TR Writes to His Son

Theodore Roosevelt, Sr. (1858-1919), to Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. (1887-1944)
Autograph letter, July 11, 1890
Manuscript Division

The Loss of a Friend

Edith Newbold Wharton (1862-1937)
"With the Tide (January 6th 1919)"
Holograph manuscript
Manuscript Division

Child Labor

Lewis Hine (1874-1940)
Child Labor in the Cotton Mills of Mississippi, April-May 1911
Typescript report
Manuscript Division

Roosevelt's Pocket Diary

Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)
Diary entry
February 14, 1884
Manuscript Division

The Titanic Disaster

New York Herald,
April 15, 1912
Serial & Government Publications Division (53.1)

Justice At Last!

"Justice at Last!
W. M. Tweed Convicted"
New York Times
(November 20, 1873)
Newspaper
Serial & Government Publications (53.4)

An Immigrants' Song

Solomon Smulewitz (Small)
and Joseph M. Rumshisky.
"Zei Gebensht Du Freie Land"
[Long Live the Land of the Free].
New York: Hebrew Publishing Co., 1911
Hebraic Section,
African & Middle Eastern Division
Copyright deposit, 1911 (52.5)

Capturing the Spanish-American War

William Glackens
(1870-1938)
El Poso [El Pozo]
Wash drawing,
July 1898
Prints & Photographs Division
Gift of Ira Glackens (55.8)

The Panama Canal

Theodore Roosevelt (1858 1919)
to Matthew Hale
Typescript letter with emendations,
January 6, 1908
Manuscript Division
Gift of the Roosevelt family,
1958-1965 (58A.1)

Gatun Lock, Panama Canal

Joseph Pennell
The Guard Gate [Gatun Lock]
Lithograph, 1912
Prints & Photographs Division
Bequest of Joseph Pennell,
ca. 1937 (58A.1a)

The Muckrakers

Ida M. Tarbell (1857-1944)
"Oil War of 1872."
Chapter III of the History of the
Standard Oil Company
McClure's Magazine, January, 1903
Volume 20 no. 3
General Collections (56.1)

A Pioneering Photojournalist

Frances Benjamin Johnston (1864-1952)
[Theodore] Roosevelt Children at
Roll Call Inspection at White House
(Archie, left and Quentin, right), ca. 1901
Gelatin silver print
Prints & Photographs Division
Gift/purchase from the Frances Benjamin Johnston estate, 1953 (46B.5)

Women's Trade Union Seal

Julia Bracken Wendt
National Women's Trade Union Seal
Pen and ink drawing on board
Manuscript Division
Gift of the National Women's
Trade Union League (54.13)

An Elegy for Fire Victims

David Meyrowitz (1867-1943), composer
Louis Gilrod (1879-1930), lyricist
"Die Fire Korbunes."
New York: Theodore Lohr Co., 1911
Printed sheet music
Music Division
Copyright deposit (52B.8)

"Walk Softly. . ."

Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)
to Henry L. Sprague
Albany, New York, January 26, 1900
Carbon copy letterbook
Manuscript Division
Gift of the heirs of Theodore
Roosevelt, Jr., 1958-1965 (52A)

Poster Art

William Glackens (1870-1938)
[Advertisement for Scribner's]
New York: Grignard Litho Co. (August edition)
Prints & Photographs Division
Gift of C. Carter Smith, Jr., 2000 (157.7)

African American Businesses

Anonymous
[Press Room of the Planet Newspaper],
Richmond, Virginia, ca.. 1900
Gelatin silver print
Prints & Photographs Division
Bequest of Daniel A.P. Murray, ca. 1926 (48D.1)
Digital ID# cph 3b45130

The American Negro Exhibit

Atlanta University
Occupations of Negroes and Whites in Georgia, no.27
Ink and colored pencil chart on board, ca. 1900
Prints & Photographs Division
Bequest of Daniel A.P. Murray, ca. 1926 (46A.11)
Digital ID# ppmsca-08993

Photograph Album for the Paris Exposition

[Waiters Union]
Negro Life in Georgia
Photographic album, vol. 4, ca. 1900
Prints & Photographs Division
Bequest of Daniel A.P. Murray, ca. 1926 (42.7)
Digital ID# ppmsca-08762

The Exhibit of American Negroes

Daniel A.P. Murray (1852-1925)
Preliminary List of Books and Pamphlets by Negro Authors, for the Paris Exposition and the Library of Congress
Washington, D.C.: U.S. Commission to the Paris Exposition, 1900
Rare Book and Special Collections Division
Gift of Daniel A.P. Murray, 1926 (42A.7)

"Strikers Shot by Troops"

"Strikers Shot by Troops"
(Pullman Company Strike)
New York Times, July 8, 1894,
Vol. XLIII, no. 13,337
Serials and Government Publications Division (134.6)

New York City

Joseph Pennell (1857-1926)
[110th Street, New York]
Watercolor and gouache drawing, ca. 1908
Prints & Photographs Division
Bequest of Joseph Pennell, ca. 1937 (54.16c)
Digital ID# ppmsca-12379
Digital ID# ppmsca-12380

The Most Famous Poster

I Want You for the U.S. Army
Lithograph, 1917
Prints & Photographs Division

The Salvation Army

Ira Lawrence Hill
Evangeline Booth on "The Secret of the Salvation Army's Success.
Half-tone lithograph
Prints & Photographs Division

A Pacifist Viewpoint

Boardman Robinson (1876-1952)
Europe, 1916
Lithographic crayon, ink, and
gouache on paper, 1916
Prints & Photographs Division
LC-USZC4-3901

Wilson's Fourteen Points

Woodrow Wilson
"Fourteen Points Address" draft
Shorthand, 1918
Manuscript Division

The War Effort

Joseph Pennell (1857-1926)
Submarines in Dry Dock
Lithograph, 1917
Prints & Photographs Division

The Yanks Are Coming!

June Bauer, music and lyrics
"Our Uncle Sam."
Judsonia, Arkansas: Bauer Company
Copyright deposit, 1918 (58E)
Music Division

Y.W.C.A. Girls in Service

Neysa Moran McMein (1888-1949)
"Y.W.C.A. In Service for
the Girls of the World"
Poster, 1919
Prints & Photographs Division (58.D.8)

The American Red Cross

L.N. Britton
They Are Looking to Us for Help--Are You One of Us? Add Your Bit to the Red Cross War Fund
Color lithograph poster
Brooklyn: Latham Lith. & Ptg. Co., 1917
Prints & Photographs Division (58.15)
Digital ID# cph 3g10785

First Thrill of Liberty

Remember Your First Thrill
of American Liberty.
Your Duty--Buy United States
Government Bonds.
New York: Sackett & Wilhelms Corp., 1917
Color lithographic poster
Prints & Photographs Division (58A.4)

Lest Liberty Perish

Joseph Pennell (1857-1926)
Lest Liberty Perish from the Face of the Earth
Watercolor sketch for poster, 1918
Prints & Photographs Division
Joseph Pennell bequest, ca. 1937 (3.12)

General Pershing's 2^nd Division

Schutz Group Photographers.
General Pershing, & Major General Dickman, with the Officers and Men of the 2^nd Division, Valendar Germany, March, 1919
Panoramic silver gelatin print
Prints & Photographs Division (58D.4)

The Stars and Stripes

The Stars and Stripes.
Vol. 2, no. 5 (March 7, 1919)
Serial & Government Publications Division
(58.14 )

An Armistice Tribute

Clifford Berryman (1869B1949)
November 11, 1928
Pen and ink over graphite under drawing on paper
Probably published in The Evening Star (Washington, D.C.), November 11, 1928
Prints & Photographs Division
Gift of the artist, 1945 (58A.6)

War Time Conservation

Mary Elizabeth Evans.
Mary Elizabeth's War Time . . . Recipes for Wheatless Cakes and Breads, Meatless Dishes, Sugarless Candies, Delicious War Time Desserts, and Many Other Delectable "Economy" Dishes.
New York and Toronto: 1918.
(58C.3)

Food Shortages

Oscar Edward Cesare (1885-1948)
Behind the Army
Ink brush and opaque white over graphite underdrawing, ca. 1917
Copyrighted by the New York Post
Gift/purchase from J. Arthur Wood, Jr., 2003 (58.16)
Digital ID # ppmsca-07887

World War I War Gardens

Maginel Wright Enright (1877-1966)
The Seeds of Victory Insure the Fruits of Peace
Color lithograph, 1918
Prints & Photographs Division (58B.5)
Digital ID# ppmsca-12381

Announcing the Armistice

Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924)
Holograph pencil draft announcement
Manuscript Division
Gift of Edith Bolling Galt Wilson, 1930 (59.8)

The Forgotten People

Dorothea Lange (1895-1965)
"On these workers the crops
of California depend . . . March 1, 1935."
and "More Oklahomans reach Calif. . .
Apr. 7-1935"
Sketchbooks with gelatin silver prints
and ink notes, 1935
Prints and Photographs Division

Federal Theatre

James Stuart Morcom (b. 1906)
Stage Design
Gouache, colored pencil, and
wash on illustration board
Music Division
WPA Transfer

Frank Sinatra Auditions

Frank Sinatra (b. 1915)
Application for Major Bowes' Amateur Hour
Annotated form, 1935
Motion Picture, Broadcasting & Recorded Sound Division

New Deal Arts

Anthony Velonis (b.1911)
Macbeth
Silkscreen, 1938
Prints & Photographs Division

Beverly Sills Auditions

Beverly Sills (b. 1929)
Application for the Major Bowes' Amateur Hour
Annotated form, 1939
Motion Pictures, Broadcasting & Recorded Sound Division
Gift of Joseph Brown, 1969 (65.1)

The Grapes of Wrath

John Steinbeck (1902-1968)
Typescript for The Grapes of Wrath
with copy-editing marks, 1939
Manuscript Division
Gift of Frank J. Hogan, 1941 (61A.8)

Tuberculosis Tests

Elizabeth Olds (1896-1991)
Tuberculosis Tests for Children, 1934
Lithograph
Prints & Photographs Division
Gift of Ben and Beatrice Goldstein (104.1)

"Our Good Earth"

John Steuart Curry (1897-1946)
"Our Good Earth," 1942
Lithograph
Edition 250
Prints & Photographs Division (66.2)

No Work

Blanche Grambs, (b.1916)
No Work, 1935
Lithograph.
Printed at the Art Students League
by Will Barnet
Prints & Photographs Division
Gift of Ben and Beatrice Goldstein Foundation, 1999 (66.4)

Ben Shahn's Our Friend

Ben Shahn (1898-1969)
Our Friend.
New York: National Citizens
Political Action Committee, 1944
Lithographic poster
Prints & Photographs Division (62.5)

The Bonus Army March

Theodor Horydczak (ca. 1870-1971)
Veterans Bonus March, Washington, July 1932
Gelatin silver photographs
Prints & Photographs Division
Gift of Norma and
Francis Reeves, 1973

Off to War

William Henry Johnson (1901-1970)
Off to War
Silkscreen, ca. 1942
Prints & Photographs Division
Gift of the Harmon Foundation, ca. 1970 (73.5)

Pearl Harbor Bombed!

NBC Program Book
Annotated typescript, December 7, 1941; Microphone, ca. 1938
Motion Picture, Broadcasting & Recorded
Sound Division

God Bless America

Irving Berlin (1888-1989)
"God Bless America"
Holograph lyrics
Music Division
Gift of the Berlin family, 1992 (67.2)

Memo from Stalin

Joseph Stalin (1879-1953)
Aide memoire in Russian,
August 13, 1942
Mixed media on paper on board, 1981
Manuscript Division

D-Day

New York Times,
June 6, 1944
Serial & Government Publications Division (68A.1)

A Naval Hero

"Above and Beyond the Call of Duty--
Dorie Miller Receives the Navy Cross
at Pearl Harbor, May 27, 1942"
Color offset poster, no. 68
Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1943
Prints & Photographs Division (58.5)

Manzanar

Ansel Adams (1902-1984)
[Internees reading newspapers, Manzanar Relocation Center]
Gelatin silver print, 1943
Prints & Photographs Division
Gift of the photographer, 1965 (72.1)

Camp News

Tessaku [Barbed Wire]. No. 5,
Tule Lake, California: Tessakusha
(October 1944)
Asian Division
Government transfer, 1953 (73)

Patton's War

George S. Patton (1885-1945)
Page from photographic album
1942-1944
Manuscript Division
Gift of the Patton family, 1965 (70.3,71)

Star Spangled Banter

Bill Mauldin (b.1921)
Star Spangled Banter
The 45th is moving into its new temporary
(we hope) field camp in the
cornfields of Camp Barkeley.
Ink and crayon over pencil
on layered paper, 1941
Published in the 45th Division News
Prints & Photographs Division
Gift of Bill Mauldin, 1975 (68A.4)

The 332nd Fighter Group

Toni Frissell (1907-1988)
Issuing Escape Kits Containing
Cyanide Capsules to Members
of the 332nd Army Air Force
Fighter Group
Gelatin silver print,
March 1945
Prints & Photographs Division
Gift of the photographer, 1971 (73.3)

The Home Front During World War II

Miguel Covarrubias (1904-1957)
[Train crowded with service men and women
and a large U.S. flag], 1943
Gouache on paper board
Prints & Photographs Division (73.6)

Trinity Test-Nuclear Explosions

Nuclear explosion, Trinity Test Site
New Mexico, July 16, 1945
Gelatin silver prints
Manuscript Division
Transfer from the Atomic Energy Commission, 1971(68A.4a-c)

Documenting the Homefront

Marjory Collins (1912-1985)
Verona, New Jersey. Sewing stripes on an American flag at the Annin Flag Company, March 1943
Contemporary print made from original negative
Prints & Photographs Division
O.W.I. transfer, 1946 (4.10)

Rosie the Riveter

Norman Rockwell (1894-1978)
Cover illustration for the
Saturday Evening Post
(May 29, 1943)
Color photomechanical print
General Collections (71.2)

Raising the Flag

Joe Rosenthal (b. 1911)
American Marines Raising American Flag on Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima
Gelatin silver print, 1945
Wide World/Associated Press
Prints & Photographs Division
Gift of Joseph C. O'Mahoney, 1961 (5.11)

Rockwell's Four Freedoms

Norman Rockwell (1894-1978)
OURS. . . to Fight for: Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Worship, Freedom from Want, Freedom from Fear
Offset color lithograph, 1943
Prints & Photographs Division
O.W.I. transfer, 1946
LC-USZC4-1349 (58A.5)

Women and the War Effort

Norman Rockwell (1894-1978)
Cover illustration for the
Saturday Evening Post,
September 4, 1943
Color photomechanical print
General Collections (71.3)

Flag Raising

Kyra Markham (1891-1967)
Flag Raising on Leroy St.
Lithograph, 1942
Prints & Photographs Division
Gift of Ben and Beatrice Goldstein
Foundation, 1999 (73.7)

At War's End

"Peace Isn't It Wonderful," August 25, 1945
Chicago Daily Times Vol. 16, no. 341
Serial & Government Publications Division (68A.7)

The End of Hostilities

Staff Sergeant Charles Rosario Restifo
(1917-1995),
161st Photographic Company
[War Over, Manilla, Philippines],
August 10, 1945
Digital print
Veterans History Project
Donated by Beatrice L. Restifo, March 18, 2003 (67.8a)

Truman Appoints A Prosecutor

Harry S Truman (1884-1972)
Executive Order, May 2, 1945
Typewritten copy
Manuscript Division (77.5)

Nuremberg Document Book

Robert Jackson, U.S. Chief of Counsel
(1892-1954)
International Military Tribunal.
Document Book
Bound typescript
Hebraic Section,
African Middle East Division (71.4)

Images from the Trial

George Biddle (1885-1973)
Caricature of "Fritzsche" [Hans Fritzsche] and "'Fat' Goering" [Hermann Goering], [1946]
Ink drawing on paper
Manuscript Division (72.4)

Cartoonist's Take on Nuremberg

Bill Mauldin (1921-2003)
"How Can You Call Me Intolerant?
Some of My Best Friends Had to be Put
into Concentration Camps," 1946
Ink over pencil with overlay drawing
on layered paper board
Published by United Feature Syndicate,
January 21, 1946
Prints & Photographs Division
Gift, Bill Mauldin, 1975 (69.6)
Digital ID# ppmsca-09921

At War's End

"Peace," "Gas Rationing Ended," "Navy's
Discharge Plan," August 15, 1945
Chicago Herald- American Vol. 46, no. 26
Serial & Government Publications Division (68A.8)

Old Soldiers Never Die . . .

Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964)
Typescript speech for address
given April 19, 1951
Manuscript Division

Harry S. Truman

John Chase
[President Truman Wearing
General MacArthur's Hat]
Ink on paper, 1950
Prints & Photographs Division
LC-USZ62-69946

Hannah Arendt

Hannah Arendt (1906-1975)
"Affidavit of Identity in Lieu of a Passport"
Document with photograph, 1949
Manuscript Division
Gift and bequest of Hannah Arendt,
1965-2000 (234.1a-c)

Look Magazine

Phillip Halsman, photographer
(1906-1979)
Look. Vol. 27, no. 25
(December 17, 1963)
Prints & Photographs Division

Rebel Without a Cause

Nicolas Ray.
Rebel Without a Cause
Film still matted as lobby card
Warner Bros., Burbank California, 1955
Motion Picture & Recorded Sound Division (80.5)

Supporting the Persian Gulf War

Earlie Hudnall, Jr. (b. 1946)
God Bless Our Troops, 1991
Gelatin silver print
Prints & Photographs Division
Purchase, 2001 (80A)

"Dewey Defeats Truman"

"Dewey Defeats Truman"
Chicago Daily Tribune,
November 3, 1948
Serial & Government Publications Division
Gift of Ms. Barbara, Diamond City, Arkansas (69.4)

The Lincoln Memorial

Henry Bacon
[Studies for the Lincoln Memorial,
Washington, D.C.]
Graphite of Tracing Paper, 1917
Prints & Photographs Division

Vietnam Veterans Memorial

Maya Ying Lin (b. 1959)
Vietnam Veterans Memorial proposal
Mixed media on paper on board, 1981
Prints & Photographs Division
LC-USZC4-4915