1862

Child, Lydia Maria Francis, 1802-1880

Book

Title: The right way the safe way, proved by emancipation in the British West Indies, and elsewhere.

Regarding emancipation, Child writes, "Leaving the obvious considerations of justice and humanity entirely out of the question, I ask whether experience has not proved it to be a measure of plain, practical good sense, and sound policy... Free labor has so obviously the advantage, in all respects, over slave labor, that posterity will marvel to find in the history of the nineteenth century any record of a system so barbarous, so clumsy, and so wasteful." Third edition, bound with string, which is broken.

GLC06219

1860

Dall, Caroline H., fl. 1860

Book

Title: "Woman's right to labor," or, Low wages and hard work : in three lectures, delivered in Boston, November, 1859.

First edition. Published by Walker, Wise and Company.

GLC06220

1855

Fuller, Margaret, fl. 1855

Book

Title: Woman in the nineteenth century, and kindred papers relating to the sphere, condition and duties of woman

Edited by her brother, Arthur B. Fuller. Introduction by Horace Greeley.

GLC06221

1919

Goldman, Emma, 1869-1940

Pamphlet

Title: Deportation, its meaning and menace; last message to the people of America.

Written by Berkman and Emma Goldman. After the author statement, the title continues: "Ellis Island, New York, U.S.A., December 1919." Colophon reads: "Ten cents a copy. Order from M. E. Fitzgerald, 857 Broadway, New York City."

GLC06222

1924

Levine, Louis, fl. 1924

Book

Title: The Women's garment workers: A History of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union.

First edition with half-tone photographs and appendices. Published by B. W. Huebsch.

GLC06224

1911

Rumshisky, Joseph, 1881-1956, Schorr, Anshel, 1871-1942

Sheet music

Title: "Mamenu" or The Triangle Victims (in Yiddish).

Song lamenting the deaths caused in the Triangle Shirtwaist Company Factory fire in 1911. Sung by H.J. Ginsburg

GLC06225

1883

Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice, 1820-1905

Book signed

Title: What shall we do with our daughters? Superfluous women, and other lectures.

A work that discusses the education of women. First edition. Inscribed on front flyleaf.

GLC06226

1914

Sanger, Margaret, 1879-1966

Pamphlet

Title: Family Limitation

An illustrated leaflet on birth control. No publisher indicated. The instructions and illustrations (diagrams) describe various birth control methods and abortion.

GLC06227

1851-1854

Book signed

Title: [The Proceedings of the woman's rights conventions].

Compilation of the 1850 through 1854 women's rights conventions. Contents include the 1850 convention held at Worcester; the 1851 convention held at Worcester; the 1852 convention held in Syracuse; the 1853 convention held at the Broadway Tabernacle in New York; and the 1854 convention held in Cleveland. Included in the section on the convention in Cleveland is a printing of the Declaration of Sentiments from the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention. Inscription reads, "Harriet H. Robinson from Paulina Gerry, Nov. 1881." Gerry attended the 1850 convention. Robinson used this volume in writing "…

GLC06228

1939

Mannin, Ethel, 1900-1985

Book

Title: Women and the revolution.

Profiles of women in revolutions around the world. First American edition, printed by E. P. Dutton. With dust-jacket.

GLC06229

1849

Wilson, Elizabeth A., fl. 1849

Book

Title: A scriptural view of woman's rights and duties, in all the important relations of life.

First edition. Printed by Wm. S. Young. Title page signed by former owner: L. E. Bowers.

GLC06230

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

1856

Pamphlet

Title: Ninth annual report of the General Agent of the Board of National Popular Education, with the constitution of the board; January 1856.

The Board was founded to send New England women to teach in the American West. In original tan wrappers.

GLC06232.01

1822

Meredith, William Morris, 1799-1873

Pamphlet

Title: A statement, by James C. Biddle and William M. Meredith, of the Philadelphia Bar.

Covers free press versus fair trial.

GLC06232.02

1880

Workingmen's Party of California

Pamphlet

Title: Chinatown declared a nuisance!

Attacks both the Democratic and Republican Parties for not stopping Chinese immigration, but reserves special vitriol for Ulysses S. Grant. Includes notes from a Board of Health meeting describing sub-par living conditions and rampant disease. Part three includes an address by Mayor Kalloch on how to clean parts of the city using the Street Department and installing proper sewerage. Part four is an investigation of the anti-Chinese Council, the Workingmen's Party of California (W.P.C.). Lastly, a list of grievances in Chinatown.

GLC06232.03

1835

Thomas, William, ?-1836

Book signed

Title: The enemies of the Constitution discovered; or, an inquiry into the origin and tendency of popular violence...

(title continues)... containing a complete and circumstantial account of the unlawful proceedings at the City of Utica, October 21st, 1835; the dispersion of the State Anti-Slavery Convention by the agitators, the destruction of a democratic press and of the causes which led thereto. Together with a concise treatise on the practice of the court of His Honor Judge Lynch. Accompanied with numerous highly interesting and important documents. Published by Leavitt, Lord, & Co. Author (Thomas, according to Library of Congress) writes under the pseudonym "Defensor." Signed in pencil several…

GLC06232.04

1857

Long, John Dixon, 1817-1894

Book

Title: Pictures of slavery in church and state; including personal reminiscences, biographical sketches, anecdotes, etc. etc...

(title continues)... with an appendix, containing the views of John Wesley and Richard Watson on slavery. Published by Long, an abolitionist and minister of the Philadelphia annual conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. In conclusion, declares "On the forehead of slavery, as it exists in the Southern States of the American Union, and as I have faintly endeavored to picture it in these pages, may be inscribed these burning words of terrible significance, from the Book of Revelation: Mystery, Babylon the Great, the Mother of Harlots and abominations of the earth." Contains the…

GLC06232.05

1799/01/15

Pamphlet

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

Printed by Loring Andrews.

GLC06232.06

18 November 1858

Vermont, General Assembly, House of Representatives, 1858

Pamphlet

Title: Report of the select committee on slavery, the Dred Scott decision, and the action of the Federal Government thereon, submitted Thursday, Nov. 18, 1858.

Printed by Eliakim Persons Walton. "We plant ourselves, then, on this Constitution, and there we are determined to stand, firmly, unflinchingly, unmoved and unterrified by the combined assaults of Federal or of the Slave Power, whether manifested in fugitive or Nebraska Acts, Presidential Proclamations or Dred Scott decisions."

GLC06232.07

1866

Pamphlet

Title: The New Orleans riot. Its official history.

Opens with the statement "It was no Riot- It was an Absolute Massacre by the Police- A Murder Perpetrated by the Mayor." Includes dispatches pertaining to the riot from Albert Voorhies, Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana; Andrew Herron, Louisiana Attorney General; President Andrew Johnson; Edward Davis Townsend, Assistant Adjutant General; Edwin McMasters Stanton, Secretary of War, and General Ulysses S. Grant, among others. Contains newspaper reports on the event from the New York Tribune and the New York Times. The final page contains a Tribune report stating "We must convince the SOUTH…

GLC06232.08

1 December 1832

Grimké, Thomas Smith, 1786-1834

Pamphlet

Title: To the people of the state of South-Carolina.

Denounces the nullification ordinance passed by South Carolina on 24 November. Begins by stating, "The ordinance passed by your Convention at Columbia, a few days since, as the supreme law of the land, is the grave, not the bridal chamber of Liberty." Disbound.

GLC06232.09

1861

Wallcut, Robert Folger, 1797-1884

Pamphlet

Title: The abolition of slavery: the right of the government under the war power.

Printed by Wallcut. Stitched. Prints extracts from the speech of John Quincy Adams, delivered in House of Representatives on 14 and 15 April 1842 on the War with Great Britain and Mexico. Contains a reprint of a letter by Joshua Reed Giddings submitted to the New York Tribune arguing that fugitive slaves from Confederate owners should not be sent back as they would be lending help to their owners who are in rebellion against the government. Includes other editorials and essays on this topic.

GLC06232.10

1861

May, Samuel, 1810-1899

Pamphlet

Title: The fugitive slave law and its victims.

Printed by the American Anti-slavery Society. No. 15 of American Anti-Slavery Tracts. Pages are separated from binding. Contains an Essex Institute stamp. Small burn mark on front cover.

GLC06232.11

1842

Peters, Richard, 1780-1848

Book

Title: Report of the case of Edward Prigg against the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Argued and adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States at January term, 1842.

In which it was decided that all the laws of the several states relative to fugitive slaves are unconstitutional and void; and that Congress has the exclusive power of legislation on the subject of fugitive slaves escaping into other states. By Richard Peters, reporter of the decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States. Printed by L. Johnson. Cover is fragile, consisting of green wrapper.

GLC06232.12

1805

Alexander, Ann Tuke, 1767-1849

Pamphlet

Title: An address to the inhabitants of Charleston, South Carolina.

"I lament- exceedingly lament, that a custom, so barbarous as well as so repugnant to every principle of humanity and justice, as the African Slave-Trade, should be continued in this or any other nation." Printed by Kimber, Conrad, & Co. Wrapper is extremely fragile. Bound with string.

GLC06232.13