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7 December 1915

Taft, William H. (1857-1930)

Typed letter signed

Title: to Howell Cheney

Letter regarding raising money for the war effort. Typed on personal stationery.

GLC02203.01

14 December 1915

Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924)

Typed letter signed

Title: to R. Fulton Cutting

Asks Cutting to join Herbert Hoover's enlarged Commission for the Relief of Belgium during World War I.

GLC02339

1916

Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)

Book signed

Title: Fear God and take your own part

Inscribed to Russell A. Bowen, dated 3 April 1916; also inscribed by William R. Thayer, one of Roosevelt's earliest biographers, dated 12 September 1919. The book is an anti-Wilson and anti-Imperial Germany diatribe. With original dust-jacket.

GLC04683

1916

Keystone View Company

Stereocard

Title: Tatoi Trenches in the Croisettes Wood Showing Officers in Consultation Just Half an Hour Before the Attack on the Somme Line.

A group of officers discusses military plans shortly before carrying out the first attack of the Battle of the Somme on July 1, 1916.

GLC09584.083

June 1916

Unknown

Poem

Title: Le Mie Prigoni [German] , The Ideal Poland, The Epitaph and Appel a La France [French]

Ideal Poem written for the Princess Maria-Sorgueevan Troubetskoy. A Fullness of Unspent Passion/And Passing the Love of a a Woman/A A Glory on Faces Ashen/A Pain Which is Scarcely Human.

GLC02766.064

18 June 1916

Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1882-1945)

Typed letter signed

Title: to Jose E. Pidgeon

On Navy Dept. stationery, as Assistant Sec. of the Navy. FDR writes that he is unable to supply service records for Marine Harold E. Starrett (since he is on active duty) and suggests contacting his naval base in Haiti.

GLC04675.33

27 August 1916

Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Miss Treadwell

On his Sagamore Hill letterhead, Roosevelt thanks Treadwell for her letter to him and his wife. Written from, or just after a trip to France during World War I: "your letter brings vividly before my eyes the terrible suffering and high heroism of France, and the joy in service felt by you and the men and women like you.

GLC01518

November 29, 1916

Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)

Typed letter signed

Title: to E. J. Julian

Thanks for letter, alludes to "too-proud-to-fight." Cryptic references to Julian's attitudes (which Roosevelt doesn't agree with) and the former's raising his children with a "too-proud-to-fight" attitude. Typed on Metropolitan Magazine stationery with punctuation corrections by Theodore Roosevelt. Header is Metropolitan/The Livest Magazine in America/432 Fourth Avenue, New York. Sub-header is Office of Theodore Roosevelt. Stationery watermarked, possibly "Interboro." One bust engraving of Theodore Roosevelt included.

GLC00118.05

1916/12/05

Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924)

Typed letter signed

Title: to Bella W. Swope re: running for a second term

Signed as President on White House stationery. WW notes that "I look forward to the next four years with something of a sinking heart...."

GLC02793.067

circa 1917

Martin, Vve. Vigier (fl. 1917)

Autograph letter signed

Title: to unknown

Thanks an American for his generosity after the death of her husband during the Battle of Verdun. Describes the hardships of a war widow and her orphaned children while praising the Americans and the hope they bring.

GLC07810.080

1917

Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924)

Book signed

Title: Why We are at War. Messages to Congress January to April, 1917

Signed in front endpaper. Content surrounding America's entry into World War I. Deckle edges.

GLC02186

circa 1917

Jones, J. C. (fl. 1917)

Printed document

Title: An act providing for the return of pension warrants where the pensioner dies during the quarter for which the warrant was issued...

... (title continues) the cancellation of the same, and the issuance of a Mortuary Warrant to pay the funeral expenses of the deceased pensioner, etc., and declaring an emergency. Enacted by the Texas State Legislature. Authorized by J. C. Jones, Commissioner of Pensions for Texas. Indicates that this act takes effect 1 April 1917.

GLC02386.03

[1917 circa]

United States Food Administration.

Poster

Title: Food will win the war

Color poster by Charles E. Chambers of people standing on a boat or shoreline at New York Harbor. They appear to be European immigrants. In the foreground, a man appears to be pleading with a woman holding a basket of food. In the background can be seen part of a large ship, the Statue of Liberty, and a rainbow stretching across the New York skyline. A man waves his cap in that direction.

GLC09522

circa 1917

The H.C. Miner Litho. Co

Poster

Title: The Navy needs you! Don't read American history - Make it!

Poster by Flagg, James Montgomery (1870-1960) showing a sailor taking a man in a suit by the shoulder, and gesturing toward battleships at sea and a figure of Liberty waving the American flag.

GLC09523

1917

Keystone View Company

Stereocard

Title: Strong Concrete German Position and Victims after the Battle of Menin Road

Dead German soldiers lie behind the damaged fortification of a trench in Flanders, Belgium at the Battle of Menin Road.

GLC09584.038

1917

Keystone View Company

Stereocard

Title: British Soldiers Gleaning in the Fields of War, Menin Road.

A British soldier uses a long plank to move a piece of wood aside on a ravaged battlefield at Menin Road, likely to pick up a valuable left behind by a fallen German.

GLC09584.039

1917

Keystone View Company

Stereocard

Title: "Down in a Shell Crater, We Fought Like Kilkeeny Cats"--Battle of Cambrai.

Four German soldiers in a trench at the end of the Battle of Cambrai. In the background is the ruins of a tank, which were used for the first time on a large scale during this battle.

GLC09584.045

1917

Keystone View Company

Stereocard

Title: Thousands Marching, Thousands Watching! Our National Army, Chicago, Aug. 4, 1917

Members of the American army march through the streets of Chicago as crowds cheer on the sidewalk just after the United States entered the war.

GLC09584.195

1917

American Lithographic Co.

Poster

Title: "The Child at Your Door"

One poster entitled, "The Child at Your Door." Refers to a campaign to raise $30 million for 400,000 orphans from Armenia, Greece, Syria and Persia organized by the American Committee Relief in the Near East. Illustration on poster consists of a pencil drawing of a young child with her hair covered staring at the viewer.

GLC09808.01

1917

American Lithographic Co.

Poster

Title: "Whose Limit Is All That He Can "

One poster entitled, "Whose Limit Is All That He Can." Text contains a poem attributed to "Observer R.F.C." Displays the difficulty for pilots fighting in France. Suggests that buying bonds will aid the cause during World War I. Illustration is of a French fighter plane shooting down a German fighter.

GLC09808.02

1917

Liberty Loan Committee

Poster

Title: "Die Siegesfreiheitsanleheihe"

One poster entitled, "Die Siegesfreiheitsanleheihe." Text refers to past German attacks on the English and Americans, with graphic description of the sinking of the Lusitania. Illustration is of a Skull with a bloody saber held through its teeth, adorned with a Prussian helmet while a scene of destruction is depicted in the background.

GLC09808.03

1917

Liberty Loan Committee

Poster

Title: "Home At Last From Overseas!"

One poster entitled, "Home At Last From Overseas!" Text refers to printed image of a soldier embracing his mother. States that investment in a $200 victory loan will allow soldiers to return home.

GLC09808.04

1917

Liberty Loan Committee

Poster

Title: "A vision of Private Kutschkes of the German National Guard = Traumgebild des deutschen Landwehrmanns Kutschke!"

One poster entitled, "A vision of Private Kutschkes of the German National Guard = Traumgebild des deutschen Landwehrmanns Kutschke!" Advertisement for Liberty Bonds contains maps of the German empire in English and in German. Text likens the Kaiser to Napoleon Bonaparte.

GLC09808.05

1917

King, William B. (1880-1927)

Poster

Title: "Lest They Perish"

One poster entitled, "Lest They Perish," pertaining to a campaign organized by American Committee for Relief in the Near East. The organization was meant to raise $30 million for refugees displaced by the Ottoman Empire during World War I. Image depicts a woman with her baby wrapped to her back surrounded by rubble.

GLC09809.02

circa 1917-1918

Virginia, (fl. 1917-1918)

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Ross D. Schleigh

One letter from Virginia to Ross D. Schleigh dated circa 1917-1918.

GLC09889.09

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