1845/10/13

Ewell, G., fl. 1845

Document signed

Title: Texas Statehood - Lists names of 15 voters and tally. With 14 voting slips

GLC04116

1824/10/26

Printed letter

Title: to Erasmus J. Pierce

Circular letter extolling presidential candidate Clay and requesting submitting the enclosed ticket of Pennsylvania electors in support of him (see GLC04119.03) at the polls.

GLC04119.01

1789/08/10

Washington, George, 1732-1799

Letter signed

Title: to Samuel Huntington re: forwarding act of Congress (not present) on state debts

GLC04467

1861/12/13

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Autograph endorsement signed

Title: [Recommendation of his boyhood friend George May for judge].

Lincoln writes "I knew George May as a boy, and young man, then a little inclined to dissipation -- If free from that now, he has intellect enough for almost any place..." Basler, Roy P. The Collected Works Of Abraham Lincoln. (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1953), Vol. V 1861 - 1862, p. 68

GLC04500

1812/06/17

Adams, John, 1735-1826

Autograph letter signed

Title: To: Samuel B. Malcom.

Politics, party & family feuds.

GLC04524

1826/06/24

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Broadside

Title: Jefferson's last letter to Mayor of Washington [small broadside on silk]

A printing of Jefferson's famous letter to the mayor of Washington, D.C., declining an invitation to a Fourth of July celebration. Jefferson hopes the Declaration to be a "signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance and superstition had persuaded them to bind themselves, and to assume the blessing of self government." Jefferson died on July 4. Only 3 other copies. Printed on silk.

GLC04525

1920/04/29

Coolidge, Calvin, 1872-1933

Typed letter signed

Title: to Otto A. Rosalsky re: as Gov. of Mass., urging leniency for Bernard Manning

Written as Governor of Massachusetts (on stationery) to Judge Rosalsky, asking leniency for Bernard Manning of Northampton, his hometown. He attests to the character of Manning's family and asserts that "[i]t appears to me simply a case of a country boy going to a large city and ignoring the restraints of home life and giving himself over to the propensities of youth than the exhibition of criminal intent."

GLC04476

1861/02/01

Texas

Broadside

Title: An Ordinance to dissolve the Union between the state of Texas...

Addressed to James Loving on verso. With collateral tintype of unidentified man.

GLC04482

1860/12/20

South Carolina

Broadside

Title: An ordinance to dissolve the Union between the State of South Carolina....

Dated 1860, but printed 1861.

GLC04483

1774/10/20

United States. Continental Congress.

Broadside

Title: The Association Agreed with the Grand American Congress... [non-importation]

One of 3 known copies

GLC04489

1865 ca.

Photograph

Title: [William T. Sherman]

Carte de visite vignette bust portrait of William T. Sherman in uniform. Inscribed by Ulysses S. Grant on verso, and given to Edwin Stanton.

GLC04504.02

1865 ca.

Photograph

Title: [James B. McPherson]

Carte de visite vignette bust portrait of James B. McPherson in uniform. Inscribed by Ulysses S. Grant, and given to Edwin Stanton.

GLC04504.03

1865/05/09

Wilson, James Harrison, 1837-1925

Broadside

Title: [Lincoln assassination reward]

Reprinting the orders of Gen. James H. Wilson seeking the arrest of Jefferson Davis, Clement Clay, Jacob Thompson, George N. Saunders, Beverly Tucker and William C. Cleary. Lists the rewards for the capture of each person as follows: Davis, Clay, and Thompson, $100,000 each, Saunders and Tucker, $25,000, and Cleary, $10,000.

GLC04527

1918/05/09

Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964

Typed document signed

Title: [Acknowledging America's debt to Italy for help in World War I]

On the third anniversary of Italy's entrance into World War I, Hoover, who was then the U.S. Food Administrator under President Wilson, acknowledges "our indebtedness to the country to which we are bound, not only by ties historical, but also by the common ideals which now unite us."

GLC04569

1902/08/14

Buffington, Thomas Mitchell, 1855-1938

Typed letter signed

Title: to Theodore Roosevelt re: urging sale of buildings to benefit Cherokee Indians

Buffington writes the President to urge approval of an act to allow sale of buildings at Fort Gibson, owned by the Cherokee Nation, but occupied by various people. Was written while it was Cherokee Nation Territory.

GLC04612

[1803]

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Book

Title: An Account of Louisiana, being an abstract of documents, in the offices...

Bound with "Appendix to an Account of Louisiana." (The Appendix is sometimes bound separately.) First (true) edition of the official documents relating to the recently purchased Louisiana Territory.

GLC04138

February 19, 1865

Bennett, A.G., fl. 1861-1865

Broadside

Title: General Orders, No. 1

Orders announcing assumption of command at Charleston, South Carolina. States that "Charleston is declared to be under Martial Law. All functions heretofore exercised by the Mayor, commonality, civil and criminal courts, police authorities, and local governments, are now suspended." Informs that cooperating citizens will be protected. Announces Major R. H. Willoughby as Acting Assistant Provost Marshal. Signed in print as official by James F. Haviland, 1st Lieutenant, 127 Regiment N Y V. and A.A.I.G. Bennett signs in print as "Lieut. Colonel 21st Regt. U.S.C.T., Commanding City of Charleston…

GLC04130

1861 ca.

Seward, William Henry, 1801-1872

Photograph

Title: Carte de visite bust view of Lincoln's Secretary of State

Image of a photograph with an inscribed matte "Brady N.Y." and "W.H. Seward." Graphite inscription on verso "**Book." Photographers imprint on verso: "Published by E. Anthony, 501 Broadway, N.Y. from Photographic Negative, From Brady's National Portrait Gallery."

GLC05111.02.0097

1864 ca.

Smith, Caleb B. (Caleb Blood), 1808-1864

Photograph

Title: Carte de visite of a full standing view of Lincoln's 1st Secretary of the Interior

Imprint on recto "Brady, Washington." Graphite inscription on verso "Caleb Blood Smith" "Taken in Washington, 1864."

GLC05111.02.0098

1861 ca.

Smith, Caleb B. (Caleb Blood), 1808-1864

Photograph

Title: Carte de visite of a full seated view of Lincoln's 1st Secretary of the Interior

Graphite inscription on recto "Caleb Smith Sec of Interior." Photographers imprint on verso: "Published by E.Anthony 501 New York from Photographic Negative in Brady's National Portrait Gallery."

GLC05111.02.0099

1861 ca.

Speed, James, 1812-1887

Photograph

Title: Carte de visite profile view of Lincoln's 2nd Attorney General

Imprint on recto "Brady & Co. Washington." Graphite inscription on verso "James Speed Att. Genl. Ky. Resigned July 1866." Photographers imprint on verso: "M.B. Brady & Co. National Photographic Portrait Galleries No 352 Pennsylvania Av. Washington D.C. & New York." Cancelled blue two-cent tax stamp on verso.

GLC05111.02.0100

1865 ca.

Speed, James S., fl. 1865

Photograph

Title: Carte de visite bust view of Lincoln's 2nd Attorney General

Graphite inscription on recto "James S. Speed." Imprint on recto "Entered according to Act of Congress by M.B. Brady & Co. in the year 1865 in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Columbia." Graphite inscription on verso "James S Speed." Photographers imprint on verso: "M.B. Brady & Co. National Photographic Portrait Galleries No 352 Pennsylvania Av. Washington D.C. & New York."

GLC05111.02.0101

1862 ca.

Stanton, Edwin M. (Edwin McMasters), 1814-1869

Photograph

Title: Carte de visite bust view of Lincoln's 2nd Secretary of War

Ink inscription on recto "Edwin M. Stanton." Imprint on recto "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1862, by M.B. Brady, in the Clerk's office of the District Court of the U.S. for the So. District of New York." Photographers imprint on verso: "Published by E. Anthony 501 Broadway New York from Photographic Negative in Brady's National Portrait Gallery."

GLC05111.02.0102

1862 ca.

Stanton, Edwin M. (Edwin McMasters), 1814-1869

Photograph

Title: Carte de visite [view of Lincoln's 2nd Secretary of War from the waist up]

Graphite inscription on verso "Stanton." Photographers imprint on verso: "Published by E. & H.T. Anthony, 501 Broadway, New York Manufacturers of the best Photographic Albums."

GLC05111.02.0103

1862 ca.

Stanton, Edwin M. (Edwin McMasters), 1814-1869

Photograph

Title: Carte de visite of a full standing view of Lincoln's 2nd Secretary of War

Ink inscription on verso "E.M. Stanton." Photographers imprint on verso: "Published by E. & H.T. Anthony 501 Broadway New York from Photographic Negative in Brady's National Portrait Gallery.'

GLC05111.02.0106