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Pennsylvania gazette. [No. 1106 (February 20, 1750)]

Includes international news from various overseas newspapers. Open letter discussing rules for conducting good business. Classified ads inhabit pages 2 through 4. Section reserved for announcing the indentured servitude of residents, the return of...

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Pennsylvania gazette. [No. 1107 (February 27, 1750)]

Includes international news from various overseas newspapers. Open letter from "Britannicus" to "The Fool" discussing conscience. Poem from Mrs. Jenny Hamilton to Mrs. Duck about love and marriage. Domestic news and classified ads inhabit pages 2...

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Pennsylvania gazette. [No. 1108 (March 6, 1750)]

Includes international news from various overseas newspapers. Domestic news and classified ads inhabit pages 1 through 4. Section reserved for announcing the indentured servitude of residents, the return of runaway slaves, and departing ships.

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Pennsylvania gazette. [No. 1109 (March 13, 1750)]

Includes international news from various overseas newspapers. Addresses by both houses of Parliament to King George II regarding his majesty's proposed peace. Includes the king's response. Domestic news and classified ads inhabit pages 2 through 4...

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Pennsylvania gazette. [No. 1114 (April 19, 1750)]

Includes international news from various overseas newspapers. Domestic news and classified ads inhabit pages 2 through 4. Section reserved for announcing the indentured servitude of residents, the return of runaway slaves, and departing ships.

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Pennsylvania gazette. [No. 1115 (April 26, 1750)]

Includes international news from various overseas newspapers. Proposal for a canal to be dug between Stockholm and Gottenburg. Domestic news and classified ads inhabit pages 2 through 4. Section reserved for announcing the indentured servitude of...

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Pennsylvania gazette. [No. 1116 (May 3, 1750)] [Incomplete]

Includes international news from various overseas newspapers. Domestic news and classified ads inhabit pages 2 through 4. Discusses the currency change from pounds to dollars. Section reserved for announcing the indentured servitude of residents...

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Pennsylvania gazette. [No. 1117 (May 10, 1750)] [Incomplete]

Includes international news from various overseas newspapers. Domestic news and classified ads inhabit pages 2 through 4. Section reserved for announcing the indentured servitude of residents, the return of runaway slaves, and departing ships....

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Pennsylvania gazette. [No. 1118 (May 17, 1750)]

Includes international news from various overseas newspapers. Fable entitled "The Catterpillar and Butterfly" on page one. Domestic news and classified ads inhabit pages 1 through 4. Advertisement for the sale of lottery tickets. The death of...

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Pennsylvania gazette. [No. 1119 (May 24, 1750)] [Incomplete]

Includes international news from various overseas newspapers. Domestic news and classified ads inhabit pages 2 through 4. Discusses lottery drawing and deadlines for participation. Section reserved for announcing the indentured servitude of...

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Pennsylvania gazette. [No. 1120 (May 31, 1750)] [Incomplete]

Includes international news from various overseas newspapers. Domestic news and classified ads inhabit pages 2 through 4. Discusses lottery drawing and deadlines for participation. Section reserved for announcing the indentured servitude of...

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Pennsylvania gazette. [No. 1121 (June 7, 1750)]

Includes international news from various overseas newspapers. Domestic news and classified ads inhabit pages 2 through 4. Section reserved for announcing the indentured servitude of residents, the return of runaway slaves, and departing ships.

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Pennsylvania gazette. [No. 1124 (June 28, 1750)] [Incomplete]

Includes international news from various overseas newspapers. Domestic news and classified ads inhabit pages 2 through 4. Section reserved for announcing the indentured servitude of residents, the return of runaway slaves, and departing ships....

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Pennsylvania gazette. [No. 1125 (July 5, 1750)] [Incomplete]

Includes international news from various overseas newspapers. Domestic news and classified ads inhabit pages 2 through 4. Section reserved for announcing the indentured servitude of residents, the return of runaway slaves, and departing ships....

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Pennsylvania gazette. [No. 1126 (July 12, 1750)] [Incomplete]

Includes international news from various overseas newspapers. Domestic news and classified ads inhabit pages 2 through 4. Section reserved for announcing the indentured servitude of residents, the return of runaway slaves, and departing ships....

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Pennsylvania gazette. [No. 1129 (August 2, 1750)] [Incomplete]

Includes international news from various overseas newspapers. Domestic news and classified ads inhabit page 2. Reports the rescue of a French ship carrying men, women, and children bound for Penobscot Bay. Pages 1 and 2 only.

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Pennsylvania gazette. [No. 1567 (January 4, 1759)]

Includes international news from various overseas newspapers. Domestic news and classified ads inhabit pages 2 through 4. Letter to the editors discusses the latest improvements to Pennsylvania Hospital and extends thanks for the community's...

GLC06670.150

to his parents

Updates his father on the commanders of the regiment. Writes that General Asboth is the Brigadier General, Nicolas Grensel is the colonel and also a member of the Free Masons;. Lieutenant Colonel Joselyn and Major Barry have resigned and Capt. J.Q...

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to his sisters

Has been on picket duty for six days. Writes that "contraniggers" and deserters are coming in fast and wishes his father "had a couple pigs to call him massa." Reports that he has seen some friends. Mentions "Hooker's -----" and explains that the...

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to his parents

Writes that he has little duty to do except for picket duty. Comments on Hooker and states " I think I can see Hooker dying the same death as did Burnside and Little Mac." Discusses the Missouri compromise and abolition. Accuses his father of...

GLC06728.047

to: Mary [Armstrong].

Reports on rumor that Sherman has been defeated, hopes it isn't true, talks about great number of dead and burial procedures, remarks on slavery as the sin of the South.

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to: Mary [Armstrong].

Reports various rumors about Sheridan's maneuvers. Also reports on nearby black uprising: "Our allies, the darkies, are evidently burning out their beloved Masters…"

GLC06734.10

to George Weedon

Recipient inferred from content. Encloses a letter, which he formerly intended to deliver, to congratulate Weedon following the British evacuation of Charleston. Major Edwards will deliver the letter. Notes that General Anthony Wayne took...

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to Sarah Ogden

Writes from Tupper. States, "in answer to the Lines found in a stocking." Expresses gratitude for the assistance of the Union women and asserts that the men will do their best to "save our land from slavery & And the oppressed clanking chain."...

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to E. Levassor

Dickson, who served as a Union Major during the Civil War, discusses recent personal events and reconstruction with his grandfather (possibly Eugene Levassor). Reports that he will soon begin working at the Office of the Treasury in Savannah....

GLC05732.01

to Wealthy C. Brown

Relates examination of a corpse believed to be one of his brothers, either Watson or Oliver, both of whom died at Harpers Ferry.

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to F. A. Angell

Curtin, Governor of Pennsylvania, replies to a letter from Angell. Comments on the efficiency of the army and writes, "Under Providence we have just grounds of hope for the speedy overthrow of the rebellion, and the relief of suffering humanity."...

GLC06352.02

Notes on the state of Virginia. Written by Thomas Jefferson. [with Map]

First English (London) edition with folding Fry-Jefferson map. This book is the first PUBLISHED edition in English (the first English language edition being privately printed by Jefferson in Paris). It was largely written in 1781 and first...

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to sister

mentions he has joined a society in college. also speaks of wanting to improve his letter writing.

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to Ma

Stafford describes a prayer meeting.

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to sister

talks about sophomore year and roommate troubles

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to sister

complains that he receives hardly any letters, talks about war in general

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to father

talks about the war spirit and the company that they started at school "Ogletree Guards."

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to sisters

describes initial days as a soldier, camping grounds, food, the company

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to Ma

describes the life of a soldier: sleeping in the rain, changing landscapes, the food, etc.

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to Ma

He writes that he received the blanket and requests his shoes and suspenders. He will send his pistol along with some money home. Written at Camp Masked Battery

GLC02618.009

[Payment from Thomas Flucker to Edward How]

Certifies that Thomas Flucker paid Edward How to hire his "negro man" for four days work.

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to Sister

One letter addressed to Hattie Figures from Henry S. Figures dated March 1, 1863 and 5 miles from Richmond. Pertains to furlough; the cost that enslaved people were being sold at in Richmond. Henry notes that Richmond is getting dull, mainly because...

GLC00653.01.13

to my dear parents

He was at Bunker Hill when he heard there were Yankees in Huntsville. Colonel Sheffield got a letters saying there were refugees and escaped enslaved individuals from Madison. They are now in Culpeper, VA. Henry describes his actions at Gettysburg.

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to my dear Ma

He has some ladies' shoes he plans to give his mother when he finally sees her. From Colonel Sheffield, he hired a boy, possibly an enslaved individual at 20 dollars per month. Letter is very faded and illegible. Discusses family business, as well as...

GLC00653.01.29

to George May Powell

Morgan bills Powell for publication.

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to George May Powell

P.H. Berkaw wants George May Powell to purchase a frame for the picture previously determined and purchased.

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to George May Powell

He compares Lincoln's picture with Brady's loss of the negative. He and his wife are grateful for the pictures. Letter is written on Office of the Scientific American Patent Agency letterhead.

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to George May Powell

This is an order for pictures, asking to pay the bill in February. Letter is written on Treasury Department, Second Auditor's Office letterhead.

GLC00687.074

George May Powell and co., publisher of the Great National Picture

GLC00687.075

Engraving of Harriet Beecher Stowe.

"From the original painting by Chappel in the possession of the publishers." Published by Johnson, Wilson & Co. New York "Entered according to act of Congress AD 1872 by Johnson, Fry & Co., in the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington."

GLC01091.01

Authentic speeches of S.P. Chase, Secretary of the Treasury, during his visit to Ohio, with his speeches at Indianapolis, and at the mass meeting in Baltimore, October, 1863

Printed by W. H. Moore. A collection of fifteen speeches given at various locations. The speeches range in topics including European intervention of the war, possibility of abolition in Southern states, and characteristics of the war.

GLC01265.15

Speeches of General U.S. Grant, Republican candidate for the 18th president of the United States, being extracts from speeches, letters, orders, military and state papers

Speeches by Grant pertain to a variety of subjects such as :The extracts chosen vary in subject. Some of the topics included are acceptance of the Republican nomination, feelings toward enslaved people being aided by the military, Black troops...

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[Printed bill of sale for Washington, an enslaved man]

One printed bill of sale paid by William Jones to Solomon Cohen. Jones paid Cohen $1,505 to enslave a man named Washington.

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to his aunt

Written to his aunt, Mrs. George A. Frick (Rebecca Frick). He writes that a battle is currently raging in New Bern and the Rebels are at an advantage. The rebels, advancing during the previous night from Kinston, opened fire on the Union soldiers...

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