Roosevelt miscellany, 1933-1945
Subtitle: [ephemera in the Franklin D. Roosevelt Collection].
Contributors: Hassett, William D., 1880-1965, former owner.; Franklin D. Roosevelt Collection (Library of Congress)
Published: 1933
Language: eng
Number of pages: 103
Subjects: Roosevelt, Franklin D. 1882-1945 -- Miscellanea.; Roosevelt, Franklin D. 1882-1945 -- Autographs.; Roosevelt, Franklin D. 1882-1945 -- Portraits.; Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962 -- Autographs.; Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962 -- Portraits.; Hopkins, Harry Lloyd, 1890-1946 -- Autographs.; Gridiron Club (Washington, D.C.); St. John's Church (Lafayette Square, Washington D.C.); Journalists -- Washington (D.C.); White House (Washington, D.C.) -- In art.; United States -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945 -- Miscellanea.; United States -- Foreign relations -- 1933-1945 -- Miscellanea.
Genres: Miscellanea.; Autographs.; Portraits.; In art.
Notes: Gift of William D. Hassett (F.D.R.'s White House confidential secretary), Sept. 15, 1953.
Invitations, programs, tickets, menus, guest lists, portraits, clippings, and other memorabilia relating to White House functions and public and private events and entertainments hosted or attended by Franklin Roosevelt during his presidency. Most are autographed and many are accompanied by original envelopes. A program for the "Visit of Their Britannic Majesties to The White House," June 8, 9, 1939, is autographed as well by Eleanor Roosevelt. A menu for a dinner in honor of Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Aug. 9, 1941, is autographed by F.D.R. and Harry Hopkins.
Includes programs of the annual dinners of the Gridiron Club, National Press Club, Radio Correspondents Association, and White House Correspondents' Association with guest lists.
Other souvenir programs are for inauguration ceremonies; special services at St. John's Church; Thanksgiving and Christmas observances; the Democratic National Committee's Jackson Day Dinner, 1936; the Supreme Court's sesquicentennial, 1940; the dedication of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, Hyde Park, N.Y., 1941; the President's Birthday Ball, 1944, and Supplement; and "The Spirit of Warm Springs," menu, program, and songs dedicated to F.D.R., Nov. 1944.
Invitations are to the New York World's Fair, 1939, including a reply card and postmarked envelope with stamps commemorating the fair; the 150th anniversary of Congress, 1939; the dedication of the new gallery building at the National Gallery of Art, 1941; the dedication of the Jefferson Memorial, 1943.
Theater programs are for command performances, most for F.D.R.'s birthday, of "Outward Bound" by Sutton Vane, 1939; an adaptation of Clarence Day's "Life with Father," 1940; Lillian Hellman's "Watch on the Rhine," 1942; Irving Berlin's "This is the Army," 1942; "The Army Play by Play" (five one-act plays), 1943; and "Dear Ruth" by Norman Krasna, 1945.
Also includes a mimeographed copy of a list of "Papers signed by President Roosevelt and presented to the Library of Congress by his secretary, William D. Hassett."