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to Millard Fillmore re: information on state prisons
1848/12/02
Fish, Hamilton, 1808-1893
GLC02504.16
[Portrait of Harriet Beecher Stowe]
30 June 1895
Sarony, Napoleon, 1821-1896
One portrait of Harriet Beecher Stowe taken by Sarony dated June 30, 1895. Inscribed to Frank Leonard. Signed twice, recto and verso after an excerpt from Uncle Tom's Cabin.
GLC01091
[Henry Ward Beecher]
1875 ca.
Verso has pencil notes of previous owner: "t[aken] @ 62-65 = 1878."
GLC05144
Three portaits of a NYC reformer mayor: daguerreotype, ambrotype & later carte
1850s
Tieman, Daniel T., fl. 1850
The three items are: 1. Daguerreotype. Half view, seated, with left hand holding jacket label and right holding a book. Cased: 15.2 x 12.0 (2.0) cm. 2. Ambrotype half view, seated with hands in lap, no case, 8.2 x 7.1 (.6) cm. Varnished back. 3...
GLC05188
Standing, three-quarters length view
1861-1865 ca.
Beecher, Henry Ward, 1813-1887
E. & H. T. Anthony & Co., publisher.
GLC05137.232
to Benjamin Rush re: coming glories of Constitution, future end of slavery & rum
June 18, 1789
Clymer, George, 1739-1813
Also concerns his hopes that slavery and alcohol would be abolished (prohibition), and the debate on the power to remove officials from office. He expects that the excise tax on rum will help defend people "against the poison." Concerning New...
GLC04769
National anti-slavery standard. [Vol. 26, no. 35 (January 6, 1866)- v. 28, no. 34 (December 28, 1867)] [with gaps]
1866-1867
Volume 26 is missing issue numbers 43 and 47. Volume 27 is missing issue numbers 8,13,and 35. Volume 28 is missing issue number 28. The January 5, 1866, Vol. 27, no. 35 most likely contains misprint in either the date or the Volume and issue...
GLC05825
to Mrs. Edward Bissel re: a letter acompanying leaflets
1890/06/13
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902
Leaflets started as "Almost anything will pass muster if well read....& the best thing can be spoiled if badly read."
GLC06895.02
A memoir of Granville Sharp
1836
Stuart, Charles, fl. 1836
First edition; early publisher's cloth. Includes Patrick Reason's first published portrait engraving. Reason was an black artist. Collateral to Lincoln manuscript GLC 5302, referring to Granville Sharp.
GLC06841
Attention South!! Abolish slavery.
1857
J.O.E., fl. 1857
Abolitionist folk art depicting a Black man as weeping and chained and shackled, surrounded by green curtains with yellow tassels. At top left are the words "Attention South!!" with the word "Abolish" at left and "Slavery" at right, signed in block...
GLC06140
New York Colonization Society certificate of membership for Alexander Fraser
1854/02/26
Phelps, Anson, fl. 1854
Certificate of membership for life for Alexander Fraser of Fowlerville. The certificate has a large engraving at top showing a white man shaking the hands of thankful naked Africans while a ship rides at anchor in the background. Two scriptural...
GLC05781
Vignette bust portrait of Douglass (Currier and Ives print)
1870s ca.
Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895
GLC07765
Henry Ward Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe
1870 ca.
Rockwood, George Gardner, 1832-1911
GLC06439
Carte de visite of George W. Curtis
1861-1865
Anthony, Edward, 1819-1888
Anthony label on verso. Half length seated portrait of a middle-aged man in civilian dress.
GLC06391.02
Carte de visite of Charles Sumner
[n.d.]
Anthony imprint on verso. Half length standing portrait in civilian dress, facing proper right.
GLC06391.04
Carte de visite of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Brady, Mathew B., 1823-1896
From negative in Brady's National Portrait Gallery. Anthony imprint on verso. Three quarter length standing portrait of a middle aged man in civilian dress. White mount with gold border.
GLC06391.12
[Carte de visite of Horace Greeley]
1861-1877
From negative in Brady's National Portrait Gallery. Anthony imprint on verso. Three quarter length standing portrait of a bald, heavyset man in civilian dress. White mount with gold border
GLC06391.28
Bright, John.
D. Appleton & Company, fl. 1861-1880
Photograph by A.A. Turner. Appleton imprint on verso. Identified in pencil on verso. Three quarter length seated portrait. Photograph from engraving. White mount with gold border.
GLC06391.29
Bryant, W[illia]m Cullen.
Photograph by A.A. Turner. ; Appleton imprint on verso. Identified in pencil on verso. Half length seated portrait of Bryant as an old man. White mount with gold border.
GLC06391.33
"Our Protection. Rosa, Charley, Rebecca. Slave Children from New Orleans."
1864
Paxson, Chas., fl. 1863-1864
With printed identification on recto; imprint and copyright on verso.Portrait of three children wrapped in what appear to be flags. White mount
GLC06391.38
"Rebecca: A Slave Girl from New Orleans."
1863
With printed identification on recto; imprint and copyright on verso. Vignette bust portrait of a young girl. White mount
GLC06391.39
Daniel F. Tiemann
1850 ca.
Modern print of carte de visite by Brady-NY, tucked into slits on mount, with note of F.H. Meserve. Inscribed on mount: "Daniel F. Tiemann, mayor of New York. From a negative of M.B. Brady. The Collection of F.H. Meserve."
GLC05188.03
[Anti-Slavery Society Resolution No. 1]
circa 1841
"...Slavery is a sin. In as much as it denies practically & authentically the Equality of the human race by subjecting its victims to the condition of chattels personal, denying them the right of personal liberty, & which is the right of all, or of...
GLC06593.04
[Anti-Slavery Society Resolution No. 2]
Declares that United States abolitionists' principles "are those of the Bible & of the Declaration of Independence..." Docketed "passed." Circa date based on GLC06593.09. Location based on GLC06593.10.
GLC06593.05
[Anti-Slavery Society Resolution No. 3]
"Resolved that American Slavery is fortified by law, & that the law is made by the Law Maker, & that the lawmaker is made by the votes of the people, thus making the people of the South clearly responsible for the continuance of slavery, in the...
GLC06593.06
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