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Sale 124
November 3-4 Winter Collectibles Auction
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First Ladies: 18 Signed Pieces, Several While in the White House: Roosevelt, Eisenhower, Hoover, Coolidge, Johnson, Cleveland & More. Fine collection of First Ladies spanning 75 years.
Multi-signed cover commemorating the National Capital Sesquicentennial First Day of Issue 3¢ stamp signed by Mamie Dowd Eisenhower, Bess Truman, Alice Roosevelt Longworth (daughter of Teddy Roosevelt and noted socialite), Pat Nixon, Lady Bird Johnson, Betty Ford and Nancy Reagan
Lot also includes:
1.) Francis F. Cleveland Preston: Youngest First Lady in US history at 21 years of age, wife to Grover Cleveland and only First Lady with the distinction of serving for two non-consecutive terms as well as Cleveland and Preston the only marriage in the White House of a sitting President. Written on personal notepaper dated 21 Sept. '42, Cleveland Preston sends a note of thanks regarding a history of President Fillmore's old residence. 1½ pp. and in excellent condition signed as Francis F. Cleveland Preston.
2.) Mary Lord Harrison, second wife of Benjamin Harrison, third person ALS signed as Mrs. Harrison on Executive Mansion notepaper dated March 24, but no year.
3.) Two typed letters signed by Lou Henry Hoover both on White House stationery. Both letters of thanks dated 1929 and 1930 with each having bold signatures. Letters are in good condition, with one mounted on board, the other having an old mat line and dampstaining.
4.) Grace Coolidge addressed and signed cover dated Dec. 27, 1935 the other an excellent ALS thanking a friend for her thoughts on Coolidge's 90th Birthday.
5.) Three typed letters signed by Eleanor Roosevelt dated 1952, 1956 and 1961, all three on personal stationery with excellent signatures in steel point fountain pen.
6.) Bess Truman one TLS on blind embossed personal stationery with address as Independence, Missouri dated Oct. 7, 1945 declining to autograph English covers. She has signed a two-block of 8¢ Harry Truman tribute stamps and a 33¢ Truman stamp all three affixed nicely on a white sheet, her signature clearly evident across all three stamps. Separately she has signed a 4-block of Eleanor Roosevelt 5¢ stamps along the blank tab of the block.
7.) Mamie Dowd Eisenhower, one signed 8 x 10" vintage original New York Journal-American photograph taken by Frank Jurkoski in 1964, stamped on verso of both the General and Mrs. Eisenhower, and an ALS signed M.D.E. on personal notepaper.
8.)Barbara Bush signing four pieces as Second Lady, one an invitation to a reception by the Presidential Inaugural Committee in 1981 co-signed by George H. W. Bush and two (2) autographed card on The Vice President's House stationery. Estimated Value $900 - 1,200
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Roosevelt, Eleanor. Large Cut Signature by the Celebrated First Lady, Diplomat and Activist Signing Her Full Name "Anna Eleanor Roosevelt" 1933 (1884-1962) Among her countless achievements, Eleanor Roosevelt holds the distinction of being the longest serving First Lady in US history. Her influence, intelligence and activism won her millions of fans the world over. She is still ranked first among all other women who have served as America’s First Ladies by historians and universities going on 25 years, with Abigail Adams second.
Offered a large, very clean cut signature from a guest registry of some sorts.
Signed "Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, June 10th, 1933)
We have offered only a very few autographs by Mrs. Roosevelt where she signs using here full name and even fewer so large.
A perfect candidate for framing. Estimated Value $250 - 500
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Roosevelt, Eleanor: Outstanding Secretarial Transcription for "My Day" On Her View of Union Strikers and Henry Ford in Presentation Frame. Single page, handwritten transcription of an important opinion for "My Day" dictated September 19, 1945 at Hyde Park (according to The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers, Digital Edition) "My View of Strikes" by Eleanor Roosevelt".
This is an extremely passionate, heartfelt and important document in support of workers and unions, the overreach of manufacturers, how it benefits both employers and laborers to come to terms with conditions/wage and directly mentions Henry Ford. Executed in steel point fountain pen and in excellent condition with only soft folds apparent.
18 x 8½ and framed with a photo to 19 x 23½" Typed version of transcription included.
Note: Eleanor Roosevelt wrote "My Day," a national syndicated newspaper column, from 31 December 1935 until 26 September 1962 (six days a week until January 1961, then three days a week thereafter). Thus "My Day" is the only consistent existing account of her public actions. The columns, while no means a complete record of ER's daily activities, do reveal much about whom she met, where she traveled, which books she read, which plays she attended, and how she handled the pressures of public life. Estimated Value $300 - 500
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