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[U. S. Department of Agriculture, The Forester, Forest Service business card]

Enclosed with GLC00687.182.01. Card is perforated down the center.

GLC00687.182.02

[U. S. Department of Agriculture press release, Number output Worth More than Half Billion]

A statistical report of the states with the highest lumber output and the states with the smallest is given, with the money spent on various timber items, and measuring types of wood used and where that wood is produced.

GLC00687.183.01

[U. S. Department of Agriculture, The Forester, Forest Service business card]

Enclosed with GLC00687.183.01. Card is perforated down the center.

GLC00687.183.02

[U. S. Department of Agriculture press release, Forest Ranger Examination in Twenty-One States and Territories]

An examination will be held at each Forest Supervisor's headquarters in states with National Forests to hire 500 men.

GLC00687.184.01

[U. S. Department of Agriculture, The Forester, Forest Service business card]

Enclosed with GLC00687.184.01. Card is perforated down the center.

GLC00687.184.02

[U. S. Department of Agriculture press release, Goverment Issues Record of Wholesale Lumber Prices]

Monthly records have been compiled showing the prices of lumber, selling costs, shipping costs, and the value of mill runs.

GLC00687.185.01

[U. S. Department of Agriculture, The Forester, Forest Service business card]

Enclosed with GLC00687.185.01. Card is perforated down the center.

GLC00687.185.02

[U. S. Department of Agriculture press release, Heavy Drains on Nation's Forests]

The U.S. is cutting down forests three times as fast as they are growing. Comparisons to European countries reveals the ability to increase growth at the same pace as output.

GLC00687.186.01

[U. S. Department of Agriculture, The Forester, Forest Service business card]

Enclosed with GLC00687.186.01. Card is perforated down the center.

GLC00687.186.02

[U. S. Department of Agriculture press release, Goats As Trail Makers]

Goats save the Government considerable labor in cutting out brushy forage.

GLC00687.187.01

[U. S. Department of Agriculture, The Forester, Forest Service business card]

Enclosed with GLC00687.187.01. Card is perforated down the center.

GLC00687.187.02

[U. S. Department of Agriculture press release, Wood Users of Northwest Much Interested in Wood Preservation]

The need to utilize wood according to actual use will prevent the scarcity of some woods and the more effective use of other woods. Certain areas in the U.S. are specializing in certain woods.

GLC00687.188.01

[U. S. Department of Agriculture, The Forester, Forest Service business card]

Enclosed with GLC00687.188.01. Card is perforated down the center.

GLC00687.188.02

Facts and Figures for the Hour

Recognizing that money is power, federal taxes have always caused problems for citizens. Other countries have much higher excise and revenue taxes, and yet the U.S. competes with them in every field. He compares foreign money, duties, and taxes with...

GLC00687.193

[contract]

He grants Alexander Whillden a share in Powell's Cannon Rifle.

GLC00687.201

to A.R. Spofford

Powell secures copyright of his book, Financial Schedule, with the Library of Congress. Letter partially printed.

GLC00687.203

[bill]

Received payment for Joseph A. Hay

GLC00687.206

[authorization to Herbert A. Lee]

They give authorization to Herbert A. Lee of the American Collecting Agency in New York City to act in the bankruptcy case of Joseph B. Cornish of Washington, NJ, with the amounts listed.

GLC00687.252

[Commission of Thomas Ward as First Lieutenant in 1st Regt Art.]

Commission of Thomas Ward as First Lieutenant in the First Regimental Artillery. beginning on June 18, 1864. Signed by Andrew Johnson as President and countersigned by Edwin M. Stanton as Secretary of War. Docketed at top by Edward D. Townsend as...

GLC00778.05

[Extract from a speech regarding Wade's opposition to President Andrew Johnson's reconstruction policies]

Wade elaborates on his unwavering political stance, especially supporting the patriotism and loyal of black Americans who served gallantly in the Civil War. States: "Now Sir I say to President Johnson, to the Democratic party, and to the people of...

GLC01407

Emancipation Proclamation

Official State Department printing of the final version, printed by the U.S. Government Printing Office. "...I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States and parts of States are and henceforward shall be free...

GLC01532

to Thomas B. Pugh

Douglass refuses to speak at the Philadelphia Academy of Music because of its discriminatory policies towards African Americans. The letter escalates into a barrage of criticism against the Academy and Philadelphia the "City of Brotherly Love", which...

GLC01954

Emancipation Proclamation

Wide margined copy of the Leland-Boker "authorized" edition, produced for raising money at the Philadelphia Great Central Sanitary Fair in June 1864. The Sanitary Commission engaged in hospital and other charitable work during the Civil War; it was a...

GLC00004

[Respite of execution for slaver Nathaniel Gordon]

Countersigned by Secretary of State William H. Seward. Convicted of engaging in the slave trade, respite granted to allow Gordon to prepare for execution. He was the only slave trader in U.S. history to be executed for that crime and was executed...

GLC00182

Andrew Johnson on Negro Suffrage

[Title continued] His letter to Gov. Sharkey of Mississippi. Reconstruction era printing of Johnson's letter commending the governor's convention to amend the state constitution. In the letter, Johnson also attacks the radical Republicans.

GLC00269