1853-1854

Autograph document

Title: [List of belongings, includes enslaved people]

Document from King and Queen County Virginia. It lists the name of 12 enslaved people. "Go Wm P Courtney/ Self 21/ Slaves over 16 Thorton, Thorton Jr., Temple, John, Oney, Sally, Martha, Agnus, Harriet, Oney Jr., Sarah Anne, Mariah 12/ Between 12 + 16- Buck 1/ Homes +c 6-$300 52 Cattle sheep + Hogs $130 2 Coney's 100/2 watches value &60/ 1 clock $10. Furniture $250."

GLC10058.02

28 September 1790

Hackney, Benjamin, fl. 1790

Autograph document signed

Title: [Virginia Slave Deed]

Deed from Benjamin Hackney to his daughter Elizabeth Philpott. Giving her three enslaved people; Ben, Peggy, and Seller, as well as their future children.

GLC10058.03

1859

Brumfield, John, 1829-1903

Autograph document signed

Title: [Yazoo County appraisal of hired Enslaved people 1859]

A appraisal of value of work for enslaved people loaned to Yazoo County by their owner John Lambeth during the year 1859. Lists the names and value of work done by enslaved people. Names and ages of enslaved people; Issac 15, Dareus 48, Robert 15, Lit[tle] Milly 13, Mary 11, Old Milly 65, Allen 55, Martha 40, Sally 38, Lucinda 13, Milly 11, and Matilda 75.

GLC10058.04

1 June 1829

Kohl, George, fl. 1829

Autograph document signed

Title: [Affirmation of manumission of Nancy Joyce]

Affirmation of manumission of Nancy Joyce by former slave holder Ignatus Davis on November 8, 1803

GLC10058.05

1900

Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915

Book

Title: A New Negro For A New Century

One book entitled A New Negro For A New Century by Booker T. Washington published 1900.

GLC10065

1860-1865

Various

Header Record

Title: Six cartes de visites of Abraham Lincoln and Family [Decimalized .01-.06]

GLC10136

1860-1865

Unknown

Photograph

Title: Carte de visite of Abraham Lincoln

GLC10136.01

1860-1865

Unknown

Photograph

Title: Carte de visite of Abraham Lincoln

GLC10136.02

1860-1865

Unknown

Photograph

Title: Carte de visite of Abraham Lincoln

GLC10136.03

1860-1865

Unknown

Photograph

Title: Carte de visite of Abraham Lincoln

GLC10136.04

1860-1865

Unknown

Photograph

Title: Carte de visite of Abraham Lincoln

GLC10136.05

1860-1865

Unknown

Photograph

Title: Photograph of Abraham Lincoln and Family

GLC10136.06

January 6, 1826

Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834

Autograph letter signed

Title: to unknown

GLC04496

Circa 1865

Unknown

Cabinet Card

Title: Apotheosis of Lincoln

GLC10137

1909

Unknown

Object

Title: 1909 Penny

GLC01995.02

1909

Unknown

Stamp

Title: 1909 2 cent stamp

GLC01995.03

March 13, 1992

Unknown

Typed letter

Title: to unknown

GLC08880.163

1860

Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874

Pamphlet

Title: The barbarism of slavery. Speech of Hon. Charles Sumner, on the Bill for the admission of Kansas as a free state.

Disbound. Printed by Buell & Blanchard. Senator Sumner declares, "When last I entered into this debate, it became my duty to expose the Crime against Kansas, and to insist upon the immediate admission of that Territory as a State of this Union, with a Constitution forbidding slavery. Time has passed; but the question remains."

GLC08445.01

1867

United States. Supreme Court

Pamphlet

Title: Review of the Decision of the U.S. Supreme Court, in the cases of Lambdin P. Milligan and others, the Indiana Conspirators.

Original printing of the Supreme Court's April 3, 1866 decision in Ex Parte Milligan, rejecting the military's claim of legal jurisdiction to try and sentence Lambdin P. Milligan and other so-called "Butternuts," Confederate supporters in southern Indiana. Published by the Union Congressional Executive Committee, Washington, D.C. Printed by Chronicle Print.

GLC08445.02

1884

Greenleaf, Halbert S., 1827-1906

Pamphlet

Title: Speech of Hon. Halbert S. Greenleaf of New York, in the House of Representatives, Saturday, January 19, 1884.

Representative Greenleaf discusses the court-martial of General Fitz-John Porter. In support of Porter, concludes "Why, then, in view of these clearly established facts, should we longer delay this simple act of justice to a most meritorious but much-abused soldier? Why wait for a more auspicious day? Why wait till this perfectly innocent man has gone down with his gray hairs in sorrow to the grave? Let us act, here and now... I support this bill for his relief with all my heart..."

GLC08445.04.01

1809

Gallatin, Albert, 1761-1849

Pamphlet

Title: Letter from the Secretary of Treasury...

Submitted by Albert Gallatin as Sec. of Treasury. With fold-out "Statement" of salaries for the Department

GLC08445.06

5 May 1866

Foster, Lafayette Sabine, 1806-1880

Letter signed

Title: to Senor Abraham L. Dovale

Co-signed by Schuyler Colfax as Speaker of the House. Invitation to a memorial ceremony for Abraham Lincoln to be held at the Hall of the House.

GLC08450

1856-1857

Pamphlet

Title: State legislatures' resolutions regarding Kansas and slavery [Decimalized .01-.08]

34th Congress House of Representatives Miscellaneous Documents. Contains resolutions passed by the state legislatures of Kentucky, Ohio, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Maine, Iowa, and Michigan. Apparently disbound from a larger volume. Accompanied by wrapper with identification statements written in ink.

GLC08452

4 June 1860

Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874

Pamphlet

Title: The barbarism of slavery. Speech of Hon. Charles Sumner, on the bill for the admission of Kansas as a free state. In the United State Senate, June 4, 1860.

Printed by Buell & Blanchard. Sumner calls the Missouri Compromise "the fatal partition between Freedom and Slavery." Uncut. Accompanied by address leaf cut from this pamphlet's original transmission wrapper (GLC08454.02). Edges are brittle and frayed.

GLC08454.01

February 30, 1815

Madison, James, 1751-1836

Pamphlet

Title: Message from the President [transmitting Treaty of Peace]

Printed by Roger C. Weightman

GLC08455