1784/10

Pamphlet

Title: General Assembly. State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantation [with seal]

Printed by John Carter. Resolution welcoming Lafayette back to America. Documentation of payment to Gideon Davenport for service by people he enslaved for Rhode Island's Continental battalions (p. 12). With state seal.

GLC06077

1833/03/08

Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845

Broadside

Title: President's Address

President Jackson's second inaugural address. Printed in two columns with show-through. Printed at the New Hampshire Gazette Office. The notice at top notes when the address was received at the office by express, and also notes that Clay's Land Bill passed the Senate and House. There is a contemporary ink note on verso, which bleeds through to the front: "those that important."

GLC06096

1923/11/19

McCarter, H.C., 1893-?

Printed document signed

Title: [Treasury Department Prescription Blank - National Prohibition Act]

Prescription for Ira Altman of Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, for "Sp[iritus] Frumenti" (alcohol) issued by Dr. McCarter. Treasury Dept. US Internal Revenue B 38246 / Blank no. 57. Watermarked "Prohibition."

GLC06097

1826/04/07

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Arthur S. Brockenbough re: the University of Virginia, actions needed

Originally accompanied by a paper which was probably minutes of the meeting of the Board of Visitors but separated and acquired separately as GLC 2696. The left margin and verso have Brockenbough's notes on his response to the letter and the minutes of the board. Written in Monticello

GLC06102

1865/04/03

Newspaper

Title: Grant's Petersburg progress. [Vol. 1, no. 1 (April 3, 1865)]

First issue. Whimsical and humorous newspaper published by soldiers. Includes story about a newly imposed dog tax in Illinois.

GLC06107.05

1865/04/10

Newspaper

Title: Grant's Petersburg progress. [Vol. 1, no. 4 (April 10, 1865)]

Whimsical and humorous newspaper published by soldiers. Printing news of Gen. Lee's surrender. Includes humorous advertisement for the capture of Jefferson Davis.

GLC06107.06

1863/05/25

Newspaper

Title: Nashville weekly union. [Vol. 1, no. 30 (May 25, 1863)]

News include report of 4th Mich. Cav. defeating 1st Alabama and capturing their flag. Prints 157 regulations to be followed under martial law. Ink inscription "G.W.C." Later graphite inscription "My uncle Geo. W. Clark."

GLC06107.07

1864/01/04

Tillotson, George W., 1830-1918

Newspaper

Title: Nashville weekly union. [Vol. 2, no. 62 (January 4, 1864)]

Articles discuss black soldiers, slavery as the cause of the war, Lincoln's amnesty proclamation and the plight of rebel prisoners freezing to death in Northern prison camps.

GLC06107.08

1862/01/07

Newspaper

Title: Camp kettle. [Vol. 1, no. 9 (January 7, 1862)]

Regimental newspaper produced by the members of the "Roundhead Regiment of the 100th Pennsylvania Vol."

GLC06107.16

1865/04/17

Newspaper

Title: Richmond whig. [Vol. 1, no. 12 (April 17, 1865)]

Announcement of the assassination of President Lincoln on page four. Also includes a front page article entitled "feeling of the people of the north toward the south." The Whig was the first newspaper in the South to print the news of the assassination. The paper is uncut.

GLC06107.27

1865/04/21

Newspaper

Title: Richmond whig. [Vol. 1, no. 16 (April 21, 1865)]

Inlcudes news on the raising of the flag at Fort Sumter and surrender of Gen. Johnston in North Carolina. Also contains news concerning the arrest of the Lincoln assassination conspirators. Prints a letter from Edwin Booth concerning the assassination. An inscription on the upper right-hand corner of the first page reads Maj. L.H. Warren Comndr. 38th U.S. Inft C'ald."

GLC06107.28

1862/09/26

W.L. Garrison & I. Knapp (publishers), 1831-1865

Newspaper

Title: Liberator. [Vol. 32, no. 39 (September 26, 1862)]

Prints Lincoln's first Emancipation Proclamation. Said to be the first printing of the proclamation in an abolitionist newspaper. Headline reads "Proclamation of Emancipation - Freedom of the Slaves in Rebellious States on the First Day of January." Peninsula campaign, the draft and contrabands. Inscription "J. Cullanan Jr."

GLC06107.48

1875 ca.

Goff, O.S., fl. 1875

Photograph

Title: Fort Lincoln, Dakota Territory

Cabinet card photograph by O. S. Goff. View of Fort taken from adjacent hill. Inscription on verso: "Fort Lincoln. Dakota Territory. It was from Fort Abraham Lincoln on May 17, 1876 that the fateful Yellowstone Expedition under command of General Alfred H. Terry, the Department Commander, marched out to the music of "Garry Owen" played by the band of the 7th Cavalry. Gen. Terry's headquarters were at that time at St. Paul, Minn."

GLC06185

1870 ca.

Photograph

Title: Frederick Douglass

With printed title "Fred[.] Douglass." on front, and gold printed border (where the photograph would normally be placed) on verso. Dark, rich image. No imprint. This image was used by the engraver Ritchie for a silhouette bust portrait of Douglass (see collateral to GLC 2474).

GLC06198

1777/10

Burgoyne, John, 1722-1792

Broadside

Title: Burgoyne's Lamentations. [Sarcastic pro-American poem re: defeat at Saratoga]

Broadside poem printed in two columes of type; poem beginning "Good heav'ns! The poem praises Gates, Stark, Arnold and Lincoln. It is written as if Burgoyne were narrating events surrounding his defeat at Saratoga. Compare to similar copy in Kingston-Burgoyne papers, GLC 4764, "Burgoyne's Lament" printed at Boston.

GLC06206

1865 ca.

Bell, Charles Milton, 1848-1893

Photograph

Title: [Mary E. Walker]

Carte de visite as assistant surgeon in the Union Army, wearing medal of honor. With blue 2-cent playing card stamp on verso. Date inferred from date of her award which was late 1865. See also GLC05152, Cabinet card by Bell.

GLC06209

1857/07/25

McLean, John, 1785-1861

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Lewis Cass

Expresses his hopes that Robert Walker, the territorial governor of Kansas, would not use military force against the pro-slavery people of Lawrence, Kansas, and reflects on James Madison's wise refusal to send a military force to the Hartford Convention during the War of 1812. Insists that "One decision of a court will overturn all that [Kansas slavery advocates] could do," and cites the demise of the New Court party in Kentucky. Lewis Cass was then vice-president. McLean was a supreme court justice. Letter shows docketing in Cass's hand.

GLC06211

1850/09/30

Clay, Henry, 1777-1852

Document signed

Title: Colonization society membership certificate for Millard Fillmore [slavery]

Certificate countersigned by William McLain. Certificate made out to Fillmore as President of the US. Damaged, with slight loss of paper at top center.

GLC06216

1864 ca.

Brooks & Blauvelt (photographer)

Photograph

Title: [Guard of colored soldiers at parade rest]

Black soldiers, Union forces occupying last Confederate fort on Mississippi River. Imprint of Brooks & Blauvelt, Port Hudson

GLC06217

1811/05/27

Hadden, David, fl. 1811

Autograph letter signed

Title: to George Hadden & Co

Describes battle between the American frigate President and the larger British frigate Little Belt. Notes that "The British frigates on this coast are behaving shamefully, as they come to press men out[.]" Also discusses his business travel and giving a letter of introduction to another businessman named Mr. Croskry. Addressed to Hadden in London.

GLC06231

1799/01/15

Pamphlet

Title: Report of the inspectors of the state-prison [New York prison reform]

Printed by Loring Andrews.

GLC06232.06

February 7, 1950

Burke, Arleigh, fl. 1950

Typed letter signed

Title: to Rev. Cornelius Greenway

Responding to Greenway's request for a signed photograph (not included) and commenting that the only way to world peace is through "the establishment of a real Christian philosophy in our own country, as well as other countries of the world."

GLC05508.055

1863/11/16

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Document signed

Title: Authority to affix the seal to letter to Pope Pius IX [credence for Rufus King]

Rufus King's credence as ambassador to the Holy See.

GLC05526

22 November [1880]

Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889

Letter

Title: to Nahum Capen

Written and signed by Varina Davis, for her husband. Discusses the founding and failure of the "first Confederacy" and the "dispersion of His chosen people." Davis argues that if their example had been followed, perhaps there would not have been a Civil War. He hopes that the Union can be returned to its founding principles but fears the nation has become "an example to be avoided not followed." Davis then questions the presidential candidacy of James A. Garfield, citing that he is charged with "an offence, an indictment for which could only be successfully answered by pleading the Statue…

GLC05508.083

February 7, 1944

Graham, Martha, 1894-1991

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Kit

Graham discusses her feelings and perceptions about a party attended in Kit's honor and the way Kit has touched so many people. She also discusses her belief in "a Great Source," or living energy, from which one can draw strength and power.

GLC05508.114