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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Letter From Assistant Superintendent of Illinois Approving Renumeration in Madison County |
This letter approves the renumerating of consolidated Madison County Schools in numeric order. |
June 8, 1956 |
February 28, 2017 |
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Letter for fundraising for the 1997 Edwardsville High School Arboretum Project |
This is a letter from Dennis Joyce from the EHS Arboretum Project to Bill Niemietz regarding a potential donation to the project dated May 13, 1997. It details the enthusiasm of the community for the project. |
1997 |
November 15, 2018 |
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Letter Announcing 50th Anniversary Plans for Wood River Standard Oil |
This is a letter from Mr. L.H. Butterworth to S.A. Montgomery about the upcoming 50th anniversary plans celebrating 50 years of Standard Oil in Wood River, Illinois. |
August 21, 1957 |
October 30, 2018 |
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Late 1960s Aerial Photo of Village Motel in Highland, Illinois |
This photograph is an aerial view of the Village Motel located just off US Highway 40 slightly northeast of Highland, Illinois. At the time the motel was owned and operated by Wally and Ruth Nagel, who purchased the motel in 1958 before the construction of I-70 through Highland. It was sold in 1992 and is currently used as apartments. |
1965 - 1969 |
August 7, 2017 |
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Lake at the St. Louis Smelting and Refining Co. |
This photograph shows a lake at the St. Louis Smelting and Refining Co. This photograph was taken around the 1910s or 1920s. |
circa 1910s-1920s |
March 21, 2019 |
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Labeled Team Photograh of the Collinsville Kahoks Baseball Team |
This is a black and white photograph of the Collinsville Kahoks baseball team the Collinsville, Il High School team. The players are listed across the bottom of the image and are listed from left to right. "Back Row: Coach LW Fletcher, Komeshak, S. Kacensky, Gillespey, Richter, Sommerfeidt, Zarr, Thomas, Bd Member" "Kneeling: Schwier, Perucca, Oberta, Neptune Molinar, Garnero, Eversman, M. Kaeensky" "Front Row: Managers Marchianando, Nichols, Gavillet, Jones." |
circa 1950s |
November 13, 2019 |
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Kid Walters Tavern in Highland |
This postcard shows the interior of Kid Walters Tavern in Highland sometime during his ownership from 1933 to 1952. In 1952 he sold the tavern to Jim and Ethel Hirsch, and the tavern became known as Ethel's. It is still in operation as Ethel's as of 2018. |
Circa 1933 - 1952 |
August 27, 2018 |
