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McAdoo, W. G. (William Gibbs), 1863-1941

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Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to George W. Perkins

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to George W. Perkins

Theodore Roosevelt is pleased by George W. Perkins’s letter to William McAdoo and is impressed with Perkins’ speech. Roosevelt informs Perkins that he has made many of the same points in the past and gives Perkins specific examples in his speeches that can be found in Roosevelt’s Presidential Addresses and State Papers.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1915-02-18

The Congressional Charter of the Theodore Roosevelt Association

The Congressional Charter of the Theodore Roosevelt Association

Congressional Charter for the then Roosevelt Memorial Association established in May 1920 that lists the original incorporators and includes some of the key provisions guiding the organization. These include stipulations that the association will be governed by a board of trustees; that its income will go only to further its educational goals; and that it will work to establish memorials to Theodore Roosevelt in Washington, D.C. and Oyster Bay, New York. 

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

2000

The political Uncle Tommers

The political Uncle Tommers

Aboard a ship carrying cotton are several people – a man labeled “McAdoo,” also identified as “St. Clair,” a young girl labeled “Miss Columbia,” also identified as “Little Eva,” the figure of a man with a large coin for a head, labeled “National Currency,” also identified as “Uncle Tom,” and a large man labeled “Wall Street Banking Interests,” also identified as “Slave-driver Haley,” holding a whip labeled “Credit” and the chain labeled “Control” that binds to servitude the “National Currency.” Caption: Little Eva — Oh, Papa, won’t you buy him for me?

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

The heavens in November

The heavens in November

Cameo portraits of “Clark, Saulsbury, Metz, Wells, Marshall, Gerard, Wilson, McAdoo, Sulzer, Bryan, Elkus, Hudspeth, Underwood, Harmon, [and] Daniels” form a cluster of comets in the night sky on election night, November 5, 1912. An elephant and a bull moose are frightened by the “celestial display.” Caption: A celestial display which may be seen to best advantage on the night of Tuesday, November 5. Elephants and Bull Moose should beware of comets and seek cyclone-cellars. Display will be especially dazzling at Oyster Bay, N.Y., and Beverly, Mass. Visible anywhere in the United States, however, shortly after sundown.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1912-10-23