1776/11/11

Wharton, Thomas, Jr., fl. 1776

Document signed

Title: Warning inhabitants that Howe is turning troops towards Philadelphia

4-line autograph addendum apparenly in Wharon's hand.

GLC04532

1807/12/22

Gallatin, Albert, 1761-1849

Printed letter signed

Title: [Announcement of the passage of the Embargo Act to port collectors]

Circular letter addressed to the Collector of the port of Penobscot. The act forbade all exports between the United States and foreign countries, and precipitated the War of 1812. Gallatin was then secretary of the treasury. Signed in type, "Approved : TH: JEFFERSON".

GLC04539

1781/12/12

Washington, George, 1732-1799

Letter signed

Title: to Moses Rawlings re: moving British POW's to Lancaster & Philadelphia

Washington also mentions allowing foreigners to stay in frontier towns.

GLC04566

1812/06/26

Monroe, James, 1758-1831

Printed document signed

Title: An Act concerning Letters of Marque, Prizes & Prize Goods.

Copy of the act along with "Instructions for the Private Armed Vessels of the United States," in this case, issued to privateer Captain George Taylor of the ship Amiable. Issued one week after the declaration of war in the War of 1812. Signed by Monroe as secretary of state.

GLC04616

1864/10/22

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Autograph note signed

Title: to Edwin M. Stanton re: allowing a soldier to apply for leave to go home to vote

In full; "Sec of War please give this man the proper directions to apply for leave to go home to vote. Oct. 22, 1864. A. Lincoln." (Election of 1864.)

GLC04618

1847/03/06

Polk, James K. (James Knox), 1795-1849

Document signed

Title: [Commission of Thomas A. Brady as first lieutenant in Marine Corps]

This document is a record of the commission of Thomas A. Brady as first lieutenant in the Marine Corps. Signed by JAmes K. Polk as President and countersigned by J. Mason as Secretary of the Navy. The document is set with engravings t the top and bottom of the page and accompanied by a paper seal on the bottom. Docketed on recto by L. B. Hardin. Attached to previously bound page with tape.

GLC04619.04

1849/07/14

Taylor, Zachary, 1784-1850

Document signed

Title: [Commission of Amon Woodard as Lt. Col. of 1st Regt, Militia in Dist. of Columbia]

This document is a record of the Commission of Amon Woodward as Lieutenant Colonel of 1st Regiment, Militia in the District of Columbia. Signed by Zachary Taylor as President. Docketed on recto by Adjutant General. Accompanied by paper seal.

GLC04619.05

1808/11/15

Gallatin, Albert, 1761-1849

Printed letter signed

Title: [Instructions on Embargo Act enforcement sent to the port collector of Marblehead, Massachusetts]

Circular from Secretary of the Treasury Gallatin instructing port collectors on how to enforce the Embargo Act of 1807 by regulating the lading of ships.

GLC04621

1831/06/04

Clay, Henry, 1777-1852

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Stephen Van Rensselaer

Writes, "It was a weak measure to discharge the old cabinet, distrusted and incompetent as it was. And not much will be gained by the new one." Asks Van Rensselaer how things go in New York, and want to know, will those "opposed to this administration unite in pulling it down?" Jackson's first cabinet was broken up due to the Petticoat Affair, a sex scandal involving members of the cabinet. Clay was Jackson's chief political rival

GLC04623.01

1852/03/18

Clay, Henry, 1777-1852

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Anne Lynch

Writes concerning the recent loss of a gold medal bearing Clay's likeness that had been presented to him by the Clay Association of New York City. Lynch had taken the medal to Daniel Ullmann, chairman of the association, for some "slight improvements," when it was taken from her carriage. Assures Lynch that she is not to blame, and is confident that history will remember that he received the medal, even if he no longer has it. Another copy of the medal was soon cast, and in 1867 the stolen original was found in Switzerland.

GLC04623.03

1861/01/13

Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Francis W. Pickens re: prophesy of a Civil War; secession

Prophesizes that the South is "probably soon to be involved in that fiercest of human strifes, a Civil War," and discusses secession and withdrawal of southerners from the U.S. Congress.

GLC04624

1807/06/10

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Horatio Turpin re: personal law of conduct prohibiting appointing a relative

Writing that he could not appoint a deserving relative, with the comment: "the field of public office will not be perverted by me." The document has been lined previously with Japanese tissue paper.

GLC04627

1861/01/17

Houston, Sam, 1793-1863

Manuscript document signed

Title: Pardon-related: remission of fine against bootlegger killed by Comanche Indians

GLC04533

1918/05/09

Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964

Typed document signed

Title: [Acknowledging America's debt to Italy for help in World War I]

On the third anniversary of Italy's entrance into World War I, Hoover, who was then the U.S. Food Administrator under President Wilson, acknowledges "our indebtedness to the country to which we are bound, not only by ties historical, but also by the common ideals which now unite us."

GLC04569

1859, 1864

Flinn, John William, fl. 1863-1893

Autograph manuscript

Title: [Bible given to Flinn at Point Lookout, Maryland]

A fellow inmate at Point Lookout gave this Bible to Flinn. Contains two inscriptions recording the gift: "C. R. Myers to J. W. Flinn Prison Camp 1864" and "From C. R. Myers to J. W. Flinn Prison Camp Point Lookout Maryland 1864."

GLC04573.15

1861 March

Charles D. Fredricks & Co., fl. 1865

Photograph

Title: Carte de visite portrait by C.D. Fredericks & Co. [O-55]

Ostendorf pp. 88-89 dates this somewhat unattractive portrait March-June 1861. This image, published by Fredericks, appears to be a variant of O-55. (See also GLB 477, a retouched variant of this same negative.)

GLC04584

1865/01/28

Wallace, Oliver V., fl. 1850-1865

Newspaper

Title: Soldier's letter. Second Colorado cavalry. [Vol. 1, no. 13 (January 28, 1865)]

GLC04587

1870 ca.

Anderson & Co.

Photograph

Title: [United States Cavalryman Sergeant Bates with Pawnee and Sioux Indians]

Shows Bates standing amongst a group of chiefs of the two tribes. Several are wearing peace medals. Printed at bottom of backer board are the names of the Head Chiefs of the Pawnee Nation: Eagle Chief, Knife Chief, Brave Chief, and Young Chief. Also printed are the Head Chiefs of the Sioux Nation: American Horse, Rockey Bear, Long Wolf, and Flies Above. Stamped on back, "Anderson, Photographer, 785 Broadway, cor. of 10th, New York."

GLC04590

1869 August

Photograph

Title: [Photograph of Robert E. Lee and his former staff]

Photograph of Robert E. Lee and those than once served on his staff. Standing left to right in the back row are: Brigadier General James Connor, Brigadier General Martin W. Gary, Major General John Bankhead Magruder, Brigadier General Robert D. Lilley, General P. G. T. Beauregard, Brigadier General A. R. Lawton, Brigadier General Henry A. Wise and Brigadier General Joseph L. Brent. Seated in the front row, left to right are: Turkish Envoy Blacque Bey, Lee himself, philanthropist George Peabody, philanthropist W.W. Corcoran and James Lyons, Esquire.

GLC04595

1865 ca.

Brady, Mathew B., 1823-1896

Photograph

Title: Album of 200 cartes de visite, most by Brady. [word processed inventory available]

Album with "A.A." initials embossed on front knob. Includes images of Lincoln, Mary Lincoln (2), Lincoln's Cabinet, generals, writers, emancipated people, prisoners of war, Confederate leaders, etc. Lacks one clasp. Due to album's fragility, pages removed from album 6/97 and boxed as album pages. 50 pages with four cartes per page, most labeled in a contemporary hand (and sometimes humorously, as in Jefferson Davis). Another copy of the New Orleans freed slaves is in GLB 75.

GLC04609

[1864 ca.]

Header Record

Title: Photographs of Atlanta and environs during occupation by Federal Troops

Unmounted photographs of Atlanta, Kennesaw, Resaca and environs during Union occupation in the Fall of 1864. Nos. 1 and 2 are a composite photograph of Kennesaw Mountain, taken shortly after the battle (illustrated in Voices of the Civil War: Atlanta, Time-Life, 1996, pp. 74-75).

GLC04610

1902/08/14

Buffington, Thomas Mitchell, 1855-1938

Typed letter signed

Title: to Theodore Roosevelt re: urging sale of buildings to benefit Cherokee Indians

Buffington writes the President to urge approval of an act to allow sale of buildings at Fort Gibson, owned by the Cherokee Nation, but occupied by various people. Was written while it was Cherokee Nation Territory.

GLC04612

1881/05/03

Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Victor Navarub re: letter of recommendation, exchanges with Mexico must grow

GLC04617

1812/09/02

Harrison, William Henry, 1773-1841

Endorsement signed

Title: to John Lyon

This document is a debit report to John Lyon from William Henry Harrison. James Taylor will be the agent to pay Lyon. The report is for the costs of furnishing a detatchment of Kentucky militia, under General WIlliam Henry Harrison's command, with various tools and supplies. Measurements of actual document are 25 x 20 cm. Docketed on verso.

GLC04619.03

1849/08

Clay, Henry, 1777-1852

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Anne C. Lynch

Thanks Lynch for a signed collection of her poems that she sent as a gift. Written at the Allanlee House.

GLC04623.02