1860

Currier & Ives

Print

Title: "Uncle Sam" making new arrangements

Published by Currier & Ives at 152 Nassau Street, New York. Black and white political cartoon related to Abraham Lincoln's 1860 election. Uncle Sam holds a wanted sign which reads, "An honest upright and capable man to take charge of this house for four years. Undoubted testimonials will be required." Portrays Lincoln being hired by Uncle Sam, while John Bell, J.C. Breckinridge, and Stephen Douglas respond to the advertisement but are turned away. James Buchanan is seen inside the establishment packing up his "dirty linen". Lincoln wears plain working clothes and carries an axe, while the…

GLC03488

1783

United States. Continental Congress.

Book

Title: Constitutions des treize Etats-Unis de l'Amerique

First Franklin edition, printed at Passy. The French translation was made by Rochefoucault at Franklin's suggestion. Streeter Sale 1035, Howes C716, who notes 600 copies printed. Supposed to be the earliest appearance of the US seal (with eagle) in book form.

GLC03109

3 July 1853

Moore, John, 1826-1907

Autograph letter signed

Title: to James Kelly

Writes to his sister Mary's husband about the weather and the lack of activity. Anticipates traveling to Cuba with the possibility of American possession resulting from Manifest Destiny. Makes references to Billy Bowlegs harboring slaves. "You now have the honor of receiving from an officer near the Court of King Bowlegs… notwithstanding my brain is as dry as a potsherd and all my ideas have evaporated through the pores of my skull in perspiration…so accustomed to heat that the change in going from here over to Cuba will be trifling….There is at present rather a flattering prospect of being…

GLC04193.02

circa 1861-1865

Object

Title: [Belt buckle of John B. Moore]

Brass belt buckle engraved with American eagle holding arrows and an olive branch in its talons, with "E pluribus unum" on a banner coming out of its beak, on a starry field. The buckle appears in GLC 4196.01, Moore's photograph in dress uniform.

GLC04196.11

1861

H.H. Lloyd & Co.

Map

Title: Lloyd's new political chart, 1861

Full title: "Lloyd's New Political Chart, 1861. With a Map of the United States, Showing the Free States, Border Slave States, Cotton States, and Territories, in Different Colors." Compiled and published by H.H. Lloyd & Co.'s Agents' General Depot for Books, Maps, and Stationary Packages, 25 Howard Street in New York. Eclectic item composed of map, wood-cut portraits, biographies and statistics. Topped with a banner with "The National Political Chart," at the top. Underneath the banner is an image of George Washington flanked on the left by an image of the Seal of the U.S. and on the…

GLC04243

1863

Broadside

Title: [Broadside recruiting African Americans for military service]

Color recruitment broadside depicting a Union soldier holding a United States flag with an attached banner declaring "Freedom to the Slave." In the background on one side, African American troops march holding a United States flag bearing the words "U. S. Regt. Colored Troops." On the other side, African Americans walk into a public school. The Union man stands on a Confederate flag, while an enslaved man tears the flag in half. A broken set of shackles lay in the foreground. On verso, a printed statement declares "All SLAVES were made FREEMEN BY ABRAHAM LINCOLN, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED…

GLC04198

circa 1861-1910

Howe, Julia Ward, 1819-1910

Pamphlet signed

Title: [Battle Hymn of the Republic].

Four pages.

GLC04352.07

1870

Smith, Samuel Francis, 1808-1895

Autograph manuscript signed

Title: [America]

Contains four verses in Smith's song "America."

GLC04353.08

circa 1840

Huntington, E., fl. 1840

Print

Title: [Engraved copy of the Declaration of Independence]

Printed by E. Huntington.

GLC04530

1 January 1865- 11 August 1865

Kessler, Thomas J., fl. 1843-1868

Diary

Title: [Diary of a soldier 2nd Brigade Band, 1st Division, 9th Army Corps, during Petersburg Campaign]

States that his band played out the old year and in the new 1 January. 2 January, mentions "Rebs threw a shell at us while playing the Star-spangled Banner at Div Hd. Qrs shelling continued for some time afterwards. Notes that his band performs and practices nearly every day. 12 January, notes that a flag of truce has been sent by Confederates, with a sealed communication for General Ulysses S. Grant. 17 January, notes that Fort Fisher, North Carolina, was taken with 1400 prisoners. After celebrating, his band was practicing when they were "astonished By music out-side of the tent, which…

GLC04562

circa 1870

unknown, fl. 1870

Photograph

Title: Battles and battleflags of the 89th Regiment, N. Y. S. Vols.

One undated albumen print entitled, "Battles and Battleflags of the 89th Regiment, N.Y.S. Vols." Image is a collage composed of two separate images of printed lists of Civil War battles where the New York's 89th Regiment was present, the United States flag and the regiment's own flag. In the images of the flags, the United States flag is tattered at its ends and the regiment's flag has a large hole completely torn into the center, where the United States arms and motto formerly appeared.Battles include: Drury's Bluff, Suffolk, Swift Creek, Camden, Chapin's Farm, Kingsland Creek, Petersburgh…

GLC04558.208

1864

Currier & Ives

Print

Title: Grand, National Union Banner for 1864.

Handcolored lithograph image for the Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson 1864 presidential election campaign. Depicts bust images of both candidates circled in wreaths, with a theater curtain backdrop. Adorned with patriotic images of flags and an eagle. Published by Currier & Ives.

GLC04681

1812

Object

Title: [War of 1812 lacquer snuffbox showing victory of United States over Macedonian]

Cylindrical, varnished snuff box from the War of 1812. Lid commemorates the 25 October 1812 capture of the British ship Macedonia by the USS United States, commanded by Stephen Decatur. Bottom depicts the bald eagle seal of the United States surrounded by patriotic sentiments such as "United We Stand. Divided We Fall." Probably made after December 1812, when knowledge of the fight became better known (per Henry Adams, Administration of James Monroe). Image on lid is damaged at center.

GLC04750

March 1864

Photograph

Title: [Stevensburg, Va. Gen. Judson Kilpatrick, 3d Division, Cavalry Corps, with ladies and staff members on the porch of headquarters]

A print of a photograph of Major General H. Judson Kilpatrick, with wife, another woman, and seven members of his staff. A personalized flag [3rd Div., Cavalry Corps] displayed on the porch has the Latin word "Tuebor" ["I Will Defend"] painted above an ealge clinching an United States flag in the center of a large white circle. The flag has six red and six white horizontal stripes and is bordered with gold braiding. Painted in the stripes are the names and dates of battles. The practice of creating personalized flags was quite common during the war. Other union soldiers are visible in the…

GLC05111.01.0173

circa 1861-1865

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Photograph signed

Title: Abraham Lincoln and George Washington on patriotic card

Small cameo sized albumen prints of Abraham Lincoln and George Washington appear side by side in ovals decorated with stars. The Union shield appears below the photographs. An American eagle holding a scroll perches over two American flags above the photographs. The decorations on the mount are embossed.

GLC05111.02.0031

1783

Vose, Joseph, 1738-1816

Object

Title: [Society of Cincinnati gold enameled eagle medallion with 2 cuff links]

Accompanied by blue and white shirt cuff buttons or links.

GLC05849

3 April 1865 after

Broadside

Title: Victory! Victory!! Victory!!! We celebrate the fall of Richmond April 3d, 1865.

Shows a triumphant elephant waving victory banner. Text printed in red with the elephant in blue. The end of the banner is drawn to look like a grinning face.

GLC05890

circa 1861-1865

Rosa, Charley & Rebecca

Photograph

Title: Our Protection, Rosa, Charley, Rebecca. Slave Children from New Orleans.

Thin red border on recto. Three young slave children 2 girls and 1 boy wrapped in the Stars and Stripes. Imprint on recto "Our Protection, Rosa, Charley, Rebecca. Slave Children from New Orleans." Photographers imprint on verso: "No. 9. Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1864, by S. Tackaberry, in the Clerk's Office, of the District Court of the United States. for the Southern District of New York. The nett [sic] proceeds from the sale of these Photographs will be devoted to the education of Colored People in the department of the Gulf, now under the commmand of Major…

GLC05111.02.1052

circa 1861-1865

Photograph

Title: Live bald eagle at rest on a perch

Photographers imprint on verso: "1776 The Centennial Photograph 1876 of 'Old Abe,' the Live Wisconsin War Eagle. Agricultural Hall, (International Exposition,) Philadelphia, 1876. Executive Office, Madison, Wis., Geb'y 8, 1876. I hereby certify that this picture is a correct likeness of 'Old Abe' the Live War Eagle, carried for three years by the 8th Wisconsin Reg't in the War of the Rebellion. H. Snompton [?] Governor. Sold with the Eagle's History, By J. O. Barrett, Agricultural Building, Centennial Grounds, for the 'Old Abe Museum of Ornithology.' Entered according to Act of…

GLC05111.02.0979

13 November 1789

Eustis, William, 1753-1825

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Knox

Discusses a gentleman from Boston who is attempting to obtain the position of commissary of pensioners. Asks whether the appointment to that post is granted from the state or the Continent. Relates a request from the Marquis La Gallissonnière, possibly Augustin-Félix-Elisabeth Barrin, asking Knox for a diploma to give to Louis Antoine Thomassin, Comte de Peynier [also spelled Peinier], Governor of Saint-Domingue and member of the Society of the Cincinnati. Notes that a "gentleman of character," also a member of the Society, will be happy to deliver the diploma if Knox decides to send it.…

GLC02437.04414

1860

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Flag

Title: [Lincoln and Hamlin presidential election campaign banner, with eagle].

Printed cotton campaign banner showing an eagle with a long ribbon in his beak reading "Lincoln and Hamlin." The eagle holds a colored Columbia shield in its talons and only 6 arrows. Black ink (printed) with red and blue added in the shield.

GLC05553

28 September 1789

Washington, George, 1732-1799

Letter signed

Title: to Samuel Huntington

Washington transmits several Acts and duplicates (not included) to Huntington, Governor of Connecticut. Includes Acts for allowing for compensation to the members of the Senate and House of Representatives, for the establishment of the Post Office, for compensation to Supreme Court Judges, the Attorney General, the United States President and Vice President, for establishing salaries for the Executive Officers of Government, and for the safekeeping of the Acts, records, and Seal of the United States. Contains Resolutions requiring the Secretary of State to procure statutes from individual…

GLC05231

February 23, 1833

Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845

Autograph letter signed

Title: to James A. Hamilton

Writing to James Hamilton, son of Alexander Hamilton, Jackson comments on the rush of official business at the height of the Nullification Crisis. Mentions that he heard from Hamilton's mother, wife of Alexander Hamilton, and is pleased that she is still well. Asks that Hamilton come to Washington before 4 March 1833, the date of Jackson's second inauguration. Comments on the positions of Henry Clay and John Calhoun on nullification. "Nullification cannot be recognized as a peaceful & constitutional measure, and the American system of M Clay being on the wane, a union between these two…

GLC05176

24 September 1782

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Andrew Billings

Asks Billings to engrave inscriptions on certain cannon as directed by Congress to be presented to the Count de Rochambeau. "As this is a matter in which the Reputation for Arts in the United States is in some degree concerned," instructs Billings to make the engravings as perfect as possible. Suggests Billings engrave the emblems of Justice and Liberty on some cannons, and representations of naval combat on others. Also suggests engraving "a bald head eagle the lately adopted Arms of the United States."

GLC02437.10046

23 April 1783

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

Autograph letter signed

Title: to James Myers

Discusses the artillery of the army and corrects a mistake regarding the placement of the dolphins for the guns. Also discusses placement of the "Arms of the United States" on artillery. Closes by saying that "Although peace has taken place" he still wishes to have six of the howitzers cast "as soon as possible." Signature is partially torn off.

GLC02437.02111