1861

Newspaper

Title: Daily true delta. [Vol. 23, no. 39 (January 2, 1861)]

Amongst the typical foreign and local news and advertisements, the front page of this paper contains two very interesting secession-related items. A women in Charleston Owned the table used for signing the Declaration of Independence of the United States. When asked for permission to use the table for signing the Order of Secession, she replied that she would rather burn the table to ashes. Citizens of Richmond, Virginia wanted to borrow a city cannon to fire in salut of South Carolina's sovereignty. Governor Letcher refused in the interest of non-partisan politics. A small article on…

GLC05960.01.01

1861

Newspaper

Title: Daily true delta.

Amongst the typical foreign and local news and advertisements, the front page of this paper contains two very interesting secession-related items. A women in Charleston Owned the table used for signing the Declaration of Independence of the United States. When asked for permission to use the table for signing the Order of Secession, she replied that she would rather burn the table to ashes. Citizens of Richmond, Virginia wanted to borrow a city cannon to fire in salut of South Carolina's sovereignty. Governor Letcher refused in the interest of non-partisan politics. A small article on…

GLC05960.01.02.01

1854-1856

Johnson, Woodson (fl. 1820-1864)

Book

Title: Account Book

Johnson's ledger book from the 1850s, recording debts for various plantation items as well as household goods, sales of tobacco and brandy, and dozens of entries re hiring of negro slaves, expenses, recording labor usage, etc.

GLC09302.066

9 April 1968

Associated Press

Photograph

Title: Chattanooga, Tenn.

One telephoto entitled, "Chattanooga, Tenn.," dated April 9, 1968 taken by Associated Press. Image is of helmeted police officers holding two Black men against a police car. Wire transfer information claims the men were looting following the memorial held for Martin Luther King Jr.

GLC09740.072

10 April 1968

Associated Press

Photograph

Title: Killed By Snipers

Disclaimer: Image contains graphic violence. One telephoto entitled, "Killed by Snipers" dated April 10, 1968 taken by Associated Press. Image is of three National Guardsmen carrying a dead Black man by his feet and arms. Wire transfer information statest the young man had been shot by snipers.

GLC09740.075

10 April 1968

Associated Press

Photograph

Title: Youngstown, Ohio

One telephoto entitled, "Youngstown, Ohio" dated April 10, 1968 taken by Associated Press. Image is of Toderral McCaskey, a 13-year-old, being carried on a hospital gurney. Wire transfer information states that he had been shot in his hip by an unidentified individual. Also details other injuries incurred during riots.

GLC09740.076

10 April 1968

United Press International

Photograph

Title: Trenton, N.J.

One telephoto entitled, "Trenton, N.J." dated April 10, 1968 taken by United Press International. Image is of a man walking a dog in downton Trenton.

GLC09740.077

10 April 1968

United Press International

Photograph

Title: Kansas City, Mo.

One telephoto entitled, "Kansas City, Mo.," dated April 10, 1968 taken by United Press International. Image is an aerial view of a building on fire being extinguished in Kansas City, Missouri.

GLC09740.078

11 April 1968

United Press International

Photograph

Title: Washington

One telephoto entitled, "Washington" dated April 11, 1968 taken by United Press International. Image is of a copy of the Civil Act of 1968 signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson. Wire transfer information describes it as "a bill to designed to allow Negroes to find homes outside of the Nation's slums." This refers to the act expanding on previous acts prohibits housing discrimination.

GLC09740.079

11 April 1968

United Press International

Photograph

Title: Attempts to Save Home

One telephoto entitled, "Attempts to Save Home" dated April 11, 1968 taken by United Press International. Image is of two people's silhouettes watching a home on fire. Wire transfer information states that neighbors attempted to extingush the fire.

GLC09740.080

1900

Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915

Book

Title: A New Negro For A New Century

One book entitled A New Negro For A New Century by Booker T. Washington published 1900.

GLC10065

circa 1944

Newspaper clipping

Title: Father Divine Has Rival

One article entitled, "Father Divine Has Rival." Related to the African American bishop C.M. Grace who was reported to become more popular than Father Divine. Article refers to the United House of Prayer for All People as a cult.

GLC09954.220

1944, 1949, 1951

Wiltse, Charles M., 1907-?

Header Record

Title: John C. Calhoun Nationalist [with] ... Nullifier [with] ... Sectionalist

GLC00267.023

1756/05/25

Livingston, John, 1714-1786

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Robert Livingston, Jr. re: destruction caused by a fire

John explains how one of his enslaved people accidently set a closet on fire with a candle. A table, linens, and napkins were destroyed, but it was put out before more any more serious damage occurred.

GLC03107.02969

1783/06/30

Cooper, Ananias, fl. 1783

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Robert Livingston, Jr. re: prescription for Robert, Jr.'s slave, Jack

Ananias Cooper says that he is sending Jack back to Robert, Jr., and explains that he is nearly recovered from an illness that caused him to cough and spit up blood. He prescribes some pills to be given to Jack, and recommends that he refrain from any physical labor until he is fully recovered. With note below the letter by Robert, Jr., dated 16 September 1783, in which he states that he made payment to Cooper.

GLC03107.03499

1790/06/09

Fenno, John, 1751-1798

Newspaper

Title: Gazette of the United States. [Vol. II, no. 17 (June 9, 1790)]

Reports on Rhode Island's ratification of the Constitution, a debate on tonnage in the House of Representatives, and news from Europe. Also prints an extract from a speech to Congress by Massachusetts Governor John Hancock on the national debt, acts passed by Congress and ones still pending, and news items about appointments, slavery, and suicide. Same issue as GLC08720.01.

GLC03123

1859 circa

Object

Title: [Twenty Star American "Abolitionist Flag"]

Large American cotton flag with only 20 stars. Fragile. The flag consists of 9 alternating red or white cloth strips sewn together with 20 somewhat irregular stars. The blue field is mottled and the flag has staining. The flag is identified as an "Abolitionist Flag" because it drops the slave states from the star field. (Measurements are approximate.) Discovered in Andover, Ohio, and may have been made there. Thought to show support for abolitionists like Brown.

GLC05762

1861/03/16

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Letter signed

Title: Transmittal of a proposed amendment to protect slavery (c/s Seward)

Sending a proposed amendment to Governor to John Downey of California. "I transmit an authenticated copy of a Joint Resolution to amend the Constitution of the United States, adopted by Congress and approved on the 2d of March, 1861, by James Buchanan, President. I have the honor to be, your excellency's obedient servant, Abraham Lincoln."

GLC05631

February 20, 1864

Sandoz, Joel H., fl. 1840-1864

Newspaper

Title: The Opelousas courier. [Vol. 11, no. 46 (February 20, 1864)]

Jayhawkers making preparations to rob and pillage citizens; announces John Hunt Morgan's raid into Kentucky. An act to prevent draft and conscription substitutions. Ads for slave sales. French translation on right side. Wallpaper has pink floral pattern (pattern # 1897).

GLC05988.09

1863/10/31

Newspaper

Title: Southern illustrated news. [Vol. 2, no. 17 (October 31, 1863)]

With caricature of Lincoln on the back page, as Brutus in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, seeing a Black man in ragged attire appear as the ghost of Caesar.

GLC06055

1782/01

Pamphlet

Title: General Assembly. State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantation [with seal]

Printed by John Carter. Stab-stitched. Contains act freeing Quaco, a former slave, as reward for providing information about Newport after it had been seized by the British (pp. 4-5). We know of four African-American Spies, one for the British in New York, and the other three for the Americans: James Lafayette Armistead (who operated near Cornwallis in 1781), Peck (who operated in the Hudson River Valley in 1781) and Quaco. Quaco is believed to have been the first African-American spy during the Revolution. The pamphlet also has documentation for payment to two African-American privates…

GLC06066

1861 ca.

Stevens, Thaddeus, 1792-1868

Photograph signed

Title: Carte de visite bust portrait

GLC05596.18

1861 ca.

Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874

Photograph signed

Title: Carte de visite vignette bust portrait

(Somewhat better version in GLC 2095.) Signed on front: "Charles Sumner"

GLC05597.23

1863/10/30

Kilgore, Legrand, fl. 1863

Manuscript document

Title: Document of sale for 3 slaves to be transferred from Louisiana to Texas

Sale from Kilgore to E. W. Rogers. The slaves were Bill (25), Patsey (33) and her son John (2). (Through a punctuation error the document seems to say that Kilgore fathered the boy John.)

GLC05838

1821/11

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Book signed

Title: A report of the debates and proceedings of the convention of ... New York

Signed on p. 3 with Jefferson's coded initials "T.I." Compiled by L. H. Clarke. Published by J. Seymor. This Constitution expanded suffrage in New York. Debates include content on Negro suffrage and Missouri Compromise. Previously owned by John H. Peyton, with his signature on the front pastedown. Seven lines of manuscript on p. 367 (not Jefferson's hand), at the end of the index. Restored binding, with some chalk re-touching. This volume appears in the 1829 Nathaniel P. Poor sale catalog of Jefferson's Monticello library on page 11, item 690, as "Report of the Convention of New York,…

GLC05887