Warren Gamaliel Harding 1865-1923
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| Warren G. Harding 1921-1923 |
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President Warren G. Harding signed Photograph to the Register of the Treasury, Harvey V. Speelman. Warren Harding served just over two years in office. He died in San Francisco on August, 2, 1923 from complications following a stroke...or so it was reported. His wife, Florence, refused to allow an autopsy, thus giving rise to wide-spread speculation that she had murdered the President over his womanizing. Mrs. Harding did little to dispel these rumors . In fact, her behavior after his death was downright bizarre, even to the point of berating him for his infidelity during an hour long discourse with his dead body in the East Room of the White House.
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| Warren & Florence Harding |
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President Warren G. Harding signed document appointing Karl de G. Mac Vitty to be the U.S. Consul to Auckland, New Zealand, dated December 6th, 1921
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| Presidential Invitation for Engineer Commander and Mrs. Brown to attend a reception at the White House on January 12th, 1922.
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Prohibition "Volstead Act" 1920-1933
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| Prohibition Era prescription for alcohol: Take one ounce of whiskey four times a day! One of the last prescriptions ever written for "Drinking Whiskey" during prohibition. Just four days after this prescription was written, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in one of his first acts as president, signed the "Cullen-Harrison Act" allowing for the production of beer and wine for the first time in over 14 years. Then on December 5th, the 21st amendment was ratified repealing prohibition.
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| Alphonse "Al" Capone 1899-1947 |
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One of Al Capone's Fedoras, a Borsalino, hand made in Italy and sold to Big Al by the Maurice L. Rothschild Company of Skokie, Illinois. This particular hat was obtained from a relative of "Chicken Harry" Cullett, a one-time bodyguard of the Chicago Gangster.
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| "Chicken Harry" Cullett |
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John Calvin Coolidge 1872-1933
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| John Calvin Coolidge 1923-1929 |
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President Calvin Coolidge signed decree appointing Mrs. Otto L. Veerhoff a Trustee for The National Training School for Girls, Dated April 18th, 1925 (Notice that although Mrs. Veerhoff is important enough to be appointed a Trustee by the President of the United States, she's still relegated to being Mrs. Otto....So & So....The document doesn't even give her first name! Times have certainly changed .....for the better!
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Vice President-Elect Calvin Coolidge signed Photo in Top Hat, Dated December 21st, 1920
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Herbert Clark Hoover 1874-1964
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| Herbert Clark Hoover 1929-1933 |
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President Herbert Hoover's signed Photo to John A Knight.
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Herbert Hoover signed letter to Julius Rosenwald, the Chairman of The Board of Sears Roebuck & Co, regarding Fay Brown of the Bureau of Standards, Dated February 18th, 1927 while he was the Secretary of Commerce under President Coolidge.
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| Herbert Hoover's Shenandoah Fishing Lodge |
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1920's "Winchester" fishing rod once used by Charles Lindbergh on a visit to Herbert Hoover's Presidential retreat on the eastern slope of the Shenandoah National Park. Camp Rapidan, or the "Brown House" as Hoover called it, was the first of three Presidential retreats. The Winchester Corporation, better known as an arms manufacturer, donated the fishing rod to Hoover while he was Secretary of Commerce.
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Charles Gates Dawes 1865-1951
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| Charles G. Dawes V.P. 1925-1929 |
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Calvin Coolidge's Vice President Charles Dawes signed letter thanking Mr. Earle Reynolds, President of the Chicago People's Trust & Savings for a box of cigars that he received from him over Christmas. The letter is dated Jauary 1st, 1929, nine months before the stock market crash would send the country into the "Great Depression" Mr. Reynolds financial institution would be one of the Depressions first casualties.
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( Irony) Charles Gates Dawes won the Nobel Peace Price in 1925 for his work on the "Dawes Report" The report reflected on the effect of war reparations on Germany after World War I. Too bad that Mr. Dawes couldn't forsee the worst effect: the rise of Adolph Hitler!
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| Charles Curtis 1929-1933 VP |
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Herbert Hoover's Vice President Charles Curtis signed letter to a constituent regarding the nominating and election process. Curtis, 1/4 Kaw indian, grew up on an indian reservation in North Topeka, Kansas.
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt 1882 - 1945
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| FDR with Cigarette holder |
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| FDR 1913-20 Sterling & Amber Cigarette holder |
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Franklin D. Roosevelt's monogrammed sterling silver and amber cigarette holder, circa 1920. This cigarette holder was a parting gift from Roosevelt's staff when he left the post of Assistant Secrertary of the Navy in 1920. Roosevelt served in this post from 1913 through 1920 under then Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels. Daniels is best remembered as the man who took grog away from the navy, thus giving rise to the saying a "Cup of Joe" for grog's replacement.... Black Coffee! Grog was a mixture of rum and water.
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Douglas "Wrongway" Corrigan
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| Painting by Brian Moose |
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Douglas "Wrongway" Corrigan signed "West to Ireland" autograph just six months after flying the wrong way for 28 hours and 13 minutes to Dublin, Ireland. Corrigan, one of the men that built Charles Limburgh's "Spirit of St.Louis" airplane in 1927, filed a flight plan to Los Angeles, then turned east upon take off and flew from New York to Dublin. It was a prank...but he became a national hero, even receiving a ticker tape parade upon his return to New York.
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Alfred M. Landon 1887-1987
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| Alf Landon 1887-1987 |
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Alfred M. Landon signed document, dated March 20th, 1933 as Governor of Kansas. Landon was the Republican Presidential Candidate that was thrown to the wolves in one of the largest landslides ever recorded when he lost to Franklin Roosevelt in 1936. Landon, who lived 34 days past his 100th birthday, is also the longest living Presidential Candidate.
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John Nance "Cactus Jack" Garner 1868-1967
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| John N. Garner VP 1933-1941 |
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Vice President-elect John Nance "Cactus Jack" Garner declining an ivitation from the Federal Bar Association while he was still the Speaker of The House of Representatives, dated January 27, 1933.
Garner is one of only two Vice presidents that served as the Speaker of the House. The other being Schyler Colfax, Grant's VP. Garner was FDR's first of three Vice Presidents.
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Henry Agard Wallace 1888-1965
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| Henry Agard Wallace 1941-1945 |
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Vice President Henry A. Wallace signed letter regarding a Christmas greeting. Henry Wallace was Franklin Roosevelt's second of three Vice Presidents, 1941-1945. Wallace was taken off the democratic ticket in 1944, surrendering the nomination to political newcomer Harry S. Truman during a contentious convention that threatened to split the Democratic Party. Wallace, one of the most contraversial VPs in American History, is responsible for adding the Great Seal...and its Masonic symbols...to the back of the Dollar Bill. He was also the Progressive Party's 1948 Presidential Candidate. Running as a third party candidate, he garnered the endoresment of the American Communist Party, a dubious distinction in post war America.
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| Wallace and Roosevelt 1940 |
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The Dollar Bill on top is what the back of the bill looked like prior to 1934 and Henry Wallace's input. The Bill on the bottom shows FDR's annotated notes on the new Dollar Bill design.
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