The Progressive Era and World War I (1890-1919)

The Progressive Era and World War I (1890-1919)

Highlights

  • Major General John Hilldring’s archive of more than 1400 items contains materials relating to his service in World War I and World War II and his position as assistant secretary of state.
  • Hundreds of women’s suffrage and anti-women’s suffrage materials including signed documents by Susan B. Anthony, pro-suffrage literature and ephemera, and a two-volume bound compilation of 94 anti-suffrage pamphlets and leaflets
  • Collections of 129 letters concerning the Alaska gold rush
  • More than 50 stereoview photographs of Roosevelt giving speeches, campaigning, the Rough Riders, and the Spanish-American War, some images captioned with portions of his political speeches
  • A diary of Army nurse Ella Osborn is among more than 40 World War I documents.
  • A collection of 40 photographs of American Indians, ceremonies, councils, and Little Big Horn
  • More than 20 letters from William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody, Theodore Roosevelt, European military leaders, and a TMS of John J. “Blackjack” Pershing on American Indian contributions to war victory.
  • More than 20 items, including books, pamphlets, newspaper issues, stereocards, and postcards, relating to Booker T. Washington or the Tuskegee Institute
  • One magazine entitled The New Citizen published in January 1914 dedicated to the women's suffrage movement