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Seventh N. Hampshire Regiment. Stand by the Flag! [Recruiting broadside]

Large and vigorous recruitment broadside printed on thin bright yellow paper with large woodcut of American flag, with streaming ribbon reading "Stand by the Flag." Captain Jesse E. George. Lists bounties and army pay. Printed at the Tri-Weekly...

GLC06848

To the Youth of Alabama: We are calling to arms! [recruitment broadside]

Recruiting "Cavalry to be composed of those under [age] 18" to fight under Gen. Pillow. Once mounted in an album or scrapbook. On verso were adhered four undated newsclippings: two poems, one news story describing the positions of former Confederate...

GLC06851

to President King, Columbia College; discusses Fugitive Slave Law

Printed circulat letter, addressed in Smith's hand.

GLC06852

A letter from Peter Cooper to ....Abraham Lincoln

Addressing opposition to slavery and duty of govt to induce slaves to fight for the Union. Printed with "what they have to do who stay at home" regarding the Sanitary Commission by F.L. Olmstead. Loyal Publication Society, No. 28-Part II. Disbound

GLC06853

Six hundred dollars a year: a wife's effort at low living under high prices

Contains information for women on managing household finances, making money, and filling out tax forms. Complains of high taxes. Written in the form of one anonymous woman's experience. Anonymous. Printed by Ticknor & Fields.

GLC06854

Revolution. [Vol. 1, no. 20 (May 21, 1868)]

Disbound. Paginated [305]-320. Edited by E.C. Stanton and Parker Pillsbury. Includes editorial by Stanton "The Last Republican Lamp has Gone out" and articles. This issue records the annual meeting of the American Equal Rights Association. Although...

GLC06855

Bible and church degrade women

Group of 3 essays dealing with women's status in church and suffrage. Inscribed to Rev. William Gannet (?) with quotation on the first page of the text: "Progress is the victory of a new thought over an old superstition" Printed by the Office of...

GLC06856

A Sermon to the medical students

First edition. 12mo. Printed gray wrappers. An important speech on anti-slavery and women's rights. Described on the cover as a "revised Phonographic Report." Mott rejects the doctrine of original human depravity, credits the birth of reform...

GLC06857

Our woman workers. Biographical sketches of women... in the Universalist Church.

Title continued: "for literacy, philanthropic and Christian work." Inscribed by Mary Livermore to her daughters. Among those profiled: Clara Barton, Alice and Phoebe Cary, M. Louise Thomas, Elizabeth Oakes Smith, and Frances Dana Gage. (Title is...

GLC06858

Rachel. A play in three acts

First play written, produced, and acted by African-Americans, attempting to dramatize racial inequities. The program notes call the play "the first attempt to use the stage for race propaganda in order to enlighten the American people relative to the...

GLC06859