Photograph

Title: [Portrait of Rosa Parks]

One undated color candid photograph of Rosa Parks with carnation brooch pinned to her blouse.

GLC09778.03

1865/03/21

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Edwin M. Stanton re: arranging trip to review troops at City Point

"Mrs. L. proposes 3 P.M. Thursday, and says she can not be ready sooner. Let it be so." (Mary Todd Lincoln had an infamous fit of jealousy over her husband's accompaniment by General Ord's wife during this trip.)

GLC06756

1946 ca.

Patton, George S. (George Smith), 1885-1945

Print

Title: Reproduction of painting, inscribed by Beatrice A. Patton to the Stockdales

Inscribed by Patton's wife, Beatrice Ayer Patton, to the Stockdales, with a short note to them both on the verso.

GLC06760.28

1845/11/25

Houston, Sam, 1793-1863

Autograph letter signed

Title: to William Letcher re: Houston's retirement and first born son

Concerning Houston's desire for a life of happy domesticity in retirement, "to pass the remainder of my earthly existence" with his wife ("she gets all the credit for my good actions, and I have to endure all the censure of my bad ones.") and first-born son ("he will do for pioneer").

GLC06774

1839/03/06

Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Anthony Collamore re: pensions for Revolutionary War veterans' widows

Letter of Adams, with conjugate leaf (p. 3) containing clerical "Copy of Mr. Edward's letter to Hon. J.Q. Adams." Docketed p. 4. (Text loss on page 1 to center lower left affecting some words.)

GLC06933

1864/06/10

Smith, Henry W., 1836-1869

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Joseph Smith re: Grant, Richmond and a spy matter

"Reinforcements are being sent down all the time, but Richmond must be starved out. That miserable city if protected by 5 lines if splendid fortifications, on which Mr. Lee has laid himself out.... I have tried to see Clara Howard... she is charged with being a spy... if she is guilty I do not want her sex to protect her."

GLC06941

1890/06/13

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mrs. Edward Bissel re: a letter acompanying leaflets

Leaflets started as "Almost anything will pass muster if well read....& the best thing can be spoiled if badly read."

GLC06895.02

1886/10/16

Stone, Lucy, 1818-1893

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mrs. Edward Bissell re: a thank you letter for the Toledo Report

The letter also wishes that all members "belonged to the American W.S.A."

GLC06895.03

1920/06/24

Upton, Harriet T., 1853-1945

Typed letter signed

Title: to Mrs. Edward Bissell re: collecting histories of Ohio suffrage associations

GLC06895.04

[1917?]

Object

Title: Votes for Women [small yellow felt banner, with collateral bow]

Banner is on yellow felt. Accompanied by separate blue, red and yellow ribbon with bow). A later note indicates that the "chest bow" was owned by suffrage supporter Mrs. Walter Bissell.

GLC06895.05

1865 ca.

Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888

Pamphlet

Title: "Nelly's Hospital" reprinted by U.S. Sanitary Commission for "our young folks"

Fiction.

GLC06896

1863/07/09

Semmes, Paul Jones, 1815-1863

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Emily J. Semmes re: deathbed description of Gettysburg, Wheatfield

Also discusses severe injuries that he incurred (written one day prior to his death).

GLC06823

1852/07/05

Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895

Pamphlet

Title: Oration delivered in Corinthian Hall, Rochester

First Edition by Lee, Mann & Co. Douglass' famous fourth of July oration, given on the fifth. Douglass was asked by the Rochester Ladies Anti-Slavery Society to give the oration on the fourth, choosing the topic "the meaning of the Fourth to the Negro." Douglass' famous peroration: "Are the great principles of political freedom and natural justice [of the Fourth], embodied in the Declaration of Independence, extended to us? .... This Fourth of July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, but I must mourn." McFeely called this "perhaps the greatest anti-slavery oration ever given." Sabin…

GLC06829

1868/05/21

Newspaper

Title: Revolution. [Vol. 1, no. 20 (May 21, 1868)]

Disbound. Paginated [305]-320. Edited by E.C. Stanton and Parker Pillsbury. Includes editorial by Stanton "The Last Republican Lamp has Gone out" and articles. This issue records the annual meeting of the American Equal Rights Association. Although it survived only for two years, the weekly "made a contribution to the women's cause out of proportion to either its size, brief lifespan, or modest circulation" (Griffith, Elizabeth Cady Stanton).

GLC06855

1896 ca.

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902

Pamphlet signed

Title: Bible and church degrade women

Group of 3 essays dealing with women's status in church and suffrage. Inscribed to Rev. William Gannet (?) with quotation on the first page of the text: "Progress is the victory of a new thought over an old superstition" Printed by the Office of Free Thought Magazine

GLC06856

1864/09/23

Walker, Mary, fl. 1864

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Col. James Hardie

Seeking Presidential confirmation of Walker's rank as Major. "I told the President of the risks I encountered in being taken prisoner on purpose and preventing their attacking our army which we were hardly able to act."

GLC06882

1852 after

Object

Title: "Uncle Tom's Cabin" banner [on cloth]

Red banner with nine scenes from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Textile.

GLC06894

1920 ca.

Header Record

Title: Letters to Mrs. [Sarah Secor] Edward Bissell re: Suffrage [decimalized]

Four letters originally mounted on a board with ribbons and a "Votes for Women" felt banner in a display prepared ca. 1920. They were a part of the Bisselll Archive and Suffrage Memorabilia.

GLC06895

1897/06/18

Anthony, Susan B., 1820-1906

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mrs. Edward Bissell re: receiving funds for NAWSA

The letter also requests any letters written to Sarah Secor (Mrs. Edward) Bissell.

GLC06895.01

1925 ca.

Bates, Katharine Lee, 1859-1929

Document signed

Title: America the Beautiful [printed text, signed, with accompanying text]

Printed text of the four stanza poem, signed at the end on the bottom of page 1, with an additional text on accompanying pages explaining the circumstances of her originally writing it, when inspired by vistas at Pike's Peak. Bates also details the poem's publication history and its musical settings. Dating inferred by previous owner.

GLC07123

1861/12/06

Cameron, Simon, 1799-1889

Letter signed

Title: to John E. Wool re: slave girl who followed the 20th Indiana regiment

Was returned to Charles A. Jessup of Maryland. With John Wool endorsement on p. 3.

GLC06969

1864/09/14

Walker, Mary, fl. 1864

Autograph letter signed

Title: to William T. Sherman re: requesting promotion, with Sherman AES & Thomas ES

Also with endorsements of William T. Sherman, General Thomas and R. U. Wood. With accompanying transmittal document from the War Department to Mrs. Walker.

GLC06978

[1880 ca.]

Hooker, Joseph, 1814-1879

Broadside

Title: Woman Suffrage and the Marriage Relation

Long broadsheet, printed letter to the editor of the Hartford Courant.

GLC06981

[1917 ca.]

Broadside

Title: Seven Woman Suffrage resolutions

With one handwritten correction

GLC06982

1863/01/13

Butler, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1818-1893

Document

Title: Confederate Congress Resolution no. 24, endorsing orders for Butler's hanging

Confederate resolution endorsing President Jefferson Davis's orders for the hanging of Benjamin Franklin "Beast" Butler (for his women around town order)

GLC07008.01