circa 1830-1910

Ward, John Quincy Adams, 1830-1910

Sketch

Title: [Woman reclining on sofa with blankets draped over body]

Graphite; wove paper.

GLC06343.048

circa 1830-1910

Ward, John Quincy Adams, 1830-1910

Sketch

Title: [Woman washing clothes with a man seated reading]

Graphite; wove paper.

GLC06343.049

May 1863

Ward, John Quincy Adams, 1830-1910

Sketch signed

Title: [Small rock formation with plants]

Signed by the artist. Light sketch of three figures on reverse side. Graphite; wove paper.

GLC06343.050

circa 1830-1910

Ward, John Quincy Adams, 1830-1910

Sketch

Title: [Hooded man with hand over face]

Graphite; thin wove paper.

GLC06343.051

circa 1830-1910

Ward, John Quincy Adams, 1830-1910

Sketch

Title: [Girl sitting on a fence, and two bearded men with crossed arms on reverse side]

Girl sitting on a fence with the inscription, "Newburgh." Two bearded men with crossed arms on reverse side. Graphite, iron gall ink respectively; laid paper.

GLC06343.052

circa 1830-1910

Ward, John Quincy Adams, 1830-1910

Sketch

Title: [Five sketches of a bull, and a seated man]

Iron gall ink, wove paper.

GLC06343.053

circa 1830-1910

Ward, John Quincy Adams, 1830-1910

Sketch

Title: [Clothing draped on a bed post with door in background]

Graphite; laid paper.

GLC06343.054

circa 1830-1910

Ward, John Quincy Adams, 1830-1910

Sketch

Title: [Spinning wheel]

Graphite; wove paper.

GLC06343.055

circa 1830-1910

Ward, John Quincy Adams, 1830-1910

Sketch

Title: [Portrait of a mustached man wearing a hat and spectacles]

Reverse side has an incomplete sketch of the hindquarters of a cow. Graphite; wove paper.

GLC06343.056

circa 1830-1910

Ward, John Quincy Adams, 1830-1910

Sketch

Title: [Four sketches of a bull]

Iron gall ink; wove paper.

GLC06343.057

circa 1830-1910

Ward, John Quincy Adams, 1830-1910

Sketch

Title: [Profile portrait of a woman]

Possibly a Native American woman. Graphite; wove paper.

GLC06343.058

circa 1830-1910

Ward, John Quincy Adams, 1830-1910

Sketch

Title: [Back of a woman in frock coat and long skirt]

Reverse side has faint design of either a fountain or sculpture. Graphite; tan wove paper.

GLC06343.059

circa 1830-1910

Ward, John Quincy Adams, 1830-1910

Sketch

Title: [Spinning wheel]

Graphite or charcoal; wove paper.

GLC06343.060

circa 1830-1910

Ward, John Quincy Adams, 1830-1910

Sketch

Title: [Reclining bull]

Iron gall ink; wove paper.

GLC06343.061

circa 1830-1910

Ward, John Quincy Adams, 1830-1910

Sketch

Title: [Two dogs in profile]

With additional sketches on reverse side. Iron gall ink, graphite; wove paper.

GLC06343.062

14 April 1684

Manuscript document signed

Title: Indian Treaty

Indian land sale-Flushing Meadows, NY. MDS by 8 Indians.

GLC08077

01 January 1834

Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845

Letter signed

Title: to James Kirke Paulding

Vowing to destroy second bank of the United States.

GLC08083

24 June 1837

Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Benjamin P. Butler.

To the Attorney General; blaming the banks for the Panic of 1837: "The connection of banks with the government I have considered more dangerous to liberty than the union of church and state."

GLC08084

02 April 1865

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mary Todd Lincoln.

Lincoln's last letter to Mary Lincoln, day before the fall of Richmond, Re: dramatic news of the final collapse of the confederate defenses.

GLC08090

29 March 1861

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Simon Cameron

Orders Secretary of War Cameron to send a naval expedition to resupply Fort Sumter. Indicates that specific instructions were in an attached memorandum (not included) and instructs Cameron to cooperate with Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles.

GLC08093

11 December 1796

Washington, George, 1732-1799

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Sir John Sinclair

Written by President Washington to Sinclair the Scottish politician and writer on finance and agriculture. Describes the natural characteristics of various sections of the country, their chief resources, climates, interests and activities, relative land values, and the planned federal city. Says land in Pennsylvania is more valuable than that in Virginia or Maryland because of immigration and naturalization laws, and because of slavery regulations: "there are laws here for the gradual abolition of slavery, which neither of the two states above mentioned have, at present, but which nothing is…

GLC08095

circa 1830-1910

Ward, John Quincy Adams, 1830-1910

Sketch

Title: [Two skulls with partial skull sketch on reverse]

Conte crayon, chalk, graphite; wove paper.

GLC06343.063

circa 1830-1910

Ward, John Quincy Adams, 1830-1910

Sketch

Title: [Three men sailing with wind-beings blowing sails]

Iron gall ink; wove paper.

GLC06343.064

circa 1830-1910

Ward, John Quincy Adams, 1830-1910

Sketch signed

Title: [Two portraits of man in hat]

Mirror images signed. Graphite; wove paper.

GLC06343.065

circa 1830-1910

Ward, John Quincy Adams, 1830-1910

Sketch

Title: [Two portraits of man in hat]

Mirror images signed. Graphite; crease down center; wove paper.

GLC06343.066