1900 circa

Ward, John Quincy Adams, 1830-1910

Sketch

Title: [Rough sketch of New York Stock Exchange Pediment]

Graphite; wove paper.

GLC06343.040

1901/12/30

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Typed letter signed

Title: to Curtis Guild Jr. re: "Tavern Quatrain" and disappointment with Crane

Typed on White House Stationery.

GLC04675.27

1916/12/24

Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930

Typed letter signed

Title: to Robert J. Harlan re: declining to write about patronage

Written on personal stationery. Hardlan was auditor for the Navy in the Treasury Department. Taft responds briefly, in a businesslike letter, "I have uniformly declined to write to members of this administration on subjects of patronage."

GLC04675.28

1903/06/22

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Typed letter signed

Title: to Charles Emory Smith re: responsibility of leadership to take chances in crisis

Also discusses the inevitability of irregularities occurring and rooting out scandal. Noted "Private" at top.

GLC06616

1907/11/26

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Typed letter signed

Title: 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 and four page of a folded sheet of paper.

GLC06331.01

1907/04/06

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Typed letter signed

Title: to Benjamin I. Wheeler

"It was... a grizzly situation."

GLC06331.02

1908/10/26

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Typed letter signed

Title: to Benjamin I. Wheeler re: still a westerner

"Yes I am still enough of a westerner still to thoro[u]ghly like that address...."

GLC06331.03

1911/05/19

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Typed letter signed

Title: to Charles C. Duryee re: preventing crime

"We ought to do much more than is now done towards the abolition of the conditions that tend to breed crime." On "Outlook" stationery, with 6 words added by T.R. on p. 2.

GLC06463

19[0]2

Underwood & Underwood, fl. 1888-1930

Photograph

Title: President Roosevelt on the Speaker's Stand

Picture is taken from the side of the stand, showing a pitcher of water and a table with a vase of flowers and a top hat in the foreground. In the middle ground, Roosevelt exchanges a word with an associate. A large crowd fills the background; some stand in front of the podium, while some lean from windows or from the tops of telegraph poles.

GLC06449.36

1902/02/24

Strohmeyer & Wyman

Photograph

Title: 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

1901/03/04

Underwood & Underwood, fl. 1888-1930

Photograph

Title: The Supreme Moment - Chief Justice Fuller administering the Oath of Office to President William McKinley

The photograph shows the podium in the middle distance and from a slight angle. McKinley occupies the exact center of the shot.

GLC06449.14

1910 ca.

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Signature

Title: Signed White House card

Printed card signed by "Theodore Roosevelt" undated.

GLC03663.04

1929/03/04

Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964

Typed document signed

Title: Inaugural Address of President Herbert Hoover

Takes the opportunity to express "simply and directly" his "opinions...on matters of present importance." Discusses national progress, especially since World War I; the failures of the criminal justice system and his general strategy to "reestablish the vigor and effectiveness of law enforcement"; the need to enforce prohibition; his plan to "appoint a national commission" to investigate "the whole structure of our Federal system of jurisprudence"; the relationship between government business as a regulator, not an owner; the need for government to promote business cooperation and…

GLC05612

1916/12/20

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Typed letter signed

Title: to Frederick Bowen

"The people of this Country have seen [William Jennings] Bryan in high office. If...they make him President of this Country, they will give us four years of incompetence and corruption without a single redeeming feature."

GLC07708

1912/04/15 ca.

Dodge, Washington, 1859-1919

Autograph manuscript signed

Title: 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 stern of the vessel...about 70 feet above water.... [I] returned to my stateroom...[h]aving been told there was no danger."

GLC07640

1915/11/08

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Typed letter signed

Title: to Henry A. W. Wood re: a speech by President Wilson

GLC07756

1912/07/12

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Typed document

Title: Significant portion of "Armageddon"

Typed manuscript with autograph corrections.

GLC07790

1900/12/01

Horsfall, Charles G., fl. 1900-1910

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Owen Horsfall

He describes his daily morning chores. There was ice on the beach 10-15 feet high that morning. He would give $50,000.00 if he had it to be able to spend Thanksgiving at home with his family.

GLC05245.06

1900/12/10

Horsfall, Charles G., fl. 1900-1910

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Owen Horsfall

Writes to his son that at times he becomes discouraged not knowing what the coming season will bring. The days are short, the sun rises at 9:30 am and sets at 1:45 pm. "The camp is quite civilized this winter compared to last…" The Editor of the "Nome News" stated that this Thanksgiving there was turkey and mince pies, and last Thanksgiving there was beans and rice. This year there were dress suits and "decollette dresses" at a dance, and last year there were overalls and parkas. There is a school there with 2 teachers and 50 pupils.

GLC05245.07

1901/01/21-1901/1/22

Horsfall, Charles G., fl. 1900-1910

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Owen Horsfall

Wants his family to spend the winter with him after they find land. Feels he has to make up for his past drinking and gambling, and states, "All my best endeavors for the rest of my life shall be put forward to atone for my neglect during the past year and a half." Describes himself as a "broken reed" and hopes his son doesn't turn out like him.

GLC05245.08

1901/03/03

Horsfall, Charles G., fl. 1900-1910

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Owen Horsfall

Describes doctoring Pearson for badly frozen toes, wrists, and cheeks,using carbonized water and vaseline. Complains about the long winter. "March has come in like a lamb and will probably go out like the proverbial lion."

GLC05245.09

1901/07/10

Horsfall, Charles G., fl. 1900-1910

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Owen Horsfall

He's leaving camp for the hills for a few months. His hair is turning white, he says he's "not cut out for a miner or prospector especially to commence it so late in life." See GLC05245.11 for a note that was included with this letter.

GLC05245.10

1901/07/10

Horsfall, Charles G., fl. 1900-1910

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Owen Horsfall

A list of words which Owen spelled wrong on his last letter, the corrections, and a note that Charles is sending a book of views under a separate cover. Written on a report form from the Alaska Gold Mining Company. (See GLC 5245.10 for the letter this accompanied).

GLC05245.11

1901/09/03

Horsfall, Charles G., fl. 1900-1910

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Owen Horsfall

He started out on a prospecting trip and went as far as Teller, but returned to his cabin because, "his chicken had enough of prospecting in such beastly weather." When he returned home he found his cabin had been broken into, and all of his clothes, blankets, and canned foods were stolen. He wants Owen to send him some more clothes

GLC05245.12

1901/10/27

Horsfall, Charles G., fl. 1900-1910

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Owen Horsfall

As he writes, he hears "the sound of Sirrash kids enjoying themselves on the ice covered river." He lost two dogs and now only has nine. He's going to apply to construct a bridge across the Nome River.

GLC05245.13