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FDR the Collector

A gilded metal bell and chain. The exterior of the bell has relief figures of St. Michael and the dragon on one wide side with the inscription: CAMPANA DELLA FORTUNA / SAN. MICHELE. Angels are depicted on the other wide side with the inscription and artist's name: CAPRI / G. Di Pietro. One of the narrow sides of the bell features a relief image of a goat's head and the foundry mark: DI GIACOMO / FONDERIA ART / NAPOLI.ALT
A gilded metal bell and chain. The exterior of the bell has relief figures of St. Michael and the dragon on one wide side with the inscription: CAMPANA DELLA FORTUNA / SAN. MICHELE. Angels are depicted on the other wide side with the inscription and artist's name: CAPRI / G. Di Pietro. One of the narrow sides of the bell features a relief image of a goat's head and the foundry mark: DI GIACOMO / FONDERIA ART / NAPOLI.ALT

This brass bell, called the Bell of San Michele, was a 1944 Christmas gift to Franklin Roosevelt from the people of the Italian island of Capri. Cast from bronze and silver German coins after the liberation of the island in 1943, the bell was shipped to the United States by Capri’s Mayor Giuseppe Brindisi with the hope that it might “ring on the Day of Victory for everlasting Peace and Freedom in all the world.” Accordingly, the bell was rung in the National Archives building to mark V-E Day and V-J Day in 1945.

See more artifacts on our Digital Artifact Collection: https://fdr.artifacts.archives.gov/objects/3102/bell-of-san-michele

Then take a look back at our FDR the Collector posts over the past year, featuring artifacts personally collected, purchased, or retained by Franklin Roosevelt, all from our Digital Artifact Collection.

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FDR the Globe Collector

A large and heavy 50" diameter map of the world globe on a scale of 1:10,000,000 (or 157.8 miles per inch). The globe rests on rubber rollers mounted on a moveable base. On the base is an inscribed plaque that reads: THIS GLOBE IS PRESENTED TO / THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES / BY THE / UNITED STATES ARMY / CHRISTMAS, 1942. Another smaller plaque attached to the base is inscribed: FRONT / SCHACHT ASSOCIATES / NEW YORK, N. Y. The globe was executed by the Weber Costello Company of Chicago Heights, Illinois. The ball was made by Cummins and Engbert, NYC. The base was designed by Henry Dreyfuss and executed by L. L. Schacht of NY.ALT

President Roosevelt kept this globe near his White House Oval Office desk and used it to trace troop movements and plan military strategy. General George C. Marshall presented it to FDR in 1942 as a Christmas gift from the U.S. Army. Marshall gave an identical globe to Winston Churchill. The Weber Costello Company of Chicago Heights, Illinois, built the globe under the supervision of the Office of Strategic Services and the War Department. It is on display in the Museum’s WORLD WAR II gallery.

FDR sitting at his desk examining his large globe.ALT

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See more artifacts on our Digital Artifact Collection: https://fdr.artifacts.archives.gov/objects/3296/world-globe

Join us throughout 2023 as we present FDR the Collector, featuring artifacts personally collected, purchased, or retained by Franklin Roosevelt, all from our Digital Artifact Collection.

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Christmas with the Roosevelts

Join us for Christmas with the Roosevelts

TODAY at 2pm ET

FDR and Eleanor made a special holiday of Christmas every year. FDR Library Director William Harris invites you into the President’s study for a look through some of their holiday memories held in the Archives.

In the Philippines, U.S. nurse 1st Lt. Phyllis Hocking tends the wounded in a hospital quartered in a church as the congregation kneels during Christmas Eve services, December 24, 1944. 📷: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/542115
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In the Philippines, U.S. nurse 1st Lt. Phyllis Hocking tends the wounded in a hospital quartered in a church as the congregation kneels during Christmas Eve services, December 24, 1944.

📷: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/542115

Festivus For The Rest Of Us!

Happy Festivus for the rest of us! Today we are featuring our versions of the Festivus customs:

Our Festivus Pole is a utility pole built by the Rural Electrification Administration (location unknown). The aluminum poles in our artifact collection were too distracting. 📷:Px 53-227(1668)

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Festivus Dinner: it’s breakfast for dinner with Soya pancakes! Be sure to be generous with your seasonings. Learn more about this #WWII poster: https://fdr.artifacts.archives.gov/objects/25856/cooking-with-soya-flour- 

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Everyone’s favorite tradition: Airing of Grievances!:  With “genuine indignation,” Ms. Todd makes it clear that no one wants to hear about Fala’s love life. “I beg that the White House gets out of the dog business and on with the war.”

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And Mr. Phipps doesn’t hold anything back when he calls FDR a “smiling, wasteful and fickle Prima Donna politician.”

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Let’s show off our Feats of Strength as demonstrated by the gentlemen competing in this game of “Are You There Moriarty?” at a picnic at Val-kill on September 3, 1934. Watch more: https://youtu.be/K5t8tMLn_6Q 

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Lastly, it’s a Festivus Miracle! The graphics for our upcoming exhibit “FDR’s Final Campaign” are up. This exhibit explores FDR’s vision for the future and the campaign he undertook during his last months to secure it. Unfortunately we do not have an opening date but you can learn more here: https://www.fdrlibrary.org/exhibitions

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Did you miss Jeff Urbin’s “The Roosevelts at Christmas” presentation last week? Watch it now: https://fb.watch/2szsdXzzoZ/ How did the dark times brought about by the Great Depression and World War II impact the way the Roosevelts and Americans...
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Did you miss Jeff Urbin’s “The Roosevelts at Christmas” presentation last week? Watch it now: https://fb.watch/2szsdXzzoZ/ 

How did the dark times brought about by the Great Depression and World War II impact the way the Roosevelts and Americans celebrated the Christmas holiday? This session presents the customs and traditions followed by the Roosevelt family as they celebrated Christmas, one of their favorite holidays of the year.

J is for Jar

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FDR’s interest in collecting pigs was not well known, as his private secretary Grace Tully later recalled in her memoir, “Only the people closely associated with him knew about this interest.” This ceramic pig was a Christmas gift from his young granddaughter, Sara Delano Roosevelt, the first child of his son, James.

Learn more: https://fdr.artifacts.archives.gov/objects/5720/ceramic-pig-jar

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Fred Shipman served as the first Director of the FDR Library. Here in celebration of the Christmas season is he and his wife’s 1943 card to President Roosevelt. Perhaps Shipman walked the card down the hall from his office (where our director works...
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Fred Shipman served as the first Director of the FDR Library. Here in celebration of the Christmas season is he and his wife’s 1943 card to President Roosevelt. Perhaps Shipman walked the card down the hall from his office (where our director works...
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Fred Shipman served as the first Director of the FDR Library. Here in celebration of the Christmas season is he and his wife’s 1943 card to President Roosevelt. Perhaps Shipman walked the card down the hall from his office (where our director works...
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Fred Shipman served as the first Director of the FDR Library. Here in celebration of the Christmas season is he and his wife’s 1943 card to President Roosevelt. Perhaps Shipman walked the card down the hall from his office (where our director works today) to the President’s study.

FDR didn’t forget about Library staff either. In a list from the early 1940s compiled by his cousin Daisy Suckley, she noted a gift from FDR to the Library group for “bird feeding station.” Perhaps FDR had his own interests in mind, too, as he enjoyed bird watching. But as head of the Executive Branch, of which the National Archives is a part, he was effectively a Library staffer, too!

Who doesn’t like that holiday favorite fruit cake? Well, perhaps the question is who does? Apparently, FDR did, and the aptly named W. C. Baker of Ojai, California, baked, as a baker named Baker would, a gargantuan confection and dispatched it to the...
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Who doesn’t like that holiday favorite fruit cake? Well, perhaps the question is who does? Apparently, FDR did, and the aptly named W. C. Baker of Ojai, California, baked, as a baker named Baker would, a gargantuan confection and dispatched it to the White House. He had done this for 17 years running.

On this day seventy-nine years ago, Mrs. Mildred Cook presented Mr. Baker’s modest 1939 creation to FDR’s aide General Edwin “Pa” Watson. Cook worked for Representative A. J. Elliott of California. His absence speaks volumes, but constituent services necessitated at least a show of support.

Of a similar cake presented in 1935, newspapers reported it weighed in at over a hundred pounds of goodness. Also abundantly frosted and expertly decorated, the cake featured candied roses and golden taffy. Each year Baker’s gift featured a different California scene with a Spanish mission evident here.

Did you know that in 1942 the United States Department of the Treasury enlisted the help of Santa to deliver war bonds on Christmas? Don’t miss the final weeks of our current exhibit The Art of War: American Poster Art 1941-1945 closing December 31,...
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Did you know that in 1942 the United States Department of the Treasury enlisted the help of Santa to deliver war bonds on Christmas?

Don’t miss the final weeks of our current exhibit The Art of War: American Poster Art 1941-1945 closing December 31, 2018.

Poster:  MO 2005.13.36.24.1, 1942. Artwork by Adolf Arthur Dehn.









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