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03 July 1914
Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924)
Pardon of Albert Holtzman of West Virginia for white slavery and kidnapping women for the purpose of prostitution.
Partly printed document. (c/s J.C.McReynolds [Attorney General])
GLC00045.39
August 21, 1918
to Helen H. Gardener
Expresses his distress at her being hospitalized. Explains that his distress arises mostly from her inability to continue to do her fine work. He also offers his assistance in helping her attain her goal. Typed on White House stationery in green...
GLC00118.07
06 June 1927
Coolidge, Calvin (1872-1933)
[Presidential pardon to restore Robert E. Hicks' civil rights, convicted 29 May 1903 of mailing abortion-related materials and sentenced to 10 months]
Hicks was convicted of sending "unmailable matter" (i.e., abortion materials, possibly a violation of the Comstock Law) through the mail by the U.S. District Court of Southern New York. He was sentenced to ten months in Kings County Penitentiary...
GLC00230.02
14 July 1915
[Presidential commutation for Robert E. Hicks, convicted of placing abortion related materials in the mail on 29 May 1903 and sentenced to ten months]
Convicted for violation of Section 3893 of the Revised Statutes (possibly in reference to the Comstock Law). While on bond Hicks fled to Europe, where he remained a fugitive until 10 July 1915, when he surrendered to the court. Commuted by Wilson...
GLC00230.06
26 March 1918
Harding, Warren G. (1865-1923)
Quit claim deed
Cosigned by Harding's wife Florence. Countersigned by Charles F. Pace and Eugene Colwell as witnesses. Pace signs twice as Notary Public of the United States Senate. Also signed by Auditor Harry E. Mason, citing the 6 April 1918 transfer of this...
GLC00477.04
9 April 1905
Barton, Clara (1821-1912)
to Mrs. Hunt
Regarding the health of Hunt's family: her dying sister, her brother, Sam who has been recovering from an operation, and Ida.
GLC00496.010
October 1905
Hewitt, Arthur (fl. 1904-1905)
"Mrs. Theo. Roosevelt and two sons."
Shows Edith Roosevelt with sons Quentin and Archie. Image mounted on cloth with completed publication form affixed to reverse. Copyright by Arthur Hewitt.
GLC07002.82
1917/01/25
to Carrie C. Catt re: women's suffrage
President Wilson expresses solidarity with the woman's suffrage movement. "I have a very real interest in the extension of the suffrage to the women, and I feel that every step in this direction should be applauded." Catt headed the influential...
GLC07144
22 December 1923
Taft, William H. (1857-1930)
to Gertrude Ely
Notes that he shares Ely's "impatience and amusement" with the Molly Pitcher Club. Discusses attempts to alter the Volstead law and his personal opposition to prohibition. But because of his belief in popular government he must respect the law....
GLC07319
27 August 1916
Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)
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...
GLC01518
6 July 1900
Jeffery, Annie (fl. 1890-1900)
to [Edward R. Archer]
Discusses the current heat wave in Richmond, expresses desire to have been with Archer at Westminster Abbey, improving health of Aaron and Maimie Jeffery's baby boy, and news of the family and friends, including Mamie Lacy's successful surgery.
GLC01896.134
6 May 1903
Johnston, Witter H. (fl. 1861-1864)
[Deed]
Partially printed deed. Land agreement between W.H. Johnston and n and Mary Sorenson. He is giving up land in Iowa.
GLC02167.56
1910
Lincoln Said Women Should Vote
Washington woman suffrage poster, featuring Abraham Lincoln's quote, "I go for all sharing the priviledges of government who assist in bearing its burdens, by no means excluding women."
GLC09103
circa 1910
Unknown
Uncle Tom's Cabin
J. H. J. Ronner announces a play by Harkins and Barbour of Uncle Tom's Cabin with 200 people in the cast. Boosts, "Cotton pickers, dancers, jubilee singers, Mississippi steamboat." "Scenically the most mammoth production of modern times." At the...
GLC05508.013.01
1920 ca.
[John Moore and granddaughter Mary Md. Moore]
Twentieth century paper print of Mary M. Moore and William H. Ford [sic?] seated on porch steps, the little girl barefoot. Purple stamp on verso "[illegible] B. Moore" (illegible due to abrasion).
GLC04196.07
1918
Renesch, E. G. (fl. 1917-1918)
Colored man is no slacker
Depicts an African American World War I infantryman parting with a woman in a blue dress. In the background, African American soldiers march; one soldier carries a United States flag. The couple stands on a walkway surrounded by flowers.
GLC06134
January 1924
National Associaton for the Advancement of Colored People
14th annual report NAACP for the year 1923
Contains a list of NAACP officers for 1924, including President Moorfield Storey. An introductory letter from Storey asks for financial support from readers of the pamphlet. Foreword states that the NAACP "is striving; it is striving to vindicate...
GLC06135.02
January 1930
20th annual report of the NAACP for the year 1929
Contains a list of NAACP officers for 1929. Foreword states "Uncompromising insistence upon full participation by the Negro in all phases of life is coming more and more to be the attitude of thinking and intelligent white and colored people."...
GLC06135.05
circa 1926
For the Good of America
NAACP poster listing statistics regarding the 3,436 lynchings that occurred between 1889 and 1922. States "Do you know that the United States is the Only Land on Earth where people are burned at the stake?" Reports that 83 women have been lynched...
GLC06197
1911
Rumshinsky, Joseph (1881-1956)
"Mamenu" or The Triangle Victims (in Yiddish).
Song lamenting the deaths caused in the Triangle Shirtwaist Company Factory fire in 1911. Sung by H.J. Ginsburg
GLC06225
1932/07/17
Roosevelt, Eleanor (1884-1962)
to Anne Hinkley
Typed on stationery of the Executive Mansion, Albany, to Hinkley, the leader of a "wet" organization. "I have never joined the Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform, because as you know I am a dry." Roosevelt notes that the...
GLC06002
1 January 1918 - 29 April 1919
Osborn, Ella Jane (fl. 1918-1919)
[Diary of World War I army nurse Ella Jane Osborn] [word processed inventory available]
Ella Jane Osborn, originally from Wainscott, Long Island, New York, departed as an Army Nurse in January of 1918 and spent the majority of her assignment stationed near Toul and Nancy, in the Lorraine region of northeastern France, near the German...
GLC06570
Osborn, Ella Jane, (1881-1966)
GLC06570.01
circa 1915
Woman Suffrage Party of the City of New York
Votes for Women! The Woman's Reason
List of arguments for why women should be allowed to vote, including "Because women must obey the laws just as men do, They should vote equally with men. Because women pay taxes just as men do, thus supporting the government, They should vote...
GLC08963
Circa 1915
Women in the home
Argues that a woman's place may be in the home, but that she can perform these domestic duties much better if allowed the vote, since she will have greater control outside events that influence her housekeeping, such as public health and clean food....
GLC08964
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