1789/08/10

Washington, George, 1732-1799

Letter signed

Title: to Samuel Huntington re: forwarding act of Congress (not present) on state debts

GLC04467

1798/07/16

Adams, John, 1735-1826

Letter signed

Title: To: John Rutherford.

Call to convene Senate to receive communication (Quasi-War)-Washington's acceptance of command in the event of war with France.

GLC04468

1808/01/21

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Autograph letter signed

Title: to J. Dorsey re: progress in manufactures, system of weights & measures, decimal

GLC04491

1861/12/13

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Autograph endorsement signed

Title: [Recommendation of his boyhood friend George May for judge].

Lincoln writes "I knew George May as a boy, and young man, then a little inclined to dissipation -- If free from that now, he has intellect enough for almost any place..." Basler, Roy P. The Collected Works Of Abraham Lincoln. (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1953), Vol. V 1861 - 1862, p. 68

GLC04500

1812/06/17

Adams, John, 1735-1826

Autograph letter signed

Title: To: Samuel B. Malcom.

Politics, party & family feuds.

GLC04524

1826/06/24

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Broadside

Title: Jefferson's last letter to Mayor of Washington [small broadside on silk]

A printing of Jefferson's famous letter to the mayor of Washington, D.C., declining an invitation to a Fourth of July celebration. Jefferson hopes the Declaration to be a "signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance and superstition had persuaded them to bind themselves, and to assume the blessing of self government." Jefferson died on July 4. Only 3 other copies. Printed on silk.

GLC04525

1945 July/August

United States. Army. Signal Corps.

Photograph

Title: [Harry Truman, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin at Potsdam]

Signed by Harry Truman and Winston Churchill. Shows "the Big Three" at the Potsdam Conference in Germany. Includes stamp on verso.

GLC04457

1930-1940 ca.

Photograph signed

Title: [Group portrait of Roosevelt family at Campobello Island]

Signed by Franklin D. Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt, and their son, James Roosevelt. 14 other men are pictured with the family on a beach.

GLC04458

1861/03/31

Anderson, Robert, 1805-1871

Letter signed

Title: to Lorenzo Thomas re: no work done, supplies nearly exhausted

GLC04461.01

1888/01/18

Doubleday, Abner, 1819-1893

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Isaac N. Roland re: Fort Sumter, "I aimed the first gun there"

Writes Roland that he has no time for a detailed answer to his question. He notes that there were 60 regular soldiers at Fort Sumter and that "I aimed the first gun there."

GLC04461.03

1892/04/25

Gibbes, William H., fl. 1892

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Isaac N. Roland re: an article on Fort Sumter, no bloodshed there, perception

Written on stationery of W. H. Gibbs, Jr. & Company. Gibbes writes about Fort Sumter, how the first battle of the Civil War saw no bloodshed and mentions the fear common among Charleston women and children "that all the 'mans' would be killed."

GLC04461.04

1859 ca.

Platt, A.C., 1828-1884

Photograph

Title: Sepia head and shoulders image of John Brown, with lock of hair

GLC04463.02

1920/04/29

Coolidge, Calvin, 1872-1933

Typed letter signed

Title: to Otto A. Rosalsky re: as Gov. of Mass., urging leniency for Bernard Manning

Written as Governor of Massachusetts (on stationery) to Judge Rosalsky, asking leniency for Bernard Manning of Northampton, his hometown. He attests to the character of Manning's family and asserts that "[i]t appears to me simply a case of a country boy going to a large city and ignoring the restraints of home life and giving himself over to the propensities of youth than the exhibition of criminal intent."

GLC04476

1869/05/10

Russell, Andrew J., 1829-1902

Header Record

Title: The Joining of the rails [six albumen photographs of railroad] [decimalized]

GLC04481

1869/05/10

Russell, Andrew J., 1829-1902

Photograph

Title: Joining of the rails at Promontory Point [Russell #227]

GLC04481.01

1861/02/01

Texas

Broadside

Title: An Ordinance to dissolve the Union between the state of Texas...

Addressed to James Loving on verso. With collateral tintype of unidentified man.

GLC04482

1860/12/20

South Carolina

Broadside

Title: An ordinance to dissolve the Union between the State of South Carolina....

Dated 1860, but printed 1861.

GLC04483

1774/10/20

United States. Continental Congress.

Broadside

Title: The Association Agreed with the Grand American Congress... [non-importation]

One of 3 known copies

GLC04489

[1862-1865]

Stephens, Asbury, fl. 1862-1865

Header Record

Title: Six manuscript maps of the Atlanta campaign, with ALS 5/7/1865

6 maps with 1 ALS: 1) Route of March of 2nd Division [Chattanooga to Atlanta; shows Andersonville on path] (cloth map); 2) Position of 2d Div.... July 22d 1864 near Atlanta, Ga. (small paper map); 3) [Skirmish at Eastpoint, Ga., July 27, 1864] (small paper map); 4) Plan of Rome... Georgia... Oct 8th 1864 (small paper map); 5) Position of the Fourth Division... at Ogeechee River Ga. (small paper map); 6) Position of the 4th Div.... before Columbia, S.C. Feby 16 and 17 1865; 7) Asbury Stephens ALS Petersburg, Va. 5/7/1865 2 p.

GLC04498

1865 ca.

Photograph

Title: [William T. Sherman]

Carte de visite vignette bust portrait of William T. Sherman in uniform. Inscribed by Ulysses S. Grant on verso, and given to Edwin Stanton.

GLC04504.02

1865 ca.

Photograph

Title: [James B. McPherson]

Carte de visite vignette bust portrait of James B. McPherson in uniform. Inscribed by Ulysses S. Grant, and given to Edwin Stanton.

GLC04504.03

1863 ca.

Header Record

Title: Carte de visites of men of Co. M 7th Iowa cavalry who fought against the Sioux [word processed inventory available]

Many of the men's cartes have been signed or otherwise identified. Almost all the men are in uniform. Most come from the Sioux City studio of Gurnsey.

GLC04506

1865 ca.

Header Record

Title: Cartes of Fort Sumter & Charleston after capture, photographed by Osborne [word processed inventory available]

Pictures taken by Osborne shortly after the capture of Sumter. Album housed separately.

GLC04509

1865/03/17

Lee, Robert E., 1807-1870

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Richard Taylor

GLC04517

1865/05/09

Wilson, James Harrison, 1837-1925

Broadside

Title: [Lincoln assassination reward]

Reprinting the orders of Gen. James H. Wilson seeking the arrest of Jefferson Davis, Clement Clay, Jacob Thompson, George N. Saunders, Beverly Tucker and William C. Cleary. Lists the rewards for the capture of each person as follows: Davis, Clay, and Thompson, $100,000 each, Saunders and Tucker, $25,000, and Cleary, $10,000.

GLC04527