1828

Broadside

Title: An account of some of the bloody deeds of General Jackson

One of the "Coffin Broadsides" that attacked General Jackson before the 1828 election. Accuses General Jackson of heartlessly executing six innocent militia men, and depicts their coffins. Also slanders Jackson in various ways and accuses him of other crimes. Frame is 69 x 49 cm.

GLC08974

1844

Gibbons, James Sloan, 1815-1892

Broadsheet

Title: Humanity's last appeal to the abolitionists of the United States, against the increase of slave territory

Urges Northerners to vote for the Whig ticket, and oppose the Democrats, who favor the annexation of Texas. Argues that annexation is planned only to increase slavery and the power of the slave states. Texas is large and suitable for slavery and thus annexing it "would encircle Africa with slave-ships, and under the stimulus of insatiable avarice, penetrate farther into the interior of the devoted country." Annexation would also lead to war with Mexico. Argues slavery can be defeated steadily through the vote, and urges Northerners to show their increased support of abolition and vote…

GLC08997

1894

Democratic Party (Ga.)

Broadside

Title: Colored Voters Read

One broadside entitled, "Colored Voters Read," dated 1894 printed by Georgia's Democratic Party. Asks the question, "What Evidence have the Negroes of this State that Schools will be provided for their Children in case the Third Party gets into Power?" Details and compares taxes paid toward school funds between black and white people. Concludes that "...in the matter of schools alone the negro received more than three times as much money, as he pays in to the Public Treasurer from all sources."

GLC09000

15 July 1872

McQuade, James, 1829-1884

Autograph letter signed

Title: to John T. Hoffman

Discusses Hoffman's impending candidacy for the Governor of New York. Comments on the Irish vote, "I don't find that the well-informed people have an idea that you would lose much of the Irish vote. Only an Irishman, or one with Irish blood in his veins, can appreciate and understand Paddy. Those who think you will be hurt materially by the Irish vote are of two classes - the people who know nothing about it, and those who want somebody else nominated." Mentions someone named Frank Kernan, who might run for office. Remarks that "... if you should decline to become a candidate it wouldn't…

GLC09011

1860

Pamphlet

Title: Broughton's Monthly Planet Reader and Astrological Journal.

Four issues each featuring engraved portraits of 1860 Presidential candidates with astrological charts and commentary on their potential success; Stephen A. Douglas 8-1-1860, Abraham Lincoln 9-1-1860, John C. Breckinridge 10-1-1860, and John Bell 11-1-1860.

GLC09014

1868

Broadside

Title: Presidential Election broadside

Associating Democratic Party with former Confederate officers. Reprints portions of Democratic platform accompanied by negative allegedly found in Southern newspapers; includes four large cartoons by Thomas Nast depicting Nathaniel Bedford Forrest, Horatio Seymour, Raphael Semmes, and Wade Hampton.

GLC09017

1864

Object

Title: [Abraham Lincoln 1864 election campaign pin]

Small round pin with photo of Abraham Lincoln in center bordered with black fabric. Meant for the 1864 presidential election.

GLC05125.01

1864

Object

Title: [Pin with two American flags]

Stick pin with black knob at top. Attached to pin are two small cloth American flags and two ribbon tassels. Meant for the 1864 presidential election.

GLC05125.02

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

1856

Bingham, George Caleb, 1811-1879

Print

Title: Stump Speaking

Civil War print of a man addressing a crowd. A note at the bottom indicates it was "Engraved by Goupil & Company after a painting by George Caleb Bingham." Another notes that it was "Reproduced at the Lakeside Press by Donnelly Sheet Fed Gravure."

GLC08442.11

1864

Mixter, Calvin Symmes, 1832-?

Diary

Title: [Civil War diary of Calvin Symmes Mixter]

Signed diary including a printed image, an eclipse calendar, a mileage chart, and postage rates in the opening pages. Mixter writes from various locations, including Washington, D.C., during 1864. On 12 January, accepts appointment as 1st Lieutenant Adjutant, 3rd Regiment North Carolina Colored Volunteers. Reports to serve under General Edward Augustus Wild on 21 January. On 14 May reports "Cheering news continues to arrive from the Army of the Potomac. Our losses have been severe, but the rebel are being driven back." Discusses the events of battle preparation and an extended period in…

GLC06583.03

25 November 1865

Bogert, John A., fl. 1863-1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Jacob C. and Mrs. Bogert

Bogert replies to a 9 November 1865 letter from his parents. Relates the location of other regimental colonels, and states that he has $40,000 which he intends to pay for an unspecified purpose. Relates seeing Generals Stewart Lyndon Woodford, who served as Colonel of the 103rd United States Colored Troops, and General Littlefield (possibly Milton Littlefield) at Hilton Head, South Carolina. States that after a ship carrying clothing sprung a leak off the shore near Darien, Georgia, he was able to purchase a black military overcoat for $9. Relates that his duty in Thomasville primarily…

GLC06298.06

1864

Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )

Ephemera

Title: Union Ticket

Union ticket for the 1864 presidential election. Lists Abraham Lincoln for President and Andrew Johnson for Vice President. Lists electors for districts in California. Printed in orange. Printed on verso is an engraving of the ships, the Alabama the Kearsarge, and the Deerhound in battle.

GLC08498.01

1864

Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )

Ephemera

Title: Before Election. After Election.

Cartoon type anti McClellan ballot. Humorous scenes of before and after General George McClellan is defeated in the presidential election of 1864. He ran on the Democratic ticket.

GLC08498.02

1864

Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )

Ephemera

Title: [National Union nomination ticket]

Ticket for Massachusetts listing nominations for Governor, John A. Andrew, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary, Attorney General, etc. With flag and eagle emblem and engraving of bust of Abraham Lincoln, "Honest Abe."

GLC08498.03

1864

Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )

Ephemera

Title: Lincoln and Johnson. Union and Liberty.

Union ticket from Massachusetts for the 1864 presidential election. Lists John A. Andrew for Governor and Joel Hayden for Lieutenant Governor, along with the nominations for other political offices in the state. Eagle emblem at top.

GLC08498.04

1864

Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )

Ephemera

Title: National Union Nominations

Union ticket for the 1864 presidential election from Maryland listing Abraham Lincoln for President, Andrew Johnson as Vice President. Also lists Thomas Swann for Governor, Christopher C. Cox for Lieutenant Governor, and other nominations for political posts in the state. With flag at top.

GLC08498.05

31 July 1850

Ewing, Philemon, 1820-1896

Autograph letter signed

Title: to William T. Sherman

Writes to Sherman in Washington D.C. about family matters. Wants Sherman to tell Ellen (Sherman's wife and Ewing's sister) that she cannot write too often. Mentions a nominee for Congress that he is confident will be elected, Col. Philadelph Van Trump, who was from Lancaster, Ohio. Addressed to "Dear Cump," Sherman's nickname. Docket in pencil, possibly added at a later date.

GLC03601.01

September 7, 1776

Marsh, Jonathan, ?-1825

Manuscript letter signed

Title: to William Price

Marsh orders Price to inform all eligible voters to meet and vote on whether to allow the state to use the town's cannons. Letter signed by Greenleaf, Marsh and Little as the selectmen of Newburyport. Verso signed by Price, and states he has informed the townspeople.

GLC01450.460.03

February 7, 1777

Dalton, Tristram, 1738-1817

Manuscript letter signed

Title: to William Price

Dalton orders Price to inform all eligible voters to attend a meeting about fulfilling the town's enlistment quota and about cannons given to the state. Letter signed by Greenleaf, Marsh and Dalton as the selectmen of Newburyport. Verso signed by Price, and states he has informed the townspeople.

GLC01450.460.04

2 June 1784

Dundas, David, Sir, Bart, 1749-1826

Autograph letter signed

Title: to James Dundas

Hopes that James will visit "Now that the convulsion of Politicks is over." Mentions "contested elections" and commends "Mr. Pitt, for his Wisdom & discretion in dissolving the last Parliament." Discusses British politics, mentioning Charles Fox and Scotland. Discusses a play he saw and a concert featuring Handel's music performed by an orchestra of 513 musicians. He notes that "nothing is now more talked of but Musick, & indeed I am afraid there is too much reason to believe that we shall like the present Itallians degenerate into a race of catgut scrapers." Mentions the "…

GLC02549.28

December 11, 1780

Dundas, David, Sir, Bart, 1749-1826

Autograph letter signed

Title: to James Dundas [fragment]

Discusses contested parliamentary elections in the south, remarking that "from the eagerness to get into Parliament, one would think that more Patriotism prevails now than ever." Notes that there is great expectation for news from Admiral Darby and Admiral Samuel Hood, particularly "how many French Admirals are brought into Portsmouth." Discusses the potential meeting of two fleets (apparently building on earlier comments in the lost part of the letter). One of the fleets was British, which Dundas describes as "dreadfully inferior in numbers yet there are many people who...think that even…

GLC02549.15