From left to right: Mayor William Jay Gaynor, Theodore Roosevelt, and Cornelius Vanderbilt III on the day of Roosevelt’s New York homecoming, June 18, 1910.

From left to right: Mayor William Jay Gaynor, Theodore Roosevelt, and Cornelius Vanderbilt III on the day of Roosevelt’s New York homecoming, June 18, 1910. (Courtesy of the Theodore Roosevelt Collection, Harvard College Library)