Roosevelt, Franklin D. Typed letter signed discussing public health and development issues in Warm Springs, Georgia, dated September 7, 1929. Written during Roosevelt’s tenure as Governor of New York, the correspondence addresses local concerns in Meriwether County including malaria control, road improvements, and the economic development of Warm Springs as.....
Roosevelt, Franklin D. Typed Letter Signed, November 6, 1930, documents his leadership in a statewide fundraising campaign for impoverished and malnourished children in Puerto Rico during the first phase of the Great Depression. Written from Albany while serving as Governor of New York, the letter addresses Darwin P. Kingsley, President.....
[Lincoln, Abraham]. [African Troops] Scarce U.S. Senate executive document transmitting a message from Abraham Lincoln and accompanying State Department correspondence concerning the French deployment of Black troops to Mexico during the American Civil War. Issued by the 37th Congress (3rd Session) in February 1863, the report reflects the convergence of.....
Reagan, Ronald. Letter to longtime acquaintance written during the early phase of his national political emergence following the 1964 presidential campaign. Ronald Reagan, later the 40th President of the United States, gained national political prominence after delivering a widely broadcast speech supporting Barry Goldwater during the 1964 presidential election. The.....
Lincoln, Abraham. Late Civil War portrait of Abraham Lincoln derived from a February 1865 photograph taken during the final months of the American Civil War. The image records Lincoln near the conclusion of the conflict that preserved the Union and ended legal slavery in the United States. Created shortly before.....
Ford, Gerald R. Richard Nixon Pardon Proclamation. September 8, 1974. Gerald R. Ford signed text of the presidential proclamation granting a full pardon to former President Richard Nixon, issued weeks after Nixon’s resignation during the Watergate crisis. The document records Ford’s constitutional use of executive clemency at a moment when.....
Taft, William Howard. Typed letter signed, March 11, 1918, documenting the leadership and international coordination of the American Red Cross during World War I, written to United States Ambassador to France William G. Sharp. Composed while Taft served as Chairman of the American Red Cross following his presidency, the letter.....
Two way telegram exchange reporting early news of the shooting of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. The document records a live transatlantic communication between a passenger aboard a French Line ship at sea and a correspondent in the United States during the first hours after the assassination.....
John F. Kennedy funeral photograph archive, November 1963, documents the state funeral of the United States president at a moment of Cold War tension and global political visibility. Produced three days after Kennedy’s assassination, the images record the ceremonial procession and the unprecedented international presence of political leaders, including Lyndon.....
Jules Feiffer Satirical political comic strips on Vietnam, Watergate, Black Power, Attica, Angela Davis, and Richard Nixon contained in a large scrapbook. Many clipped newspaper strips carrying pencil dates from the late 1960s into 1973. The selections concentrate on public language under pressure: a Vietnam policy strip warns that China.....
Grant, Ulysses S. ferrotype campaign token, 1868, documents the translation of Civil War military leadership into electoral authority during the first presidential contest of the Reconstruction era. Produced for Grant’s successful presidential campaign, the token situates the former commanding general of Union forces within a rapidly expanding culture of political.....
Clinton, Bill. Typed letter signed as President, October 15, 1998, documents direct communication between the 42nd President of the United States and Reverend Stan Easty, a North Carolina minister identified as a close personal confidant and spiritual advisor during the political crisis surrounding the Monica Lewinsky scandal. Written during the.....
McBride, Henry. Florine Stettheimer Exhibition Catalog, 1946, documents the critical reception of a modern American artist whose work intersected with progressive political and cultural circles closely associated with Eleanor Roosevelt. Stettheimer’s paintings, including Cathedrals of Wall Street (1939), engaged themes of social life, economic power, and public identity, often incorporating.....
Ford, Gerald R. “President Gerald Ford Speech Pardoning Richard Nixon,” September 8, 1974, issued one month after the resignation of Richard Nixon, constitutes the formal executive action that terminated federal criminal exposure arising from the Watergate scandal and redefined the limits of presidential accountability. Delivered during the immediate post-resignation crisis.....
Gus Hall and Communist Party USA political archive, 1960 to 1972, tracing Hall’s return to public party leadership after his imprisonment, his participation in the international communist movement, and the CPUSA’s 1970s program of antiwar mobilization, Black liberation, labor organization, and electoral campaigning. Hall served as the party’s general secretary.....
Signed Photograph of President Truman being administered the Oath of Office by Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson on 20 January 1949, signed and inscribed "To Claude Harkins From: Harry S. Truman," n.p., n.d. 8"x10". The photo is an official U.S. Army photo; stamped information on the verso is headed "Inauguration.....
Expansive American firearms periodical archive, 1940 to the early 2000s, comprising 35 issues that document the changing culture and politics of gun ownership from collecting and technical study through wartime marksmanship, post-1968 legislative debate, and organized California gun-rights advocacy. The archive includes World War II-era articles connecting civilian marksmanship to.....
Women Voters Vote Against Wilson He Opposes National Woman Suffrage, 1916, a political broadside issued by the National Woman’s Party during the presidential election campaign urging enfranchised women in western states to leverage their ballots in support of a federal suffrage amendment. Addressed to the approximately four million women who.....
Roosevelt, Eleanor typed letter signed, dated May 22, 1952, records Eleanor Roosevelt’s continuing public correspondence during her final year as a United States delegate to the United Nations, supporting research into women’s diplomatic leadership, postwar human rights work, and the public responsibilities she carried after the White House. Roosevelt had.....
Nixon, Richard M. typed letter signed, 1991, is a post-presidential document connecting Nixon’s public intellectual life after the White House to the Alger Hiss case, the Cold War controversy that helped establish his national political identity. Written to Honorable William Hyland, the letter shows Nixon still using private correspondence to.....
Lincoln, Abraham, Union Presidential Ticket, November 8, 1864, documents Civil War electoral mobilization through a printed county ballot listing national, state, and local Union candidates during the only United States presidential election held while the nation was actively at war with itself. The ticket records the Union Party electoral system.....
Mills, Clark. Abraham Lincoln life mask, originally taken in February 1865, two months before the president's death. Mills' was the second and last life mask taken of Lincoln, preserving his features directly from life rather than through later artistic interpretation. The cast is often compared to Leonard Volk's cast, taken.....
Bancroft, George. Memorial Address on the Life and Character of Abraham Lincoln, 1866, records one of the formal national acts of commemoration for Abraham Lincoln less than a year after his assassination. Delivered at the request of both houses of Congress, the address places Lincoln’s life within the Civil War.....
Ford, Gerald R. Pardon of Richard Nixon. 1974. This document records the exercise of presidential pardon power at the conclusion of the Watergate crisis, when Gerald Ford granted Richard Nixon a full and unconditional pardon following his resignation from office. Issued one month after Nixon’s August 9, 1974 resignation, the.....
[Photo Archive] Mao Zedong. Chinese communist revolutionary Leader. 3 original Gelatin silver print black and white press photos of various sizes from 5 x 6.5 in. to 8 x 10 in. Images date from 1966-1977. Including a photograph of US President Richard Nixon on his historic 1972 state visit to.....
