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[Air travel priority]

One document granting Dever Spencer Byard, priority for air travel from August 31, 1945 to September 10, 1945.

GLC09930.12.07.01

[Travel details]

One document by Dever Spencer Byard, making notes on travel arrangements, including a flight on September 8, 1945.

GLC09930.12.07.02

Individual Certificate of Medical Clearance

One document entitled Individual Certificate of Medical Clearance dated September 18, 1945. Certifies that Dever Spencer Byard is healthy.

GLC09930.12.08

'My God ! I Forgot Gertrude!' Is Street Car Anecdote Title

One newspaper clipping entitled, "'My God ! I Forgot Gertrude!' Is Street Car Anecdote Title." Pertains to a driving mishap committed by an all-female run street car.

GLC09953.038

MacFadden Divorce Suit Dismissed

One newspaper clipping entitled, "MacFadden Divorce Suit Dismissed." Pertains to the divorce precedings of Bernarr MacFadden and Mary Williamson MacFadden. Details physical abuse committed by the wife.

GLC09953.039

Individual Certificate of Medical Clearance

One document entitled Individual Certificate of Medical Clearance dated September 18, 1945. Certifies that Dever Spencer Byard is healthy. (Same as GLC09930.12.08)

GLC09930.12.09

[Article related to Charlie Chaplina and Oona O'Neill marrying]

One newspaper clipping related to the marriage of 54-year-old Charlie Chaplin to 18-year-old Oona O'Neill.

GLC09953.040

Property Issue Slip

One document entitled Property Issue Slip dated September 18, 1945. A list of property with numbers next to them in a column for quantity desired. In the next column titled Action the same numbers are present.

GLC09930.12.10

[List of Travel]

One document listing travel taken by Dever Spencer Byard dated circa September 1945.

GLC09930.12.11.01

Mileage Voucher

One document entitled Mileage Voucher listing travel from Washington D.C. to New York, to San Francisco taken by Dever Spencer Byard dated circa September 1945.

GLC09930.12.11.02

[Biographical Statement Dever Spencer Byard]

One document as a Biographical Statement Dever Spencer Byard dated June 19, 1945. Includes personal, military and skill information.

GLC09930.12.12

[Application for National Service Life Insurance Dever Spencer Byard]

One document entitled Application for National Service Life Insurance filled out by Dever Spencer Byard dated August 9, 1944.

GLC09930.12.13

[Naval Reserves]

One letter from Randall Jacobs to Dever Spencer Byard dated November 13, 1943. Regarding appointment into the Naval Reserves.

GLC09930.12.14

[Request for report]

One note requesting a report dated November 6, 1945.

GLC09930.13.01

[Request for report]

One undated note requesting Dever Spencer Byard draft provisions.

GLC09930.13.02

to Henry Knox

Thanks Knox for his sympathetic letter concerning the death of his son, John George Washington Hancock, who was only nine years old. Discusses his pursuit of health and states traveling was recommended to him during this trying time, "Journeying is...

GLC02437.03491

Columbia's noblest sons

Print of Columbia crowning an image of George Washington and an image of Abraham Lincoln with laurel leaves. To the left of Washington are images from his presidency and the American Revolution, and on the right of Lincoln are images from his...

GLC02597

to his mother and sister

Writes of witnessing the orders for the Regiment to prepare to leave camp and the subsequent breakdown of the camp. He and Charles were both very regretful at having to part but decided it would be best. George is planning on stopping in Washington...

GLC03603.208

to Edward Chase

Writes to his brother, a lawyer in Lockport, New York, about his journey from Washington, D.C. to Cincinnati, Ohio. Laments his undesirable traveling companions among whom was a woman convict. "A woman too - who had been committed for Infanticide...

GLC05494.01

The Inaugural address of President Abraham Lincoln delivered at the National Capitol, March 4, 1865.

Contemporary printing of Lincoln's second inaugural address. Printed in dark blue ink. Title is in large, bold type with the text of the address in double columns underneath.

GLC06044

to Governor of North Carolina

Relaying President Washington's instructions regarding a seized Spanish vessel

GLC08120

to Horatio L. Wait

Evans thanks him for his letter to the President.

GLC08284.051

to Theodore Parker

Senator Wilson thanks Reverend Parker for Parker's recent criticism of Wilson's speech on the topic of slavery and states' rights. Defends himself, stating "I deny the right of any state or nation to hold men in slavery, but I maintain the right of...

GLC08889

[Civil war patriotic postal cover collection]

Two scrapbooks with 2133 covers and some broadsides pasted in. Containing many unusual Union covers, a number of which are rare and unlisted in Wolcott. Scarce designs from printers such as Magnus, Berlin & Jones, etc., with single, tonal or...

GLC00496.017

General orders, no. 44

General Beauregard's order rallying Confederate soldiers, in response to Benjamin F. Butler's infamous General Order number 28, signed by Smith as Assistant Adjutant General. Butler's order number 28, stating that New Orleans women showing contempt...

GLC00666