Motion picture collection, 1912-1980.

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Motion picture collection, 1912-1980.

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Films of Franklin D. Roosevelt include newsreels produced by Movietone News, Paramount, Pathe, Hearst, and Universal tracing his activities from the 1932 Presidential campaign until his death, with some footage taken while he was Assistant Secretary of the Navy and Governor of New York; color films produced by government agencies such as the National Youth Administration, the Navy Department, and the Signal Corps; amateur films taken by Samuel I. Rosenman showing Franklin D. Roosevelt at Warm Springs, Ga., on an Erie Canal barge trip in 1930, and sailing on the SEQUOIA in 1933 and 1934; films taken by John Boettiger of the 1941 and 1945 inaugurals, Franklin D. Roosevelt's trip to Yellowstone Park in 1937, reviewing the fleet in 1938, and visiting with Churchill at Hyde Park in 1944; and films taken by Nancy Cook showing Roosevelt and family and friends at Campobello, Hyde Park, and Warm Springs in the 1930s and 1940s. Films of Eleanor Roosevelt include newsreels of her career from 1932 until her death in 1962, with some shots of her with Franklin D. Roosevelt and their children during the 1920 campaign; other films of United Nations activities, speeches, interviews, and political activities; and amateur films by John Boettiger, Nancy Cook and Victor Hammer showing her during trips and visiting with family and friends at Campobello and Hyde Park.

680 motion picture reels.

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United States. Works Progress Administration

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Organizational History President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in 1935 as a part of his New Deal to curtail the Depression's effects on the United States. The WPA attempted to provide the unemployed with jobs that allowed individuals to preserve skills or talents. The Federal Writers' Project (FWP), one branch of the WPA, provided work for over 6,600 unemployed writers, journalists, edit...

Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum

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Franklin D. Roosevelt announced donation of his papers and land for a library in December 1938; fund raising and official approval commenced 1939; building was finished by summer 1940. The organization was dissolved in 1960. From the description of Records, 1938-1947. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155523111 Collecting area: Materials relating to the Roosevelt presidential administration and the Roosevelt family. Records of governmental agencies and ...

Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962

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Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was the longest-serving First Lady throughout her husband President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s four terms in office (1933-1945). She was an American politician, diplomat, and activist who later served as a United Nations spokeswoman. A shy, awkward child, starved for recognition and love, Eleanor Roosevelt grew into a woman with great sensitivity to the underprivileged of all creeds, races, and nations. Her constant work to improve their lot made her one of the most loved–...

Hearst Metronone News, Inc.

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United States. Army. Signal Corps

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Congress passed a resolution creating a national weather service on February 9, 1870, and it was signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. This new law directed the Secretary of War to take meterological observations and provide warnings of approaching storms. The Brevet Brigadier General Albert J. Myer and his Signal Service Corps were assigned this duty on February 25, 1870 by the Secretary of War. Weather observations began on November 1, 1870. In June 1872, Congress extended the weather...

Rosenman, Samuel I. (Samuel Irving), 1896-1973

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Lawyer and judge. From the description of Papers, 1945-1966. (Harry S Truman Library). WorldCat record id: 70946898 Judge. From the description of Reminiscences of Samuel Irving Rosenman : oral history, 1957. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 86131331 From the description of Oral history interview with Samuel Irving Rosenman, 1959. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309723901 Samue...

United States. National Youth Administration

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Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born on January 30, 1882, in Hyde Park, New York. He was the son of James (lawyer, financier) and Sara (Delano) Roosevelt. He married Anna Eleanor Roosevelt on March 17, 1905, and had six children: Anna, James, Franklin, Elliott, Franklin Jr., John. He received his B.A. from Harvard in 1904 and later attended Columbia University Law School. Roosevelt was admitted to the Bar in 1907 and worked for the Carter, Ledyard, and Milburn firm in New York City from 1907 to 19...

Cook, Nancy, 1882-1941.

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Sequoia (Yacht)

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Movietonews (Firm)

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Hammer, Victor Karl, 1882-1967

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Correspondence to Lewis Mumford from Victor Karl Hammer and his wife, Carolyn R. Hammer. From the description of Letters, 1939-1983, to Lewis Mumford. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155869064 Printer, associated with the Anvil Press of Lexington, Kentucky. From the description of Letter, 1956 Feb. 12, Lexington, Kentucky, to Mr. [Lewis?] Allen. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754866453 Victor Hammer (1882-1967), Aus...

Boettiger, John, 1900-1950

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Boettiger, second husband of Anna Roosevelt, was a journalist and newspaper publisher who also served as an aide to President Roosevelt at the Teheran Conference during World War II. From the description of Papers, 1900-1963, 1932-1950 (bulk) (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155521764 ...

New York (State). Governor (1929-1932 : Roosevelt)

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Paramount Pictures, inc.

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Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965

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Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was born at Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, on 30 November 1874. He was educated at Harrow and the Royal Military College at Sandhurst before joining the Army in 1895 and serving in India and Sudan. After leaving the Army in 1899, he worked as a war correspondent for the Morning Post and the following year was elected Conservative Member of Parliament for Oldham. In 1904, Churchill decided to join the Liberal Party, and in 1906, was elected Liberal MP f...

Pathe News.

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Universal Pictures Company.

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Democratic National Committee (U.S.)

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United Nations

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In 1945, four individuals who had worked on the Manhattan project-John L. Balderston, Jr., Dieter M. Gruen, W.J. McLean, and David B. Wehmeyer-formed a committee and wrote a letter to 154 public figures asking for their opinions about the possibility of the creation of a world government. Over the next year, as the various public figures responded to the letter, the responses were correlated into a report that was released in 1947. From the guide to the Balderston, John L., Jr. Colle...