4 August 1921 to December 1924

Terk, R., fl. 1921-1924

Manuscript signed

Title: From Sandbar to Forbay over the Stanislaus Flume

Small photo scrapbook stamped "Photographs" on front cover. Photographs and manuscript narrative pasted on black paper. The pictures depict railroad, wilderness, timber, logging and other scenery. There is a skinned page at the end of the book that appears to be missing a photograph. Some photographs have blue ink transfer from the manuscripts opposite.

GLC06062

1810

Arrowsmith, Aaron, 1750-1823

Map

Title: A new map of Mexico and adjacent provinces [roll map on linen]

A New Map of Mexico and Adjacent Provinces Compiled from Original Documents.... London: Published 5th. October 1810, by A. Arrowsmith, 10 Soho Sque. Hydrographer to His Majesty, 1810. Wall map, mounted on linen, with wooden rollers at top and bottom. Engraved map. Four sheets on linen. Original outline color. Insets of the Valley of Mexico, Veracruz, and Acapulco. First state (with Hydrographer to the King) of a cornerstone map of Texas, Mexico, and the Southwestern U.S. The two 1810 editions of this map vary considerably in their depiction of the Texas-Louisiana border. The present edition…

GLC06091

1860

Houston, Sam, 1793-1863

Photograph

Title: Oval salt print photograph as Governor at the age of 67

GLC06092

3 November 1879

Schurz, Carl, 1829-1906

Autograph letter signed

Title: to A. C. Barstow

Secretary of the Interior Schurz writes to the Chairman of the Board of Indian Commissioners about the Meeker Massacre at the White River Ute Reservation in Colorado. Mentions that Special Agent General Charles Adams secured the return of women and children held as captives. Discusses reaching a settlement with Utes, arguing against an all-out war because other bands of Utes friendly to the United States might become involved. Written on stationery of the Department of the Interior.

GLC06009

12 March 1863

White, Jonathon C., fl. 1862-1863

Newspaper

Title: The weekly junior register. [Vol. 2, no. 11 (March 12, 1863)]

Reactions to Lincoln's emancipation proclamation. Article on the controversy over the new militia: "Now that New Orleans is captured the new militia law is suicidal." Includes General Sibley's expedition to New Mexico. Captured by David Cates Co. B 22nd Conn. Regt. The names of Cates family members are written in a childish hand at the top of both pages. Wallpaper has pale blue colored grape and leaf pattern.

GLC05988.25

2 June 1875

Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885

Autograph manuscript

Title: [Notes during a meeting with the Sioux Indians]

Comments on a treaty with the Sioux and rights to lands in Nebraska. A note in the margin by Benjamin R. Cowen, Grant's assistant secretary of the interior, identifies Grant's authorship and date. Another unattributed note identifies Cowen. Accompanied by an engraving (see GLC06035.02).

GLC06035.01

1861-1864

Cushing, Edward H., 1829-1879

Header Record

Title: The Tri-weekly telegraph.

Issues contain state legislative minutes and lists of representatives and committees with election returns, Texas news items, occasional death and marriage notices, and an occasional poem. Commercial reports may include prices in produce, cotton, and merchandise. Occasional advertisements. Many issues previously bound. Most issues have two pages; some have four. Fugitive slave ads. Vol. 28, no. 156 (March 16, 1863) on necessity paper Vol. 29, no. 83 (September 30, 1863) on necessity paper Vol. 29, no. 84 (October 2, 1863) on necessity paper Vol. 29, no. 97 (November 3, 1863)…

GLC05959.51

1863-1864

Cushing, Edward H., 1829-1879

Header Record

Title: The Houston daily telegraph.

Supplement (November 16, 1863) ; 2 p. : 30 x 19 cm. Letter from the Indian Territory. General orders from Texas District Headquarters. News from Shreveport. List of legislative committees. Vol. 29, no. 154 (February 24, 1864) ; 2 p. : 46.1 x 31.5 cm. Rangers in east Tennessee. Planting cotton. Habeas corpus. Fugitive slave ads. Supplement (April 8, 1864) ; 2 p. ; necessity paper : 22.2 x 16.3 cm. Telegraphy. List of deserters. Proclamation by Mayor for a fast day. Vol. 30, no. 31 (April 29, 1864) ; 2 p. ; necessity paper : 36 x 22.5 cm. Trade in human life. News from the…

GLC05959.55

1838

Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848

Pamphlet

Title: Speech... upon the right of people ... relating to the annexation of Texas

Full title: "Speech... upon the right of the people ... to petition; on the freedom of speech and of debate in the House of Representatives of the United States... relating to the annexation of Texas." Printed by Gales and Seaton.

GLC05934

11 March 1850

Seward, William Henry, 1801-1872

Pamphlet

Title: California, union, and freedom. Speech of William H. Seward, on the admission of California.

Printed by Buell & Blanchard. Uncut. Argues for the admission of California into the Union (as a free state).

GLC05938

18 April 1906

Moffit, Frank J., fl. 1906

Broadside

Title: Oakland enquirer. Extra 4:30. [8th edition (April 18, 1906)]

This document is a newspaper from the Oakland Enquirer that includes news regarding the San Francisco earthquake. Started in 1885 by Moffit, The Oakland enquirer continued the Independent Enquirer and was later continued in 1921 by the Oakland Daily Post and the Oakland Post Enquirer. Topic coverage for this newspaper includes earthquake damage reports and local news besides that.

GLC05905.01

26 April 1906

Lincke, M.W., 1895-1941

Newspaper

Title: The Graphic. [Vol. 12, no. 17 (April 26, 1906)]

This newspaper covers local news from Nashville, North Carolina including an article on the San Francisco earthquake. "Stall Lorain" inscribed on front page. Includes several articles on tobacco farming, the need for farm hands, bias against citylife, and other advertisments from local businesses.

GLC05905.02

1843

Allen, George, 1792-1883

Pamphlet

Title: The Complaint of Mexico, and conspiracy against liberty [Texas]

Anti-Texas annexation tract. Printed by J. W. Alden.

GLC05935

circa 1837

Southard, Nathaniel, fl. 1837

Pamphlet

Title: The American Anti-Slavery Almanac, for 1838, being the second after Bissextile or Leap-Year, and the 62nd of American Independence. Adapted to most parts of the United States.

Labeled Vol. 1 no. 3. Southard serves as editor. Published by D. K. Hitchcock. With front paper engraving depicting William [Lloyd] Garrison attempting to chop down a tree labeled "Slavery" while a minister, soldier, businessman and President Van Buren attempt to support the tree. Contains many illustrations showing the injustices of slavery. Closes with Garrison's address opposing the annexation of Texas to the Union as a "slaveholding country." Edges are extremely delicate.

GLC05939

1857

Abbot, Henry Larcom, 1831-1927

Pamphlet signed

Title: Article upon the determination of altitudes from observations taken with the barometer...

Title continues "being Chapter VI and Appendix E of the Report of Lieut. Henry L. Abbot, Corps of Topographical Engineers, upon Explorations for a Railroad Route from the Sacramento Valley to the Columbia River made by Lieut. L.S. Williamson, Corps of Topographical Engineers, assisted by Lieut. Henry L. Abbot, Corps of Topographical Engineers." Presentation copy signed on cover with an inscription by Henry L. Abbot to Edwin Hale Abbot. Part of the series, "Explorations and survey for a railroad route from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. War Department." Original yellow…

GLC05761

1842

Cleveland, Richard Jeffry, 1773-1860

Book

Title: A Narrative of Voyages and commercial enterprises

Published by John Owen. First edition. Original cloth. Vol. II signed in pencil by F.A. Fruman, possibly the owner, in New York in 1861. Includes discussions of Captain Cleveland's voyages to China, Hawaii, Alaska, South America, California and the Northwest coast from 1799-1803. His voyages to Alaska and the Islands in 1799 and California in 1803 pertained mostly to the fur trade. Includes descriptions of his impressions of Native Americans. Cleveland was partners with William Shaler.

GLC05760

14 September 1870

Hearn, J.A., fl. 1870

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Annual report on the Grand River Agency in South Dakota]

Addressed to Ely S. Parker, the Commissioner of Indian Affairs. Comments on different tribes, their numbers and their willingness to farm. Recommends providing government assistance to the friendly Indians, who "are fully convinced that the Government will not always provide for them, if they do not by and help themselves." Describing a meeting with Father Pierre-Jean de Smet, a Jesuit missionary, who planned to start a mission school. Describes the Agency's location as poor. Mentions the military presence. Lists the buildings constructed. Commends the Indians good conduct over…

GLC05893

February 1, 1861

Campbell, Robert C., fl. 1861

Autograph letter signed

Title: to James Beale

Campbell, representing Galveston, Texas at the state Secession Convention, transmits several ordinances (not included) regarding Texas' secession to Beale (possibly Campbell's cousin). Declares "The Union is defunct -- dead, never to be revived. No concessions now would occasion its reconstruction. The South can not be conquered ... The cost has been counted and we are ready to pay it ... Had simple equality been conceded, the South would have submitted to every other wrong."

GLC05127.01

31 December 1808

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Letter signed

Title: to William Henry Harrison

Asks Harrison, then governor of the Indiana Territory, to help pass laws prohibiting the sale of alcohol to Indians, in hopes that it will remove a "great obstacle to their acquiring industrious habits." Also notes that the general government policy towards the Indians was "to endeavor to render them friends, and, in time, perhaps, useful members of the nation."

GLC07156

10 July 1863

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Autograph endorsement signed

Title: [John A. Gurley intends to establish a civil government for Arizona]

Signed by Lincoln on 11 July 1863. Brigadier General Edward Canby informs Major General Schofield that John A. Gurley, the Governor of Arizona, will be passing through the Missouri Territory. Requests that Schofield, stationed in Missouri, provide Gurley with an escort. States that Gurley and his party intend to organize a civil government for the Arizona Territory; Lincoln approves this intention.

GLC07158

29 April 1870

Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895

Autograph letter signed

Title: to unknown

"The wife of Captain John Brown and I believe a daughter are now living on a farm somewhere in California."

GLC07236

30 June 1872

Lee, P. Ludwell, fl. 1867-1872

Manuscript document

Title: [Muster roll for Troop G, 10th Cavalry]

Signed by P. Ludwell Lee, Captain of Troop G, 10th Cavalry, as a witness. Lists the names of members of Troop G, including their dates of enlistment and discharge, if applicable. Covers the period from 30 April 1872-30 June 1872. Created at Rush Spring, possibly referring to Rush Springs in present-day Oklahoma. A note written across the printed text of the muster roll states that the troop was paid 10 July 1872. Ludwell confirms that the discipline, instruction, military appearance, arms, and accoutrements of the troop are good.

GLC07333.01

30 April 1874

Clous, John Walter, 1837-1908

Manuscript document

Title: [Muster roll, Company E, 24th Regiment]

Signed by Clous as Captain of Company E, 24th Regiment. Signed by H. F. Leggett, First Lieutenant of the 24th Infantry, as a witness. Signed by Major H. [Chairman?] as inspector and mustering officer of the 24th Infantry. Lists the names of soldiers, and includes their signatures or marks confirming receipt of payment for service 28 February 1874-30 April 1874. States that the 24th is led by Colonel J. H. Potter. A note written across the printed text of the muster roll indicates that the soldiers of Company E were paid 9 May 1874. Written at Fort Brown.

GLC07333.02

31 August 1874

Mills, Frank, fl. 1874

Manuscript document

Title: [Muster Roll, Company G, 9th Cavalry]

Signed by Frank Mills, 2nd Lieutenant of Company G, 24th Infantry Regiment. Signed by E. D. [Diminick?], 1st Lieutenant of Company G, 9th Cavalry, as a witness. Includes the names and signatures (or mark) of soldiers in Company G. Muster roll for 30 June 1874-31 August 1874. A note written across the printed text of the roll indicates that Company G was paid 28 September 1874.

GLC07333.03

12 September 1872

Norvell, J.T., fl. 1872

Document signed

Title: [Final statement and pay voucher for Abraham Hill, 10th Cavalry]

Signed by Norvell as Captain of the 10th Cavalry. Final statement of Abraham Hill, an African American private in Captain S. J. Norvell's company. States that Hill was enlisted 12 September 1867 in Wilmington, Delaware, to serve for five years. Reports that Hill is owed $64.62 for his service. Docketed by C. R. Ward, 2nd Lieutenant of the 10th Cavalry. Ward states that he forwarded the final statement to J. J. Fisher, possibly employed at the office of the paymaster. Attached to a pay voucher for Hill, signed by Fisher. Reports that Hill received money he was owed by J. W. Nicholls,…

GLC07334.01