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to Thomas B. Pugh

Douglass refuses to speak at the Philadelphia Academy of Music because of its discriminatory policies towards African Americans. The letter escalates into a barrage of criticism against the Academy and Philadelphia the "City of Brotherly Love", which...

GLC01954

"Dedication Ceremonies of the Frederick Douglass Home"

One program entitled, "Dedication Ceremonies of the Frederick Douglass Home" dated February 14, 1972. A program of the day events such as a musical recital, speeches and performances by students in the Washington, D.C. area.

GLC09640.060.02

Letters from Sumner to Frederick Douglass [Decimalized .01-.02]

GLC00470

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 John Sherman

Intends to give Sherman a copy of a speech he (Douglass) gave on the 26th anniversary of the abolition of slavery, if the speech is published. Supports Sherman's attempt for the presidency on the Republican ticket. Written on Cedar Hill, Anacostia, D...

GLC02841

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

to Mr. Peck

Typed on stationery of the Exposition Universelle de Chicago, Pavillon Haitien. Sympathizes with Peck, recently removed from a governmental office. Notes that he would have written a letter to the President (Grover Cleveland) on Peck's behalf, but...

GLC02990

to Alexander M. Ross

One letter addressed to Alexander Ross from Anne Brown Adams dated July 31, 1887. Mentions the health of her children and reading The Life of Frederick Douglass. Does not find truth in Douglass's account of meeting John Brown. Believes that Uncle Tom...

GLC03007.15

to Alexander M. Ross [Incomplete]

Defending her father, John Brown, against what appear to be statements that he took money and used it for personal needs. Concludes that Mary Stearns' "mind must be disordered" with age due to statements that she made. The statements seem to imply...

GLC03007.50

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

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass An American Slave

Inscribed: "From his sincere friend." To N. B. Spooner.

GLC08365

to Francis Jackson

"You will begin to think this fugitive slave, ought to be flogged, for his neglect and sloathfulness[sic[, in replying to your letter. . .I have just been in search of the information which you require, in respect to the whereabouts of Livi Chocker...

GLC08387

New York semi-weekly tribune. [Vol. 16, no. 1613 (November 9, 1860)]

Front page article announces that South Carolina will call a secession convention. Also contains news on the results of the election of 1860 listed by state. On page two there is a reprinted letter sent to Frederick Douglass by a white man stating...

GLC08429.09

Lithograph of Frederick Douglass

Circa dates based on several sources, indicating Currier and Ives' location at 125 Nassau St. between 1872 and 1874.

GLC08630.03

New-York times. [Vol. 14, no. 4251 (May 11, 1865)]

One newspaper issue of New-York times, dated May 11, 1865. Reports Queen Victoria's condolence to Mrs. Lincoln as well as other expressions of sympathy from international heads of state on the assassination of President Lincoln. Also contains an...

GLC08835

New-York Daily Tribune. [Vol. 22, no. 6786 (January 3, 1863)]

One newspaper issue of New-York Daily Tribune, dated January 3, 1863. Prints the Emancipation Proclamation on page four. This is among the early printings of the Proclamation in a newspaper. Other news includes the Battle of Murfreesboro with map...

GLC08862

to T. R. H. Johnson

No year cited, but preliminary research suggests the year of publication. Thanks Johnson, editor of The Monthly Elevator, for a bound volume recently sent. Remarks that the Elevator, an African American journal, is "laying the foundation of a...

GLC05312

to N. C. Corbin

Douglass, serving as a United States Marshal, replies to a letter from Colonel Corbin sent 12 November 1880. Corbin invited Douglass to serve on Inaugural Ceremony committees (for the inauguration of President James Garfield, to be held 4 March 1881...

GLC05717