1864

Print

Title: Soldier's Dream of Peace

Civil War print of a soldier sleeping with a image of his dream above him. A poem is written below the print describing the dream. Labeled as a "presentation plate to the patrons of the Philadelphia Enquirer, 1865."

GLC08442.12

1865

Ephemera

Title: [Wrapper for 19th United States Colored Troops accounts for March & April 1865]

GLC06133.08

circa March 1865

Perkins, Joseph G., fl. 1836-1867

Printed document signed

Title: [Muster roll for the 19th Regiment, United States Colored Troops]

Perkins signs as Lieutenant Colonel of the 19th Regiment. Includes signatures of soldiers in the 19th Regiment. Contains information regarding payment to soldiers between October and December 1864. States that the soldiers were paid 24 March 1865. Includes the names of soldiers who were present and absent, mustered into service, and non-commissioned.

GLC06133.09

October 31, 1864 - December 31, 1864

Perkins, Joseph G., fl. 1836-1867

Printed document signed

Title: [Muster roll for Company A, 19th Regiment, United States Colored Troops]

Perkins signs as Lieutenant Colonel of the 19th Regiment. Signed by Captain Thomas S. Stewart as a witness. Includes signatures of and information regarding payment to soldiers of Company A between October and December 1864. States that the Company was paid a total of $3,390.71 on 24 March 1865.

GLC06133.10

October 31, 1864 - December 31, 1864

Perkins, Joseph G., fl. 1836-1867

Printed document signed

Title: [Muster roll for Company B, 19th Regiment, United States Colored Troops]

Perkins signs as Lieutenant Colonel of the 19th Regiment. Signed by Captain Joseph B. Read as a witness. Includes signatures of and information regarding payment to soldiers of Company B between October and December 1864. States that the Company was paid a total of $3,424.07 on 24 March 1865.

GLC06133.11

October 31, 1864 - December 31, 1864

Perkins, Joseph G., fl. 1836-1867

Printed document signed

Title: [Muster roll for Company C, 19th Regiment, United States Colored Troops]

Perkins signs as Lieutenant Colonel of the 19th Regiment. Signed by Captain George W. Burnell, Captain F. K. Fletcher, and 2nd Lieutenant D. B. Holmes. Includes signatures (or marks) of and information regarding payment to soldiers of Company C between October and December 1864. States that the Company was paid $3097.92 on 24 March 1865.

GLC06133.12

October 31, 1864 - December 31, 1864

Perkins, Joseph G., fl. 1836-1867

Printed document signed

Title: [Muster roll for Company D, 19th Regiment, United States Colored Troops]

Perkins signs as Lieutenant Colonel of the 19th Regiment. Reports that Company D was led by Captain James Blakeley. Signed by 2nd Lieutenant W. S. Faulkner. Includes signatures (or marks) of and information regarding payment to soldiers of Company D between November and December 1864. States that the Company was paid $2,416.77 on 24 March 1865.

GLC06133.13

October 31, 1864 - December 31, 1864

Perkins, Joseph G., fl. 1836-1867

Printed document signed

Title: [Muster roll for Company E, 19th Regiment, United States Colored Troops]

Perkins signs as Lieutenant Colonel of the 19th Regiment. Signed by Lieutenants William Davis and Joseph Wheatley. Includes signatures (or marks) of and information regarding payment to soldiers of Company [illegible, possibly E] between October and December 1864. States that the Company was paid $4,577.57 on 24 March 1865.

GLC06133.14

October 31, 1864 - December 31, 1864

Perkins, Joseph G., fl. 1836-1867

Printed document signed

Title: [Muster roll for Company F, 19th Regiment, United States Colored Troops]

Perkins signs as Lieutenant Colonel of the 19th Regiment. Signed by Captain Frederick K. Fletcher, 2nd Lieutenant D. B. Holmes, and 1st Lieutenant Tyler Stearns. Includes signatures (or marks) of and information regarding payment to soldiers of Company F between October and December 1864. States that the Company was paid $3,950.67 on 24 March 1865. Possibly created in [Path Field?].

GLC06133.15

October 31, 1864 - December 31, 1864

Perkins, Joseph G., fl. 1836-1867

Printed document signed

Title: [Muster roll for Company G, 19th Regiment, United States Colored Troops]

Perkins signs as Lieutenant Colonel of the 19th Regiment. Signed by Captain James H. Rickard. Includes signatures (or marks) of and information regarding payment to soldiers of Company G between October and December 1864. States that the Company was paid $3,693.74 on 24 March 1865.

GLC06133.16

October 31, 1864 - December 31, 1864

Perkins, Joseph G., fl. 1836-1867

Printed document signed

Title: [Muster roll for Company H, 19th Regiment, United States Colored Troops]

Perkins signs as Lieutenant Colonel of the 19th Regiment. Signed by Captain Dan Mason and Lieutenant Tyler B. Stearns. Includes signatures (or marks) of and information regarding payment to soldiers of Company H between October and December 1864. States that the Company was paid $3,402.95 on 24 March 1865.

GLC06133.17

October 31, 1864 - December 31, 1864

Perkins, Joseph G., fl. 1836-1867

Printed document signed

Title: [Muster roll for Company [I or J],19th Regiment, United States Colored Troops]

Perkins signs as Lieutenant Colonel of the 19th Regiment. Signed by 2nd Lieutenants James A. Arbuthnot and Henry S. Clapp. Reports that Company [illegible, possibly I or J] was led by Captain Frank Holsinger. Includes signatures (or marks) of and information regarding payment to soldiers of Company [illegible, possibly I or J] between October and December 1864. States that the Company was paid 24 March 1865.

GLC06133.18

October 31, 1864 - December 31, 1864

Perkins, Joseph G., fl. 1836-1867

Printed document signed

Title: [Muster roll for Company K, 19th Regiment, United States Colored Troops]

Perkins signs as Lieutenant Colonel of the 19th Regiment. Signed by Captain William Welsh and 2nd Lieutenant Henry S. Clapp. Includes signatures (or marks) of and information regarding payment to soldiers of Company K between October and December 1864. States that the Company was paid $4559.36 on 24 March 1865.

GLC06133.19

January 1923

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

Pamphlet

Title: 13th annual report NAACP for the year 1922

Contains a list of NAACP officers for 1923, including President Moorfield Storey. Foreword states that the NAACP "has continued to carry out one of its most vital purposes, that of keeping intensely alive among the colored people of America the sense of racial vigilance and the conviction thar their future depends upon a realization of what the race is justly entitled to and a determination to secure it." Includes reports on the Dyer anti-lynching bill, legal defense related to lynching, a lynching record for 1922, a report on race riots (citing the Ernest Thomas case), reports on…

GLC06135.01

January 1924

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

Pamphlet

Title: 14th annual report NAACP for the year 1923

Contains a list of NAACP officers for 1924, including President Moorfield Storey. An introductory letter from Storey asks for financial support from readers of the pamphlet. Foreword states that the NAACP "is striving; it is striving to vindicate the American idea ... that every man shall have opportunity for the highest self development and that his achievements shall not be denied recognition on their merits." Includes reports on the Dyer anti-lynching bill, race riots and mob violence, discrimination at Harvard University, an African American veteran's hospital at Tuskegee, Alabama, the…

GLC06135.02

January 1927

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

Pamphlet

Title: 17th annual report NAACP for the year 1926

Contains a list of NAACP officers for 1927, including President Moorfield Storey. Foreword states "More and more, has it been borne in upon the Association that for the present the avenue to affirmation and defense of the Negro's fundamental rights in America lies through the courts." Includes reports on the Sweet case, residential segregation in several cities, the Texas-White primary, mob violence, and the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill, among other topics. Contains a report on finances. Closes with a report from the department of publications and research.

GLC06135.03

January 1929

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

Pamphlet

Title: 19th annual report NAACP for the year 1928

Contains a list of NAACP officers for 1929, including President Moorfield Storey. Foreword commemorates twenty years of NAACP activity. Reports on legal cases such as that of Robert Bell and Grady Swain, two boys sentenced to death on a flimsy charge; and Ben Bess, who was serving a thirty-year sentence based solely on a woman's shaky accusation. Also includes reports on several other cases. Includes a section devoted to civil rights, which contains segments discussing voting, theater discrimination, school segregation, and other area-specific topics. Includes a report on lynching and a…

GLC06135.04

January 1930

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

Pamphlet

Title: 20th annual report of the NAACP for the year 1929

Contains a list of NAACP officers for 1929. Foreword states "Uncompromising insistence upon full participation by the Negro in all phases of life is coming more and more to be the attitude of thinking and intelligent white and colored people." Contains reports on African Americans and the vote, residential segregation, African American federal prisoners, discrimination in athletics and church, anti-intermarriage bills, President Herbert Hoover's crime commission, and lynching, among other topics. Provides updates on the NAACP's legal defense related to particular cases, such as the Bell-…

GLC06135.05

January 1932

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

Pamphlet

Title: NAACP 1931 22nd annual report: a year's work for justice to the Negro

Contains a list of NAACP officers for 1932. Foreword declares that the NAACP's aims "are in the path of manifest destiny of the darker races of the world. The world crisis and the social and political experiments that are its accompaniment all emphasize the fact which the Association was formed to promulgate- that the human family is one, and that all men are entitled to equal opportunity regardless of color or creed." Reports on African Americans saved from death or life imprisonment, school segregation, a fund for legal work, voting and the "white primary," discrimination (citing…

GLC06135.06

22 June 1933-2 July 1933

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

Pamphlet

Title: [Program from the 24th annual conference of the NAACP]

Lists Chicago NAACP officers and committee members. Cites meeting locations. Lists times for business sessions and mass meetings during the conference. Page 19 contains the lyrics for the song "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing," written by the diplomat, writer and musician James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938). Mentions speeches given by such notables as activist Mary White Ovington, one of the founders of the NAACP, and reformer Jane Addams, founder of Hull settlement House and future winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.

GLC06135.07

1939

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

Pamphlet

Title: NAACP 30th annual report for 1939

Lists NAACP officers for 1939. Includes chapters discussing lynching, education, economic opportunity, legal defense, and Department of Branches. The education chapter outlines several cases regarding the desegregation of university law schools and regarding teachers' salaries, among other issues. Closes with a report on finances.

GLC06135.08.01

22 July 1940

Wilkins, Roy, 1901-1981

Typed letter

Title: [To editors of an unspecified publication]

Wilkins, Assistant Secretary of the NAACP, transmits a 1939 NAACP report (refer to GLC06135.08.01). States "Any comment in your news or editorial columns will be appreciated." Typed on green paper with a typed signature.

GLC06135.08.02

July 1861

Samuel Bowles and Company, fl. 1861

Broadside

Title: Grand Civic, Military, and Firemen's Celebration

Civil War broadside advertising the Fourth of July celebration "in Honor of the 10th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers." Outlines the schedule for the festivities. Printed by Samuel Bowles & Company. Docketed "From George W.W. Gray of Springfield."

GLC08442.02

21 July 1863

Potter, William J. (William James), 1829-1893

Broadside

Title: The Voice of the Draft

Civil War broadside of a sermon preached by Reverend Potter, printed by the New Bedford Mercury Press. Supports the draft and criticizes those who try to avoid service in the Civil War.

GLC08442.04

June 1845

Printed document

Title: Address to the People of the United States, by the General Anti-Slavery Convention, of nearly 4,000 People, held in Cincinnati, Ohio, June 11, 1845

Abolitionist circular derived from an anti-slavery convention. Discusses the history of slavery, its relationship to the constitution, the Liberty Party, and the threatening influence of the "Slave Power."

GLC08442.05