7 July 1832 - 11 January 1839

Conyers, Thomas, 1795-1879

Autograph manuscript

Title: [Soldier letterbook from the Black Hawk War]

Letterbook of Major Conyers, commander of the mounted Detachment from 1st Regiment Missouri Volunteers during the Black Hawk War. This bound volume contains orders, memoranda, incoming and outgoing correspondence, company appraisements and accounts. Records communications from Indian agent Hughes on Platte regarding Keokuk and fur trader and Indian agent Joshua Pilcher on regarding Chief Black Hawk. Also provides details of Iowa scouting expeditions from Fort Pike on the Des Moines River and from Fort Madison. The first leaves and pastedowns contain notes from the early 1840s,…

GLC07381

1886

Bourke, John G., 1846-1896

Book signed

Title: An Apache campaign in the Sierra Madre: An account of the expedition in pursuit of the hostile Chiricahua Apaches in the spring of 1883

Published by Charled Scribner's Sons. Dedication included on the first blank page to C. M. Lanitis Jr. from Mrs. Lieutenant Seyburn, May 1886. Describes a campaign led by General George Crook against the Chiricahua Apache Tribe in 1883. In the preface, the author indicates that sections of this book were originally published in serial form in Boston's Outing Magazine.

GLC07380.02

1838

Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848

Pamphlet

Title: Speeches given in Congress re: resolutions of seven state legislatures

Discusses annexation of Texas. Collateral to GLC 567 Adams fragment, a draft of the preface to this compilation of speeches given June 16- July 7 in the House. The fragment was expanded in details on pp. 6-8.

GLC07397

1840

Pamphlet

Title: Constitution and Laws of Cherokee Nation

Constitution of reunited tribes.

GLC07382

1868

Book

Title: Laws of the Cherokee Nation...

Acts passed 1839-1867, compiled by National Council.

GLC07384.01

1881

Rasmus, William T., fl. 1881

Book signed

Title: Compiled Laws... Cherokee Nation

Laws passed in Talequah Indian Territory; presentation copy by assistant executive secretary of Cherokee Nation.

GLC07384.02

1890

Book

Title: Constitution, Treaties and Laws of the Chickasaw

Inscribed to D. Fisher. Written from the Indian Territory of Atoka.

GLC07384.03

circa 1845

American Republican Party of Kingston

Broadside

Title: American Republican Town Nominations. "Beware of Foreign Influence"

Nativist Election broadside, with large eagle, by the American Republican Party of Kingston attacking Roman Catholic immigrants. "Beware of Foreign Influence" is attributed to Washington's Farewell Address. Prints the address of John Young as Chairman, with Resolutions, calling upon people to guard against "all the Roman Catholic countries on Earth which are sending their millions of offcasts and vagabonds...to take from us the Liberties we now enjoy."

GLC07450

1776

Low, Nathaniel, fl. 1776

Book

Title: Astronomical Diary or Almanack for... 1777 [with woodcut map]

Accompanied by first American printed map of Washington's forces in Revolutionary War: "A View of the present Seat of the War at Near-New York." (p. 3). Printed by J. Gill.

GLC07454

1853/10/06

Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889

Autograph letter signed

Title: to J. W. Turner re: opposition to free soil movement

GLC07463

1803/07/29

Madison, James, 1751-1836

Letter signed

Title: to Robert R. Livingston re: Louisiana Purchase negotiations [in code]

Madison instructs Livingston and James Monroe to research precise boundaries of Florida during Louisiana Purchase negotiations. Portions of the letter are written in a numeric code.

GLC07466

1933/06/10

Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945

Typed letter signed

Title: to Henry T. Rainey re: thanking Hundred Days Congress for achievements

Rainey was speaker of the house.

GLC07468

1772/09/22

Washington, George, 1732-1799

Autograph document signed

Title: Deed of purchase of 196 acres adjoining Mt. Vernon from John & Catharine West

Signed 12 times in text. Signers include John West Junr., Catharine West, G. Mason, Richard Anell Robert Bogges, and Briant Alliston.

GLC07470

178[1]/03/11

Washington, George, 1732-1799

Letter

Title: Contemporary copy of Washington's letter to Congress re: Rochambeau

Manuscript written in Tench Tilghman's hand, regarding Rochambeau.

GLC07471

1780/10/02

Scammell, Alexander, 1747-1781

Autograph letter signed

Title: to John Andre re: informing Andre of execution time at 12 o'clock this day

"His Excellency Genl Washington has fix'd the Hour 12o Clock."

GLC07472

1866/01/29

Parsons, Lewis B., fl. 1866

Letter signed

Title: to unknown recipient re: reconstruction in New Orleans

"It is a bad place-a hard set to deal with; men full of corruption...the Angel Gabriel could not avoid being villanously traduced."

GLC07451

1863

Theresa, Sister, fl. 1863

Sketch

Title: Pen and ink portrait of Chief Nurse of Ward J. Satterlee

Depicts a women in a religious habit, with rosary, and holding an open book. Attached to a ruled sheet with ink note identifying the person. She worked in the U.S. General Hospital (Philadelphia)

GLC07452

1866

Wilson, Joseph S., fl. 1866

Header Record

Title: Reports of General Land Office, with Atlas

The report is printed in English, with four land promotion tracts in English, French, German and Swedish. Accompanied by an atlas containing 23 folding cloth color maps of each area. One of the maps is said to be the first to show Nevada with its 1866 boundaries.

GLC07453

1864

Book

Title: History of the Brooklyn and Long Island Fair [Sanitary Commission]

Printed by United States Sanitary Commission, with 5 color foldout lithographs. D. H. Gould signature, 1866.

GLC07455

1865

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Print

Title: Our Fallen Heroes [Woodcut print]

Large sheet consisting of colored woodcuts, intended for hanging, depicting Lincoln and deceased Union officers Elmer Ellsworth, E.D. Baker, J. McCook, Mitchill, Andrew H. Foote, J. Sedgwick, Lyon, Mansfield, Kearney, J.F. Reynolds, McPherson and Wadsworth. With "Roll of Honor" monument listing names of dead officers. Printed by Haasis & Lubrecht.

GLC07456

1816

Wilkinson, James, 1757-1825

Book

Title: Memoirs of My Own Times

Three volume set accompanied by small atlas.

GLC07457

circa 1874

Schile, H., fl. 1874

Print

Title: [Central Park scene of mother with two children]

Large colored image, depicting a young mother, with her girl in a cart drawn by a goat, while the boy holds the goat. A bridge spans water in background. Elaborately colored, with a black border.

GLC07458

1812/02/03

Barlow, Joel, 1754-1812

Header Record

Title: Collection of diplomatic dispatches to James Monroe as Sec. of State [Decimalized .01- .13]

Discusses international relations and Napoleon. Some dispatches manuscript, with some partly printed.

GLC07459.01

1812/03/15

Barlow, Joel, 1754-1812

Autograph letter signed

Title: to James Monroe re: organizing military forces

"It seems the Emperor never kept his ministers so hard at work night and day...to organize and push forward the unexampled military force before which Europe now trembles." Labeled "Dispatch no. 9"

GLC07459.02

September 1862 - 26 May1865

Wheeler, Lysander, 1837-1917

Header Record

Title: Collection of Lysander Wheeler, C company, 105th regiment, Illinois, infantry [Decimalized .001-.123]

Lysander Wheeler, a farmer from Sycamore, Illinois, enlisted in the Union Army on August 7, 1862 as a private. He was mustered into Company C of the 105th Illinois infantry and later promoted to sergeant. Wheeler was mustered out on June 7, 1865.

GLC07460