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to Emma C. Small

He describes their correspondence and hopes to maintain frequent contact. He inquires after a Mr. Chickering, a clerk and businessman. Powell as recently attended an exhibition of a two-piece painting of Adam and Eve by Sir Bufe, lectures, and the...

GLC00687.001

to George May Powell

He is at the Congregational Church there, and is very busy with Sunday Schools, Sunday School papers, and singing. He doesn't think George May Powell should go into real estate. He plans to visit New Haven and continue school in Chicago.

GLC00687.098

to George May Powell

The letter is on Hurd and Houghton Publishers and Booksellers letterhead, mentioning that they propose to publish Rawson's Bible Hand Book on certain terms of royalties, with George May Powell providing illustrations.

GLC00687.125

to Hurd & Houghton, Publishers and Booksellers

He accepts the terms previously proposed and offers to produce more maps and pictures than previously engraved if necessary. He suggests a full contract to be drawn up.

GLC00687.127

[Memorandum of an Agreement]

A contract between George May Powell of the Oriental Topographical Corps and Melancthon M. Hurd and Albert G. Houghton, Publishers and Booksellers, to publish Rawson's Bible Hand Book. GMP will provide illustrations at his cost and will retain...

GLC00687.128

to Gentlemen

He writes about an offer some time previously of an art publication of his, which was declined. He wonders if the gentlemen would be interested in a new invention.

GLC00687.140

to unknown

They inform him that his article "Friction between Labor and Capital" has been accepted for publication, and they enclose a check. On the back are notes about the beautiful music of a violin and the decision to do God's will.

GLC00687.262

Music book

The book contains scales, chromatic scales, and tunes handwritten and hand bound.

GLC00687.273

[George May Powell]

George May Powell, middle aged

GLC00687.275

President Lincoln and General Grant on Peace and War.

Promotes the Union cause. Reprints an interview with Lincoln titled "Mr. Lincoln's view of Democratic strategy," and a letter of General Grant dated 16 August 1864 to E.B. Washburne. Grant's letter informs that the Confederacy is very weak and...

GLC00702

The last moments of John Brown

Etching on vellum, based on Hovenden's 1884 painting depicting John Brown kissing a black baby while on his way to the gallows. The painting was based on an incident reported in the New York Tribune, that later proved to be apocryphal. Printed by...

GLC00737

The Negro forget-me-not songster, the only work published, containing all the Negro songs, that have ever appeared.

Signed on free front endpaper by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "H. W. Longfellow." Original cloth spine laid onto modern leather. Title on spine: "Nigga forget-me-not songster." Published by Turner & Fisher. Songs written in "dialect," and some are...

GLC00796

to Rose

Alexander S. Pendleton writes to his sister. He discusses personal news, a skirmish, and General Rosecrans at Cumberland. She requests she send him a song. Letter written on blue paper.

GLC00835

to William P. Fessenden

General Tower, chief engineer of Union defenses at Nashville, describes the Battle of Nashville to Fessenden, Secretary of the Treasury. He relates the strategies of Union Generals George Henry Thomas, Andrew Jackson Smith, James Harrison Wilson, and...

GLC00849.01

[Pencil illustration depicting the area near Nashville, Tennessee]

Autograph map depicts roads, rivers, fortifications and estimated troop numbers and locations near Nashville. Tower, chief engineer of Union defenses at Nashville, possibly transmitted this map with a letter (refer to GLC00849.01) to William P...

GLC00849.02

Engraving of William T. Sherman.

Together with a short biographical sketch of Sherman not attached.

GLC00889.01

[Napolean I, carte de visite]

White mount. Pencil inscription on verso: "March 15, 1868." Vignette bust portrait of Napoleon. Photo from engraving.

GLC00919.24.18

[carte de visite, oval half length portrait of a young woman]

White mount with gold border. Pencil inscription "Nora" on both recto and verso. Romanticized oval half length portrait of a young woman. Photo from engraving.

GLC00919.24.43

[carte de visite, Grant's headquarters]

White mount with ink inscription on recto: "Lieut-General Grants HdQuarters, Winter of 1864 [and] 5, City Point, Va." Inscribed on negative: "Sketched by Louis Bernkopf, Private 15th N.Y.V. Engr." Sketched view of a quadrangle surrounded by winter...

GLC00919.24.48

[carte de visite, Grant's headquarters]

White mount with faded gold border and Fowx imprint on verso. Same image as #48.

GLC00919.24.49

[carte de visite, chapel in the camp of the 50th Regiment N.Y.V. Engineers]

White mount with gold border and Fowx imprint on verso. Inscribed on negative: "Chapel in the camp of the 50th Regiment N.Y.V. Engineers, near Petersburg, Va. Built by Co. "F" of that Regt. Sketched by Louis Bernkopf, Private 15th N.Y.V. Engineers...

GLC00919.24.52

[carte de visite, chapel in the camp of the 50th Regiment N.Y.V. Engineers]

White mount with gold border and Fowx imprint on verso. Blurred and damaged print of image #52.

GLC00919.24.53

[carte de visite, Home on Furlough]

White mount with printed caption on verso: "Home on a Furlough." Scene of a soldier being welcomed home by his exuberant family. Photo from painting or engraving.

GLC00919.24.54

[carte de visite, The Belle of Winter]

White mount. Caption on image: "The Belle of Winter." Profile view of a woman ice skating in fur-trimmed clothes. Photo from painting or engraving.

GLC00919.24.55

to friends at home

Letter written near Falmouth. He comments on the band playing outside of General Benham's tent "and consequently in front of the tent in which I am writing." Notes that, "Genl Benham believes in having the Regiment togather [sic]..."

GLC00919.25.18