Earlier this year, the Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural Site was presented with a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to purchase memorabilia from Buffalo's 1901 Pan-American Exposition.

After identifying approximately thirty items that would substantially improve the TR Site's existing Pan-Am collection, a campaign to raise one thousand dollars to purchase those items was launched at the end of June.  The response was overwhelming!  Thanks to the extraordinary generosity of TR Site friends and donors, the initiative raised more than two thousand dollars!!

Fortunately, the original collection of Pan-American memorabilia was extensive and the TR Site easily expanded its wish list to accommodate the incredible kindness of its benefactors.  Among the more than 75 objects that will soon be added to the TR Site's collection are:

• a formal invitation to Dedication Day ceremonies, which included remarks by then-Vice President Theodore Roosevelt
• various examples of "ruby flash" glassware
• a bell made out of "brass . . . recovered from the wreck of the Maine"
• several stereograph and lantern slide images
• pins, programs and other items commemorating events such as "Buffalo Day," "Lumbermen Week" and "YMCA Day"
• a catalogue of material sold by the company responsible for dismantling the exposition

The TR Site is looking forward to sharing these exciting new acquisitions with not only the donors who made this opportunity a reality, but also current and future generations of visitors, students and researchers.