Franklin D. Roosevelt's Train Ferdinand Magellan
Before U.S. Air Force One there was U.S. Train Car Number One, designed for the specifications of President...
President Franklin Roosevelt's Shakespeare collection
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- Folger Shakespeare Library
President Franklin Roosevelt's Shakespeare collection
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt owned the 40-volume collection of the Temple Shakespeare, Israel Gollancz edition. The title page of the Hamlet volume is seen here. With his 1943 inscription on the flysheet, President Roosevelt gave the set to the Folger Shakespeare Library.
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