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“This Great Nation Will Endure” IN THIS ISSUE - Oval Office Globe endezvousNews and Notes from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library and Institute - Presidential Libraries Logo RSummer 2004 - Fall Programs Announced “This Great Nation Will Endure”: - Archivist Teichman Retires Photographs of the Great Depression - Library Brochure Available Special Exhibition Opens September 12th, 2004 - New Facility Meets Needs The Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential richest exhibitions of FSA photography Library and Museum will present a ever mounted, and will include photographic exhibition of 175 images of reproductions of many photographs in America taken between 1935 and 1942 by dramatically large formats. FROM THE great photographers of the Farm Security Administration, including Dorothea A soundtrack consisting of FSA audio DIRECTOR Lange, Walker Evans, Ben Shahn, Jack recordings of folk music sung by migrant Delano, Arthur Rothstein, Gordon Parks, workers will fill part of the exhibit space. Carl Mydans, Russell Lee, Marion Post The exhibit will also include a specially- On Sunday, September 12th with the Wolcott and John Vachon. Above: Arthur Rothstein, opening of "This Great Nation Will Father and sons walking in the face of a dust storm, Cimarron Endure": Photographs of the Great The photographs are drawn County, Oklahoma, 1936. Depression, the Roosevelt Presidential from the massive Farm Center: Dorothea Lange, Library and Museum dedicates its new Security Administration Mother and baby of family on special gallery for changing exhibitions. the road. Tulelake, Siskiyou photography collection at County, California, 1939. Named for Ambassador William J. the Library of Congress. vanden Heuvel, the gallery will serve as Their work includes some of the ecological disaster perpetual public recognition of his the most familiar and known as the Dust Bowl. outstanding leadership in the powerful images of the The agency was connected revitalization of the Roosevelt Library. nation to emerge from those to the Department of At the dedication ceremony we will difficult years. Many have Agriculture, led by Secretary unveil a new portrait of Ambassador reached iconic status in of Agriculture, Henry A. vanden Heuvel painted by Janet Ross. American culture. Wallace. The painting will hang at the entrance to the William J. vanden Heuvel Gallery. Opening in the new William Most of the photographs in J. vanden Heuvel Gallery, the FSA collection depict More than ten years ago, when Sunday, September 12th, rural life and hardships. But approached by the National Archives and 2004, “This Great Nation the collection also includes Records Administration about the need Will Endure” will include images of town and city life. for improvements to the Roosevelt FSA photographs from In tens of thousands of Library, Ambassador vanden Heuvel every region of the nation. It photographs, the FSA accepted the enormous challenge of will be one of the largest and created a remarkably diverse raising $21 million in public and private Below: Ben Shahn, Untitled, record of life in America funds. As a result of his leadership with Pulaski County, Arkansas, during the 1930s and early 1935. 1940s—including images of commissioned short documentary film hardship, endurance, hope, recovery, that explores the work of several of the migration, recreation, and community life. most prominent FSA photographers. “This Great Nation Will Endure”: A New Deal agency created by President Photographs of the Great Depression Franklin D. Roosevelt, the FSA sought to runs through July 17th, 2005. The help American farmers and farm laborers exhibition is sponsored by the who were confronting economic Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt depression and natural disaster, including Institute. Congressman John E. Sweeney Speaks at Dedication The Henry A. Wallace Visitor and the only Republican member of the House past, all while taking another step toward Education Center was formally dedicated of Representatives to sponsor a resolution fulfilling a vision that celebrates the legacy on Saturday, November 15th, 2003. The to keep FDR on the dime. of the Roosevelts, educates us and our Center is a public-private project designed children on powerful history lessons, and Alan Perlman to serve students, teachers, and the visiting attracts heritage tourism to our region. It's Ambassador William J. vanden Heuvel. public at the Roosevelt Presidential a vision I remain firmly committed to, and private donors and Congress, visitors to Library, part of the National Archives and one that ultimately cannot be fulfilled Hyde Park are enjoying the beautiful new Records Administration, and the sites without the restoration of the FDR Henry A. Wallace Visitor and Education administered by the National Park Service Presidential Library. Together we must Center and the stunning new gallery that in Hyde Park. Named in honor of the man work to preserve this invaluable fittingly bears his name. In the next few who served as Secretary of Agriculture resources—a time capsule of excellence— years the results of the next phase of his (1933-1940) and Vice-President during so that generations can come and enjoy, philanthropic work will unfold as we Franklin Roosevelt's third term, the learn and gain an enhanced understanding begin the redevelopment of the main Wallace Center offers visitors an array of of the magnificent presidential legacy of galleries in the Library itself, culminating new and expanded services designed to Franklin Delano Roosevelt." in the installation of new permanent enhance their experiences in Hyde Park. exhibits on the life and work of Franklin Other noted guests in attendance for the and Eleanor Roosevelt. Representative John E. Sweeney (R- afternoon ceremony were Archivist of the Clifton Park), in whose home district the United States, John Carlin; Pulitzer Prize Ambassador vanden Heuvel's work on FDR Presidential Library and Home of Matthew Gillis winning author and historian Doris Kearns behalf of the Roosevelt Library goes far FDR National Historic Site are located, Representative John E. Sweeney (R-Clifton Goodwin; New York Commissioner of Park) spoke at the dedication. beyond fund raising. He is the spoke at the dedication. In past years, Parks, Recreation and Historic inspirational leader and moral compass Congressman Sweeney has secured $8.5 One of the strongest supporters of the Preservation Bernadette Castro; NPS that guides our work. For nearly twenty million for the Wallace Center and $6 Roosevelt Library and National Park Regional Director Marie Rust, years, as the driving force behind the million for the restoration of the buildings Service sites in Hyde Park, Sweeney said, Congressman Maurice Hinchey, and Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute, and landscapes at the Eleanor Roosevelt "I was honored to have spoken at the William J. vanden Heuvel, co-chairman of he has steadfastly championed the National Historic Site and for the dedication of the Wallace Visitor and the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt construction of a future regional tourist Education Center last November. It was a Institute. Henry Scott Wallace represented (continued on page 2) information center and transportation hub wonderful day as we looked toward a the Wallace family and Anna Eleanor in Hyde Park. Congressman Sweeney was bright future and remembered a gloried Roosevelt spoke for the Roosevelt family. Museum Adds Rare Globe to Oval Office Display (continued from page 1) In time for the 60th anniversary of Library as the preeminent center in the D-Day, the Franklin D. Roosevelt world for the study and public Presidential Library and Museum understanding of Franklin and Eleanor placed on display the rare and priceless Roosevelt and their era. standing floor model world globe that President Franklin D. Roosevelt used to He leads us in encouraging an ever trace troop movements and plan increasing number of students, scholars, military strategy throughout World War and museum visitors to explore Franklin II. Measuring fifty inches in diameter, Roosevelt's legacy as the creator and FDR received his globe as a gift from defender—at home and abroad—of General George C. Marshall in 1942. modern democratic government. He helps us all remember Eleanor Marshall arranged to have 50-inch Roosevelt's unparalleled contributions to world globes presented to President the nation and world through her work Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston with the United Nations and as social Churchill as Christmas gifts from the activist and champion of civil rights. War Department. The globes were Ambassador vanden Heuvel has written manufactured by the Weber Costello extensively on questions relating to the Company of Chicago Heights, Illinois United Nations and American foreign under the direct supervision of the Franklin D. Roosevelt, Commander in Chief of the US Armed Forces, looks at the fifty-inch globe policy and lectures widely on diverse Office of Strategic Services (OSS) and presented to him by the US Army. 1942. FDR Presidential Library and Museum. subjects related to Franklin D. Roosevelt. the War Department. may be rotated or pivoted in any 1942 and 1955. Other wartime leaders The Ambassador's service to the The globe was created at a scale of direction at will. also received copies of the globe, as did Roosevelts includes fifteen years as 1:10,000,000—about 157.8 miles to the the House and Senate Chambers in the president of the Franklin and Eleanor inch. It contains more than 1700 place It is believed that the Weber Costello Capitol. We know of three extant
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