1840/10/05

Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852

Broadside

Title: Great Speech of the Hon. Daniel Webster at Richmond.... [on silk]

Full title: "Great Speech of the Hon. Daniel Webster at Richmond, Virginia, Monday, Oct. 5, 1840. Reported for the Herald, by William H. Attree." Report's Webster's speech at the Whig presidential nominating convention in Richmond with audience reaction. Criticizing Van Buren's administration at his party's convention: "Executive power has increased, and is dangerous to the free institutions of our land." Printed in 6 columns on silk with decorative bands framing the text and a hovering eagle at the top holding an "E Pluribus Unum" banner.

GLC05862

1884/09/13

Cleveland, Grover, 1837-1908

Autograph letter signed

Title: to James E. Neal re: election campaign for presidency, written as Gov. of NY

"A public office is a public trust." Signed as governor, on printed stationery.

GLC05870

1821/11

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Book signed

Title: A report of the debates and proceedings of the convention of ... New York

Signed on p. 3 with Jefferson's coded initials "T.I." Compiled by L. H. Clarke. Published by J. Seymor. This Constitution expanded suffrage in New York. Debates include content on Negro suffrage and Missouri Compromise. Previously owned by John H. Peyton, with his signature on the front pastedown. Seven lines of manuscript on p. 367 (not Jefferson's hand), at the end of the index. Restored binding, with some chalk re-touching. This volume appears in the 1829 Nathaniel P. Poor sale catalog of Jefferson's Monticello library on page 11, item 690, as "Report of the Convention of New York,…

GLC05887

1863 ca.

McLaws, Lafayette, 1821-1897

Photograph

Title: Confederate salt print portrait, full length seated portrait

With manuscript inscription on verso.

GLC05888.01

1863 ca.

Adams, William Wirt, 1819-1888

Photograph

Title: [William Wirt Adams]

Full length standing portrait of William Wirt Adams, a Confederate Brigadier General. On a later mount with signature scratched off front lower left corner.

GLC05888.02

1785/09/27

United States in Congress Assembled. Thomson, Charles

Document signed

Title: Report of the Grand Committee of Congress respecting the debt of the U.S.

Lists foreign and domestic debt, assessment of each state. Numbered "no. 26" in ink.

GLC05901

1910/12/06

Carnegie, Andrew, 1835-1919

Typed letter signed

Title: to Robert Baker re: not fearing socialism

"But socialism does not alarm me at all, having implicit confidence in the disposition of the masses in general."

GLC05903

1903/05/22

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Typed letter signed

Title: to Senator William P. Frye re: not reinstating Col. Dickey

On White House stationery. "It is evidently out of the question for [Col.] Dickey to be reinstated."

GLC05913.01

1864 ca.

William S., & A. Martien, fl. 1864

Engraving

Title: Col. Berdan

Carte-de-visite engraved bust portrait of Himan Berdan. Inscribed on verso with name and rank, "H. Berdan Col. Commanding U.S.S.S."

GLC05917

1863 ca.

Whipple, John Adams, 1822-1891

Photograph

Title: [Robert G. Shaw]

Carte de visite, 3/4 length standing portrait. Later reprint of a war-time photo.

GLC05923

1846/01/15

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to John Bennett re: lobbying support during his successful bid for Congress

Basler, Roy R. The Collected Works Of Abraham Lincoln. (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1953), Vol. I 1824 - 1848, p. 355

GLC05927

1855/03/03

Fillmore, Millard, 1800-1874

Book signed

Title: An Essay to prove the contagious character of maligant cholera... .

By Bernard M. Byrne. Published by Childs & Peterson. Second edition. Signed by Millard Fillmore and inscribed to Fillmore by the author. Book plate of Abram T. Kerr and Agnes Kerr.

GLC05928

1795 ca.

United States. Congress (3rd : 1793-1795)

Book

Title: Acts passed at the second session of the third Congress

Full title: "Acts passed at the second session of the third Congress of the United States of America, begun and held at the city of Philadelphia, in the state of Pennsylvania, on Monday, the third of November, 1794." Includes pages AAA and 572 -640.

GLC05932

1872 ca.

Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872

Pamphlet

Title: Proceedings of the Liberal Republican Convention, in Cincinnati

Title continued: "May 1st 2d and 3d, 1873. Horace Greeley's letter of acceptance. Address of the New York State Committee to their fellow-citizens." With obituary of Reverend Charles Brooks .

GLC05940

1808/07/25

Pamphlet

Title: Address of the State Committee of Correspondence, to the citizens of PA

Pennsylvania Committee of Correspondence. William Duane, publisher. (Bound with: Selected pamplets, GLC 5945.)

GLC05945.07

1798 ca.

Book

Title: Truth will out! [defending the Aurora from Tory charges]

Title continued: "The foul charges of the Tories against the editors of the Aurora repelled by positive proof and plain truth." William Duane, publisher. First edition. (Bound with: Selected pamplets, GLC 5945.)

GLC05945.09

1806/07

Lloyd, Thomas, fl. 1806-1807

Book

Title: The Trials of William S. Smith and Samuel Ogden [Miranda expedition]

Title continued: "for misdemeanors, had in the Circuit Court of the United States... in July, 1806." Regarding the Miranda expedition to South America. Printed by and for I. Riley and Co. First edition.

GLC05946

1851/11/06

Hale, Sarah J.B., 1788-1879

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Caroline Gilman

Apologizes for the publisher's loss of Gilman's portrait that Hale had borrowed for the printing of her book, "Women's record" (New York, 1853).

GLC05955

1861, 1864

Gilbert, Thomas, fl. 1861-1864

Header Record

Title: Daily sun.

The first three issues have four pages and the last one has two pages. Each issue has at least one column of "Telegraphic" war dispatches. The back page (except the last two-page issue) always contains the Georgia State Constitution. The 29 March 1864 issue contains fugitive slave ads. (1861/7/11, 1861/7/4, 1861/11/13, and 1864/3/29)

GLC05959.03

1861/07/30, 1861/07/31

Header Record

Title: The Daily morning news. (Savannah, Ga.)

4 pages each. Vol. 12 nos. 177-178. Coast invaded by the Lincolnites, Incidents after the Battle of Manassas, The Maryland Regiment in the Battle at Stone Bridge, The killing of Colonel T.E. Rawlings, New York Republican Press on the Battle of Manassas, Reports on the battle.

GLC05959.05

1862/11/20, 1865/04/14

Hayes, J.E., fl. 1862

Header Record

Title: Savannah republican. [necessity newspaper]

Vol. 61 no. 671 and vol. 65 no. 85. Dated 11/20/1862 and 4/14/1865. The latter issue is printed on brown wastepaper. Topics include Fredericksburg, St. Alban's raiders, suffering in Petersburg, Jefferson Davis's flight.

GLC05959.06

1861/09/28, 1861/12/07

Header Record

Title: True witness (New Orleans, La.)

Vol. 8 nos. 31 and 41. Presbyterian religious newspaper. The 12/7/1861 issue discusses slavery and religious readings for soldiers.

GLC05959.18

1861, 1862

Header Record

Title: Spirit of the age (Raleigh, NC)

Weekly. Vol. 12, no. 47; vol. 13, nos. 50-51; vol. 14 nos. 2, 7, 13 and 17. One very worn issue from 1861. Issues from 1862 use a smaller format of 49 x 33 cm. 7/17/1861; 8/4/1862, 8/11/1862, 9/1/1862, 10/6/1862, 11/17/1862 and 12/15/1862. "A weekly family journal; devoted to temperance, literature, education and news of the day." -Masthead.

GLC05959.33

1861, 1862, 1863, 1864

Hale, E.J., 1802-1880

Header Record

Title: Fayetteville (NC) observer

Most issues contain 4 pp. One issue from 1861; 8 from 1862; 12 from 1863. Vol. 43 no. 2341, 2344-45, 2362, 2371-74, 2383, 2385-87, 2389, 2416-17, 2419, 2426-27, 2429-30, 2432-33, 2435, 2437-41, 2445-47, 2449 [...]

GLC05959.34

1861, 1862, 1863, 1864

A.S. Willington & Co., fl. 1861-1864

Header Record

Title: Charleston daily courier. [Vol. 59, no. 18,835 (April 19, 1861)-v. 63, no. 19,915 (November 8, 1864)]

Previously bound. (Daily issue of the Daily Courier; see also Charleston tri-weekly Courier.) Size varies. Five measure 74 x 54.5 cm. while another 12 measure 60 x 42 cm.

GLC05959.37