Vellum Lampshade Signed by Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, Members of the Cabinet, Supreme Court, and Senior Advisors. 20" x 11" x 14". A truly unique multiple signature item from Roosevelt's first term. Each panel of the eight-sided lampshade is numbered in the lower right of the respective panel in script. Isabelle V. Wamsley, who assembled this lampshade signed by New Deal notables was secretary to Louis McHenry Howe, and upon Howe's death in 1936, became one of FDR's secretaries. Panel One: Includes President Roosevelt, Vice President John Nance Garner, and all nine members from FDR's early Cabinet: Cordell Hull (Secretary of State); Henry Morgenthau, Jr. (Secretary of the Treasury); Harry Woodring (Secretary of War); James A. Farley (Postmaster General); Claude A. Swanson (Secretary of the Navy); Harold L. Ickes (Secretary of the Interior); Homer Cummings (Attorney General); Henry A. Wallace (Secretary of Agriculture); Daniel C. Roper (Secretary of Commerce); and Frances Perkins (Secretary of Labor). Panel Two: Includes Marvin H. McIntyre (Secretary to the President); James Roosevelt (FDR's oldest son and at the time Secretary to the President); Marguerite A. "Missy" LeHand (FDR's Private Secretary); Ross Q. McIntire, FDR's personal physician; and Alben W. Barkley, United States Majority Leader and later Vice President. Panel Three: Includes Ralph V. Hitchcock, (FDR campaign worker); H. M. Kannee (Secretary to Marvin H. McIntyre); Rudolph Forster (Chief Clerk of the White House); M. C. Latta (Assistant to Mr. Forster); William D. Hassett (Secretary to the President); Pat McKenna (Receptionist at the front desk of the White House); Robert Fechner (Director of the CCC); Donald R. Richberg (NRA Administrator); Frank K. Sanderson (Disbursement Clerk of the White House); and Jesse H. Jones (Chairman of the RFC). Panel Four: Includes the Supreme Court of the United States who nullified elements of the New Deal: Charles Evans Hughes (Chief Justice); Willis van Devanter; J. C. McReynolds; Louis D. Brandeis; George Sutherland; Pierce Butler; Harlan F. Stone; Owen Roberts; and Benjamin Cardozo. Panel Five: Includes fourteen female secretarial assistants including Isabelle V. Wamsley. Panel Six: Includes Fred D. Pryor (who served with FDR when he was Assistant Secretary of the Navy); Hugh S. Jackson (Chairman of the N.R.A.); S. C. Jackson (Head Usher and Assistant to Pat McKenna); Father Sheehy; Colonel E. W. Starling (Advance Man of the Secret Service); Russell C. Wood (Secret Service); Bob Clark (Secret Service). Panel Seven: Includes Eleanor Roosevelt, J. F. T. "Jefty" O'Connor (Comptroller of the Currency), Edwin "Pa" Watson (Secretary to the President), Louis McHenry Howe, (FDR's most important friend and mentor before his death in 1936) and his wife Grace H. Howe, Charles T. Russell (Deputy Collector of Internal Revenue), Guy T. Helvering (Collector of Internal Revenue), United States Senator Joseph F. Guffey, and W. W. Howes (First Assistant Postmaster General). Panel Eight: Includes Harry L. Hopkins (next to Howe, FDR's most trusted friend and advisor, Administrator of WPA and Federal Relief), as well as Joseph P. Kennedy (Chairman of the SEC and later Ambassador to the Court of St. James and father of future President John F. Kennedy), Charles Michelson (Director of Publicity for the Democratic National Committee), Edward L. Roddan (Publicity for the Democratic National Committee), Charles West (Under Secretary of the Interior), and Thomas G. Corcoran (Tommy the Cork, another key FDR advisor and then Council for RFC). Condition: Toned and rubbed. Several of the vellum panels have come loose at the top and bottom. Panels six and seven have tears. Some signatures are light. HID03101062020 © 2020 Heritage Auctions | All Rights Reserved

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