| Accession Number: | SC 18:41 |
| Location: | RB-M |
| Dates: | 1860-1968 |
| Size: | 1 record carton; 1 cubic foot |
| Creator/Collector: | Unknown |
| Acquisition info: | Found at SLPL Compton Library |
| Accruals: | No accruals expected |
| Custodial history: | Unknown |
| Language: | English |
| Processed by: | Melissa Miller, July 2018 |
| Conservation notes: | Items placed in acid-free folders |
| Scope and Content: | The collection contains political campaign material for US presidential elections from 1860-1968. Items include convention programs and publications, party campaign books, and candidate advertisements. |
| Arrangement: | Chronological; misc. items and larger publications located at end of collection |
| Restrictions: | No restrictions |
| Remarks: | Older campaign text books are crumbly |
Presidential Election Campaign Collection
1860-1968
1 record carton; 1 cubic foot
| Box/Folder | Description |
| 1/1 | Finding aid |
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1860-1908 Convention and Inaugural Programs -Democratic Party Facts; 1892 -Inaugural Ceremonies of William McKinley; 1897 -The National Republican Convention of 1860; University of Illinois Bulletin; May 1904 -Official Order of Business of the Republican National Convention; June 1908 |
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1908-1920 Elections -Democratic Party; June 1908 -Republican Platform; June 1908 -Address of James S. Sherman in Response to Notification Speech; August 1908 -Hiram W. Johnson: Machine Smasher, Constructive Statesman; 1912 election -Woodrow Wilson and Social Justice; 1912 election -Republican Platform; June 1912 -Souvenir Ballot, Democratic Convention; June 1912 -Instructions to those desiring to vote for Roosevelt and the Progressive Party; 1912 election -Labor Record of Charles E. Hughes; [1916] -Platform of the Republican Party; 1916 -Roosevelt for President; 1916 election -Train tickets; 1916 -Wilson’s Labor Views/Hughes’ Labor Record; 1916 election -Democratic Manual; 1918 -ABC of the League of Nations; 1920 election -Speech of Acceptance; 1920 election -Democratic Platform; June 1920 |
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1924 Election -Address of Acceptance Delivered by President Coolidge -Arguments for Husbands Who Do Not Want Their Wives to Vote (Davis) -Biography and Record of John W. Davis -By Upholding Your Country You Are Upholding Your Home (Coolidge) -Coolidge/Dawes stickers (2) -The Democratic Party and Labor -Facts for Labor (Davis) -Farm Women Will Vote the Republican Ticket (Coolidge/Dawes) -Getting the Right Start -Introducing Our Next President: John W. Davis (2) -“On Guard for the People”; (La Follette/Wheeler) (3) -The Negro: An American Citizen (Coolidge) -The President! (Coolidge) -The President Speaks on Real World Peace (Coolidge) -The President Speaks on Saving the People’s Money (Coolidge) -Private Schools Are in Danger! -Responsibility in Government (Davis/Bryan) -The Tariff as a Tax on Women -Why the People Cannot Support Davis or Coolidge for Presidency (La Follette) (2) |
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1928 Election -The American’s Right to Fish (Hoover) -The Business Man and Herbert Hoover -Charles Curtis: Consistent Supporter of Humanitarian Legislation -The Child’s Bill of Rights (Hoover) -Chronological Biographical Sketch of Herbert Hoover -Curtis: The Man Who Never Broke His Word -Delegates to the National Republican Convention -Democratic Platform -Excerpts from Speeches and Writings of Herbert Hoover -Germany and Central Europe Fed through Efforts of Hoover -The Great Fat Fight (Hoover) -Herbert Hoover: A Product of America -Herbert Hoover and Agriculture -Herbert Hoover and the American Home -Herbert Hoover as His Friends See Him -Herbert Hoover as Women See Him -Hoover and the Farmers -Hoover: The Man Who Took America’s Women into His Confidence -Hoover on Teaching and Education -Hoover Recalls His Iowa Boyhood Days -Hoover Wins Fight to Protect Americans against Foreign Monopolies -Hoover’s Plan for Governmental Reorganization Hoover’s War Record Proves His Friendship for Agriculture -Increased Farm Prosperity through the Saint Lawrence Waterway (Hoover) -A Kentucky Woman Calls Herbert Hoover Tender Humanitarian -A Man Schooled by Destiny for the Needs of This Hour (Hoover) -“Master of Emergencies” (Hoover) -Mrs. Herbert Hoover (2) -The New Hoover -Orphaned, Hard Work was Hoover’s School for Service to Mankind -Picture Life of a Great American (Hoover) -A Progressive Editor’s Estimate of Herbert Hoover -Speech of Charles Curtis -We Women Want Herbert Hoover -What’s the Matter with Hoover? -Why I Am for Hoover -Will Uphold Best Republican Traditions (Hoover) -Your Job versus the Spectre of Idleness and Ruin (Hoover) |
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1932 Election -Address by Robert H. Lucas (Hoover) -Agriculture: What Is Wrong and What to Do about It (Roosevelt) (3) -“By Their Fruits Ye Shall Know Them” (Hoover) -Can You Trust Democratic Congress? (Hoover/Curtis) -Don’t Gamble with the Destiny of Your Nation (Hoover) (2) -Engineers for Hoover (3) -Facts: President Hoover and the Republican Administration -A Farm Woman States the Case (Hoover) (2) -Garner Stands for “Pork Barrel” Extravagance in Government (Hoover) (3) -Hails Genius of Hoover -Hoover sticker -How Federal Loans Help Small Home Owners (Hoover) (2) -It’s an Elephant’s Job, No Time for “Donkey Business!” postcards (2) -Men and Women Who Work (Hoover) (2) -Platform Adopted by the Democratic National Convention -Power: Protection of the Public Interest (Roosevelt) (2) -The Railroads: Republican Mistakes and Democratic Remedies (Roosevelt -Republican National Convention train information -Republican Party Platform -Results of the Republican National Convention -Roosevelt Never Reduced Anybody’s Taxes (Hoover) (3) -Roosevelt’s Get-Broke-Quick Plan (Hoover/Curtis) (2) -Roosevelt’s Record: Actual vs. Promissory (Hoover) (3) -Tariff: Grundyism Responsible for Ills of the Farmer (Roosevelt) -To the Women of America (Hoover) -Two of a Kind or Nothing to Choose From (Independent Party) -Vote for Hoover, Don’t Change Now (3) -Women Who Work—An Men Too! (Hoover) -You Can’t Avoid a Vote! (Hoover (3) |
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1936 Election -America’s Future (Roosevelt) -Boondoggling (Roosevelt) -The Case against Franklin D. Roosevelt -The Case for Franklin D. Roosevelt -Cattlemen! (Roosevelt) -Champions of Civil Service (Roosevelt) (2) -Conservation Ruined by Politics—“Ding” -Dairymen! (Roosevelt) -Democratic Blackboard, Republican Blackmail (Roosevelt) (2) -Democratic Victory (Roosevelt) -Don’t Be Fooled by Figures (Roosevelt) (2) -Don’t Go Back and Backward with Republicans (2) -Don’t You Want This Kind of an America -Dry Party Leader Assails Landon (Landon) -An Exhibition to Celebrate the Republican National Convention -Facts, Mr. Business Man (Roosevelt) -The Farmer Remembers Longer Than the Elephant (Roosevelt) -Farmers and Foreign Trade (Roosevelt) -Goodbye Farmhouse Drudgery (Roosevelt) -Governor Landon vs. Candidate Landon (2) -Hearst over Topeka (Landon) I Want Roosevelt Again button -In America (Landon/Knox) (2) -The Issues of 1936 -Keeping the Budget Unbalanced but Keeping Children Fed (Roosevelt) -Labor: Landon’s Platform, Roosevelt’s Record (Roosevelt) -Landon and Knox sticker -“Let’s Look at the Record” (Roosevelt) -Meet This Man (Knox) -Mr. Rockefeller Doesn’t Have Enough Money (antiRoosevelt) -The New Deal and Small Enterprise (Roosevelt) (2) -The New Deal Has Increased Missouri’s Share of National Debt -Notice: Deductions from Pay Start Jan. 1 -One Man to Another (Landon) -Our Wealth of Earth and Water (Roosevelt) -Peace (Roosevelt) -Platform Adopted by the Democratic National Convention (3) -Roosevelt Made Bank Deposits Safe -Roosevelt or Reaction? (Roosevelt) -The Roosevelt Record for Agriculture -Roosevelt stickers (2) -Saved more than a Million Homes (Roosevelt) (2) -Saving Farm Homes (Roosevelt) -Sign This New Declaration of Independence (Landon/Knox) -Soldier, You Can’t Stand There (anti-Roosevelt) -Spending to Save (Roosevelt -“Stabbing the Veteran in the Back” (anti-Roosevelt) -Tax Fakes and Budget Magic (Roosevelt) -They Can’t Put You in Jail for Asking! (Landon) -They Hate Roosevelt! (Roosevelt) -This Generation Has a Rendezvous with Destiny (Roosevelt) (2) -Through Tariff Walls (Roosevelt) (2) -The Truth about Farm Imports (Roosevelt) -The Truth about Taxes (Roosevelt) -The Two Wars (Roosevelt) (2) -We Want Roosevelt Again because of Facts and Figures -What about the Farmer? (Roosevelt) -What about the National Debt? (Roosevelt) -What Happened to the Little Red Schoolhouse (Roosevelt) -When Drought Comes (Roosevelt) -Where your daily $1 goes! (2) -Who’s against Roosevelt? (Roosevelt) -You’re Taking ‘Em on the Chin (Landon/Knox) -Your Electric Bill, 1936 (Roosevelt) |
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1940 Election -America Wants No Third Term! (Willkie) -Americans! Think Twice before You Vote Your Rights Away (Willkie) -Attention! American Army “On Order” (Willkie) -Bottlenecks (Willkie/McNary) -The Case against a Third Term for Any President (antiRoosevelt) -A Cherished Heritage from George Washington (Willkie) -Creeping Collectivism (3) -Dear Mr. & Mrs. American Citizen (Willkie) -“Double or Quits” (anti-Roosevelt) -Flash One Hundred and Forty Years Ago (Willkie) (3) -For Peace, Preparedness, and Prosperity (Willkie) -Going Away Party (anti-Roosevelt) -How We Can Recapture Prosperity in America (Willkie) -“Look here, upon this picture and then on this!” (Willkie) -“Mother ought to feel Swell!” (anti-Roosevelt) (3) -My Willkie Pledge -No Third Term! (Willkie) (6) -Once, I Could Vote, Too! (Willkie) -Our Own Fifth Column (Willkie/McNary) -Pro America Opposes the Third Term (anti-Roosevelt) -A Real American! (Willkie) -The Real Roots of the War (Willkie) -Serious Questions for Serious Voters at a Serious Time (anti-Roosevelt) -Slave or Free (anti-Roosevelt) (2) -Think! (Willkie) -A Third Term? (anti-Roosevelt) -A Third Term Means War (Willkie) -The Third Term…Why Not? (Willkie) -“The United States Government…” (Willkie) -“We the People” Want Willkie for President -Wendell Willkie -Wendell Willkie: Man of Action -Wendell Willkie Speaks to Labor -Wendell Willkie Speaks to Women -Wendell Willkie: World War Veteran (2) -What Every “Buddy” Should Know about Wendell Willkie -Why a Third Term? (Willkie) (2) -Why Business and Professional Women Want Wendell L. -Willkie for President (2) -Will Democracy Survive? (Willkie) -Willkie lapel pins order form -Willkie sticker -Your Child Is Facing Bankruptcy (anti-Roosevelt) -Youth Today and Tomorrow (Roosevelt) |
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1944-1964 Elections -Meet Thomas E. Dewey; 1944 election -The Acceptance Speech of Dale H. Learn; 1948 election -Dwight David Eisenhower: The Next President of the United States; 1952 election (3) -1952: The Year of Decision (Republican) -Eisenhower’s Creed; 1952 election -Eisenhower Republican Accomplishments; 1956 election -My Political Credo (Eisenhower); 1956 election -Barry Goldwater Puts Principle above Politics; 1964 election -Barry Goldwater Speaks out on the Issues; 1964 election -Why We Are for Goldwater; 1964 election |
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Misc. and Undated Items
-America First (Independent Party) -The Democratic Party Submits a Report -Document No. 116: Theodore Roosevelt -Correspondence -Gardner Bill Means Single Tax -Henry Ford’s Reasons for Supporting Wilson -The Inside Story newspapers (4) -League of All Humanity postcards; 1931 (2) -Make New York a National Convention City -National Party Platforms; 1892 -News clipping; 1939 (2) -Promise and Performance; 1938 -Questionnaires on Economics and Political Issues; 1920 -Republican or Democrat: If You Are a Home Woman, You Need Herbert Hoover for President -Republican State Platform; 1968 -Republican Tariff Has Saved Agriculture, Industry and Labor -Roosevelt Recovery Plan Makes Democratic Campaign Issue; 1934 -What Every Woman Wants to Know about Tariff (Hoover) -What the Republican Farm Plank Means to You -While Mr. Harding Reviews the Cases of the Politicals -Why I Am a Republican; 1956 -Working with Hoover |
| 1/- |
Publications
-Democratic Campaign/Text Book; 1884-1952 (8) -The Facts: La Follette-Wheeler Campaign Text Book; 1924 (2) -Platforms of the Two Great Political Parties; 1932-1944 (2) -Republican Campaign Text Book; 1880-1932 (6) -Republican State Campaign Text Book; 1916 -Speeches of Warren G. Harding of Ohio; 1920 |
