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Autograph letter signed

My Dear Wife

12 September 1851

Baxter, Thompson, fl. 1849-1854

GLC09234.03

Collection Item

Autograph letter signed

to Thompson Baxter

1815-1860

A letter to Thompson Baxter, it is written in the form of a diary with multiple days worth of events seperated by the date it was written. In this particular letter Thompspn Baxter's wife has written about the death of their daughter on the 21 of...

GLC09234.04

Collection Item

Autograph letter signed

to Thompson Baxter

1815-1860

A letter to Thompson Baxter, it is written in the form of a diary with multiple days worth of events seperated by the date it was written. Circa 5th September- October 9th

GLC09234.05

Collection Item

Autograph letter signed

Dearest Husband

11 September 1849- 27 September 1849

A letter to Thompson Baxter, it is written in the form of a diary with multiple days worth of events seperated by the date it was written.

GLC09234.06

Collection Item

Autograph letter signed

Dearest Husband

28 August 1849- 10 September 1849

A letter to Thompson Baxter, it is written in the form of a diary with multiple days worth of events seperated by the date it was written.

GLC09234.07

Collection Item

[Scenes of California]

1815-1860

Cooke & LeCount, fl. 1815-1860

Printed cartoon panel ("This is a true Picture of Callifornia I have seen it And experienced it myself T. Baxter") notation on the bottom Possibly reads Published by Cooke & LeCount

GLC09234.08

Collection Item

Autograph document signed

Adams & Co Bank note 30 dollars

14 April 1851

Adams & Co. (San Francisco, Calif.)

GLC09234.09

Collection Item

Autograph document signed

Adams & Co Bank note $277.95

20 December 1852

Adams & Co. (San Francisco, Calif.)

GLC09234.10

Collection Item

Autograph document signed

Adams & Co Bank note $270.06

30 June 1853

Adams & Co. (San Francisco, Calif.)

GLC09234.11

Collection Item

Autograph document signed

Adams & Co Bank note $150

13 April 1854

Adams & Co. (San Francisco, Calif.)

GLC09234.12

Collection Item

Autograph document signed

Adams & Co Bank note $208.69

29 April 1853

Adams & Co. (San Francisco, Calif.)

GLC09234.13

Collection Item

Autograph document signed

Adams & Co Bank note $270.06

31 May 1853

Adams & Co. (San Francisco, Calif.)

GLC09234.14

Collection Item

Autograph document signed

Adams & Co Bank note $300

30 June 1854

Adams & Co. (San Francisco, Calif.)

GLC09234.15

Collection Item

Autograph document signed

Adams & Co Bank note $347.50

January 29, 1853

Adams & Co. (San Francisco, Calif.)

GLC09234.16

Collection Item

Autograph document signed

Adams & Co Bank note $286.51

30 May 1853

Adams & Co. (San Francisco, Calif.)

GLC09234.17

Collection Item

Autograph document signed

Adams & Co Bank note $297.74

March 31, 1853

Adams & Co. (San Francisco, Calif.)

GLC09234.18

Collection Item

Autograph document signed

Adams & Co Bank note $375

29 December 1853

Adams & Co. (San Francisco, Calif.)

GLC09234.19

Collection Item

Autograph document signed

Adams & Co Bank note $300

15 May 1854

Adams & Co. (San Francisco, Calif.)

GLC09234.20

Collection Item

Autograph document signed

Adams & Co Bank note $200

11 October 1854

Adams & Co. (San Francisco, Calif.)

GLC09234.21

Collection Item

Autograph document signed

Adams & Co Bank note $400

12 June 1853

Adams & Co. (San Francisco, Calif.)

GLC09234.22

Collection Item

Autograph document signed

Adams & Co Bank note $200

February 14, 1853

Adams & Co. (San Francisco, Calif.)

GLC09234.23

Collection Item

Autograph document signed

Adams & Co Bank note $328.38

February 28, 1853

Adams & Co. (San Francisco, Calif.)

GLC09234.24

Collection Item

Autograph manuscript

Account Book

24 June 1850 - 2 October 1852

Baxter, Thompson, fl. 1849-1854

Baxter's descriptive business ledger, dating from June 1850 through October 1852. . The main part of this 296 page ledger is a daily account of sales in the store, nothing what was purchased and the price. At the end are several pages listing the...

GLC09234.25

Collection Item

A Plan for the Abolition of Slavery

July 1858

Spooner, Lysander, fl. 1865

"A Plan for the Abolition of Slavery," imploring non-slaveholding whites in the South to combine with slaves to overthrow plantation owners. "Your numbers, combined with those of the Slaves, will give you all power. You have but to use it, and the...

GLC09235

Collection Item

[Slave sale broadside]

February 1, 1858

"Administrator's Sale! …at public auction, to the highest and best bidder…a likely young Negro Woman, Named Mary, and her child.…J. M. M'Cutchen, Administrator." Posted in Boonville, Missouri-rare slave sale broadsides from west of the Mississippi.

GLC09236