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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 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 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 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 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 |
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Mary Huntley Oral History Interview |
In this oral history interview, Mary Huntley describes her career as the director of the Hayner Public Library system in Alton, as well as her and her husband's involvement in the Civil Rights movement when they lived in Alabama. She also discusses her involvement with the local Democratic Party, her husband's role as director of the SIUE University Museum, and her childhood in North Carolina. |
May 27, 2019 |
August 29, 2019 |
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Mary Kane Oral History |
In this oral history interview, Mary Kane discusses her role with the Southwestern Illinois Metropolitan and Regional Planning Commission. In particular, she describes the establishment of the Missouri-Illinois regional partnership in the 1970s to create interstate public transportation in the St. Louis metro region. |
April 18, 2018 |
September 13, 2018 |
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Memorials in the Madison County Nursing Home in 2002 after Mine Subsidence |
This photograph shows memorials in the Madison County Nursing Home in 2002. They are dedicated to the memory of numerous individuals, presumably late residents of the nursing home. The building was torn down a few years after the photo was taken. |
December 20, 2002 |
August 13, 2018 |
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Men Painting a Fireplace Mantel inside the Stephenson House during resoration in the early 2000s |
This photograph shows men paiting a fireplace mantel inside the Stephenson House during its renovation in the early 2000s. |
Circa 2000 |
October 17, 2018 |
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Model Woodcut Tiger for Edwardsville High School |
This small tiger woodcut was carved by Edward Ladd as a model for a larger tiger statue at Edwardsville High School. The woodcut is in the possession of his grandaughter, Candace Ladd, as of 2017. |
Circa 1955 |
October 31, 2017 |
