Browse Collections (81 total)

Press releases written by Assistant to the President, Joseph P. Tumulty.

Printed postcards that have been donated to the library from various sources.

Family portraits, travel photographs, cartoons, and some postcards.

Military historian's research collection.

Selected letters from the first year of Woodrow Wilson's presidency.

Scrapbook collection from a soldier who served as an army journalist in France during WWI.

John P. Ambuehl was a private from Borup, Minnesota, who served as a machine gunner in France during WWI and was killed in action in October 1918. The…

The Thomas J. Koger Collection materials include a Rainbow Division hat, four maps, two licenses, two membership cards, trip materials, and a…

This collection is a compilation of information about various enlisted soldiers from World War I. Items range in content from service records,…

Programs, newspaper clippings, photos and other ephemera, including Confederate memorabilia.

Photos of Wilson and his era from a variety of sources.

Pamphlets covering many aspects of Wilson’s career.

Index cards documenting events in Wilson's life by month and day. Digital collection includes the daily calendar of the head usher at the White House…

Ellen Axson Wilson's transcribed letters from the microfilm collection of her letters at the Library of Congress.

Papers, correspondence of AM Fraser about fundraising, other issues related to the Birthplace and the Woodrow Wilson legacy.

Wilson, Woodrow, Bolling, Axson family information.

89 digital images

Personal papers, photos of Eleanor Wilson McAdoo, Woodrow Wilson’s youngest daughter.

The Sprague Papers consists of forms, legal memoranda, correspondence, and publications collected by Rufus W. Sprague Jr., who was chief of the Enemy…

Letters, war records, personal effects of military personnel, photos, and published articles from various people.

Photographs and documents from Shoor’s military service in WWI, including service as driver for Wilson’s presidential party during battlefield tours,…

Letters, photos, documents of President Wilson’s second daughter, Jessie. On her mother’s death in 1914, Jessie became one of her father’s closest…

Photocopies of letters from Woodrow Wilson’s daughter Eleanor to sister Jessie while Jessie was a student at St. Mary’s.

Photocopies of 39 personal letters from Woodrow Wilson to Edith Gittings Reid, a personal friend.

Collection of articles and documents copied from the US National Archives and Records Administration on the topic of African Americans and racism…

Inventory list for 11 phonograph records.

10-page inventory list of newspapers housed in the archives with stories about President Wilson; large boxes of newspapers and magazines.

Printed sheet music, most of it from the years of the Wilson administration.

Speeches in the Senate about the League of Nations, along with pamphlets and research notes.

Personal correspondence, articles, and essays of Woodrow Wilson biographer Arthur Stanley Link.

Books, letters, newspaper clippings, advertisements, relating to Woodrow Wilson Birthplace Foundation and Presidential Library.

Registers and minutes for the Jefferson Literary and Debating Society, the debating society at the University of Virginia, which held meetings in…

Photographs taken by Edward N. Jackson ranging from President Woodrow Wilson’s second inauguration, Wilson’s time in Europe, and his attendance at the…

Letters, rare family photos from Mary E. Hoyt, cousin of Ellen Axson Wilson.

Lists of Hoover Institute letters, other materials dealing with WWI, postwar reconstruction.

The documents within the William Cabell Grayson collection contain many correspondence, ephemera, and newspaper clippings from the years 1909 to 1953.…

Photographs, some framed; photo albums; negatives.

The papers of Cary T. Grayson, personal physician and friend of Woodrow Wilson, came to the Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library in 2005, initially as…

Gordon was president and general manager of Newport News Supply Co. and the brother of James J. Gordon.
The bin contains ledgers and bank records.

Business papers, letters from James J. Gordon, father of Alice Gordon Grayson, intimate friend of Edith Bolling Galt Wilson; includes 1 large box of…

Gordon was the wife of Cary T. Grayson. After his death she married George Leslie Harrison. The collection includes letters, clippings and school…

This collection contains newspaper clippings about Woodrow Wilson's death kept by Daisie Dodson as a teenager in Portsmouth, Virginia, in a touching…

Letters and invitations from Clark relating to the wedding of Jessie Wilson to Francis B. Sayre Jr. in 1913 at the White House. Clark was a groomsman.

The Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library Political Cartoon Collection displays social and political messages regarding the events of World War I. The…

Netherlands-born Bouman was an author and journalist who covered World War I for the Associated Press in Europe. This collection is comprised of…

This collection documents the campaign by Woodrow Wilson's widow to preserve his legacy. It includes 179 handwritten and typed letters among members…

The Nelle Hiner Yount collection documents the personal experiences of two World War One soldiers. The items date from approximately 1918-1919, and…

The Woodrow Wilson Letters collection includes personal and professional correspondence written by Woodrow that the Woodrow Wilson Presidential…

This collection consists of eleven folders of letters, envelopes, and place cards from members of the Wilson family to one another including letters…

The Virginia Normal School Board Collection includes the minutes and auditor reports from the meetings of the Virginia School Board from 1914–1917.…

The Rose Frances Hull papers consist almost entirely of handwritten correspondence from Mrs. Cordell Hull to Mrs. H. McKelden Smith during the years…

This series contains a vast array of general correspondence, mostly personal in nature
but official at times. The first four boxes of the series…

Seaman Halverson material includes postcards from Puget Sound Navy Yards, certificates of discharge, and photocopy of Sailor’s Discharge Record.

The Judge Groner Papers consists of 20 folders of correspondence relating to the Woodrow Wilson Birthplace Foundation over a ten year period,…

The Papers of Emily Smith span the years 1933 through 1974. Composed principally of incoming and outgoing business correspondence relating to the…

The Scrapbook Collection contains two series of scrapbooks. Series 1 was compiled by former staff at the Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library and…

The documents in this collection were used by Ms. Saunders for her research of the book, Lady Between Two Worlds: Ellen Axson Wilson. There is a wide…

The Poe collection focuses on the work of Elisabeth Ellicott Poe and Vylla Poe Wilson in the Woman’s Section of the Navy League and the National…

The Earl S. Parish Collection offers a glimpse into what it was like to be stationed in Europe after World War I had officially ended. Earl S. Parish…

Papers and effects of John Trowbridge Nightingale (1888-1954), businessman, military veteran and aide to President Wilson. He was Wilson’s personal…

Anna L. Nevins Collection materials include a blue cloth journal containing photographs, pamphlets, postcards, brochures, and miscellaneous documents…

The William Gibbs McAdoo Collection consists of just four letters to his wife Eleanor Randolph Wilson. All are of an intimate nature and are…

The documents in this collection are all original and consist mostly of Gordon’s letters to home during his World War II and World Bank services in…

The Condon Collection consists of correspondence, memoranda, telegrams, official documents, and photographs originating during the 1919 Paris Peace…

Cochran’s personal correspondence begins in 1911 and 1912 when he was establishing his law practice in Staunton. As a supporter of Woodrow Wilson’s…

The Charles Catlett Papers are made up principally of correspondence and are arranged in two groups. The first group deals with preparations for the…

The Laura F. Buerger Collection documents the life of the American soldier overseas as well as life on the home front during, and immediately,…

Ephemera, letters from various donors relating to President Wilson and his legacy

The Berryman Collection (.5 linear feet) consists of scans of Wilson-era cartoons drawn by Clifford Berryman of the Washington Evening Star. The…

Eight leather-bound journals chronicling daily life, correspondence, and finances. Also includes two photographs and one pair of eye glasses.

Scans of 3 Wilson letters and a photograph of Jessie Wilson courtesy of Goucher College Archives.

The collection includes scans of Wilson related correspondence in the Gilder-Lehrman Institute collection. A variety of important topics is covered,…

Letters of the Wilson Family.

Wilson writes to Dabney, his former University of Virginia classmate (and later history professor at the University) regarding his life after ill…

Letters of a soldier enlisted in the U.S. Army from 1916 to 1919.
Kappelmann's letters, written primarily to his sister, Anna-Marie Bubendey,…

Letters from the White House to various individuals

Benjamin Strong Jr. was appointed first governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York upon its formation in 1914. The papers consist of letters…

Letters that Edith Bolling wrote during the Wilson administration, mostly to the President.