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1863/10/19

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Document

Title: General Orders no. 340

Recruiting Broadside calling for 300,000 volunteers; signed by Edward D. Townsend.

GLC07429

1872/04/10

Wilson, Henry, 1812-1875

Autograph letter signed

Title: to unknown recipient re: requests that his book be sent to Charles Francis Adams

Wilson's book is titled "History of the Rise and fall of Slave Power".

GLC07431

1781 ca.

Leizel, Balth Frederic, fl. 1781

Title: L'arrive Du Prince Quillaume [sic] Henry a Nouvelle York en Amerique

Print from "Collection Des Prospects." Handcolored "Vue d'Optique" depicting a ship at habor, in billowing waves. A view of New York harbor (imaginary?), showing a ship arriving in a stormy sea, but said to be (per imprint) based on a painting by Richard Wright. It is supposed to show the third son of George III, Prince William Henry, visiting New York. Collateral to GLC04386, George Washington to Odgen, on a plan to kidnap the crown prince.

GLC07436

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

1818/11/07

Johnson, Andrew, 1808-1875

Manuscript document

Title: Certificate by Mary Dougherty (mother) that she wishes son to be apprenticed

Certifying that she wants her son Andrew Johnson to be tailor apprentice to James G. Selby.

GLC07423

[1864]

Broadside

Title: Mirror of Events 1861-62-63-64

Broadside includes narrative of Kilpatrick's cavalry expedition, 4th U.S. Colored Troops. Red ink printed on thin paper. Long broadsheet.

GLC07428

[1847]/03/31

Newspaper

Title: Rochester Daily Advertiser Extra. [Mexican War]

Taylor's "Repulse of Santa Anna's Army!!"

GLC07430

1854-6[?]

Title: A Grand Slave Hunt or Trial of Speed for the Presidency... [cartoon]

Lithograph cartoon. Rest of title: "...between the celebrated Nags Black Dan [Webster], Lewis Cass and [Robert Y.] Hayne." Lithograph cartoon depicting the U.S. Capitol in background and Millard Fillmore carrying a copy of Fugitive Slave Bill.

GLC07432

1868/05/20

Brown, Joseph Emerson, 1821-1894

Broadside

Title: Speech of... delivered in the National Republican Convention at Chicago

Broadside endorsing Grand as candidate for Presidency.

GLC07433

1870 ca.

Farrow, Henry P., fl. 1870

Broadside

Title: The Injustice of Poll Taxes

GLC07434

1845 ca.

Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845

Title: The General Jackson. [hand-colored lithograph]

Lithograph by Black Artist Jules Lion after the battle of New Orleans. Printed by d'Aubertet de Jurica (?).

GLC07438

1861/04/15

Binney, Horace, 1780-1875

Broadside

Title: To the President of the United States....

Broadside with pledge of 67 Philadelphians to uphold the Union, one day after the fall of Fort Sumter.

GLC07439

1722/12/03

Sewell, Samuel, 1652-1730

Document signed

Title: Order to search for kidnapped slave signed by Sewall as Chief Justice

Order signed by Sewall as Chief Justice of Massachusetts.

GLC07448

1863 ca.

Banks, Nathaniel Prentiss, 1816-1894

Title: Engraving with original painted border showing Banks, Battle of Port Hudson, etc

Oval engraving, retouched, surrounded by a painted gouache border illustrating Banks's career as a politician and general. Possibly intended for reproduction. Signed lower right by "Wm Thomberger."

GLC07449

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

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