Letter from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Charles D. Walcott

Summary

During World War I, future President and Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt wrote a letter to fourth Smithsonian Secretary Charles D. Walcott thanking him for the list of names of water birds and waders prepared by Charles W. Richmond, an ornithologist and curator at the United States National Museum. Roosevelt had requested these names because new mine sweepers were to be given bird names.

Subject

• Walcott, Charles D (Charles Doolittle) 1850-1927
• Richmond, Charles Wallace 1868-1932
• United States Navy Department

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 45, Box 98, Folder: 9

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

• February 26, 1918
• 20th century

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Topic

• WW I
• Boats and boating
• World War, 1914-1918
• Animals
• Secretaries
• Smithsonian Institution
• Personnel management
• Birds
• Employees
• Museums
• Museum curators
• Ornithologists
• Ornithology
• Ships
• Smithsonian Institution--Employees

Place

Washington (D.C.)

Form/Genre

• Letters (correspondence)
• Paper

ID Number

SIA2014-06985

Physical description

Number of Images: 1 Color: Color Size: 8.5w x11h Type of Image: Letters Medium: Paper

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