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1804 ca.

Tripoli, fl. 1804

Title: Blowing Up the Fire Ship Intrepid commanded by Capt. Sommers...

[Title continued] "by the American Squadron under Commodore Edward Preble." Hand-colored copper-plate engraving by John Guerrazzi, London.

GLC07729

1861/01/19

Chase, Salmon P. (Salmon Portland), 1808-1873

Autograph letter signed

Title: to William C. Endicott, Jr. re: cabinet post

GLC07741

1865/04/15

Welles, Gideon, 1802-1878

Document

Title: General Orders no. 51

GLC07746

1865/05/11

Porter, William, fl. 1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to William Fessenden re: Lincoln assassination

With autograph corrections.

GLC07749.01

1865/04/27

Wilkinson, Gareth, fl. 1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mr. Linton re: Lincoln assassination

GLC07749.02

1865/04/27

Blanc, Louis, fl. 1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Charles F. Adams re: Lincoln assassination

GLC07749.03

1865/05/06

Tupper, Martin F., fl. 1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to William Cullen Bryant re: forwarding copy of his poem "Lincoln's Martyrdom"

GLC07749.04

[1866]/12/14

Lincoln, Mary Todd, 1818-1882

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mrs. James White

Dreams as omens, her husband

GLC07750

1880 ca.?

Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895

Photograph

Title: Half length seated carte de visite portrait of Frederick Douglass, with cane

GLC07752.02

1880 ca.

Powelson, fl. 1880

Photograph

Title: [Carte de visite of Anna Douglass]

Three quarter length seated carte de visite portrait of Anna Douglass. Douglass appears to be holding a parasol.

GLC07752.03

1776 ca.

Habermann, Francois X., 1721-1796

Title: Representation du feu terrible a Nouvelle Yorck [Vue d'Optique] [Burning of Wall Street area, New York]

GLC07754

1915/11/08

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Typed letter signed

Title: to Henry A. W. Wood re: a speech by President Wilson

GLC07756

1895/11/26

McKinley, William, 1843-1901

Autograph note signed

Title: to James Boyle re: Thanksgiving pardon

GLC07757

1863/06/29

Stanton, Edwin M. (Edwin McMasters), 1814-1869

Letter signed

Title: Circular letter appointing James M. Lovering receiver of draft commutation money

GLC07758

1862/04/24

Burnside, Ambrose Everett, 1824-1881

Autograph letter signed

Title: to J.G. Parke re: orders to "open attack at once" on Beaufort, N.C.

GLC07760

1799/05/23

Hamilton, Alexander, 1757-1804

Letter signed

Title: to James Wilkinson re: summoning Wilkinson to Washington

"I begin now to be anxious to learn that you had received my letter desiring you to repair to the Seat of Government...that...a general plan for the arrangement of the affairs of the Western Army, with an eye to the existing posture of our political concerns, might be digested and adopted." Syrett, Harold C. (The Papers Of Alexander Hamilton. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1976), Volume XXIII: 1799/04 - 1799/10, p. 139

GLC07656