30 January 1865

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: To: Thomas J. Eckert.

Arranging secret Hampton Roads peace conference.

GLC08088

29 March 1865

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: To: Ulysses S. Grant.

Re: Troop movements at Port Stedman at the end of the war: "From what direction did the enemy come?"

GLC08089

14 April 1865

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Document signed

Title: Edict.

Granting amnesty to a group of confederate prisoners provided they take oath (one of the last official acts before his assisination), under Andrew Johnson, ES,4/12/1865.

GLC08091

08 December 1869

Johnson, Andrew, 1808-1875

Autograph letter signed

Title: To: Gideon Welles.

Condemning Reconstruction. "There has never been a greater outrage perpetrated...since the formation of the government."

GLC08092

12 June1783

Washington, George, 1732-1799

Letter signed

Title: To: William Livingston.

Washington's farewell address ("Circular to the States") as Commander-in-Chief,spelling out principles esssential to new nation's future existence, now that the United States are "proposed of absolute freedom and independency." With printed copy of address (1783).

GLC08079.01

31 July 1781

Patten, Thomas, fl. 1777-1785

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Knox

Patten, Captain of Artillery Artificers, reports details of work completed at New Windsor, including the building of wagon carriages, wooden bottoms (for artillery) and mortar carriages. Writes, "My Men are Very unease for want of Money, and more Unease about the men are absent and never been sent for, they think if they go that they never will be sent for, and say they Have as good write [sic] to be absent as others- whitch makes me thinks they will desert soon if something is Not done, about the Matter of geting the Deserters in that Belongs to the Company..."

GLC02437.01103

circa 1830-1910

Ward, John Quincy Adams, 1830-1910

Sketch

Title: [Two sketches of female nudes, one standing, one seated with leg up on knee]

Black ink; tracing paper.

GLC06343.111

circa 1830-1910

Ward, John Quincy Adams, 1830-1910

Sketch

Title: [Two standing males, one nude with musket, one in 18th century garb]

Graphite; tan tracing paper.

GLC06343.112

circa 1830-1910

Ward, John Quincy Adams, 1830-1910

Sketch

Title: [Woman with foot raised holding tablet and lightning bolt (?)]

Black ink over graphite; wove paper.

GLC06343.113

circa 1830-1910

Ward, John Quincy Adams, 1830-1910

Sketch

Title: [Nude figure with out-stretched hand]

Pale charcoal or graphite; wove paper.

GLC06343.114

circa 1830-1910

Ward, John Quincy Adams, 1830-1910

Sketch

Title: [Standing male holding musket]

Graphite; wove paper.

GLC06343.116

circa 1830-1910

Ward, John Quincy Adams, 1830-1910

Sketch

Title: [Three male nudes, two sitting, one standing with cloth draped over arm]

Graphite; tracing paper fragment.

GLC06343.117

circa 1830-1910

Ward, John Quincy Adams, 1830-1910

Sketch

Title: [Standing female figure with crown, staff, and out-stretched arm]

Charcoal and graphite; wove paper.

GLC06343.118

circa 1830-1910

Ward, John Quincy Adams, 1830-1910

Sketch

Title: [Five sculpture designs: man and woman embracing, 2 soldiers, figure with arm raised, two figures facing each other]

Graphite; thin wove paper, many creases and wrinkles.

GLC06343.120

circa 1830-1910

Ward, John Quincy Adams, 1830-1910

Sketch

Title: [Boy leaning on stool]

With 3 action sketches on reverse side. Graphite; thick wove paper.

GLC06343.121

1830-1910 circa

Ward, John Quincy Adams, 1830-1910

Sketch

Title: [Hunched male figure with bent leg]

Black ink over graphite; wove paper.

GLC06343.122

circa 1830-1910

Ward, John Quincy Adams, 1830-1910

Sketch

Title: [Winged figure (sketched on both sides), seated male nude with small woman]

Graphite, tracing paper.

GLC06343.123

circa 1830-1910

Ward, John Quincy Adams, 1830-1910

Sketch

Title: [Figures around old bearded man in coffin]

Black ink over graphite; wove paper.

GLC06343.124

circa 1830-1910

Ward, John Quincy Adams, 1830-1910

Sketch

Title: [Seated female in Roman garb with hand covering face]

Graphite; textured wove paper.

GLC06343.125

circa 1830-1910

Ward, John Quincy Adams, 1830-1910

Sketch

Title: [Winged figure from behind, small sketches of soldiers on reverse side]

Graphite, wove paper.

GLC06343.126

circa 1830-1910

Ward, John Quincy Adams, 1830-1910

Sketch

Title: [Grided sculpture design of angel offering peace between a victorious warrior about to strike a vanquished warrior]

Black ink, graphite; thick wove pap

GLC06343.127

circa 1830-1910

Ward, John Quincy Adams, 1830-1910

Sketch

Title: [Geometric designs: cube, cylinder, star-shaped design]

Graphite; wove paper.

GLC06343.128

circa 1830-1910

Ward, John Quincy Adams, 1830-1910

Sketch

Title: [Flowers attached to stems]

Graphite; tracing paper.

GLC06343.129

circa 1830-1910

Ward, John Quincy Adams, 1830-1910

Painting

Title: [Lotus blossoms]

Watercolor, graphite, wove paper.

GLC06343.130

circa 1830-1910

Ward, John Quincy Adams, 1830-1910

Sketch

Title: [Two sketches of flowers]

Graphite; wove paper.

GLC06343.131