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Engraving of John H. Weir

One engraving of John H. Weir dated circa 1880. Bust portrait of Weir.

GLC08878.0820

Engraving of Horace Wells

One engraving of Horace Wells dated circa 1850. Bust portrait of Wells.

GLC08878.0828

Engraving of Caspar Wistar

One engraving of Caspar Wistar dated circa 1820. Half seated portrait of Wistar.

GLC08878.0938

Engraving of Caspar Wistar

One engraving of Caspar Wistar dated circa 1820. Half seated portrait of Wistar.

GLC08878.0939

Engraving of Henry Wohlgemuth

One engraving of Henry Wohlgemuth dated circa 1900. Bust portrait of Wohlgemuth.

GLC08878.0942

[Medical Excuse]

One document signed by David H. Gatherman excusing Leonard Eugene Graeff from all exams and rifle drills for three days.

GLC09611.596

to Paul H. Lobik

One letter from Charles K. Petter to Paul H. Lobik dated August 21, 1945. Regarding Margaret Lobik's admission to the Lake County Tuberculosis Sanatorium at the end of September 1945.

GLC09576.171

to Oscar Calkins

One letter addressed to Oscar Calkins from Samuel J. Calkins dated Pratt, Pratt County, Kansas, March 26, 1883. Includes a newspaper clipping related to a local physician hiring an assassin to murder his local competitor.

GLC03766.42

Old Colony Press [Vol. 1, No. 32 (April 30, 1873)]

One issue of The Old Colony Press dated April 30, 1873. Includes a full-page advertisement for P.T. Barnum's Circus.

GLC03766.45

to Johnston Livingston re: advice regarding a romantic interest

Johnston's cousin advises him to write a letter to a girl he is in love with. She also derides an aquaintance of theirs as a "Yankee," and states that she is on her way to the Liberty Pole. With ALS to Johnston from "E.E.G." on p.2. The letter...

GLC03107.04099

to mother

Does not think his family needs to worry about an outbreak of small pox near their house. He thinks his vaccination kept him from getting the disease, even though he was in the company of small pox victims on several occasions. He has been delayed...

GLC04662.118

to his mother

They are currently camped at the birth place of William Henry Harrison. The house has been turned into a hospital. Stonewall Jackson turned the right flank of the Union Army, captured White House, Va and forced the retreat of the army. Many of the...

GLC04662.009

to his mother

He has taken ill with Cholera Morbus and is in the hospital. Describes the facilities, including a hotel and cottages which have been taken over by the hospital. Hopes to rejoin his regiment soon. He thinks McClellan is "played out" and that Pope...

GLC04662.012

to mother

He is on his way back to the front. He has seen a physician about his "comforter" trouble. It caused his eye to swell shut and had to be opened by the doctor.

GLC04662.072

to mother

The enlistments of many men of the 100th have expired, but the government will not muster them out until 1/9. He is angry that someone told his family there was a yellow fever epidemic at Bermuda Hundred; there had not been one case yet.

GLC04662.083

to Elizabeth Smith and children

The army is still in the same location and is in a state of suspense concerning what will happen next. General Burnside announced a Grand Review which was canceled due to rain. One man in the regiment contracted small pox. The doctors isolated him...

GLC04189.23

to James R. Kelly

She does not like the idea of him boarding with "secesh" women and warms him that Southern women are the sort who would "put a stricknin[e] in something for seasoning." She heard General Joseph J. Reynolds resigned and may be replaced with Rosecrans...

GLC04197.11

to unknown

She describes the immense suffering in the hospital and the fact that nearly all amputees have died. She dislikes Miss Dix's nurses, and of the Quaker ladies, Mary has nothing but admiration.

GLC04197.27

to Mary Kelly

Responds to a letter she received in April. She hopes Mr. Kelly's condition has improve since being moved from Winchester. Mentions the Sisters of Mercy. She thinks the patients who were moved from Union hospitals to Seminary hospitals do much...

GLC04197.35