circa 1882

Object

Title: ["Any holder but a Slave holder" potholder]

Based on the accompanying letter (GLC 7731.01), created by Miss Lena, who gave the potholder to Frederick Douglass as a gift after reading his narrative. Depicts two African Americans (one male and one female) holding hands and dancing against a caramel colored background. Text is stitched above and below the dancing figures. Appears to be a form of needlepoint stitching.

GLC07731.02

5 April 1825-1828

Harrison, Mary S., 1809-1842

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Keepsake book of Mary Harrison]

Signed on first page. Book of poetry, some written out by Harrison, some addressed to or for Miss Mary S. Harrison, written by friends. There are dried leaves pressed between some pages. Mary Harrison was the daughter of President William Henry Harrison and Anna Tuthill Symmes Harrison.

GLC07732.02

April 14, 1865

Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882

Photograph

Title: [Albumen of John Howard's livery & sale stables]

Inscribed on verso: "the livery stable from which the horse was hired that Booth ran away after shooting President Lincoln April 14, 1865." Also includes #7767 and a stamp for Kemp, Photographers, 137 S. Broad St., Trenton, N.J. The photograph is mounted on board.

GLC07736

April 1865 ca.

Photograph

Title: [Albumen of asassination sympathizers]

Image of seventeen men lined up outdoors, ten of with are carrying placards around their necks that read "assassin sympathizer." The ten men are in the custody of armed soldiers. The photograph is mounted on a sheet of construction paper.

GLC07737

27 April 1865

Gardner, Alexander, 1821-1882

Photograph

Title: [Lincoln assassination conspirators]

Nine large plate albumen prints of the Lincoln assassination conspirators. Secret Service head Colonel Lafayette C. Baker selected Gardner to take the photographs of the conspirators while in they were in custody, awaiting trial aboard the U.S.S. Montauk and the U.S.S. Saugus. Decimalized, GLC07738.01-.09

GLC07738

1865-1880's ca.

Various

Photograph

Title: [Five cartes de visite and one miniature albumen portrait of Lincoln]

Includes photos by Alexander Gardner, Mathew Brady, and Anthony Berger. Four of the photographs are from engravings. Miniature portrait measures 2.5 x 1.8 cm.

GLC07739

3 March 1895

Wallace, Lewis, 1827-1905

Autograph letter signed

Title: to A. E. Allen

Apologizes for the delay of the photograph. States that assassination trial was "perfect in every respect." Provides the name of the officers that tried the Lincoln conspirators. The list of names accompanies a photograph that has been pasted on a piece of board along with the letter (GLC07740.02). The letter is also accompanied by three newspaper clippings entitled: "Was Mary Surrat guilty?", "He might have hanged", and "Gen. Holt dead." A short biography on Lewis Wallace is pasted adjacent to the photograph. The extent given is that of the board on which various pieces are pasted on.

GLC07740.01

1861/01/19

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

Autograph letter signed

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

GLC07741

1863

Everett, Edward, 1794-1865

Book

Title: Oration Delivered on the Battlefield of Gettysburg

Docketed on address leaf.

GLC07743.02

1864

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Object

Title: The Boys in Blue Want Abe to Stay

GLC07744

1865/04/15

Welles, Gideon, 1802-1878

Document

Title: General Orders no. 51

GLC07746

12 February 1861

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Broadside

Title: President Lincoln's Farewell Address to his Old neighbors, Springfield, February 12, 1861

Published by N. Bangs Williams, Providence, Rhode Island.

GLC07748

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

27 November 1864

Farragut, David Glasgow, 1801-1870

Autograph letter signed

Title: to James E. Montgomery

Written by Admiral Farragut to Major Montgomery as Acting Adjutant General and Chief of Staff. Says Montgomery's note of that morning arrived as he was going ashore to get "a small Brass" cannon at Fort Morgan that Captain Williamson promised him, but he was unable to get it as the captain was not there. Is glad Montgomery has helped made working with the army easier. Says "I urged the taking of Mobile Bay 30 months ago and was put off from time to time by the pressure of the enemy, and difference of opinion at Washington and so I continued the blockade in sunshine and storm until Genls.…

GLC07665

19 July 1790

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Letter signed

Title: to unknown

Sends copies of "the act for establishing the...permanent seat of the government of the United States" in Washington, D.C. and an act providing for the payment of invalid pensioners (the actual copies are not included). The text of this letter is exactly the same as GLC04886, which is addressed to the President of New Hampshire Josiah Bartlett.

GLC07668

15 January 1792

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Pierre C. L'Enfant

Requests a meeting to go over some papers Jefferson received from President Washington, so that the relationship between the commissioners superintending the building of Washington, D.C. and L'Enfant could be "entirely understood." L'Enfant designed the city of Washington. At the time of this meeting he was experiencing a falling out with the commissioners, and was dismissed from the project following month.

GLC07669

2 May 1817

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Tristam Dalton

Thanks him for the copy of Agriculture Magazine he sent. Regarding cattle feed, he states that instead of the widely used crops of carrots, potatoes, and beets, he recommends Jerusalem artichoke and succory (chicory). He describes the merits of these two crops. Shares his method for plowing hillsides horizontally, which he states his son-in-law (Thomas Mann Randolph) has been doing for years with great success because it prevents rainfall from carrying the soil away. Discusses a modified plow which works well on uneven land. Ends by saying that horizontal, deep plowing, "beginning to be…

GLC07670.01

4 June 1779

Washington, George, 1732-1799

Letter signed

Title: to Henry Knox

General Washington informs General Knox of the British army's progress (possibly in the Hudson Highlands, New York). States "It would appear from a number of circumstances that they mean to press their operations against the posts on the highlands ... The militia are calling out for amunition, and the supply for the army, as you know, is, far from being sufficient. I would therefore wish you to send on careful and active conductors to hasten forward to the army, a competent supply, from the nearest Magazines."

GLC07674

2 January 1781

Washington, George, 1732-1799

Manuscript letter signed

Title: to Nathanael Greene

Informs Greene of the size of a British expeditionary force of 1600 men under the command of traitor Benedict Arnold. Also mentions conflicting reports of the battle at Blackstock Plantation in South Carolina between Continental General Thomas Sumter and British Colonel Banastre Tarleton, 20 November 1780. He states, "The printers on both sides make it a victory." Wishes him a happy New Year. Postscript in Washington's hand comments that he heard word that Mrs. Greene and the children were well.

GLC07675

1783/08/02

Washington, George, 1732-1799

Letter signed

Title: to Baron de Capellan de Sol re: letter of thanks

Highly complimentary letter of thanks for a gift received from the Patriotic Society of the City of Enkhuysen, The Netherlands. "Your station, Sir, and your Character in particular, have indeed merited the confidence and regard of the Confederate States of America..."

GLC07676

1793/10/14

Washington, George, 1732-1799

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Edmund Randolph re: debating legality of relocating Congress

GLC07677

1862/12/23

Seward, William Henry, 1801-1872

Manuscript document signed

Title: re: admission of West Virginia as a state

Letter from Lincoln to Cabinet members calling for written opinions re: admission of West Virginia as a state. Includes autograph of Seward and secretarial signature of Lincoln.

GLC07681

1865/04/29

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

Letter signed

Title: Circular letter re: announcing Salmon P. Chase's visit to the South

GLC07684

1869/03/04

Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885

Manuscript document

Title: Memorandum for the Judges for Inauguration

GLC07685