1863

Everett, Edward, 1794-1865

Book signed

Title: Oration Delivered on the Battlefield of Gettysburg

GLC07743.01

circa 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 a slave 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 STATES,…

GLC08249

6 November 1917 circa

N. Y. State Woman Suffrage Party

Broadside

Title: How to vote for woman suffrage amendment, election day, November 6th, 1917

Instructs voters which box to check on the ballot in order to vote in favor ammending the New York State Constitution to allow women the right to vote.

GLC08961

1910 circa

New Jersey Woman Suffrage Association

Broadside

Title: Plain Facts for the Working Man

Encouraging working men to vote for women's suffrage. Argues that letting their wives vote will improve their own situation. States that the wife, who has so many responsibilities, can better take care of the home and the family, if she has the vote.

GLC08962

1915 circa

Woman Suffrage Party of the City of New York

Broadside

Title: Votes for Women! The Woman's Reason

List of arguments for why women should be allowed to vote, including "Because women must obey the laws just as men do, They should vote equally with men. Because women pay taxes just as men do, thus supporting the government, They should vote equally with men. Because women suffer from bad government just as men do...Because women are citizens of a government of the people, by the people, and for the people, and women are people, they should vote equally with men."

GLC08963

1943

United States. Office of War Information

Poster

Title: Ten Years Ago:/ The Nazis burned these books/ ... but free Americans can still read them

OWI Poster no. 66. Government Printing Office # O-528869. Poster in red and black tones. In the center is a black & white photograph showing a crowd of people standing next to a bonfire and giving the Nazi salute.

GLC09520.03

1944

United States. Public Health Service. Division of Nurse Education

Poster

Title: Be a cadet nurse

Image by Jon Whitcomb. NE Poster #3. Government Printing Office # O-599074. Color poster of two women in cadet nurse uniforms. The woman on the left wears a military-style uniform with blue jacket and cap. The woman on the right wears a white nurse's uniform with a nurse's cap. Both women are wearing cadet nurse shoulder patches and caduceus (medical symbol) pins. Captions below title: "For information go to your local hospital or write U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps, Box 88, New York 8, N.Y." "A lifetime education free, for high school graduates who qualify."

GLC09520.04

1942

Office of War Information, Division of Public Inquiries

Poster

Title: We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain-- : remember Dec. 7th!

Government printing Office O-491977. OWI No. 14. Quotes Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. Shows a tattered, torn U.S. flag flies at half-staff as dark smoke billows in the background. Allen Russell Saalburg (1899-1987), artist.

GLC09520.08

1943

United States. Office of War Information. Division of Public Inquiries.

Poster

Title: United/United Nations fight for freedom

OWI No. 79. Government Printing Office # O-534058. Flags of the member nations of the United Nations wave amidst smoke of a bombardment, with military airplanes, ships and tanks in background.

GLC09520.30

1918

United States Food Administration

Poster

Title: Food will win the war

Color poster by Charles E. Chambers of people standing on a boat or shoreline at New York Harbor. They appear to be European immigrants. In the foreground, a man appears to be pleading with a woman holding a basket of food. In the background can be seen part of a large ship, the Statue of Liberty, and a rainbow stretching across the New York skyline. A man waves his cap in that direction.

GLC09522

1943

Geisel, Theodor Seuss, 1904-1991

Poster

Title: Starve the squander bug/buy war bonds

WFD No. 865. Government Printing Office 16-35253-1.

GLC09524

2023

Traveling Exhibition

Title: Who Can Vote?: A Brief History of Voting Rights in the United States (Copy 1)

TE00007.01

April 1, 1906

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Typed letter signed

Title: to Quentin Roosevelt

Writes to his son regarding family matters and missing his children. Written on White House letterhead with corrections in Roosevelt's hand.

GLC01410.01.01

July 20, 1865

Ordway, K.G., fl. 1855-1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: To Orlando Kellogg

Ordway explains that the ribbon was designed for members of Congress. Instructions on how to wear the ribbon are also included. A congressional mourning ribbon (GLC 1423.01) was originally enclosed with the letter. The letter is also accompanied by an admission card for inauguration day, March 4, 1865. The card, signed by George T. Brown, admitted Kellogg and his family to the inauguration.

GLC01423.02

1869/03/22

Grant, Jesse R., 1794-1873

Letter

Title: to unknown

Written by Jesse Grant (Ulysses' father) in a shaky hand. Denying a recommendation. "I can not fully endorse Mr. Brainard as a man entitled to the president['s] confidence for judgment Integrity & veracity." [see#31. Brainard recommended a Mr. Hart for District "Attorney for the northern District of Ohio.]

GLC04360.002

January 17, 1931

Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964

Typed letter signed

Title: to unknown

Letter advocating work on behalf of under-privileged children.

GLC06649.02

1942

War Manpower Commission

Poster

Title: Americans All

US government printing office O-476311. Features men working on a tank surrounded by surnames of European origins. also features a quote by Franklin D. Roosevelt "... it is the duty of employers and labor organizers to provide for the full participation of all workers without discrimination because of race, creed, color, or national origins."

GLC09530

March 5,1802

Williams, William, 1731-1811

Autograph letter signed

Title: to unknown

GLC00148.52

Febraury 23, 1778

Hillegas, Michael, 1729-1804

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mr. French

Inquires, on behalf of a Mr. Clarkson, about the allowance available to those who sell lottery tickets for the United States lottery established to help fund the Revolutionary War. Accompanied a lottery ticket (see GLC01412.23.01).

GLC01412.23.02

October 25, 1775

Stanley, Edward H., fl. 1765-1775

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry Jelly and Stephen Watson

Recipients inferred from contents of the letter. Countersigned by William Goodwin, Mr. Norris, Henry Jelly, and Stephen Watson. Orders an account of every ship and vessel that has arrived at the port in Dover, England, from North America. Further orders the accounts to include the port from which the vessel has come, names of the master and owner(s), and any intelligence gathered. Also requests that an account be given for every vessel that is equipped from Dover to any part of North America. Written at the London Customs House.

GLC01412.63.03

August 2, 1782

Heath, William, 1737-1814

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Colonel Henry Jackson

The recipient is inferred from contenets of the letter. Informs Col. Jackson that he has just received the New York newspaper with an enclosed letter of intelligence from him. States that he will send the letter and newspaper to the Commander in Chief.

GLC01412.63.04

December 13, 1861

Blocker, Haley T., 1818-1897

Autograph letter signed

Title: to John Milton

Captain Blocker relates events of the capture of John Futch, Cicero Franklin, and L. S. Spright to Milton, Governor of Florida. States that after hearing that the prisoners were on the Island of St. George, he apprehended them at Porter's Bar, Florida (possibly located in or near Apalachicola Bay). Refers to an enclosed order (refer to GLC1430.05.01) issued by General Richard Ferdinand Floyd for their capture, based on the knowledge that they had the intent of misusing the Naval Blockade in Apalachicola, Florida. States "they have no visible means of support and are men of notorious bad…

GLC01430.05.02

July 31, 1777

Hillegas, Michael, 1729-1804

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Joseph Clarke

Transmits through the Treasury Board the Continental Loan Office certificates. Gives amounts of each and instructions on numbering them. The total of all the certificates comes to $354,000. The Continental Loan Offices administered loans to the Continental Treasury to help finance the war effort. Hillegas was the Treasurer of the United States. He signed as Continental Treasurer. Clarke was the Commissioner of the Continental Loan Office in Rhode Island.

GLC01450.008.02

November 12, 1777

Govett, William, fl. 1777

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Joseph Clarke

Signed as Auditor General. Reports that the Committee on the Treasury has requested Clarke to pay strict attention to making monthly returns to the Treasury Board for monies received from the Continental Loan Office certificates. States that several commissioners have neglected to do this and it has caused many inconveniences. The Continental Loan Offices administered loans to the Continental Treasury to help finance the war effort. Clarke was the Commissioner of the Continental Loan Office in Rhode Island.

GLC01450.008.04

December 29, 1777

Gibson, John, 1729-1782

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Joseph Clarke

Signed as Auditor General. Informs Clarke of the Resolutions of Congress of 29 December 1777 and 10 September 1777 instructing how to correctly pay the interest accrued on Continental Loan Office certificates. States that interest on certificates dated on or before 10 September 1777 must be paid in Continental Bills of Credit. Interest after that time can be paid in Continental Bills or Bills of Exchange at the option of the lender. Requests that Clarke inform the Treasury Board of the state of his office immediately. The Continental Loan Offices administered loans to the Continental…

GLC01450.008.05