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1900-1910

Horsfall, Charles G. (fl. 1900-1910)

Header Record

Title: Collection of letters of Charles Horsfall [decimalized .01-.53]. [various places]

Writes to his children and wife about Klondike gold fields, mining, life in Alaska, Mormons, and the 1906 election. Horsfall was a Mormon.

GLC05245

1900-1920

Unknown

Document

Title: [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

1901

Unknown

Object

Title: [Cut out the Whiskey & Ax of all Nations, 1901].

Title from object. A small metal "axe" with a loop for hanging, depicting temperance fighter Carrie Nation's caricature on "blade" of the axe. The messages are printed in various directions on the axe. The verso has an advertisement: "Buy Laurel Stoves & Rances Art Stove Co., Detroit, Mich."

GLC06365

1901

Kletzing, Henry F. (b. 1850)

Book

Title: 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-authored by William Henry Crogman, a professor at Clark University in Atlanta, Georgia. Includes an introduction by Booker T.

GLC06126.01

1901/03/04

Underwood & Underwood

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

[1901/06 ca.]

Typed document

Title: "For the Pan American-Exposition". Re: Names and addresses of contributors of art, pottery, and other various items to the exposition.

"Burnt & Carved Wood"

GLC06343.324

1901/06/01

Typed document

Title: "Sculpture Proposed in Connection with Electric Tower Pan-American Exposition of 1901, Buffalo, N.Y." [Carbon Copy]

A detailed proposal with a justification and a cost-breakdown analysis.

GLC06343.316

1901/06/01

Typed document

Title: "Sculpture Proposed in Connection with Esplanade (right wing) Pan-American Exposition of 1901, Buffalo, N.Y." [Carbon Copy]

A detailed proposal with a justification and a cost-breakdown analysis.

GLC06343.317

1901/06/01

Typed document

Title: "Sculpture Proposed in Connection with Esplanade (left wing) Pan-American Exposition of 1901, Buffalo, N.Y." [Carbon Copy]

A detailed proposal with a justification and a cost-breakdown analysis. Includes strike outs, additions, and corrections.

GLC06343.318

1901/06/01

Typed document

Title: "Sculpture Proposed in Connection with Court of Fountains Pan-American Exposition of 1901, Buffalo, N.Y." [Carbon Copy]

A detailed proposal with a justification and a cost-breakdown analysis. Includes strike outs, additions, and corrections.

GLC06343.319

1901/06/01

Typed document

Title: "Sculpture Proposed in Connection with Bridge Pan-American Exposition of 1901, Buffalo, N.Y." [Carbon Copy]

A detailed proposal with a justification and a cost-breakdown analysis. Includes additions and corrections.

GLC06343.320

1901/06/01

Typed document

Title: "Sculpture Proposed in Connection with Ethnological Building Pan-American Exposition of 1901, Buffalo, N.Y." [Carbon Copy]

A detailed proposal with a justification and a cost-breakdown analysis.

GLC06343.321

1901/06/01

Typed document

Title: "Sculpture Proposed in Connection with Temple of Music Pan-American Exposition of 1901, Buffalo, N.Y." [Carbon Copy]

A detailed proposal with a justification and a cost-breakdown analysis. Includes strike outs, additions, and corrections.

GLC06343.322

22 June 1901

Jackson, Giles B. (b. 1853?)

Typed letter signed

Title: 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 a just and proper solution of the Negro problem in its deliberation." Asks Burrow, the Commissioner of Revenue of Virginia, for the names and addresses of all black businessmen in Virginia, and approximately how much they pay to the state in taxes and deeds.

GLC08907

22 August 1901

Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)

Typed letter signed

Title: 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 attended Columbia University. Declares "I always have a profound sympathy with the Colored man of education, for such a man has so few opportunities that it does seem that the hand of Providence was especially heavy upon him." Typed on Vice President's Chamber stationery.

GLC00529.08

1901/08/22

Unknown

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Gerry re: railroad investments

The letter discusses some confidential plans for rail road investments.

GLC03107.04179

26 September 1901

Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)

Typed letter signed

Title: 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 considering for Secretary of Puerto Rico, a position referred to in the letter as the "Secretary of State." He explains that "in asking you for your opinion I am sure I am doing precisely as the late President intended to do.

GLC05803

28 October 1901

Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)

Typed letter signed

Title: to Gen. Curtis Guild

Signed as President. Roosevelt writes that his "Southern policy" is to "take the best man white or black."

GLC02793.054

7 November 1901

Anthony, Susan B. (1820-1906)

Autograph manuscript signed

Title: A signed and dated one page statement of the current state of her work for equal rights for women

Anthony states: "The one purpose of my life has been the establishment of perfect equality of rights for women...civil and political-industrial and educational."

GLC07337

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Unknown

Photograph

Title: President Roosevelt

Portrait of a seated Theodore Roosevelt. Published by Henry in Washington D.C. during his presidency. Originally with a letter by Theodore Roosevelt addressed to Herbert Hoover (see GLC00162.13).

GLC00162.13.02

1902

Lowell, James Russell (1819-1891)

Book

Title: 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

1902

Underwood & Underwood

Photograph

Title: "The old American theory - treat each man on his own worth as a man" - President Roosevelt, Old

Roosevelt is shown 3/4 back speaking from a railroad car. A very large crowd surrounds him, including several men who have climbed a telegraph pole and a number of people gathered on a roof in the background of the picture.

GLC06449.23

1902

Underwood & Underwood

Photograph

Title: "Remember, the Monroe Doctrine will be respected as long as we have a first-class Navy" - President Roosevelt

Roosevelt, in the background, speaks from a podium decorated with flags and surmounted by a large eagle in front of a white clapboard building. He faces front. A large audience faces him; their hats occupy the picture's foreground.

GLC06449.25

1902

Underwood & Underwood

Photograph

Title: "We will win, not by following the easy, but the right course" - President Roosevelt

In the background, President Roosevelt speaks from a railroad car, facing 3/4 right front. A large audience surrounds him, completely occupying the fore and middle ground. A banner - festooned station takes up the right half of the background.

GLC06449.26

1902

Underwood & Underwood

Photograph

Title: The great crowd intently listening to President Roosevelt's now famous "Trust" speech

A mass of people standing behind a wooden fence. A woman and two children figure in the front row; the crowd appears relaxed and interested, and several people are smiling.

GLC06449.27

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