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Speech of... [House Divided speech] [first separate printing, unique variant]

Apparently an unrecorded variant of the first separate printing by O. P. Bassett. The two other recorded copies have an imprint reading the "True Republican Office" with "Printer" abbreviated to "Pr."; the GLC copy omits the word "True" in the...

GLC04957

Oration in honor of the election of President Jefferson, and... Louisiana

Full title: "An Oration in honor of the election of President Jefferson, and the peaceable acquisition of Louisiana, delivered at the National Festival in Hartford...." Printed for the General Committee of Republicans.

GLC04959.02

to unknown

Written to an unidentified friend ("bon ami")

GLC04960

The Bostonian's Paying the Excise-man, or Tarring & Feathering

Engraving attributed to Philip Dawe, with hand-coloring. Shows the Boston Tea Party in the background, a "Liberty Tree" with a paper "Stamp Act" affixed upside-down, with five unsavory Bostonians forcibly pouring a pot of tea into the mouth of a...

GLC04961.01

The Young sweep in love, or the house-maid's conquest [mezzotint with color]

Mezzotint printed by Carrington Bowles, 7th May 1772. Depicts a short and filthy chimney-sweep embracing a house-maid, while an obscured figure watches in the background (and puts food in his mouth). The poetry appears to be a parody of Dryden's...

GLC04961.02

Half-plate ambrotype, Edgar County CH, Paris, Ill. with soldiers leaving for war

The image shows a wagon and a crowd of newly recruited soldiers preparing to leave for the Civil War. Lincoln practiced law at this court house (among others). The leather-covered case measures 12.5 x 15.5 cm; the image is roughly 10.8 x 14 cm.

GLC04962

[Scrapbook of James M. Bailey]

Professionally prepared scrapbook entitled "History Set Right," published in 1869, with 2 pamphlets and 2 maps bound into the book. Also bound in are two colored lithographs of the "Manassas" and the "Louisiana" (original 19th century binding stubs...

GLC04965

[Items relating to California history] [Decimalized]

Housed together on bookshelf.

GLC04967

Proclamation by the Mayor

Broadside declaring martial law by the Mayor, in the aftermath of the San Fransico earthquake. Authorizes security forces to kill looters, requests citizens to remain at home from dark until dawn, and has directed that electricity and gas remain off...

GLC04967.01

Seventy-five years in California: a history of events and life in California...

Title continues "personal, political and military; under the Mexican regime; during the quasi-military government of the territory by the United States, and after the admission of the state to the union: being a compilation by a witness of the events...

GLC04967.02