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bill for R.C. Bruce

GLC09400.619

bill for R.C. Bruce

GLC09400.620

bill for R.C. Bruce

GLC09400.621

to Bruce Barton

Comments on retirement: "A smoking President receives enough pipes to last a life time. Likewise fishing tackle. It is the only endowment he gets, except a troubled soul." Also mentions that "The country is going sour on the New Deal." Expresses his...

GLC00691

Abe Lincoln

(title continues) Honest Long Cut Chewing and Smoking.Printed by W. Duke Son & Co., NY.

GLC00732.01

President and cabinet

Carte de visite of President Lincoln and his cabinet (ca. 1862, not after 1863). A portrait of Abraham Lincoln sits in the middle. Surrounding him (from top, clockwise): Secretary of State William H. Seward; Secretary of the Treasury Salmon P. Chase...

GLC00732.02

[Confederate act to authorize the exportation of produce and merchandise]

Passed by the Confederate Congress, Thomas Bocock as speaker of the House, and R.M.T. Hunter as president pro tempore of the Senate and approved by Davis as president. Authorizes the export of government-owned "cotton, tobacco, and other produce and...

GLC00990

Carte de visite of Ulysses S. Grant

As lieutenant general, seated, holding cigar, looking to the right. Imprint on recto "Lieut. General U.S. Grant. Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1865, by A. Gardner, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of...

GLC05111.02.0424

to William Lee

Writes to his brother, a merchant in London, regarding tobacco shipments from Virginia to England and the vessels carrying the tobacco. Discusses business clients, bills, payments, and insurance. Includes a postscript on page 2 dated June 28 with a...

GLC00169

to darling Cherry

He mentions the large number of Spanish refugees. He also describes a place called the Passeio Publico where he goes to hear live music. Apparently the king goes there and smokes his cigar. Written in Lisbon Harbor

GLC08284.081