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Mrs. I. A. Gill asks Theodore Roosevelt for help settling the long disputed estate of her Dutch ancestor Anneke Jans Bogardus.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-04-14
Samuel H. Bishop asks Theodore Roosevelt to speak at Trinity Chapel on March 26 on “the education of the Negro.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-01-12
Olga Nethersole invites President Roosevelt to her theater production of “The Writing on the Wall” at the Columbia Theater in Washington, D.C. The play is a critique of corrupt and exploitative Trinity Church Corporation which owns slums in New York, and Nethersole believes its message aligns with Roosevelt’s own opinions. Nethersole will send him a copy of the script ahead of his attendance.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-01-15
This fragment of an article from Everybody’s Magazine examines the conditions of the tenement houses under the purview of Trinity Church in New York City. According to the article, Trinity Church makes an enormous revenue from these houses, but they are in terrible condition, putting the dwellers at risk for diseases like tuberculosis.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-07
A group of wealthy citizens exit Trinity Church on Wall Street, New York City, with poor persons huddled on the street on both sides, and tenement housing in the background. The inscription over the door reads “He that Giveth to the Poor Lendeth to the Lord.”
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1895-01-09
A gunslinger labeled “Morgan” sits on the porch of the “Dead Mans Gulch Saloon,” shooting two handguns labeled “Control of Credit” and “Control of Bank Deposits” at the feet of three men labeled “Promoter, Business Man, [and] Banker,” causing them to jump. Visible through a narrow opening in the mountains (of Wall Street) is Trinity Church.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1912-03-20