1909, 1950

Meserve, Frederick H., 1865-1962

Header Record

Title: Federick Hill Meserve booklets of Photographs of Lincoln and contemporaries

32 photographs in two publishing dummies. One is a publishing dummy for "Life and Portraits of Abraham Lincoln and Some of his Contemporaries" (for the Quill Club 2/12/1909), a publishing dummy in black wrappers, containing 20 photographs (adhered). The other is a booklet "Abraham Lincoln" (made for Meserve's daughter and editor Dorothy Meserve Kunhardt, 1950) with 12 photographs inserted by their corners into the leaves. Both booklets are signed by Meserve.

GLC08548

1865/04/22

Matsell, George Washington, 1811-1877

Newspaper

Title: National police gazette. [Vol. 20, no. 1025 (April 22, 1865)]

Includes six large front page sketches relaying various scenes of Lincoln's assasination, Seward's attempted assassination and portrait of John Wilkes Booth. Has bold black borders around news columns symbolizing the mourning of Lincoln's death. A full account of Lincoln's assassintion and the events immediately surrounding the assassination is given. Some topics include Laura Keene's encounter with Wilkes Booth, a porter's description and account of the attempted assassination of Secretary Seward, and testimony of Clara Harris. Article on Mrs. Electa Porter, an abortionist whose patient…

GLC08560

1815/06/26

Dallas, Alexander James, 1759-1817

Document signed

Title: The Collector of the Customs Marblehead

Printed circular letter from the Treasury Department, signed by Alexander Dallas. Lists the acts and notices involving the payment of interest on Treasury Notes.

GLC08568

1813/01/28

Madison, James, 1751-1836

Broadside

Title: Commission of the Brig "Grand Turk" (clerical copy)

Copy signed for Madison and Monroe by a clerk. Two bust engravings of James Madison included as collateral.

GLC08570

1861 ca.

Header Record

Title: Six Civil War patriotic covers

GLC08482

1861 ca.

Header Record

Title: Three Civil War patriotic covers: Lincoln & cabinet, Scott & McClellan

GLC08484

1861 ca.

Brady, Mathew B., 1823-1896

Photograph

Title: Carte de visite of Jefferson Davis, standing (republished Anthony from Brady)

Half-length portrait of Jefferson Davis posed standing.

GLC08485

1861/11/23

Cowley, S. A., fl. 1861

Autograph letter signed

Title: Confederate soldier's letter on patriotic stationery

Transcript available. On color printed Confederate flag letterhead, "No foe shall conquer Dixie."

GLC08490

1862/06/11

Newspaper

Title: Christian banner. [Vol. I, no. 6 (June 11, 1862)]

Pro-slavery newspaper, vol. 1 no. 6. Misdated June 11 but actually 14th, as noted inside newspaper. Anti-secessionist newspaper speaks of disloyal slaves now fighting against the survival of Virginia. There are also articles that argue that in fighting the federal government, Virginia is loosing slavery without compensation. Lists predictions of what will happen if secession fighting continues.

GLC08493

1860 circa

Object

Title: Lincoln and Hamlin election 1860 campaign tokens [Decimalized .01-.02]

GLC08499

1862 ca.

Autograph letter signed

Title: Letter from union soldier including 11th Massachusetts Regt. Patriotic cover with battle of Williamsburg, Va

GLC08502

1834/06/10

Thayer, Elisha, 1785-1860

Letter signed

Title: to Isaac Hill

Regrets that almost all the mail received in the town has been anti-Jackson, and that much of the town is against the President.

GLC08505

1862 ca.

Photograph

Title: [Salt print portrait of Montgomery Dent Corse]

Medium large oval format photograph. Depicts Dent as three-star General. Verso shows same image, but with ink added to his facial features.

GLC08512

1864/12/05

Newspaper

Title: Daily dispatch. [Vol. 27, no. 134 (December 5, 1864)]

GLC08516.03

1864 ca.

Brady, Mathew B., 1823-1896

Photograph

Title: [Carte de visite of John Adolph Dahlgren]

Admiral Dahlgren poses standing next to a cannon.

GLC08518

1865 ca.

Brady, Mathew B., 1823-1896

Photograph

Title: Carte de visite portrait of John Wilkes Booth

Possibly from a Brady negative.

GLC08521

1865 ca.

Monumental Photo Corporation

Photograph

Title: Carte de visite of J. E. B. Stuart

Postwar printing in Confederate uniform.

GLC08538

1791/03/02

Fenno, John, 1751-1798

Newspaper

Title: Gazette of the United States. [Vol. 2, no. 88 (March 2, 1791)]

"An Act to incorporate the Subscribers to the Bank of the United States" is reprinted on the front page. So is "An Act Regulating the number of Representatives to be chosen by the States of Kentucky and Vermont." The first act established the First Bank of the United States, and lists the rules pertaining to the bank. The second act states that, for the moment, both states will receive two representatives in congress.

GLC08552

1863/11, 1884 ca.

Davis, fl. 1884-1930

Photograph

Title: An Old Historical group. Lincoln and his Secretaries

Cabinet card of Abraham Lincoln sitting with John Nicolay and John Hay. Copyright 1884 by Dennis Williams, Crayon Artist, Springfield, Ill. Imprint of Davis of Beardstown, Ill. Republication of the 11/8/1863 photograph by Gardner. Ostendorf O-76.

GLC08565

1824/03/12

Cartwright, John, fl. 1824

Autograph letter signed

Title: to John Q. Adams re: requesting books be sent to American leaders

Addressed to John Adams Secretary of the American Legation, but really John Quincy. Requests books for Jefferson, Adams (Senior), Monroe, Harvard University and the University of Virginia.

GLC08566

1865/05/13

Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872

Newspaper

Title: New-York daily tribune. [Vol. 25, no. 7520 (May 13, 1865)]

Reports that news reporters are once again not allowed to enter the courtroom during the Lincoln conspiracy trial. Also includes a previously unpublished letter written by President Lincoln regarding Mr. Thomas Durant and the secession of Louisiana. The letter was written by Lincoln in Washington, D.C. and is dated July 28, 1862. Reports on the grand review of Sherman's troops in Washington.

GLC08726.32

1847/12/10

Newspaper

Title: Congressional Globe. [December 10, 1847]

listing 13th Congress, including Lincoln

GLC08746

1865/07/22

Harper, James, 1795-1869

Newspaper

Title: Harper's weekly. [Vol. 9, no. 447 (July 22, 1865)]

Includes engravings of the execution of Lincoln conspirators, portraits of Lewis Payne, David Harold, J.W. Atzerodt, and Mary Surratt, and image of Surratt's home in Washington, D.C. Highlights the consecration of the Gettysburg monument of July 4, 1865. Inlcudes engravings of Major-General Howard, the Gettysburg battlefield, and laying of the cornerstone. All the Gettysburg monument and execution engravings are based on Alexander Gardner's photographs.

GLC08748.04

1790/03/10

Fenno, John, 1751-1798

Newspaper

Title: Gazette of the United States. [No. 95 (March 10, 1790)]

First printing of the Census Act signed in type by Washington (p. 1), debate on payment of securities (p. 2-3), and letter signed Rusticus on abolition of slavery and colonization and Quakers (p. 4).

GLC08760

1789/12/05

Fenno, John, 1751-1798

Newspaper

Title: Gazette of the United States. [No. LXVIII (December 5, 1789)]

Reports on the French Revolution (dated 7 October 1789) and North Carolina's ratification of the Constitution. Also contains articles on a severe fire in Philadelphia, news from Europe, congratulations for George Washington on becoming president and his response, and news of senate proceedings.

GLC08761