Browse Collections (81 total)

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

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 from the White House to various individuals

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,…

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

Letters of the Wilson Family.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Photographs, some framed; photo albums; negatives.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Inventory list for 11 phonograph records.

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

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

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

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…

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

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

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

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

89 digital images

Wilson, Woodrow, Bolling, Axson family information.

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

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

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…

Pamphlets covering many aspects of Wilson’s career.

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

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

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

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

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…

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

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

Military historian's research collection.

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

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

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