[1863]

Photograph

Title: Camp of the 45th Ill. Vols. before Vicksburg, near the Shirley

Dugouts and caves, below a white plantation house, used by 45th Illinois near Vicksburg. Blind stamp of photographer C.D. Finch at center bottom. With signature on verso, and later ballpoint pen note "Melancthon Smith 45 Ill."

GLC06390

1864 ca.

Header Record

Title: Album of abolitionist cartes de visite

Includes Sojourner Truth, H. B. Stowe, John Brown and William L. Garrison.

GLC06391

1834/03/26

Vidaurii, Francisco, fl. 1834

Manuscript document

Title: re: selling public lands at auction

Bound with white ribbon at top. "Supreme Court of the free states of Coahuila and Texas. The Governor of the State of Coahulia, to all its inhabitants known: that the Congress of this state have decided as follows... the vacant lands of the state, shall be sold at a public sale." Contemporary copy, English translation of decree making public lands available.

GLC06392

1850/04/16

Tyler, John, 1790-1862

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Robert Tyler re: favoring annexation of Texas to expand cotton monopoly

Annexation of Texas to expand the cotton monopoly, not to divide the nation over slavery. "The monopoly of the cotton plant was the great and important concern... an embargo for a single year would produce in Europe a greater amount of suffering than a fifty years war."

GLC06397

1783/02/06

Adams, John, 1735-1826

Document signed

Title: Passport for "Eagle" of John Sanders re: cessation of war, proclamation of peace

Printed document cosigned by American peace commissioners Benjamin Franklin and John Jay, mentioning the cessation of hostilities between Great Britain and the U.S., and asking for passage for the ship "Eagle" now at London and bound for Jamaica. Appears to have been printed at Franklin's press at Passy.

GLC06398

1863/07/10

Buchanan, James, 1791-1868

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Maria B. Weaver re:

GLC06400.02

1840/05/23

Harrison, William Henry, 1773-1841

Manuscript

Title: to Gulian C. Verplanck re: draft of acceptance speech for presidential nomination

Draft of acceptance speech for Whig nomination for presidency.

GLC06405

1855/09/26

Newspaper

Title: The Kansas freeman. [Vol. 1, no. 2 (September 26, 1855)]

Early issue of anti-slavery newspaper. Concerns new government and constitution of Kansas. Also mentions in editorial (p. 2) the editor's problems in getting a press set up.

GLC06409.02

1782/04/10

Hanson, John, 1715-1783

Broadside

Title: Thanksgiving proclamation [with J. Trumbull printed note]

"The United States in Congress assembled... call upon the several states, to set apart the last Thursday in April next, as a day of fasting, humiliation and prayer." Printed by Timothy Green. This proclamation includes a printed note of Jonathan Trumbull (unlike 6420.01) Trumbull's proclamation states: "All servile labour is forbidden on said day."

GLC06420.02

1870 ca.

Rockwood, George Gardner, 1832-1911

Photograph

Title: Henry Ward Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe

GLC06439

1865 ca.

Metcalf, fl. 1865

Photograph

Title: [Carte de visite of cadet]

With 2-cent tax stamp on verso.

GLC06440

1862 ca.

Brady, Mathew B., 1823-1896

Photograph

Title: [Benson's battery of horse artillery near Fair Oaks]

No. 433 in series.

GLC06441

1863 May

Black, J.W., 1825-1896

Photograph

Title: Fannie Virginia Casseopia Lawrence

Depicts Fannie Virginia Casseopia Lawrence "redeemed in Virginia by Catherine S. Lawrence; baptized in Brooklyn by Henry Ward Beecher..." Full-length standing portrait. Shows Fanny standing with her hands on hips, wearing a day dress, cape and hat. Her hair is fashionably curled. Published by J.W. Black, Boston.

GLC06445

1865, 1890 ca.

Photograph signed

Title: [John S. Mosby]

Original photograph was taken ca. 1865 but this half-tone (from a book?) was signed ca. 1890.

GLC06448

1890 ca.

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Header Record

Title: [Stereoviews of Roosevelt as President and Rough Rider] [Decimalized]

Includes images of Roosevelt giving speeches, campaigning, the Rough Riders, the Spanish American war. Some images are captioned with portions of his political speeches. Mostly published by Underwood & Underwood. [decimalized: .01-.55]

GLC06449

1911/05/19

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Typed letter signed

Title: to Charles C. Duryee re: preventing crime

"We ought to do much more than is now done towards the abolition of the conditions that tend to breed crime." On "Outlook" stationery, with 6 words added by T.R. on p. 2.

GLC06463

1804/11/28

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Autograph note signed

Title: to [Charles Wilson] re: postscript on polygraph modifications [fragment]

A postscript signed with initials

GLC06468

1794/07/05

Wayne, Anthony, 1745-1796

Letter signed

Title: to Francis Vigo re: thanks for measures taken to procure information

Also states that the Spanish attempt to establish a port a Chickasaw Bluff is "an aggression of the highest nature."

GLC06479.02

1794/09/29

Wayne, Anthony, 1745-1796

Letter signed

Title: to Francis Vigo re: battle of Fallen Timbers

"The enemy amounted to two thousand men, who were beat and totally routed by less than half that number."

GLC06479.03

1794/06/24

Vigo, Francis, fl. 1794

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Anthony Wayne re: responding to Wayne's request for intelligence [draft]

Apparently a letter draft.

GLC06479.04

1898/07/25

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Miguel Otero re: Battle of San Juan Hill

Describes the daring and resolution of New Mexico officers and troops in battle.

GLC06480

1792/05/31

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Autograph letter signed

Title: to James Mease re: thanks for Mease's dissertation on canine madness

ALS in the third person, written horizontally and signed in text at the beginning. Thanking Mease for his "very learned and ingenious dissertation on canine madness" and discussing insanity. Jefferson mentions a cure by mercury of an American captive in Algiers, a cure mentioned in Mease's book. He suggests an experiment with animals, infecting them with madness and then attempting the cures. Docketed, with loss at the upper right corner of the address leaf.

GLC06510

1814/06/29

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Autograph letter signed

Title: to James Mease re: origins of the Taliaferro apple, its quality, cyder

Responding to a letter about Hughes's crab apple. (Spelling Mease's name "Maese.") He tells the origins of the Taliaferro apple by Major Taliaferro about 60 years before, near Williamsburg, and which he called the Robertson apple. When Taliferro "made a cask of cyder [it was]... the finest they had ever seen." Jefferson compares the Hughes crab apple to the Taliaferro and finds the latter "has more body, is less acid, and comes nearer to the silky Champaigne than any other." Written in Monticello

GLC06511

1809/08/25

Pinckney, Charles C., fl. 1746-1825

Autograph letter signed

Title: to James Mease

Thanks him for sending a Spanish merino ram. Discusses problems with breeding because the ram does not seem interested in the ewes. Describes his sheep pasture and thanks Mease for his advice. Comments on his desire to breed for merino wool on a Barbary carcase.

GLC06512

1831/04/29

Miller, Joseph, fl. 1819-1831

Autograph letter signed

Title: to James Mease

Responds to Mease's query about the causes of a boiler explosion aboard the steamboat Philadelphia. Blames the accident on a combination of factors including the age of the boiler and the rust accumulated on it. Places most of the blame, however, on the engineer, who he argues was not well trained and tried to generate more steam than the engine could safely maintain. James Mease (1771-1846) was a prominent Philadelphia physician and scientific thinker. Joseph Miller was captain of the steamboat "Bristol."

GLC06515