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Lincoln and Family
1815-1860
Priest, R. R.
White mount. Image of Lincoln and son Tad looking at Brady album, with Mary Lincoln, Robert Lincoln, and portrait of Willie Lincoln added. Photo of engraving. [O-93 variant].
GLC05136.14
"Mrs. Lincoln & Sons"
Anthony, Edward, 1819-1888
White mount. Full length, standing view of Mary Lincoln in between Willie and Tad Lincoln. Stamp of J[?]as. S. Waters, Baltimore, on verso.
GLC05136.19
[carte de visite, street scene]
J.T., Reading, & Co. (photographer), fl. 1861-1865
White mount. Street scene with mourning bunting on flag pole and several African Americans gathered in the street. Two signs below the flag read "Republican. Lincoln Lives." And "Union & Liberty," respectively.
GLC05136.22
[John Wilkes Booth, carte de visite, standing, three-quarter length view]
White mount with red border. Standing, three-quarter length view of John Wilkes Booth wearing cloak.
GLC05136.23
[John Wilkes Booth, carte de visite, seated, three-quarter length view]
White mount with red border. Seated, three-quarter length view of John Wilkes Booth wearing one glove and holding the other. Similar to images 26, 28, and 29.
GLC05136.24
[John Wilkes Booth, carte de visite, seated, half length view]
Snell, W., fl. 1860
White mount with gold border. Seated, half-length view of John Wilkes Booth holding riding crop.
GLC05136.25
Charles D. Fredricks & Co., fl. 1865
White mount with thin black border. Seated, half-length view of John Wilkes Booth. Lighter, vignetted version of images 24, 28, and 29.
GLC05136.26
J.H. Bufford & Sons
White mount. Seated half-length view of John Wilkes Booth holding riding crop. Photo from engraving of image #25.
GLC05136.27
White mount. Seated, half-length view of John Wilkes Booth. Similar to images 24, 26 and 29.
GLC05136.28
White mount. Seated, half-length view of John Wilkes Booth. Similar to images 24, 26, and 28.
GLC05136.29
[Edwin Booth, carte de visite, seated, half length view]
Gracy, Tracy, fl. 1815-1860
White mount with thin black border. Seated, half length view of Edwin Booth.
GLC05136.30
[Edwin Booth, carte de visite, seated, half length profile view]
White mount with gray border. Seated, half length profile view of Edwin Booth.
GLC05136.31
[Abraham Lincoln, cabinet card, standing full length view]
White mount. Standing, full length view of Lincoln with hands clasped in front. Photo from engraving.
GLC05136.32
[Lincoln funeral parade, stereocard]
Wilson & Hood
Yellow mount. View of Lincoln's funeral parade at the corner of Chestnut St., with a recruiting poster for Maj. Gen. Hancock hanging from the building on left side. Similar to image #38, with slightly smaller crowd.
GLC05136.37
Yellow mount. Pencil inscription on verso: "View looking South from 6th and Chestnut St., crowd waiting to see body of Abraham Lincoln, April 1865." Similar to image #37, with slightly larger crowd.
GLC05136.38
"The Funeral of President Lincoln"
25 April 1865
E. & H.T. Anthony (Firm)
Yellow mount. Anthony's Instantaneous Views, #2950. Aerial view of Lincoln's funeral procession en route to city hall.
GLC05136.39
Yellow mount. Anthony's Instantaneous Views, #2950, #2951, #2958. Aerial view of soldiers in Lincoln's funeral procession.
GLC05136.40
[Lincoln funeral at New York City Hall, stereocard]
Yellow mount. Inscription on verso: "Funeral Dirge, City Hall, New York." Shows large assembly of people gathered outside city hall, which is hung with black bunting, in addition to large banner across front that reads "The Nation Mourns."
GLC05136.41
"The Funeral Car, Broadway, New York"
Yellow mount. Shows a crowd gathered around Lincoln's hearse as it processes down the street.
GLC05136.42
[close-up view of Lincoln's hearse, stereocard]
Yellow mount. Stamp on verso: "New York, Lincoln's Catafalque No 353." Close-up view of Lincoln's hearse and casket in front of windows hung with mourning wreaths. Soldiers stand at attention along near side of hearse.
GLC05136.43
[aerial view of Lincoln's funeral procession, stereocard]
Townsend, A.C., fl. 1865
Yellow mount. Aerial view of Lincoln's funeral procession.
GLC05136.44
"Home of Lincoln"
22 May 1865
Glover, Ridgeway, fl. 1865
View of front and side of Lincoln's Springfield home decorated in funerary bunting.
GLC05136.45
[Lincoln's casket, stereocard]
Yellow mount. Ink inscription on recto: "A. Lincoln's Casket." View of Lincoln's casket drapes with flowers and greenery.
GLC05136.46
"Stereoscopic view of Lincoln's Tomb, Negative No.1, Oak Ridge Cemetery"
Duboce, Marcel, fl. 1865
Yellow mount. View of Lincoln's tomb surrounded by trees.
GLC05136.47
"Lincoln's County Seat"
Wakely, G.D., ?
Yellow mount. Shows two men standing on grass looking at a large white house.
GLC05136.48
[metallic token with lithograph of Lincoln]
Metallic token painted black with gold designs and gold back. Center of token has colored lithograph of Lincoln under glass
GLC05136.53
Regiment lined up in front of brick building
1861-1865 ca.
Graphite inscription "Photo by Cole an Sellers." A large group of soldiers outside a brick building. "Gasworks Feneibles Co. A. 1861" in center and "Phila. Gas Works, Point Breeze" on one side. "10/05/1861 Co. A. City Gas Works Feneibles."
GLC05137.213
to William M. Price
1838/05/07
Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845
Jackson writes of his reliance on the "virtue and incorruptibility, of the sovereign people" who will never surrender their sovereign power to the "despotic rule, and government, of a moneyed Rogocracy."
GLC05138
[Speech by Thaddeus Stevens]
3 October 1865
Stevens, Thaddeus, 1792-1868
Stevens, a United States Representative from Pennsylvania, addresses his fellow citizens regarding an upcoming election for state governmental officials. Discusses post-war debt and expresses disapproval regarding the policies of President Andrew...
GLC05156
To the free and independent voters of the city and county of Philadelphia
circa 1843-1847
LeMoyne, Francis Julius, 1798-1879
The Liberty Party of Philadelphia suggests nominations for an upcoming election. States the Party's principle as "opposition to slavery as the great moral and political evil of this land" and requests voters to consider the "continual encroachments...
GLC05159
Message from the President [re: ratification of the 11th Amendment]
1798/01/17
Adams, John, 1735-1826
"Message from the President... Concerning the suability of states, in pursuance of a Resolution of the two houses, of the second of March last." First edition, printed by order of the House of Representatives.
GLC05161
Constitutions of the United States of America [adds Vermont]
1791
Carey, Stewart, and Co. (publishers), fl. 1791
"The Constitutions of the United States; according to the latest amendments; to which are annexed, the Declaration of Independence; and the federal constitution; with the amendments thereto. This edition contains the Constitution of Vermont, not in...
GLC05166
Autographs for freedom.
1853
Griffiths, Julia, fl. 1895
Published by John P. Jewett and Company. In the preface, Griffiths writes, "The proceeds of the sale of 'Autographs for Freedom,' will be devoted to the dissemination of light and truth on the subject of slavery throughout the country." Griffiths...
GLC05167
Address in favor of universal suffrage, for the election of delegates to the constitutional convention.
1867
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902
Title continues: "Before the Judiciary committees of the Legislature of New York, in the Assembly chamber, January 23, 1867, in behalf of the American Equal Rights association." Inscribed Horace E. Smith, compliments of the author." In the original...
GLC05170
[Richard Yates]
1861 ca.
Fredericks & Co.
Inlaid on paper.
GLC05177
to Hamilton Fish, Jr.
1924-1930
Mellon, Andrew, 1855-1937
Three letters typed in blue inks on Treasury Department stationery: n.d., 3/5/1929 and 5/15/1924, regarding efforts to stop manufacture and traffic in addictive drugs. With additional TLS of H. J. Anslinger, commissioner of the Bureau of Narcotics...
GLC05185
Republican "Wide-Awake," sixth-plate ruby glass ambrotype, election of 1860
1860 ca.
Depicts a serious young man in a waterproof cap and cape, holding an oil torch. The image has been painted to suggest light from the torch. The "wide awakes" led processions supporting Lincoln in the election of 1860. Nevins "Emergence of Lincoln"...
GLC05187
Three portaits of a NYC reformer mayor: daguerreotype, ambrotype & later carte
1850s
Tieman, Daniel T., fl. 1850
The three items are: 1. Daguerreotype. Half view, seated, with left hand holding jacket label and right holding a book. Cased: 15.2 x 12.0 (2.0) cm. 2. Ambrotype half view, seated with hands in lap, no case, 8.2 x 7.1 (.6) cm. Varnished back. 3...
GLC05188
Daniel F. Tiemann
1850 ca.
Brady, Mathew B., 1823-1896
Modern print of carte de visite by Brady-NY, tucked into slits on mount, with note of F.H. Meserve. Inscribed on mount: "Daniel F. Tiemann, mayor of New York. From a negative of M.B. Brady. The Collection of F.H. Meserve."
GLC05188.03
to William C. Bryant
February 16, 1885
Parker, Ely S., 1828-1895
Parker, a Seneca Indian, tells Bryant that he concurs with his ideas on the "Coke Bill." In regard to the treatment of Indians, he comments that "There are so many covert as well [as] open schemes to undermine the Indians of every vestige of the...
GLC05190.01
to John Andrew Shulze
February 26, 1824
Parris, Albion Keith, 1788-1857
Printed resolution signed by Parris as Governor of Maine to Pennsylvania Governor John Andrew Shulze. Certified by A. Nichols as Maine's Secretary of State. First page claims he is passing along a copy of a resolution passed by the legislature of...
GLC05191
Lynchburg Virginian. [October 20, 1864]
20 October 1864
Button, Charles W., fl. 1858-1877
Includes an article discussing the recruitment of African Americans for military service. States "We prefer to organize colored regiments now, while we have an abundance of the white element in the field to absorb the other, and to guard effectually...
GLC05196
to Abraham Yates, Jr.
9 January 1776
Van Cortlandt, Pierre, 1721-1814
Signed as member of the New York Committee of Safety, asking members of Congress to arrive punctually on the day the Session adjourns. Launches into a discourse on what it means to have a senate and to be a senator.
GLC05199
Address to the Republican electors of the state of New York
6 April 1804
Tayler, John, fl. 1804
Address to the Republican electors of New York from the Committee of Publication and Correspondence reccomending Morgan Lewis over Aaron Burr to become the Governor of New York state. Docket on verso. Twelve names are printed on the bottom of the...
GLC05200
to "my darling wife and children"
8 July 1881
Hartsuff, Arthur, fl. 1870-1893
re: Hartsuff again considers the prospects of trouble with the upcoming relocation of the Uncompahgre Utes to their new reservation in Utah at the junction of the Green and White Rivers. He expresses contempt for the "Civil Authority" which "spend...
GLC05201.006
Act for the better detaining...of American prisoners brought into Great Britain
1782
Great Britain. Acts.
An act of Parliament providing for the easier handling of American prisoners in Great Britain. Printed by Charles Eyre and William Strahan.
GLC05205
Journal of the state convention, and ordinances and resolutions adopted in March, 1861.
1861
Mississippi, Convention, fl. 1861
Mississippi secession convention proceedings. Includes text of the constitution of the Confederate States and the constitution of the state of Mississippi. Original pink wrapper. Published by order of the convention. Printed by E. Barksdale.
GLC05209
A Proclamation.
1763
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820
The proclamation establishes colonial rule over former French and Spanish possessions in Canada, Florida, Grenada and other areas; it offers tolerance to Roman Catholics; it calls for governments and assemblies like those in existing colonies and...
GLC05214
Report of the minority of the special committee of seven, to whom was referred so much of his late excellency's message no. 1, as relates to slavery and the slave trade
1857
Pettigrew, James Johnston, 1828-1863
Reprinting of the minority House report, led by J. Johnston Pettigrew of South Carolina, opposing the re-opening of the slave trade on economic and social grounds. Printed by the Carolina Times Steam Power Press. Front page is stamped with the name...
GLC05216
to Henry Clinton
February 15, 1780
Sackville, George Germain, Viscount, 1716-1785
Discusses relieving New York from the constraints of the American Prohibitory Act (1775), which banned all British trade with the colonies. Comments on a bill in Parliament to exempt New York and other colonies under British control during the...
GLC05221
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