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GLC04033.27

to Paul H. Lacey

Discusses his desire for a Square Deal for all Americans. Severely faded. Typed on White House letterhead.

GLC04078

to Gerry re: railroad investments

The letter discusses some confidential plans for rail road investments.

GLC03107.04179

[Miscellaneous writings by William Clegg]

Random thoughts and notes written by Clegg. Topics discussed include education, training of the will, and death, "The tolling of the bell".

GLC03133.09

Georgius Agricola De Re Metallica

Also authored by Lou Henry Hoover. Translated from the first Latin edition of 1556 and published by the Mining Magazine, Salisbury House, London, England. Inscribed by Hoover to Edwin A. Elsbach. De Re Metallica or "On the Nature of Metals" was...

GLC02796

to Mrs. Wetmore

Schurz notes the "joy" of growth characteristically American, a movement towards socialism and Theodore Roosevelt's belief that the American people will perish in a "slothfull peace."

GLC02871

to Willie Olcott Burr re: Nebraska Democratic platform & other proposals [Bryan]

Signed as a former President, concerning his feelings on the Nebraska Democratic platform and implicitly, the rise of populism and William Jennings Bryan. Cleveland advocate the "old Democratic creed."

GLC02925.05

[Sample ballot card for the 1912 Republican National Convention]

Printed by Allied Printing. Inscribed "to little Miss Mabel" and signed by Roosevelt. The pro-Roosevelt campaign document explains how William H. Taft's managers "denied you the right to vote your preference for president" and instructs how to...

GLC01487

to James D. Fox

Roosevelt thanks him for his letter and writes, "I have received your letter in reference to the friars; and as it evidently proceeds from an entire misunderstanding of the facts, I take pleasure in reciting them to you." Fox was a member of the Holy...

GLC01625.01

to Theodore Roosevelt

Fox thanks him for his letter and for clarifying for him the situation with the friars and their lands in the Philippines and the position of the United States government. Regrets the fact that the government of the United States has allowed the...

GLC01625.02

[Clerical copy of the resolutions sent to President Theodore Roosevelt concerning to the Friar Lands].

Also with the clerical signatures of John Sullivan, John Vance, Thomas P. Cullen, and William Brennan. Protests the banishment from the Philippines of the friars now doing God's work there. Notes that a copy of the resolutions was mailed to...

GLC01625.07

The times dispatch industrial edition. [May 5, 1912]

Contains a feature article on a recent real estate boom in Richmond on the main page. Also contains articles on Virginia banks, North Carolina Italian farmers, and Professor Lamson Scribner. Various advertisements are found throughout.

GLC01896.205

Address of W.G. Harding, Before Railway Business Association

Draft of a speech in which Harding reflects on the history of the railroad and his personal connection with it. He extols its benefits and its role in developing modern life, and argues the importance of maintaining it to the United States. He does...

GLC01968

to Samuel McChord Crothers

"We must get the Republican Party on the side of the progressives, and on the other hand we must keep the progressives sane....." Written on "The Outlook" letterhead.

GLC08321

Equality [with Theodore Roosevelt's armorial bookplate]

First edition with dust jacket.

GLC08860

[Excerpt from speech at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania on October 24, 1914]

Wilson expresses support for the YMCA. He is impatient with those who think the purpose of Christianity is to help individuals develop their character. He prefers people devote themselves to aiding others, and good character will result as a by...

GLC05508.267

[Statement on reading the Bible for the Scripture Gift Society]

Wilson encourages people to read the Bible in long passages so they can find the heart of it; the Bible is "the key to your own heart, your own happiness, and your own duty." The statement was "prepared by the President for transmission, through...

GLC05508.268

to Alexander Spottswood Campbell

Spottswood was possibly Mosby's grandson (son of daughter May Virginia Campbell and Robert Campbell). Typed on Department of Justice stationery with the printed heading, "Carbon copy for the file". Transmits a clipping from the Times-Dispatch on an...

GLC05738

to [George] Gray

An extraordinary and lengthy letter, full of observations about people he met, especially the crowned heads of Europe. Labeled on page 1 "For nobody's eyes but yours." Written while acting as special ambassador for the United States for King Edward...

GLC05750

to William H. Hunt

Supporting Taft, Leonard Wood and William Hunt as Governors of the Philippines, Cuba and Puerto Rico. He believes he is carrying out wishes of McKinley. Written on mourning stationery. Roosevelt requests Hunt's opinion on several men he is...

GLC05803

The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study

Du Bois's detailed study uses history and sociology to consider the social experience of African Americans in the Seventh Ward of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Offers a comprehensive examination of black life, including migration, religion, crime...

GLC05823

Progress of a race or the remarkable advancement of the Afro-American...

Full title is: "Progress of a race or the remarkable advancement of the Afro-American from the bondage of slavery, ignorance and poverty to the freedom of citizenship, intelligence, affluence, honor and trust." Published by J. L. Nichols & Co. Co...

GLC06126.01

The sweet potato as a flour substitute

Carver, a celebrated agricultural chemist at the Tuskegee Institute, offers advice and recipes regarding conservation of the year's unusually large sweet potato crop. Provides recipes for using sweet potatoes to make flour, bread, and biscuits.

GLC06172

to Clara Hammond McGuigan

Bell writes to Superintendent of the Mystic Oral School McGuigan about current issues in deaf education. He is waiting in Washington because he may be called to testify before a Congressional Committee concerning a bill supported by both of them...

GLC06277

to Benjamin I. Wheeler

"Of course, advantage is taken of it to attack me, and therefore Taft... I fear that some of our capitalist friends really desire to be allowed to continue at present all the practices which were declared illegal over a year ago." Typed on the first...

GLC06331.01

The East Room of the White House arranged for the State Dinner to Prince Henry

Lighted chandeliers, lavishly decorated tables, and garland-draped pillars and ceilings in the empty East Room.

GLC06449.20

to James J. Meyers re: support of Henry Cabot Lodge for Civil Service reform, &c

With TR's autograph pen corrections on p. 2. On stationery of the United States Civil Service Commission.

GLC06622.01

to James J. Meyers re: detailing Lodge's support for Civil Service reform

With TR's autograph pen corrections on both pages. On stationery of the United States Civil Service Commission.

GLC06622.02

Address of the President of the United States

Regarding rights of railroad workers (8 hour days, overtime pay, etc.). Signed on page 8.

GLC06963

to "My Dear Senator", [Jonathan Bourne, Jr.]

Discusses the Standard Oil Trust case and feels it imprudent that the recipient continue to be the intermediary between the lawyers and Mr. Kellogg, the Attorney General, and Mr. Bonaparte. Encloses a note from Mr. Bonaparte (not included) regarding...

GLC00394

to Robert C. Cornell

Vice President Roosevelt discusses the reappointment of W. C. Church, an African American who worked as assistant clerk at Jefferson Market City Magistrate's Court, New York City. Informs Cornell, a judge in the Magistrate's Court, that Church...

GLC00529.08

to William H. Riding

Discusses an article Cleveland writes for the Youth Companion about what should the government do with ex-Presidents. He writes, "This subject, I think was suggested by me. I have thought of it a great deal and have gone so far as to make a start in...

GLC00655.18

[The laying and completion of the Pacific cable]

Two volume scrapbook covering the completion of the Pacific cable linking North America to Hawaii, Australia, and the South Pacific. Includes cablegrams charting progress of the cable and sending congratulations from officials in places along the...

GLC01020

Speech draft re: influence of Lincoln, given at New York Republican Club of NYC

Original draft of speech: "I was born a slave...my first recollection of Abraham Lincoln was...by the prayers of my mother...as she was kneeling over my body earnestly praying that Abraham Lincoln might succeed and that one day she and her boy might...

GLC07232

Eyewitness account of sinking of the Titanic

Written by a first-class passenger on Carpathia stationery: "Awakened about 11:40 by a violent jar....I went out to the promenade deck and soon learned that we had run into ice...and I had heard a passenger state that he saw an iceberg pass the...

GLC07640

to Walter S. Field

Roosevelt discusses a suit in Oklahoma against him "as trustee for the Kickapoo Indian Wah-nah-ka" and how to proceed so that the Indian's rights were protected. Wants Field, a Washington Attorney, to appear on his behalf. Also indicates that he...

GLC07733.01

to Walter S. Field re: asking Field to appear for Roosevelt in suits in Oklahoma

Includes four related letters:
1. Roosevelt letter to Walter S. Field 3/10.1910.
2. La Follette, Robert M. TLS: Washington, D.C., to Theodore Roosevelt. 18 January 1910. 1 p. re: land formerly belonging to Kickapoo Indians.
3. Field, Walter S....

GLC07733.02

to Theodore Roosevelt

because a tract of land was conveyed to him, it is necessary that he make an appearance in order to protect the rights of the Indians.

GLC07733.02.2

to Theodore Roosevelt

his deed of land must be protected so that the Kickapoo are not taken advantage of.

GLC07733.02.3

to Theodore Roosevelt

reiterates need to protect the Indians' interests.

GLC07733.02.4

to R.U. Johnson re: free art amendment to tariff bill

Taft proposes that he will most likely be able to prevent the free art amendment from being altered in committee. He does state, however, that the 20 year proviso might not be as detrimental to the bill as Johnson might think.

GLC07896

to John G. Bourke

"I hate to bring in any question of race origin into our politics, and I want to see us all act simply and purely as Americans."

GLC08001

to Dr. Lyman Abbott

Regarding controversy over black appointments: "Have you noticed that Collier's Weekly attacks me because I have gone too far in my policy of doing justice to the negro while the Evening Post declines to support me because I have not gone far enough...

GLC08002

to R. C. Burrow

Seeks information for the Negro Business League's attempt to document African-Americans who meet Virginia's voting requirements. Explains that "The Negro Business League of Va. is endeavoring to...assist the constitutional convention in deriving at...

GLC08907

Lincoln Said Women Should Vote

Washington woman suffrage poster, featuring Abraham Lincoln's quote, "I go for all sharing the priviledges of government who assist in bearing its burdens, by no means excluding women."

GLC09103

[Photograph of Theodore Roosevelt, Sergei Witte, Roman Romanovich Rosen, Jutaro Komura, and Kogoro Takahira]

One group portrait of President Theodore Roosevelt with foreign diplomats dated August 5, 1905. From left to right, photograph of Count Sergei Witte (Russian diplomat and Minister of Finance), Baron Roman Romanovich Rosen (Russian Ambassador to Japan...

GLC00861.01

to Woodrow Wilson

Telegram is possibly the reply to, or reason for, Wilson's draft letter (GLC00971.01). Letter discusses the Belgians' gratitude for American aid during World War I and their common fight for freedom Transmitted on White House stationery.

GLC00971.02

The Future of the American Negro

Published by Small, Maynard & Company in 1899. Inscribed in 1900 on the inner front cover to Almira Thornton Goff, wife of Lyman B. Goff, an active Republican and head of the Union Wadding Company of Pawtucket, Rhode Island. Includes a photograph...

GLC04297.01

Needs and progress of the Negro

Printed leaflet of an address delivered by Washington at the annual meeting of the American Missionary Association. First page contains the New York address of the Missionary Association and a photograph of Washington. Text indicates that this is...

GLC04297.02

Up from slavery: an autobiography

Published by Doubleday, Page & Company. Signed in Tuskegee, Alabama. Inscribed to George B. Utley, a librarian. Contains articles describing events in Washington's life, including being enslaved in Virginia through his childhood, his struggle to...

GLC04327

[To the editor of the Independent]

Washington, founder and principal of the Tuskegee Institute, expresses appreciation for any reference made within the Independent regarding an upcoming meeting of the Tuskegee Negro Conference, held at the Tuskegee Institute. Does not note the name...

GLC04466.01

[Event at the Union League Club]

One undated sepia-toned photograph of attendees at an event at the Union League Club. Pictured is mostly men seated in rows facing backwards towards the camera. A few women sit in the audience as well. Some empty seats marked "Reserved for members."...

GLC04471.16

to Martin B. Madden

Transmitting the report of the Director of the Budget for the fiscal year ending 30 June 1922, "prepared in response to...House Resolution 285," to an Illinois congressman. Discusses reductions in government costs and expenditures and concludes that...

GLC04678

to Herbert Parsons

Denies charges of undue influence by hand writing "I have no intention of 'forcing' the nomination or of trying to; but that, unless you object, I should like, as a good Republican and party man and a staunch believer...." Envelope is not original...

GLC04930

to Hugh H. Hanna

Discusses an endorsement of his proposed arbitration treaty between the United States and Great Britain. Taft would like the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church to withhold their public endorsement until a specific agreement has been...

GLC04932.01

to Herbert Hoover [Decimalized .01- .02]

Discusses the starvation relief in Europe and Hoover's part in its management. Expresses his support and advises Hoover as to the next steps in food distribution abroad. Discusses rationing. Stamped on page one by the U.S. Food Administration...

GLC00162.13

The anti-slavery papers of James Russell Lowell.

First edition. No. 141 of a Limited edition of 525 copies. Uncut and unopened. Published by Houghton Mifflin and Company.

GLC00267.013

American negro slavery: a survey of the supply, employment and control of negro labor as determined by the plantation regime

Published by D. Appleton and Co, New York, London. Once the definitive and apologetic account of slavery impeding innovation. Phillips was a Professor of American History at the University of Michigan.

GLC00267.084

Slavery as an industrial system; ethnological researches, by Dr. H. J. Nieboer

Second edition. Geared towards world-wide survey of slavery. Published by Martinus Nijhoff, the Hague.

GLC00267.086

Taft Denounces Lynching, Tells Afro-American Audience it is Cowardly Murder. President Advocates the Rope for Lynchers

The pamphlet announces that President Taft was endorsed by a conference that convened on the issue of race. The conference marked the inaugural meeting of "The National League of Negroes" and a committee on resolutions was formed. The pamphlet lists...

GLC09588

to Mrs. A.W. Hopkins

Writes to his mother about moving to another city where he is working on drainage, water and light systems, roads, and buildings. Discusses daily life and the weather. Promotion to corporal inferred from signature. Written at Camp d'Auvours.

GLC07810.049

to Helen Lyons

Writes to his wife about the possibility of his returning home in a few weeks. Fears that his daughter will not recognize him when he returns. Mentions taking classes on agriculture and machination. Discusses the slow and intermittent mail service...

GLC07810.072

to Oscar King Davis

"I am pretty well disgusted with our government ... in a democracy like ours people will always do well or ill largely in proportion to their leadership. If Lincoln had acted after the firing on Fort Sumter in the way that Wilson did about the...

GLC08003

An Appeal to the colored voters of Hart County [with Clabe Garvin]

Issued by 2 black men (Wood and Clabe Garvin) from Bowling Green, Ky., who claimed to be falsely imprisoned because they refused to vote for a klansman. Unevenly inked.

GLC07018

Archive of Neta Snook [Southern] [Decimalized .01- .08]

The archive includes a letter written by Amelia Earhart, two personal diaries, a signed copy of Snook Southern's book "I Taught Amelia to Fly", photographs, airplane blueprints, personal papers.

GLC07243

Diary of Neta Snook [Southern]

The bulk of the diary documents Snook's experiences as a pilot between 1917 and 1920 when she was a student at the Davenport and Curtiss Schools of Aviation. Includes various formulas and notations on engineering and aerodynamics. In addition...

GLC07243.002

[Papers of Neta Snook Southern]

The earlier papers include a newspaper clipping advertising Snook's flight instruction and a short note most likely written by Neta Snook to her mother. There is correspondence regarding Snook's publication, photocopies of letters written by Amelia...

GLC07243.004

[Photograph of Neta Snook with airplane]

Image of Neta Snook as a young woman in flight clothing.

GLC07243.006.03

[Photographs of Neta Snook and others]

The photographs are mounted on a black photo album page on both sides. The recto has five photographs containing images of Neta Snook with her dog Cam, Snook's Canuck airplane, and possibly employees of Goodyear field in Ames, Iowa. The verso of...

GLC07243.006.04

[Photographs of Neta Snook and unknown man]

Image of Neta Snook holding a bouquet of sunflowers accompanied by an unknown man.

GLC07243.006.05

[Curtiss airplane blueprints]

A collection of blueprints detailing the parts of a Curtiss Jenny airplane; the type of airplane flown by Neta Snook. The blueprints come from the David D. Hatfield Aviation Collection.

GLC07243.007

William Jay and the Constitutional movement for the abolition of slavery.

Written by Bayard Tuckerman. With preface written by John Jay, grandson of John and son of William Jay. Printed by Dodd, Mead & Company. Jay inscribes to the Honorable William Allen Butler, an author, lawyer, and poet.

GLC07440

to Mr. C.D. Blackhall

Garrison Jr., the son of the abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, thanks Blackhall for the copy of Reverend L. M. Powers discourse, "The Spiritual Needs of the Universalist Church." Offers a different title for the piece, "A plan for the Church...

GLC07483.08

to Timothy L. Woodruff

Writes to Lieutenant Governor Woodruff of New York regarding political reform and democracy. As a candidate for president, he stresses the right of people to rule themselves. In the 1912 presidential election Roosevelt ran and lost under the...

GLC02372

[Print of pen and ink drawing of Uncle Sam]

Depicts Uncle Sam sitting at a table holding a container with three things written on it; "Income tax bacilli, whiskey, sugar." There is a dollar sign on the folds of the tablecloth.

GLC08879.01.11

to Walter Harris

Replies to Harris letter, written and signed 1 March 1904, inquiring if Cleveland "entertained a negro, C.H.J. Taylor, of Kansas, at dinner" at the White House during his presidency. He heard the information in a speech given on the floor of the...

GLC08931

[Resignation as the Director and President of the Freedom Manufacturing Company]

Addressed to the companies Board of Directors. Accompanied by an (unrelated) engraving of Douglass by Augustus Robin of New York (see GLC08948.02).

GLC08948.01

Women in the home

Argues that a woman's place may be in the home, but that she can perform these domestic duties much better if allowed the vote, since she will have greater control outside events that influence her housekeeping, such as public health and clean food....

GLC08964

Colored Voters Read

One broadside entitled, "Colored Voters Read," dated 1894 printed by Georgia's Democratic Party. Asks the question, "What Evidence have the Negroes of this State that Schools will be provided for their Children in case the Third Party gets into...

GLC09000

Dixie Editors Fear Dry Force Bill Will Lead to Negro Controls in South; Destroys States Rights

Prohibition broadside railing against the prospect of prohibition, because it opens the door to northern infringement upon southern whites. "[The fourteenth] amendment gives to Congress the power to force upon the South a vote for the negro - and a...

GLC09079

to the Senate and the House

Inflation and the cost of living. "How far the system of cooperative organization which flourishes in various European countries may be adapted to our highly organized and individualistic social organization may perhaps only be determined by...

GLC09098

Eighth Illinois Regiment Now in France [half tone printed reproduction]

Black troops active in Europe during WWI. Two slightly different printed versions of the same photograph, one trimmed, and the other printed with a slightly grainer half-tone screen.

GLC07593

to James C. Parrish re: raising funds

For venture to separate phosphorous via magnetic process.

GLC07616.02

Poem to Miss Jenkins, "What's the Social Tree"

A poem: "What's the social tree...and the tree like an Irish nurse".

GLC07616.03

The most famous inventor of the age, Thomas A. Edison in his laboratory

Stereocard of Edison in his laboratory. Biographical sketch of Edison is printed on verso.

GLC07616.08

Five rare kinetososcope (moving pictures) still photos

The still photos are: #1 "The Terrible Kids" (scene 9) 10.5 x 13.2 cm, "A Dumb Hero" (scene 5) 12.5 x 15.0, "Bridal Couple dodging cameras" (scene 5) 13.2 x 15.7, "A Race for Millions" (scene 4) 13.1 x 15.7, "Tale the Autumn Leaves Told" (scene 5) 13...

GLC07616.09

The terrible kids (scene 9)

With Library of Congress copyright stamp on verso, noting date received and copyright number assigned.

GLC07616.09.01

A dumb hero (scene 5)

With Library of Congress copyright stamp on verso, noting date received and copyright number assigned.

GLC07616.09.02