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Vies of Fitchburg, Mass. in winter

Two views from the Fitchburg office window, both taken in winter.

GLC05235.11

View from office window looking east

Title from verso. Similar image (GLC05235.11.02) claims view is to the north. The Fitchburg supply company is directly across the street in both photographs. It is the same view as GLC05235.11.02, but with less snowfall. Inscription on verso also...

GLC05235.11.01

View north from the office window

Title from verso. Similar image (GLC05235.11.02) claims view is to the east. The Fitchburg supply company is directly across the street in both photographs. It is the same view as GLC05235.11.01, but with more snowfall.

GLC05235.11.02

View South from office window Fitchburg

Two copies of the same image, looking over roundhouse and town in winter.

GLC05235.12

View South from office window Fitchburg

Inscription on verso: "Fitchburg, Mass." Identical to GLC05235.12.02. A large church steeple is visible in the left middle-ground of the image. Roundhouse and long rectangular building in the foreground of the image. Prosperous looking town with...

GLC05235.12.01

View South from office window Fitchburg

Title from verso. Identical to GLC05235.12.01. View of town and tracks. A large church steeple is visible in the left middle-ground of the image. Roundhouse and long rectangular building in the foreground of the image. Prosperous looking town with...

GLC05235.12.02

View up Main St. from office window F.R.R. Fitchburg, Mass.

Two copies of the same image. Title from verso. Main St. branches off in two directions. One branch passes the "American House" and the other branch passes in front of a hardware store. A trolley line runs in the center of the street in front of the...

GLC05235.13

View up Main St. from office window F.R.R. Fitchburg, Mass.

Title from verso. Main St. branches off in two directions. One branch passes the "American House" and the other branch passes in front of a hardware store. A trolley line runs in the center of the street in front of the hardware store. People with...

GLC05235.13.01

View up Main St. from office window F.R.R. Fitchburg, Mass.

Same image as GLC05235.13.01. Main St. branches off in two directions. One branch passes the "American House" and the other branch passes in front of a hardware store. A trolley line runs in the center of the street in front of the hardware store...

GLC05235.13.02

Bust portrait of a mature Grant in civilian dress

Bust portrait of a mature Grant in civilian dress. "Designed & engraved by Wm. E. Marshall for Around the World with General Grant." With printed signature. Printed by Wm. E. Marshall, 1879.

GLC04360.101

Bust portrait of Grant in civilian dress.

Bust portrait of Grant in civilian dress. [Same as # 101.]

GLC04360.102

"General Grant at Mt. McGregor."

"General Grant at Mt. McGregor." Seated portrait of Grant from a photograph of Grant and his family taken by Record & Epler. [Taken from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant. Page entitled: "Chatanooga" appears on the verso.]

GLC04360.113

[National Bank of Galena check]

Signed by Grant for the amount of $250. Contains a two cent stamp.

GLC04385.05

[Photograph of Cephas Brainerd]

Portrait photograph of Cephas Brainerd as a middle aged man wearing a suit. Mounted on backing board.

GLC04471.10

To her father

Discusses Christmas, the marriage of friends and the assassination of Dr. Lind.

GLC04522.15

A Treatise on Elementary Geometry.

GLC04546.031

Certificate of honorable discharge

Honorable discharge certificate issued by the Otis G. Banks Post # 137, of the Grand Army of the Republic.

GLC04558.202

to David Dixon Porter

Marked "Copy" at the top. Has not yet made Mr. Maury's acquaintance but assumes he is "performing his duties satisfactorily."

GLC04572.47

to John William Flinn

He invites Reverend Flinn to attend his consecration as the "Assistant Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church, for the Diocese of South Carolina."

GLC04573.08

to my dear editor

Writes to an unidentified editor to clarify his statements about faith in an article. On the whole he prefers "Methodism to any other creed" because of its insistence on discipline and because of the lives lived by its adherents.

GLC04652

to Franklin Hanford

Comments briefly on a lecture Hanford gave. Discusses an account of a torpedo experiment he published in the Army and Navy Journal. Expresses his reluctance to have foreigners transmit information overseas. Mentions that he left out information...

GLC03959.01

to Franklin Hanford

Clerical copy. Reports that he has recommended the Bureau to remove the Ordnance Scow from Sandy Hook because it cannot sustain heavy weather. Discusses the torpedo trials and states they have accomplished what was intended, "ascertaining if the...

GLC03959.03

[Quotation from Uncle Tom's Cabin on Christ]

"Not one throb of anguish, not one tear of the oppressed is forgotten by the man of sorrows, the Lord of Glory - In his patient generous bosom He bears the anguish of a world." Quoted from Chapter 12.

GLC03969.02

[Appeal to women of all nations for aid to the Armenians].

Draft for an appeal for aid for the Armenian persecution of 1894-1897. States that Turkish authorities will not interfere and Clara Barton is at her post. Howe adopted this cause in 1894. Title from content of the appeal.

GLC04014

to Sarah Dorsey

Promise to pay $2,500 by January, 1882 for the Beauvoir plantation owned by Dorsey in Harrison County, Mississippi. The note was to serve as a lien against the property. Davis and his wife moved onto the estate grounds in 1877, so that Davis could...

GLC04054