1861-1865 ca.

Photograph

Title: Marine Barracks, Charlestown Navy Yard, man sitting on cannonballs

Frank Rowell, Boston, Mass., publisher. Heywood, photographer. A civilian man seated among stacks of cannonballs. Caption: "Marine Barracks, Charlestown Navy Yard."

GLC05137.266

1861-1865 ca.

Photograph

Title: Great Peace Jubilee, Boston, June 1869

John P. Soule, Boston, publisher. Caption on front: "Coliseum, Interior View" View of orchestra from the crowd.

GLC05137.267

1873/07

Photograph

Title: Camp Princeton, July, 1873

J.B. Brown, Photographer, Philadelphia. Stereoscopic Views of Camp Princeton, 5th Reg. M.N.G., Cape May, N.J., July, 1873. Group of soldiers sitting under a tent.

GLC05137.268

1861-1865 ca.

Photograph

Title: Willow Brook, Auburn, N.J.

A large house. Handwritten on back: "Willow Brook, Auburn, N.J." Women and a couple of men sitting near a house. Same location as 5137.270, which shows general Grant wearing three stars. [Ca. 1860's - women wearing hoop skirts.]

GLC05137.269

circa 1861-1865

Photograph

Title: Presidential dinner party at Willow Brook, Auburn, N.Y.

One stereocard depicting a presidential dinner party, including Ulysses S. Grant decorated with three stars and other men. Handwritten on back: "Presidential dinner party at Willow Brook, Auburn, N.Y." (Same image as GLC05137.130)

GLC05137.270

1861-1865 ca.

Photograph

Title: Petersburgh Railroad Depot, Richmond, Va

E. & H. T. Anthony & Co., publisher. Caption: "Ruins of a Locomotive in the Petersburgh railroad Depot, Richmond, Va." Inscription on verso: "Emma G. Griggs from my husband."

GLC05137.271

1838/05/07

Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845

Autograph letter signed

Title: to William M. Price

Jackson writes of his reliance on the "virtue and incorruptibility, of the sovereign people" who will never surrender their sovereign power to the "despotic rule, and government, of a moneyed Rogocracy."

GLC05138

circa 1861-1865

Header Record

Title: Collection of two Beckers' patent table-top parlor stereo viewers and stereocards [Decimalized .01-.03]

GLC05139

circa 1867

Beckers, Alexander, fl. 1857-1859

Object

Title: [Becker's patent table-top "sweetheart" two person stereo viewer]

Alexander Becker's stereo viewer, manufactured by Sealey & Lee, New York. Model is made for two person use and is equipped with viewers on each side. Top opens so that multiple stereocards can be loaded. Turning knobs on both sides for changing to the next stereocard. Brass tag below viewer on one side reads, "A. Beckers' Patent, April 7, 1867, Sealey & Lee NY, Manufacturers." Stereocards that came with it are cataloged in GLC 5139.03. Handle with care. Height is 37.5 cm.

GLC05139.01

circa 1857-1859

Beckers, Alexander, fl. 1857-1859

Object

Title: [Becker's patent table-top parlor stereo viewer, one person model]

Alexander Beckers' stereo viewer, New York. One person viewer. Top opens so that multiple stereocards can be loaded. Turning knob on right side for changing to the next stereocard. Brass tag on one side reads, "Alex Beckers, New York, Patents, April 11, 1857, March 1 & 29, 1859, April 12 1859, Dec 13, 1859." Stereocards that came with it are cataloged in GLC 5139.03. Handle with care. Height is 45.5 cm.

GLC05139.02

1862-1863

Moore, Henry P., 1833-1911

Header Record

Title: Civil War and African-American photographs re: slaves, plantations, contrabands [word processed inventory available]

17 photos of African-Americans and soldiers at Hilton Head, S.C. Includes images of slave plantations (#1), black (sailors?) onboard vessel (#15) and others.

GLC05140.01

1870s-1900s ca.

Riley, Richard, fl. 1870-1900

Photograph

Title: Album of approx. 250 cyanotypes of African-Americans, at Calhoun, Ala.

One photograph album of cyanotypes. The images derive from the Calhoun Industrial School, founded in 1892 by the Hampton (Va.) Normal and Agricultural Institute. The images were taken by Richard Riley of the Hampton Institute. The Calhoun school was also a social settlement in which blacks and whites lived and worked side-by-side. The school offered classes in agriculture, arithmetic, bible study, carpentry, cooking, English, sewing and even teacher education. Many of the courses were taught by graduates of the Hampton Institute. Most images appear to be circa 1896-1903 (based on when…

GLC05140.02

1811-1812

Shaler, William, 1773-1833

Autograph manuscript

Title: Diary as secret US agent at New Orleans, Natchitoches, La., Washington, etc.

Shaler served as Madison and Monroe's secret agent in Louisiana on the Texas border. He was instructed to try to encourage revolution in Texas against Spanish and Mexican authority. At the same time, all of his activities had to be deniable. His letters and reflections, contained in the first two volumes (.01-.02), describe his relations with revolutionaries and other agents, his meetings with the President and his observations on power and spheres of influence. The letter copies have been published from the originals in the National Archives, but the diary portions and observations on…

GLC05246.01

1812-1814

Shaler, William, 1773-1833

Autograph manuscript

Title: Diary as secret US agent at New Orleans, Natchitoches, La., Washington, etc.

GLC05246.02

1850 ca.

Pierce, Franklin, 1804-1869

Photograph

Title: Salt print portrait of Pierce, oval, mounted on lined paper

Depicts as a middle-aged man with a little gray hair at the side-burns. The photograph is mounted on lined paper which has slightly cockled. (Actual image size: 19 x13.5 cm) (Per Peter Mustardo, this appears to be a copy of a daguerreotype from the National Portrait Gallery.)

GLC05247

8 November 1910

Mosby, John S., 1833-1916

Autograph letter signed

Title: to James Ewell B. Stuart, Jr.

Offers assistance in an unspecified endeavor of Stuart's (possibly a political appointment or campaign). Encourages Stuart, son of Civil War General James Ewell Brown Stuart, to call on President Taft when Taft travels to Richmond, Virginia. Mentions that Colonel Henderson (an old friend of President Taft and Chief of the Law Department, Southern Railroad) may be able to assist Stuart. Mentions his friend, Norton, who also may be able to assist Stuart from the White House. Instructs, "When you come here I wish you wd. bring along a can of fine oysters: We will enjoy them at my room in the…

GLC05252

1864/08/09

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Letter signed

Title: to Horace Greeley re: correspondence on Greeley's peace mission, Stephens

Concerning Greeley's peace mission and his dealings with Alexander Stephens.

GLC05256

1722

De L'Isle, Guillaume, fl. 1718

Map

Title: Carte d'Amerique

Mercator projection including North and South America, with parts of Western Europe and Africa. Boundaries outlined in color. Shows North America from French perspective with English colonies restricted to the coast. Includes latitude and longitude lines and various port cities. Note marked "advertisement" on bottom right hand corner. Marked "70" on verso.

GLC05238

1864

Buttre, John Chester, 1821-1893

Print

Title: Abraham Lincoln President of the United States

Done after a Mathew Brady photograph. Shows Lincoln surrounded by an emblematic border done by New York illustrator William Momberger. The images in the borders portray the defeat of the dragon "Secession," freed slaves, western emigration, rural prosperity, and eventual peace between North and South.

GLC05239

8 October 1846

Dorr, Thomas Wilson, 1805-1854

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Metcalf Marsh

Discusses complaints against a physician for neglect. Asks Marsh to obtain a position in a post office for a friend of the "constitutional cause." Marked "Private." Dorr had been released from prison the previous year; he had been convicted of treason to the state of Rhode Island after the Dorr Rebellion.

GLC05240

1862-1863

Magie, James K., fl. 1862-1863

Header Record

Title: Collection of James K. Magie, C company, 78th regiment, Illinois, infantry [Decimalized .01-.51]

Private in the Army of the Cumberland. The letters are written to his wife, Mary, who lived in Macomb, Illinois. (There are 46 manuscript items plus 5 printed items which include 3 newspaper clippings.) Magie also held the position of Brigade Postmaster while stationed in Franklin, Tennessee. This position allowed him to make frequent trips into Nashville, where he bought newspapers for 5 cents each and sold them in camp for 10 cents. He frequently discusses his profits and cautions his wife not to let anyone else know how much money he is able to send her. At home Magie was a co-owner…

GLC05241

1801/04/25

Boudinot, Elias, 1740-1821

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Jacob Burnett re: Jefferson inaugural, Napoleonic wars

GLC05242

11 May 1784

Hall, Lyman, 1724-1790

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Susa Street

Regrets he was not there for his mother's last illness and thanks Street for the care given to her. Is himself elderly and advises against his friends and relatives coming to Georgia, as "they may sicken soon & die." If he envies anyone, "it is him who content with a little, enjoys that little without anxiety, loves God, & has his delight in Jesus Christ, looks forward with pleasing expectation of the glory that shall scarcely shall be revealed; that lyes down to sleep, indifferent whether he awakes in this or in the other world." Sends his blessing to his relations. Hall was a…

GLC05243

26 September 1862

Knowlton, Henry C., 1828-1926

Autograph letter signed

Title: to [Harlow Higinbotham]

Addressed only to "Dear Friend." Discusses mutual acquaintances and personal matters. His friend is in Clarksburg, West Virginia and he asks him "What sort of a place is Clarksburg?...Have you seen any guerillas yet!" Discusses the Emancipation Proclamation, "What do you think of Lincoln's 'emancipation proclamation?' To use Artemas Ward's elegant phraseology I think that it is 'hunky' every way." Mentions Stephen Douglas and states "I wish Douglas had lived, but he would rather be dead, than living, to see the degeneracy of some of his professed disciples." On letterhead of the…

GLC05244

1900-1910

Horsfall, Charles G., fl. 1900-1910

Header Record

Title: Collection of letters of Charles Horsfall [decimalized .01-.53]. [various places]

Writes to his children and wife about Klondike gold fields, mining, life in Alaska, Mormons, and the 1906 election. Horsfall was a Mormon.

GLC05245