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  • Collection: Eleanor Roosevelt: We Make Our Own History

ER Calls for Order

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ER playfully calls for order. She introduces FDR for an address before the National Education Association at the World’s Fair.

Letters between ER and John Henry Lambert, 1934

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Letter to ER from John Henry Lambert, October 30, 1934
Response from ER to John Henry Lambert, November 12, 1934

ER Christens Plane

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ER christens a 74-passenger yankee clipper plane during a ceremony at Anacostia Naval Station on March 3, 1939.

Statuette of Eleanor Roosevelt

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Small, hand-carved statue of Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt made by an artist associated with the WPA. The base of the statue contains the inscription "Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt".

The Expectant Thistles

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A print on paper by artist George Biddle. Depicts donkeys in various states of repose and decay in a loosely American southwest setting.

Letter Between ER and West Virginia Governor

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Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Homer Holt, Governor of West Virginia. ER defends her public comments re: condition of the working poor in the coal mining industry.

An Incident in Contemporary American Life

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A mural designed by Mitchell Jamieson that depicts Marian Anderson's concert at the Lincoln Memorial. The mural resides in the Department of the Interior Building, Washington, D.C.