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to Frederick Douglass

Sumner, a Senator from Massachusetts tried the previous day to locate Douglass at his office, but was too late. Writes "I beg to talk with you about the Republican party & its perils to which I fear you are not sufficiently sensible... Pray don't...

GLC00470.01

to Christopher C. Sniffen

Douglass writes to Sniffen, secretary for President Ulysses S. Grant. Informs Sniffen, "it will be convenient for me to call at the Executive Mansion on Monday Morning, and if I learn nothing from you meanwhile requesting otherwise I will call on...

GLC03893.01

The fifteenth amendment celebrated May 19th 1870

One print entitled The fifteenth amendment celebrated May 19th 1870, dated 1870. Copyright entered by Thomas Kelly. From an original by James Beard. Lithograph in color with much iconography relating to passage of the Reconstruction amendments and...

GLC10030

Men of Color: To Arms! Now or Never... [recruitment broadside]

One broadside entitled Men of Color: To Arms! Now or Never. dated 1863. Dramatic oversize recruitment broadside appealing to free African-Americans to enlist for three years. The broadside asks "Are freemen less brave than slaves[?]" Subscribed in...

GLC10021

"Dedication Ceremonies of the Frederick Douglass Home"

One program entitled, "Dedication Ceremonies of the Frederick Douglass Home" dated February 14, 1972. Includes a dedication to Frederick Douglass's biography and work towards the anti-slavery movement. Also included is a program of the day events...

GLC09640.060.01

Onward

One poster entitled "Onward" by W.L. Haskell dated 1903. Features portraits of Paul Laurence Dunbar, W.E.B. Du Bois, Matilda Sissieretta Joyner Jones, Hightower Theodore Kealing, and Wilford Horace Smith along the top. On the lower half of the poster...

GLC09736.01

Onward

One poster entitled "Onward" by W.L.Haskell dated 1903. Features portraits of Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and Booker T. Washington. The poster also features images of the house where Lincoln was born, the Tuskegee institute, Frederick...

GLC09736.02

"Dedication Ceremonies of the Frederick Douglass Home"

One program entitled, "Dedication Ceremonies of the Frederick Douglass Home" dated February 14, 1972. Includes a dedication to Frederick Douglass's biography and work towards the anti-slavery movement. Also included is a program of the day events...

GLC09640.060

[Scrapbook of Maria Webb]

Bound collection of letters from leading abolitionists of the period, including Frederick Douglass and Harriet Beecher Stowe, among others.

GLC08360

to Maria Webb

GLC08360.04