1792/03/23

Peale, Charles Wilson, 1741-1827

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Tobias Lear re: a donation to Peale's Museum in Philadelphia

Requesting to make "the donation to the Museum" in Lear's name. Docketed on address leaf.

GLC02794.022

1939/01/27

Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945

Typed letter signed

Title: to William E. Shepherd re: declining membership in the Beaux-Arts Institute

Signed as President on White House stationery. He notes he is a rank amateur

GLC02793.083

1951/01/27

Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972

Typed letter signed

Title: to Dean Acheson re: Madame Tussaud's Waxworks likeness of him

Signed as President on White House stationery. (Accompanied by a typed copy of Acheson's reply with the Feb. 2 Truman memo reponding to his memo as .121). Quite humorous.

GLC02793.091

1816/07/04

Tanner, Benjamin, 1775-1848

Engraving

Title: MacDonough's victory on Lake Champlain, and Defeat of the British Army at Plattsburg by Genl. Macomb, Sept. 11th. 1814.

Engraved and published by Tanner and printed by Rosner & Eskr. The defeat of the British at the Battle of Plattsburg thwarted Sir George Prevost's planned invasion of the United States through the Hudson Valley and strengthened the American bargaining position for peace in Ghent. The battle was one of the most decisive of the War of 1812.

GLC02810

1866 ca.

Photograph

Title: [Abraham Lincoln]

Oval photograph of engraved portrait of Lincoln. With two one-cent tax stamps on verso. (Dating based on use of tax stamps.)

GLC02912.02.01

1913/08/09

Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Gertrude Bondhill re: his pleasure in her performance

Written as President

GLC02793.061

1861 circa

Currier & Ives

Print

Title: Bombardment of Fort Sumter, Charleston Harbor

Hand colored lithograph published by Currier & Ives at 152 Nassau Street, New York. Print is mounted. View of Fort Sumter under heavy bombardment and returning fire. The United States flag stands tall in the center of the print. Fort Moultrie and Cummings Point are labeled below the image. Dimensions refer to the item unmounted.

GLC02881.15

1737/08/13

Duyck, Gerardus, fl. 1737

Manuscript document

Title: Account of Captain Langdon for the Ship Oswego Packet

Charges are for cartridge paper and painting a figure.

GLC03107.02550

1864/06/28

Photograph

Title: Artistic rendering of New Ironsides Attack on Fort Sumpter

Ink inscription on recto "New Ironsides Moonlight Attack on Fort Sumpter. Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1863, by Wm. H. Rease, in the Clerk's Office of the Disctrict Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania." Graphite inscription on verso "From Great Artists Fair--Tuesday June 28th 1864" "J. M. Thompson." Photographers imprint on verso: "Published by Wm. H. Rease, N. E. Cor. Fourth & Chestnut Sts. Philadelphia."

GLC05111.02.0975

1819/01/28

Various

Print

Title: The British surrendering their Arms to Gen: Washington...at York Town

Large black and white engraving. Title: "The British surrendering their Arms to Gen: Washington after their defeat at York Town in Virginia October 1781." Copper engraving by Tanner, Vallance, Kearny & Co. and William Allen after a drawing by John Francis Renault. Renault is supposed to have been a participant at Yorktown, although the scene is highly allegorical.

GLC05861

1777 ca.

Habermann, Francois X., 1721-1796

Print

Title: Die Anlandung der Englischen Troupen zu Neu Yorck [New York][in French & German (with collateral folder of newspaper clippings)]

Shows debarking British troops in a highly imaginative setting. Hand-colored engraving, in watercolor, by Francois Xaver Habermann. Title in French and German. Full title: "[German] Die Anlandung der Englischen Troupen zu Neu Yorck." and "[French] Debarquement des Troupes engloises [sic] a nouvelle Yorck". The French title at top center has been printed backwards, in the manner of a "Vue d'Optique." From the "Collection des Prospects" (LC-USZ62-45372). Part of a series of Vues d'Optique printed at Augsburg; other prints in the series include New Yorkers pulling down George III's statue (…

GLC05860.01

1851/11/06

Hale, Sarah J.B., 1788-1879

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Caroline Gilman

Apologizes for the publisher's loss of Gilman's portrait that Hale had borrowed for the printing of her book, "Women's record" (New York, 1853).

GLC05955

1808/06/11

Fulton, Robert, 1765-1815

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Charles W. Peale

Fulton writes to prominent American painter Charles Willson Peale, enclosing $120, apparently in payment of a debt. He also details the success of his steamboat business and mentions the "virtuous exertions and enterprising spirit" of Peale's son, Rembrandt, also an artist. Fulton may have studied miniature painting with the elder Peale early in his life; both studied with Benjamin West in England. Peale had painted Fulton's portrait the previous year; and Fulton was involved in the artist's efforts to start an art museum in Philadelphia. Rembrandt Peale had also painted Fulton's portrait…

GLC05817

February 17, 1919

Lyons, Curtis Blair, 1894-1968

Typed letter

Title: to Helen Lyons

Writes to his wife about working on the roads and discusses the weather. Asks about their daughter. Says that the troops watch movies on Tuesdays and Fridays and have dances on Thursdays. Explains that the French dance differently than the Americans. Encloses a picture of his company (not included). Typed on Knights of Columbus letterhead.

GLC07810.069

February 28, 1919

Tuell, Porter E., fl. 1918-1919

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Hazel Reese

Writes to his friend about his daily activities now that the war is over and the troops are preparing to return home. Shares his hope to stay in Europe and travel with the YMCA shows. Promises to tell her all about his furlough once he returns to Louisville. Advises Hazel to keep from sending any more letters to France as he will probably not receive them. Written on YMCA letterhead. Written at Camp Coetquidan.

GLC07810.099

1865/04/14

Newspaper clipping

Title: W.J. Ferguson, actor, dies; saw Lincoln shot

Newspaper clipping announcing the death of W.J. Ferguson, the last living actor to have witnessed the assasination of President Lincoln. Ferguson played the part of Lietenant Vernon in "Our American Cousin." The actor and Laura Keene were in the wings when Booth shot the president. Ferguson always insisted that Booth never shouted "sic semper tyrannis!"

GLC05603.03.02

1860-1865 circa

Whistler, Simon M., fl. 1904

Header Record

Title: [Soldier's archive] [Decimalized .01- .06]

Simon Mower Whistler, soldier's archive of Harrisburg, PA physician. With three war time diaries, manuscript memoirs, medical journal and watercolor of hospital ship "Connecticut."

GLC08362

1874/08

Bachelder, John B. (John Badger), 1825-1894

Sketch

Title: [Pencil and ink wash. Eagle Cliff]

GLC02673.08

February 18, 1865

Punch, or the London Charivari

Engraving

Title: The Threatening Notice

Reproduced from Punch.

GLC05603.02.93

1874/08

Bachelder, John B. (John Badger), 1825-1894

Sketch

Title: [Water color. Hotel on Seneca Lake]

Water color on tissue-backed paper.

GLC02673.12

1880/05/10

Bissell, George E., fl. 1875-1895

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Benson J. Lossing re: monument for Custer and Little Big Horn

Mentions showing Genl. Custer's widow "a sketch I have just made for a monument for Gen. Custer and his men, killed at Little Big Horn".

GLC07025.01

1875/11/11

Bissell, George E., fl. 1875-1895

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Benson J. Lossing re: Colchester Monument; Saratoga Monument

Writes about descriptions of Colchester Monument for Harper's Bazaar and ideas for Saratoga Monument.

GLC07025.02

1838/09/27

Page, William, fl. 1838

Autograph letter signed

Title: to John P. Ridner re: financial matters, portrait in progress of J.Q. Adams

GLC07026

1859/12/18

Sully, Thomas, 1738-1872

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Alfred Sully re: fashion in art

Sully writes "The taste for modern, and perhaps for ancient paintings is very changeable. The reign of a fashionable artist is short, and he does well who 'makes hay, while the sun shines'."

GLC07027

1793/04/04

Trumbull, John, fl. 1775-1793

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Andrew Craigie re: sending pictures of the President and Vice-President

GLC07028