circa 1830-1910

Ward, John Quincy Adams, 1830-1910

Sketch

Title: [Clothing draped on a bed post with door in background]

Graphite; laid paper.

GLC06343.054

circa 1830-1910

Ward, John Quincy Adams, 1830-1910

Sketch

Title: [Spinning wheel]

Graphite; wove paper.

GLC06343.055

circa 1830-1910

Ward, John Quincy Adams, 1830-1910

Sketch

Title: [Portrait of a mustached man wearing a hat and spectacles]

Reverse side has an incomplete sketch of the hindquarters of a cow. Graphite; wove paper.

GLC06343.056

circa 1830-1910

Ward, John Quincy Adams, 1830-1910

Sketch

Title: [Four sketches of a bull]

Iron gall ink; wove paper.

GLC06343.057

circa 1830-1910

Ward, John Quincy Adams, 1830-1910

Sketch

Title: [Profile portrait of a woman]

Possibly a Native American woman. Graphite; wove paper.

GLC06343.058

circa 1830-1910

Ward, John Quincy Adams, 1830-1910

Sketch

Title: [Back of a woman in frock coat and long skirt]

Reverse side has faint design of either a fountain or sculpture. Graphite; tan wove paper.

GLC06343.059

circa 1830-1910

Ward, John Quincy Adams, 1830-1910

Sketch

Title: [Spinning wheel]

Graphite or charcoal; wove paper.

GLC06343.060

circa 1830-1910

Ward, John Quincy Adams, 1830-1910

Sketch

Title: [Reclining bull]

Iron gall ink; wove paper.

GLC06343.061

circa 1830-1910

Ward, John Quincy Adams, 1830-1910

Sketch

Title: [Two dogs in profile]

With additional sketches on reverse side. Iron gall ink, graphite; wove paper.

GLC06343.062

09 March 1831

Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848

Autograph letter signed

Title: To: Joseph Blunt.

Criticizing Jackson administration and spoils system, including mention of Peggy Eaton affair: They have no "character to lose."

GLC08081

16 October 1845

Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848

Letter signed

Title: to Richard Rush

Predicting Civil War in wake of slavery's expansion. .

GLC08082

7 May 1837

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mary Owens

To the woman he almost married: "Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented." Owens rejected Lincoln's marriage proposal in 1837, the second of the three main loves of Lincoln's life; Anna Rutledge, Mary Owens and Mary Todd. Basler, Roy P. The Collected Works Of Abraham Lincoln. (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1953), Vol. I 1824 - 1828.

GLC08085

December 11, 1859

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: To: William Kellogg.

Re: Election of 1860 & difficulties in dealing with Horace Greeley and Greeley's support of Stephen Douglas. Basler, Roy P. The Collected Works Of Abraham Lincoln. (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1953), Vol. III 1858 - 1860, p. 506

GLC08086

circa 1852-1863

Header Record

Title: [Sheet music, broadsides, and advertisements relating to Uncle Tom's Cabin]. [Decimalized .01- .11]

See descriptions in GLC05508.013.01-.11

GLC05508.013

1852

Stannard & Dixon

Print

Title: Topsy's Polka.

Signed by Henry Lawful. Sheet music cover from the play Uncle Tom's Cabin. Lithograph image in color of a young African American girl with a patterned head scarf. Printed by Stannard & Dixon, lithograph by Louisa Corbaux.

GLC05508.013.02

1852

Stannard & Dixon

Print

Title: The Tom-Tit polka.

Sheet music cover from the play Uncle Tom's Cabin. "Companion to the Topsy Polka, composed by Stephen Glover." Image of a young girl with short, dark, curly hair. Lithograph by A. Laby.

GLC05508.013.03

1852

Print

Title: Poor Tom!

Signed by Charles Still and William Holland Love in upper right corner. Sheet music cover from the play Uncle Tom's Cabin. Written by Charles Jefferys and composed by Stephen Glover. Depicts an enslave, Legree, threatening an enslaved man named Tom, "Didn't I pay down twelve hundred dollars cash for you. a'nt you mine now, body and soul!"

GLC05508.013.04

1852

Hanhart, M., fl. 1852

Print

Title: Uncle Tom's cabin No. 2: The slave mother.

Sheet music cover from the play Uncle Tom's Cabin. Ballad by George Linley. With illegible signature in upper right corner. Depicts a female slave with a small child fleeing from a master wielding a whip. Image by J. Brandard.

GLC05508.013.05

circa 1852-1860

Swift, H., fl. 1852-1860

Sheet music

Title: Uncle Tom.

Title page and sheet music from the play Uncle Tom's Cabin. Dedicated to W.H.J, music by H. Swift. Published by W. Hill in New York.

GLC05508.013.06

1858

Howard, Frank, fl. 1852

Sheet music

Title: Uncle Tom's glimpse of glory.

Title page and sheet music from the play Uncle Tom's Cabin. Words written by Eliza and dedicated to Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom's Cabin. Music by Frank Howard. Published by E.H. Wade, Boston.

GLC05508.013.07

14 November 1841

Kell, John McIntosh, 1823-1900

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mrs. M. S. Kell

Future Confederate Raider writes of first experiences on board ship a month after his entering the Navy.

GLC08142

03 December 1860

Gourdin, M., fl. 1860

Autograph letter signed

Title: to George W. Cullum

Prominent South Carolinian writes of the secession of that state and the dissolution of the Union

GLC08143

28 June 1856

Welles, Gideon, 1802-1878

Autograph letter signed

Title: to unknown

Discusses the prospects of the newly formed republican party in the election of 1856. Comments that some would like to see William Freame Johnston on the ticket but Welles hopes Johnston will withdraw. Also discusses the prospects of Millard Filmore, the Whigs, James Buchanan, and the Know Nothing Party, and comments on their various supporters. William Freame Johnston was nominated by the North American Party to run for vice president with John C. Fremont on the Republican ticket but withdrew.

GLC08161

circa 1830-1910

Ward, John Quincy Adams, 1830-1910

Sketch

Title: [Two skulls with partial skull sketch on reverse]

Conte crayon, chalk, graphite; wove paper.

GLC06343.063

circa 1830-1910

Ward, John Quincy Adams, 1830-1910

Sketch

Title: [Three men sailing with wind-beings blowing sails]

Iron gall ink; wove paper.

GLC06343.064