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The Fire-Proof Building Company, of New York

They list several different types of fireproof building material for building owners, architects, and builders. Engravings of building materials and construction efforts reveal different uses for fireproof materials, with a list of examples of such...

GLC00687.190

to O.A. Bowe

A personal letter about a trip to New England. Greeley discusses his trip by sea to Providence and stage-coach to Boston. He compares the Boston architecture to that in New York, describes going to church there, and comments on "the Boston...

GLC00880

An Act to preserve buildings in this State belonging to the United States from being destroyed and for the Punishment of those that shall seize on or injure the same.

Signed by William Livingston as Governor of New Jersey. Countersigned by Josiah Hornblower, Speaker of the New Jersey House of Representatives. Endorsed on verso near docket by Bowes Reed and Maskell Ewing, clerks of the Assembly, stating the...

GLC00904

[carte de visite, vignette of the front of a two-story house during winter]

White mount. Vignette of the front of a white two-story house during winter.

GLC00919.24.46

[carte de visite, late residence of Jefferson Davis]

White mount. Inscribed on negative: "Late residence of Jefferson Davis, Richmond, Va., Sketched by Louis Bernkopf, Draughtsman, Hd. Qrs Engineer Brigade." Sketched view of the front and side of Davis's home.

GLC00919.24.50

to Louise Walbridge

Walbridge describes Washington D.C. and includes a lengthy descriptions of an equestrian statue of General Andrew Jackson, capitol building and its statues, the paintings in the dome, and its ventilation system.

GLC04663.01

[Photograph album of Major Schuyler Colfax]

Album belonging to Schuyler Colfax with over one hundred cartes des visite of New York, Washington, famous policians and other sights. Includes forty outdoor cartes of New York City by E & H.T. Anthony; 16 of Washington and environs by Gardner and...

GLC04689

Ruins at Manassas Junction. No. 9. March, 1862.

One photograph entitled, "Ruins at Manassas Junction," taken by Alexander Gardner dated March 1862. Image is of ruins of several buildings used by the Confederate railroad company, Orange and Alexandria, as a depot. The remains of a few mud huts...

GLC05111.01.0040

Incidents of the War. No. 203. General Johnston's Headquarters, Centreville.

One photograph entitled, "Incidents of the War. No. 203. General Johnston's Headquarters, Centreville," taken by Mathew Brady dated 1862. Image is of uniformed men in front of Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston's Headquarters.

GLC05111.01.0047

Falles [sic] Church in VA

A print of a photograph of a two-story brick building. Union officers posed on horses in front of Falls Church, VA where George Washington once worshipped. It was a favorite tourist site for soldiers passing through. On the inside of the church's...

GLC05111.01.0069