1766

Great Britain. Acts.

Pamphlet

Title: An Act for the better securing the dependency of... America [Declaratory Act]

GLC03562.16

1767

Great Britain. Acts.

Pamphlet

Title: An Act for restraining... the Governor, Council and House... of New York

A response to New York's resistance to the Townshend Acts.

GLC03562.17

1770

Great Britain. Acts.

Pamphlet

Title: An Act to enable the Governor, Council & Assembly...of New York [reconstituting]

GLC03562.18

1773

Great Britain. Acts.

Pamphlet

Title: An Act to explain and amend... An Act to prevent paper bills of credit....

GLC03562.19

1774

Great Britain. Acts.

Pamphlet

Title: An Act for the better regulating the government of... Massachusetts Bay

Reorganizing the government of Massachusetts. [one of the "Intolerable Acts"]

GLC03562.20

1774

Great Britain. Acts.

Pamphlet

Title: An Act for the impartial administration of justice [protecting Tory officials]

One of the five "Intolerable Acts"

GLC03562.21

1775

Great Britain. Acts.

Pamphlet

Title: An Act to amend... An act for punishing mutiny [further amending Quartering Act]

GLC03562.22

1776

Great Britain. Acts.

Pamphlet

Title: An Act to prohibit all trade... [with the rebelling colonies]

GLC03562.23

1778

Great Britain. Acts.

Pamphlet

Title: An Act for repealing... An Act for the... regulating the government... of Mass.

GLC03562.24

1778

Great Britain. Acts.

Pamphlet

Title: An Act for the relief of captors of prizes [duties on privateers]

GLC03562.25

1778

Great Britain. Acts.

Pamphlet

Title: An Act for removing all doubts... concerning taxation [and repealing tea duty]

GLC03562.26

1778

Great Britain. Acts.

Pamphlet

Title: An Act to enable His Majesty to appoint commissioners [negotiate with America]

GLC03562.27

1778

Great Britain. Acts.

Pamphlet

Title: An Act for allowing the exportation of... wheat-flour... [to Canada]

GLC03562.28

1782

Great Britain. Acts.

Pamphlet

Title: An Act to enable His Majesty to conclude a peace or truce with certain colonies

GLC03562.29

1782

Great Britain. Acts.

Pamphlet

Title: An Act for the better detaining, and more easy exchange of American prisoners...

GLC03562.30

1783

Great Britain. Acts.

Pamphlet

Title: An Act to repeal... two acts... as prohibits trade.. with the United States

GLC03562.31

1783

Great Britain. Acts.

Pamphlet

Title: An Act for preventing certain instruments being required... [trade related]

GLC03562.32

1783

Great Britain. Acts.

Pamphlet

Title: An Act for appointing commissioners to enquire into the losses [for Tories]

GLC03562.33

24 December 1814

Great Britain. Treaties.

Pamphlet

Title: A Treaty of peace and Amity [Treaty of Ghent. Official British printing]

Printed by R. G. Clarke. [duplicate of GLC 3985.18]

GLC03562.34

17 August 1863

Benjamin, Judah Philip, 1811-1884

Letter signed

Title: to Edwin DeLeon

Benjamin, Confederate Secretary of State, writes to DeLeon, a Confederate agent in Paris. Discusses previous correspondence from DeLeon, instructs him to write more often, and orders him "never to give your letters to private hands. Send them by the English mail to Major Norman Walker at Bermuda or to Mr. Heyliger at Nassau and they will reach me in thirty or fourty days without risk or trouble." States "In relation to your remarks about the withdrawal of our Commissioners from Europe, it is only necessary to say that there were other than diplomatic matters entrusted to them, which could…

GLC03563

1861-1865

Beauregard, Pierre Gustave Toutant, 1818-1893

Autograph letter signed

Title: to J. T. Doswell

Dated "Saturday morning." Beauregard encloses a note (not included) from "a gentleman who had offered me that servant girl & her family." Two of the family recently died, and though Beauregard regrets their death, he is "glad it has occurred before they had been bought." Doswell was likely a financial agent and/or merchant in New Orleans.

GLC03564

June 1863 after

Header Record

Title: Cartes de visite of officers (mostly white) of 59th US Colored Infantry

After June 1863, when the regiment was organized in LaGrange, Tenn. The photographs were originally in a photo album. The 59th was originally called the 1st US Tennessee Vols. (African Descent) and 1st West Tenn. Inf. Regt (African Descent). Some of the photographs are signed with homes noted. (The Grant photograph dates from 1864, perhaps when the album was collected.)

GLC03565

1862

Currier & Ives

Print

Title: Central Park, the drive.

Hand colored lithograph of pedestrians, carriages, and horseback riders along the Central Park drive. Color scheme is limited to blue, green, and yellow, with a touch of red. Several buildings are visible in the background, one of which is flying an American flag.

GLC03566

1852

Currier, Nathaniel, 1813-1888

Print

Title: Surrender of General Burgoyne at Saratoga N.Y. Oct. 17th 1777

Created by Currier as a lithograph of the painting by John Trumbull, which hangs in the U.S. Capital Building. Signature in lower right corner of lithograph says "O. Knursch 1852." Fine print below the picture says "Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1852 by N. Currier, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Southern District N.Y." Also says it is published by Currier and provides his address. Depicts the surrender of General John Burgoyne, in the left foreground, to General Horatio Gates, in the right foreground. Burgoyne is about to hand over his sword in a gesture of…

GLC03567

18 June 1778

Pulaski, Casimir, 1747-1779

Letter signed

Title: to Colonel Hoppé

Written by Brigadier General Pulaski, a Polish count, as commander of his independent cavalry brigade to a Colonel Hoppé as Quartermaster General in Easton, Pennsylvania. Pulaski was soliciting help for the creation of what would become the "Pulaski Legion." Asks Hoppé to "Render all the Services which will Lay in your Power to Mr. Couch Colonel of My Legion, if he should be in the Case to Desire some things of you."

GLC03568