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1854/08/19

Pierce, Franklin, 1804-1869

Document signed

Title: Authority to affix the seal to treaty with Miami Indians of Indiana

GLC07807

1877/06/22

Hayes, Rutherford B., 1822-1893

Letter signed

Title: Circular letter re: eliminating electioneering by civil servants

GLC07809

1841/07/29

Tuck, Jesse G., fl. 1841

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Stephen H. Stone re: quality of life and African Americans in St. Louis

GLC07784

1870 ca.

Photograph signed

Title: [Vignette bust portrait of John William Hoffman in uniform]

Carte de visite-sized engraving of officer in 56th Penn., the infantry unit credited with firing the first volley in the Battle of Gettysburg.

GLC07788

1912/07/12

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Typed document

Title: Significant portion of "Armageddon"

Typed manuscript with autograph corrections.

GLC07790

1864/10/02

Beech, John D., fl. 1864

Autograph letter signed

Title: to "Dear Mother" re: 1864 election

Jenness, George Bennings

GLC07791

1825/08/02

Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852

Autograph letter signed

Title: to John F. Parrott re: papers given in Senate on Colombian Slave trade treaty

GLC07792

1784/03/04

Thomson, Charles, 1729-1824

Manuscript document signed

Title: Act re: election of five commissioners to negotiate Indian treaties

Elected commissioners are George Rogers Clarke, Oliver Wolcott, Nathaniel [sic] Greene, Richard Butler, and Stephen Higgenson.

GLC07793

1865 ca.

Barr & Young (photographer)

Photograph signed

Title: Carte de visite of Ulysses S. Grant

Signed in ink on recto. Imprint of Barr and Young, Army Photographers, Vicksburg, Miss., on verso.

GLC07796

1865 ca.

Black, J.W., 1825-1896

Photograph signed

Title: Carte de visite of Ambrose Everett Burnside

Three quarter length standing carte de visite portrait, in uniform. Signed in ink on recto. Imprint of J.W. Black, Boston, on verso.

GLC07797

1865 ca.

Brady, Mathew B., 1823-1896

Photograph signed

Title: Irwin McDowell

Half length seated carte de visite portrait Irwin McDowell, in uniform. Imprint of E. & H.T. Anthony, New York. Published from a negative in Brady's National Portrait Gallery.

GLC07798

1864/02/17

Seddon, James A. (James Alexander), 1815-1880

Letter signed

Title: to Jefferson Davis re: payment of interest due to Choctaw tribe by Virginia

GLC07799

1864/04/07

Smith, Edmund Kirby, 1824-1893

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Thomas C. Reynolds re: predicting victory

GLC07801

1864 ca.

Warren, Henry F., fl. 1860-1865

Photograph

Title: [Carte de visite of J.A. Pratt]

Pratt was a sergeant in the 54th Mass. Black Regiment. Three quarter length seated carte de visite portrait, in uniform. Imprint of H.F. Warren, Waltham, Mass., on verso.

GLC07803