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1864 ca.

E. & H.T. Anthony (Firm)

Photograph signed

Title: Carte de visite of Ulysses S. Grant

GLC00919.02

1865 ca.

Benham, Henry Washington, 1813-18884

Photograph signed

Title: Carte de visite by Charles D. Fredricks & Co.

GLC00919.06

1865 ca.

Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891

Photograph

Title: Brady carte de visite

GLC00919.20

1865 ca.

Meade, George Gordon, 1815-1872

Photograph signed

Title: E & H.T. Anthony Carte de visite

GLC00919.03

1865 ca.

Hancock, Winfield Scott, 1824-1886

Photograph signed

Title: E & H.T. Anthony Carte de visite

GLC00919.04

1865 ca.

Warren, Gouverner K., 1830-1882

Photograph signed

Title: Carte de visite

GLC00919.05

1865 ca.

Photograph

Title: Benjamin Franklin Butler carte de visite, in uniform

GLC00919.19

1865 ca.

Slocum, Henry Warner, 1826-1894

Photograph

Title: E & H.T. Anthony carte de visite in uniform

GLC00919.21

1763? ca.

Shepherd, Andrew, fl. 1763

Document

Title: Statement of Andrew Shepherd, re: land sales

Statement written in the hand of Edmund Pendleton, undated, probably 1763.

GLC00099.008

1768 ca.

Pendleton, Edmund, 1721-1803

Autograph endorsement signed

Title: Note concerning the office of Sheriff

Pendleton's note giving his opinion on a document (written in an unknown hand) concerning the office of Sheriff and one Major Burnley, undated.

GLC00099.015

1765?

Madison, James, 1723-1801

Manuscript

Title: Manuscript memorandum, re: land matters

Unsigned. Four notes written on a quarter-sheet of paper. Manuscript memorandum, probably by James Madison, Sr., undated but probably ca. 1765, concerning: 1) Madison getting a deed from Jason Edmondson, 2) land for Reubon Roach, and 3) Mrs. Todd on land lease.

GLC00099.024

1860 ca.

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Header Record

Title: Abraham Lincoln cartes-de-visite (2)

.1= Portrait: "Abe Lincoln/Honest Long Cut Chewing and Smoking/ W. Duke Son & co., NY. .2= President and Cabinet (ca. 1862, not after 1863).

GLC00732

1876, 1890

Hancock, Winfield Scott, 1824-1886

Header Record

Title: Collection of 3 legal documents with W.S. Hancock photograph [decimalized]

GLC00733

1865 ca.

Colfax, Schuyler, 1823-1885

Photograph signed

Title: Carte de visite of Schuyler Colfax, signed

Published by Anthony from the Brady negative. Nearly full-length standing portrait . (Autograph also available in GLC 4224, autograph album.)

GLC00736

1791 ca.

Pendleton, Edmund, 1721-1803

Autograph manuscript

Title: Legal brief in the case of Jones v. Walker

Legal brief in the suit of Jones, surviving partner of Farrell and Jones, of Great Britain, against Thomas Walker, Defendant, in debt on bond before the Federal Circuit Court, Richmond, Va. Entirely in the hand of Edmund Pendleton. Probably 1791. One of the greatest post-war problems in Virginia was the settlement of pre-war debts with English merchants, required by the Treaty of Peace, but virtually impossible in the inflation-ridden, cash poor economy of post-war Virginia. These problems were complicated by the British war depredations there. Pendleton frequently raised this issue…

GLC00099.147

1848 ca.

Header Record

Title: [Mexican War letter and map] [Decimalized]

GLC00155

[1791]

Randolph, Edmund, 1753-1813

Pamphlet

Title: Report of the Attorney-General. Read in the House of Representatives,

A2-H2 I2(-I2) ($1 signed). Submitted by Edmund Randolph as Attorney General on the U.S. judicial system and revising the Judiciary Act of 1789. Randolph was helped in drafting this report by Justice James Wilson. Sabin 67816. Evans 23909

GLC01035

[1790]

Hamilton, Alexander, 1757-1804

Pamphlet

Title: The Secretary of the Treasury [...], relatively to [...] a Mint

A-E2 F2(-F2) ($1 signed). Regarding establishment of a Mint. Submitted by Hamilton as Secretary of Treasury as an appendix to his report on the Public Credit. Evans 23920.

GLC01036

1865 ca.

Photograph signed

Title: Cabinet photograph of Andrew Johnson, signed on mount

Background and clothing have been painted. Seated portrait.

GLC00763

1864/11/17

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Document signed

Title: Document re: purchase of cotton from Augustus Wright by agent Hanson Risley

Signed by Lincoln on page 3; countersigned by Hanson A. Risley as special agent and by Green Adams as government purchasing agent. "I, Hanson A. Risley, Agent for the purchase of products of insurrectionary States, on behalf of the Government of the United States ... do hereby certify that I have agreed to purchase from Augustus R. Wright of the State of Georgia, Five Hundred Bales of Cotton, more or less, deposited and stored at or near Rome... I therefore request safe conduct for the said Augustus R. Wright and his means of transportation and said Cotton from Rome, Georgia, within the lines…

GLC02691.04

1889/01/14

Sherman, John, 1823-1900

Autograph letter signed

Title: to M. A. Wright re: possibility of appointing southerners to Benjamin Harrison's cabinet

On Senate stationery. Senator Sherman does not feel at liberty "to advise Gen Harrison as to his cabinet," but hopes he will include some Southerners. John Sherman (1823-1900), William Tecumseh's brother was a prominent US Senator from Ohio (1861-1877). He also served as Secretary of the Treasury (1877-1881) and Secretary of State (1890-1898). Sherman writes: "Your letter is received enclosing that of Governor Brown, which I now return to you…I do not feel at liberty to advise Gen Harrison as to his Cabinet unless he should desire my opinion. I have hopes that he would select one or two…

GLC02691.10

1822/03/06

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Autograph letter signed

Title: to James Monroe re: correspondence with Jedediah Morse

Written to President Monroe and docketed by him. Jefferson asks Monroe to consider his letter to Morse and forward or suppress it. Morse wanted to establish a Society for the improvement of Indians, which Jefferson did not approve. Written in Monticello

GLC02708

1870/05/20

Parker, Ely S., 1828-1895

Letter signed

Title: to Gen. William B. Hazen

Circular letter from the Office of Indian Affairs, signed as Commissioner of Indian Affairs. Parker wants Indians living on reservations to be counted for the ninth census, as does Francis A. Walker. The Office of Indian Affairs is to be responsible for the counting.

GLC02731