with crowd members; views of the speakers' platform, with the following men speaking at various points in service: South Dakota Governor Peter Norbeck, master of ceremonies; Leonard Wood; and former South Dakota Representative to Congress, Eben W. Martin (1901-1907, 1908-1915); also identified on platform are Capt. Bullock, at whose suggestion mountain is being renamed, and Roosevelt Memorial Association member, Hermann Hagedorn. Long shots of Roosevelt Monument, a circular tower with a parapet; on parapet three men raise an American flag. View of Leonard Wood walking along narrow ledge of monument to reach speakers' platform, erected in front of monument; close shot of bronze plaque set in side of monument, with inscription legible: In Memory of Theodore Roosevelt, The American.

Authorized Access Point

Dedication of Roosevelt Mountain at Deadwood, S.D., 1919

Moving image technique

• live action

Geographic Coverage

• South Dakota

Admin Metadata

• Date: 2026-09-30T17:49:09.704673+00:00
• Agent: cbc
• Status: c
• Derived from: 11510464

Admin Metadata

• Date: 2026-09-30
• Cataloger id: Unknown
• Description level: http://id.loc.gov/ontologies/bibframe-2-6-0/
• Description language: eng
• Description authentication: pcc