Tag: FDR Suite Contents

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  Bird’s-Eye View of Harvard

  A while back, I acquired this wonderful 1895 bird’s-eye view of Harvard for the Suite, and I thought you might enjoy seeing it. (The original is 11 x 17;  click…

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  Lathrop’s Desk

  “The rooms look as if struck by sheet lightning, the sitting-room having the chairs and tables but no curtains or carpets. The bed is in place in my room and…

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  Of Arms and a Man, and a Foundation

  For over a year now, we’ve been searching for some sort of logo for the Foundation. We’ve thought of many different options, only to discard them one by one: too…

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  FDR’s Secret Code

  How’s this for an elliptical tale: I was sitting last evening in FDR Suite, attending a small get-together hosted by Claire Mays, ’81, who’s our first guest since the Suite…

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  All the King’s Horses…

  Who said you couldn’t put Humpty-Dumpty back together again? Several days’ worth  of hard work later, the Suite has emerged with its new coat of paper, remarkably transformed, looking for…

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  Wallpaper At Last!

  An epic campaign ended today as the first rolls of  historic wallpaper were applied to the walls of the FDR Suite study. You may remember all the trials and tribulations…