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	1933 Edwardsville High School Men's Football Conference Champions	This is a newspaper clipping featuring the 1933 EHS Tigers football conference champions Back Row: (left to right) John Svaldi, Cecil Wells, August Soehlke, Orville West, Arthur Svaldi, Calvin Bauer, Lawrence Kennedy, Jack Yates, David Cunningham, manager. Middle Row: Kenneth Linger, George Handlon, William Catalano, Roy Dees, Captain Earle Ingels, Wilbur Zirges, Gail Subbs, Barnard Berger, Louis Chairney. Front Row: Coach S.A. Cole, Barney Lanham, George Little, Clarence Hydron, Urban Grebel, Henry Dohle, Harold Highlander, Norman Probst and Assistant Coach H.B. Gunn	1933	November 15, 2018
	Letter from Franklin D. Roosevelt to D. H. Mudge Sr.	This is a letter from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Dick Howard Mudge Senior, a prominent attorney and member of the local Democratic Party. At this time Roosevelt won the 1932 Presidential Election, beating incumbent Herbert Hoover. Writing in response to a telegram from Mudge, Roosevelt acknowledges congratulations on his victory. Looking towards the future, Roosevelt reaffirms the Democratic Party's values and policies in hopes to establish an ordered economic life with continued support from Mudge.	November 17, 1932	January 24, 2018
	Program for the 1931 "Annual Commencement of the Edwardsville High School"	This is a program for the "Annual Commencement of the Edwardsville High School" on Friday, June 5, 1931 in the High School Gymnasium. In this program you will find a schedule of the day’s events and the class roll.	1931	December 1, 2018
	1931 Plat Map of Edwardsville	This map of Edwardsville was published in 1931 by the Edwardsville Intelligencer. It shows the property boundaries and owners that existed in the town at the time, as well as various town landmarks such as Lusk Memorial Cemetery Park (today Hotz Park), St. Boniface Cemetery, the courthouse, the Lincoln School, the Madison County Tuberculosis Sanitarium, and Legion Park. It also shows the village of Leclaire. The map was draughted by C. A. R. Benedict.	1931	September 7, 2017
	Letter from Franklin D. Roosevelt to D. H. Mudge Sr.	This is the second letter from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Dick Howard Mudge Senior, a prominent attorney and member of the local Democratic Party. At this time Roosevelt was the Democratic gubernatorial candidate for New York. In the letter Roosevelt acknowledges Mudge's encouraging response from October 18. Brief in his reply, Roosevelt is preoccupied with the closing week of his campaign and unable to write further. Roosevelt went on to be elected governor of New York.	November 2, 1928	November 30, 2017
	Letter from D. H. Mudge Sr. to Franklin D. Roosevelt	This is a carbon copy letter from Dick Howard Mudge Senior responding to Franklin D. Roosevelt. During this period Roosevelt was the Democratic gubernatorial candidate for New York. In the letter Mudge, a prominent attorney and member of the local Democratic Party, discusses his decision to vote for Democratic presidential candidate Al Smith in the upcoming 1928 election. Optimistic, Mudge predicts Madison County will sway from its Republican voting tendencies to support Smith. Ending the letter, Mudge expresses gratitude for Roosevelt's communication and applauds his speech given in Houston at the 1928 Democratic National Convention. Smith went on to lose the 1928 election to Herbert Hoover and Republicans won the Madison County majority vote. Despite these Democratic loses, Roosevelt was elected governor of New York.	October 18, 1928	January 24, 2018
	Letter from Franklin D. Roosevelt to D. H. Mudge Sr.	This is a letter from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Dick Howard Mudge Senior, a prominent attorney and member of the local Democratic Party. At this time Roosevelt was the Democratic gubernatorial candidate for New York. In the letter Roosevelt urges Mudge to support the Democratic Presidential candidate, Al Smith, in the upcoming 1928 election. Roosevelt extols the benefits of Democratic values, while denouncing what he calls the "crass materialism" of Republican Presidents Calvin Coolidge and Warren G. Harding. Roosevelt asks Mudge to write back his decision to his personal home in New York City. Smith went on to lose the 1928 election to Herbert Hoover, while Roosevelt was elected governor of New York.	October 15, 1928	November 30, 2017
	1926 Ground Crack Near the Madison County Tuberculosis Sanitarium in Edwardsville after Mine Subsidence	This 1926 photograph shows the ground crack after mine subsidence. The large crack is seen directly below the wooden marker,	1926	September 26, 2017
	1926 Ground Crack Near the Madison County Tuberculosis Sanitarium in Edwardsville after Mine Subsidence	This 1926 photograph shows the ground crack after mine subsidence. The crack is seen directly below the wooden marker.	1926	September 26, 2017
	1926 Ground Crack Near the Madison County Tuberculosis Sanitarium in Edwardsville after Mine Subsidence	This 1926 photograph shows the ground crack after mine subsidence. The wooden marker denotes the ground crack.	1926	September 26, 2017