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Pressed flower

One pressed flower contained in a letter from Ruth Brown Thompson to Alexander Milton Ross. (GLC03007.56.04.01)

GLC03007.56.04.02

[Letter and flower to Alexander Ross] [Decimilized .01-.02]

One letter and a pressed flower from Ruth Brown Thompson to Alexander Milton Ross.

GLC03007.56.04

[Pressed flower]

One pressed flower from Ruth Brown Thompson to Alexander Milton Ross contained in a letter dated November 16, 1896. (GLC03007.56.08.01)

GLC03007.56.08.02

[Letter and pressed flower to Alexander Milton Ross] [Decimilized .01-.02]

One letter and a pressed flower from Ruth Brown Thompson to Alexander Milton Ross dated November 16, 1896.

GLC03007.56.08

[Pressed flower sent to Alexander Milton Ross]

One pressed flower from Ruth Brown Thompson to Alexander Milton Ross dated February 19, 1894. Sent with a letter, GLC03007.56.19.01.

GLC03007.56.19.02

to Alexander Milton Ross

One letter from Ruth Brown Thompson to Alexander Milton Ross dated February 19, 1894. Accompinied by a pressed flower.

GLC03007.56.19

My Southern Home: Or, The South and Its People

One book entitled "My Southern Home: Or, The South and Its People" written by William Wells Brown and published in 1880. Brown is a noted abolitionist lecturer, novelist, playwright, and historian. This book is broken into twenty nine chapters and...

GLC09932

Autobiography of James L. Smith

One book entitled Autobiography of James L. Smith dated 1881. Smith writes about his life being enslaved as well as his escape, service in the Civil War and life after the war. The book is broken into twelve chapters.

GLC09945

My Life in the South

One book entitled My Life in the South by Jacob Stroyer published 1885. The first section of the narrative covers Stroyer's fifteen years in slavery. It provides information about his family, describes life at his master's summer seat, and discusses...

GLC09946

Acts of the anti-slavery apostles.

Printed by Cuppley, Upham & Co. Contains biographical chapters on William Lloyd Garrison and Nathaniel Peabody Rogers. Subsequent chapters cover a history of anti-slavery in America, including a discussion of other individuals active in the cause...

GLC08666

to May Delany

To "the daughter of the daughter of my friend who sheltered me forty and five years ago, when I was a man without a country, a stranger and or sojourner, with little money and few friends, shall now have my autograph. No effort of memory is required...

GLC05906

William Lloyd Garrison: the story of his life, told by his children

Published by The Century Co., New York. Illustrated with wood engravings. Volume 1 covers 1805-1835, Vol. 2 1835-1840, Vol. 3 1841-1860, and Vol. 4 1861-1879.

GLC00267.368

Worship of the North

Depicts Lincoln in front of an altar with a black idol sitting on a platform with the words "Chicago Platform" on it. A sheet hanging from the platform says "The end justifies the means." Shows a white person being sacrificed in front of it. Henry...

GLC00493.01

Offering of bells to be cast into cannon

Depicts a pastor and members of his congregation presenting church bells to be used to create weapons of war. The officer who accepts the bells removes his hat in recognition of the reverence of the occasion. Enslaved people are depicted lifting...

GLC00493.19

Prayer in Stonewall Jackson's tent

Depicts a scene of quiet piety and great reverence in an army camp. Shows most of the men with their heads bowed in prayer, some weeping. Stonewall Jackson, a man known for his great religiosity, appears to be delivering a sermon to the men. Also...

GLC00493.24

[Portrait of Harriet Beecher Stowe]

One portrait of Harriet Beecher Stowe taken by Sarony dated June 30, 1895. Inscribed to Frank Leonard. Signed twice, recto and verso after an excerpt from Uncle Tom's Cabin.

GLC01091

to Benjamin Franklin Auld

Thanks Auld for "an elegantly bound and finely illustrated volume containing a biographical history" of the Baltimore police. Recalls his boyhood days and many pleasant memories with the Auld family. Written on Cedar Hill, Anacostia, D.C...

GLC07484.02

to Miss Lena

Thanks Lena, a young girl, for a potholder (GLC07731.02). Apparently Lena had read Douglass's narrative, and he thanks her for reading and thinking kindly of his life and history. Writes "Please accept my best thanks for 'Any holder but a...

GLC07731.01

to Wendell P. Garrison

Answers questions about William Lloyd Garrison. Comments on his 1833 trip to England, at which time "he was indicted for a libel, by several of the persecutors, of Miss." Explains how he, Lewis Tappan, and others helped Garrison escape apprehension...

GLC08944

to Franklin B. Sanborn

Brown critiques Sanborn's book for having too many of John Brown's personal letters. He read part of Sanborn's manuscript for "The Life and Letters of John Brown" out loud to his brother Owen. They both worry readers may get bored of so many letters...

GLC00929.02

to Mrs. E. F. Strickland

Written on Senate stationery. Logan, a United States Senator from Illinois, writes "Prior to the success of the Union armies, in the contest against secession, Freedom in this country was a sham and a mockery. Now it is a verity. There is however...

GLC04732

[Frederick Douglass]

Inscribed on front "Frederick Douglass. Born 1817." Inscribed verso: "Frederick Douglass. Born February 1817." With newspaper obituary pasted on the back. The albumen surface has been slightly scratched.

GLC05146

My life in the south.

Biography of Stroyer, an freedman raised on a plantation in South Carolina and freed in 1864 by the Emancipation Proclamation. Stroyer was minister of the African Methodist Episcopal church in Salem. The introduction contains letters of support for...

GLC00267.083

Reminiscences of fugitive-slave days in Boston.

Bearse, a Massachusetts native, served as a mate on many ships transporting enslaved people up and down the coast between 1818 and 1830. He shares his experiences from these days, showing great empathy for the enslaved people with whom he came into...

GLC00267.154

A history of Lawrence, Kansas, from the first settlement to the close of the rebellion

Published by E. F. Caldwell, Lawrence Journal Press.

GLC00267.160