Fund raising

Newspaper article reporting on the concert at Carnegie Hall for the benefit of the Masonic Home of Utica which consisted of professional performers as well as children from the home dancing and performing music. The concert raised over $5,000 for the Masonic Home and the children enjoyed their trip to New York City. Letters received by William J. Wiley, superintendent of the home, are also printed.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-11-29

Theodore Roosevelt launches a Liberty Loans campaign from his home, Sagamore Hill. He speaks from his front porch to a crowd gathered on the lawn, and shakes hands with a procession of visitors.

Collection

Sherman Grinberg Film Collection

Creation Date

1918-04-02

A newsreel documenting a Liberty Loans drive. President Woodrow Wilson and Edith Wilson mingle in a crowd and march in a parade. Theodore Roosevelt speaks enthusiastically from a podium. Cardinal James Gibbons has a conversation with Roosevelt. Mary Pickford shows off a stage prop and speaks onstage through a megaphone. Unknown actors perform a play. Large crowds and city scenes, with many flags and decorations, are shown. Buildings are painted and workers paste up posters.

Collection

Sherman Grinberg Film Collection

Creation Date

1918

Notice about the history, programs, facilities, and leadership of the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Bird Sanctuary located next to Youngs Memorial Cemetery in Oyster Bay, New York. The notice includes a fundraising appeal letter from Mrs. Richard Derby (daughter of Theodore Roosevelt) asking for contributions to the Sanctuary, which is an arm of the National Audubon Society.

Two photographs accompany the article. One shows five children on a field trip undertaken by the Sanctuary and the other shows Mrs. Richard Derby and the President of the Sanctuary, Richard A. Houghton, Jr., at the Trailside Museum.

George H. Maines expresses in his letter a proposal to raise funds for the battleship Maine by encouraging schoolchildren across the U.S. to each donate one penny. Maine outlines a plan involving governors, banks, and school superintendents to collect donations and urges support from educators and newspapers.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-09-11

Extract from a speech wherein Bishop David H. Greer calls for donations to fund the addition to St. Ann’s Church for Deaf Mutes, which will serve as a parish house and as a memorial to Edward Miner Gallaudet, who started the work on behalf of “these silent children of God.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-08-11

The officers and trustees of the Union Industrial Training School certify that they have purchased 80 acres with deeds to build the school on. The institution seeks to train “colored youths” in learning and trades. They ask for donations to help this cause.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-07-29

Edward P. Moore sets out his plan for the construction and funding of a new, improved railroad line. Moore proposes that creating such a line would allow for many improvements in traditional railroad operation, would bring benefits to the country through the construction of highways parallel to the railroad tracks, and could be done economically through the issuing of bonds and investing in sources of electricity.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-03-29

E. O. Vaile was unexpectedly named as chairman of the nearly-defunct Simplified Spelling Committee of the Illinois State Teachers’ Association, and is trying to raise funds to return the committee to operational status. He outlines his plans for the organization and asks the recipient to spread the request for funds to philanthropists who may be interested in the cause of simplified spelling.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-03-09

A form letter addressed to Edward O. Vaile, Chairman of the Committee on Simplified Spelling, divided into five sections addressing donations, votes on a number of number of issues, and fundraising suggestions.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-03-09

Reverend William B. Carroll and the Alexander Memorial Baptist Church announce having made an initial payment of $2,200 on their debt of $5,200, which was borrowed to complete the new church building, and ask for further donations to help their cause.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-02-25

At the request of his friend former New York State Assemblyman Dix W. Smith, Theodore Roosevelt will speak in Reno, Nevada, on April 3. Dix requested that Roosevelt speak on “civic righteousness” after the citizens of Reno rapidly raised $166,000 toward a YMCA building.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-02-08

Theodore Roosevelt addresses a large crowd of people in Baltimore, Maryland to promote Liberty Loans. Roosevelt wears a black arm band in honor of his son Quentin Roosevelt.

Collection

Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound

Creation Date

1918

An article describing the mission of William T. Rigby in garnering funds for the General Stephen D. Lee memorial. Contains quotations from letters by General Grenville M. Dodge and Captain Stephen P. Allen expressing sentiments of good will toward the cause.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-09-26

Resident members of the Harvard Club of New York are invited to subscribe to a fund for the benefit of the recently resigned president of Harvard University Charles William Eliot and his wife, Grace M. H. Eliot. The fund will go to the Eliots for the duration of their lives, and afterwards will be given to Harvard University. As a member of the class of 1880, the recipient is requested to send their check to Richard Welling.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1909-01-18

Sheet Music for “Do Your Bit, Help Send a Kit,” a WWI patriotic song imploring the public to help ensure that the troops have tobacco products by buying a “kit” to be sent to France. The song is billed as the “Soldier’s and Sailor’s Official Tobacco Song.” In small print at the bottom of the cover there is quote from Theodore Roosevelt. “I wish you all possible success in your admirable effort to get tobacco to our boys in France.” Cover features illustrations of a solider and sailor using tobacco. The back cover contains instructions on how to buy a kit.

Collection

Dr. Danny O. Crew Theodore Roosevelt Sheet Music Collection

Sara Delano Roosevelt solicits assistance from Isabella Greenway for the Children’s Village in Dobbs Ferry, New York. She describes the needs of the children and how much monetary support is needed for each child.

Collection

Arizona Historical Society

Creation Date

1934-12-25

John Campbell Greenway would also like to join the troops and agrees that raising funds for the tank service is a “splendid idea.” Greenway believes he could recruit many “seasoned men and mechanics.”

Collection

Arizona Historical Society

Creation Date

1917-08-20

President Roosevelt encloses $25 as a donation for the Porcellian Club gate. Although fond of both George W. Perkins and Robert Bacon, Roosevelt believes they are wrong about the trust question and knows that William McKinley had been uneasy over the issue.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-10-04

Frank S. Cairns explains and details how Cuban revolutionaries receive their funding. Most of the funding is derived domestically, through wealthy Cuban donors. There are rumors that some of their funding originates from the United States but there is no proof of this.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-09-22