7 February 1801

Jay, John, 1745-1829

Document signed

Title: [Appointment of Richard Varick, Mayor of New York]

Appointment of Varick to the positions of Mayor, Water Bailiff, and Clerk of the Market. Includes pendant seal attached with ribbon. Modern mounting.

GLC02127

12 July 1856

Welles, Gideon, 1802-1878

Autograph letter signed

Title: to James F. Babcock

Discusses the upcoming 1856 election. Comments that the press should be taking a firmer stance on the issues. Expresses hope to find ways to increase the chances of the Republican candidate, John C. Fremont. "This state [Connecticut] can be made certain for Fremont, and placed in a condition to sustain the cause of freedom for years, unless prevented by the bad conduct of the few leaders of the American party, who in their selfish purposes, would sacrifice the great principles in issue. . . " Warns that the American (Know-Nothing) Party can dominate the press and damage Fremont's chances.

GLC02128

May 26, 1863

Beauregard, Pierre Gustave Toutant, 1818-1893

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Charles Villere

Beauregard, in charge of the defense of the coasts of Georgia and South Carolina, replies to previous correspondence from his brother-in-law Villere. Writes "I am happy to hear of the confidence in me expressed every where, but I am always fearful not to justify it, for, besides my limited capacity, there are so many other causes of failure... I feel less confident in myself now than I did two years ago! For I Know that if I succeed I only increase the irritation of certain Persons against me- & if I fail, of their satisfaction & ire!" Offers his opinion on how the North should be…

GLC02129

1846

Mitchell, Augustus S., fl. 1846

Map

Title: Map of Texas, Oregon and California [pocket atlas]

Full title: A New Map of Texas, Oregon and California with the Regions Adjoining. Compiled from the Most Recent Authorities. First printing of this landmark map of the American West. Baughman, Kansas in Maps, p. 35. Graff 2841. Howes M685. Martin & Martin 36: "One of the first widely distributed maps showing Texas as a state in the U.S." Plains & Rockies IV:122b. Wheat, Transmississippi West 520, p. 35: "Based on...the work of Nicollet, Wilkes and Fremont, and 'the Congressional and other maps of Texas, the latest Maps of Mexico, &c.' The 'Oregon Route'...is carefully drawn, as…

GLC02130

1876

Bachelder, John B. (John Badger), 1825-1894

Print

Title: Gettysburg. Repulse of Longstreet's Assault

Wide panoramic view at the moment of the repulse of Longstreet's (actually Pickett's) charge at the Battle of Gettysburg 1-3 July 1863. Large black and white steel engraving (papier colle) based on the larger painting by James Walker and painted under Bachelder's supervision. Viewed across a vast series of fields and small hills. Portions of the background appear etched. The Walker painting is reproduced in Holzer and Neely, Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory: The Civil War in Art, pp. 128-129. (Sauers notes that the original painting is 7.5 x 20 feet.) Holzer-Neely identify Lewis A.…

GLC02131.02

1862

Bachelder, John B. (John Badger), 1825-1894

Print

Title: Capture of a rebel Lunette near Yorktown, Va. April 26th 1862 by detachments from the 1st & 11th Mass. Vols. commanded by Brig. Gen. Cuvier Grover

Chromolithograph with hand retouching. Published by John B. Bachelder in Boston and lithographed by Endicott & Co., New York. Depicts a battle scene at sunset. Key identifies officers and regiments featured in the image.

GLC02131.03

April 1862

Bachelder, John B. (John Badger), 1825-1894

Print

Title: Ravine occupied by the picket reserves, Brig. Gen. Joseph Hooker's Division. Heintzlemans Corps D'armee. At the Seige of Yorktown, April 1862.

Duotone in gray and black showing an episode in the siege of Yorktown. Night scene of men in camp. Key identifies officers and regiments featured in the image. Published by John B. Bachelder in Boston, lithographed by Endicott & Co., New York. Note below the image reads "Entered according to Act of Congress AD 1862 by J. B. Bachelder in the Clerks Office of the District Court for the Southern District of N.Y."

GLC02131.04

4 July 1895

American Bank Note Company

Print

Title: [Membership certificate of John B. Bachelder as director of the Gettysburg Battlefield Memorial Association]

Steel engraved certificate, published by the American Bank Note Company, apparently prepared for Bachelder's heirs the year after his death in 1894. With gold seal. States that Bachelder was director from 22 June 1881 through 26 June 1882. Decorated with engravings by F.B. Schell.

GLC02131.05

1860

Currier & Ives

Print

Title: [Color print depicting Abraham Lincoln]

The caption underneath this print describes Lincoln as the Republican candidate for sixteenth President of the United States. A red drapery serves as a backdrop for this oval-shaped print. Published by Currier & Ives. Note along the bottom of the image reads "Entered according to Act of Congress in the Year 1860 by Currier & Ives, in the Clerks Office of the District Court for the Southern District of N.Y."

GLC02132.01

1860

Currier & Ives

Print

Title: [Color print depicting Hannibal Hamlin]

A caption underneath this print describes Hamlin as the Republican candidate for Vice President of the United States. A red drapery serves as a backdrop for this oval-shaped print. Hamlin served as a U.S. congressman from Maine (1843-1846), U.S. senator (1847-1860 and 1869-1880) and as vice president of the United States (1861-1865). Published by Currier & Ives. Note along the bottom of the image reads "Entered according to act of Congress in the Year 1860, by Currier & Ives, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of N.Y."

GLC02132.02

1 October 1864

National Union Executive Committee

Broadside

Title: How the War Commenced, and How Near it is Ended

Published by the National Union Executive Committee, Astor House, New York. Issued during the reelection campaign of Lincoln. Heavily criticizes the rhetoric of the Confederate States and the Chicago Convention. Contains a map (12.7 x 28.6) and statistics that reveal the amount of territory and population that Union forces have recaptured. Date taken from the text, which says today is October 1, 1864. Previously folded into quarters. Some small water damage spots at the edges.

GLC02133

4 April 1899

Dewey, George, 1837-1917

Broadside

Title: Proclamation to the people of the Philippine Islands

Title continued: "The Treaty of Peace between the United States and Spain, ratified several weeks ago by the former, having on March 20th been ratified by the latter, the cession to the United States...."

GLC02134

15-16 December 1864

Broadside

Title: Battle of Nashville

Six stanza poem dramatizing the action at the Battle of Nashville. Each stanza has a heading: "The Preparation," "The Night Scene," "The Prelude," "The Second Day," The Chief," and "The Charge." The stanza titled "The Chief," is the shortest and is an overwrought description of Union Major General George H. Thomas: "Serene and steady as a Polar Star / Whose light no clouds can quench nor billows mar / But shines while tempests lash the deep below, / Thomas surveyed the turbid storm of war / Firm as Gibraltar in the whirlwind's's jar, / And gazed and watched to strike the final blow. / With…

GLC02135

1860-1895 ca.

Header Record

Title: Carte de visites of Civil War generals [decimalized]

GLC02136

1864 ca.

E. & H.T. Anthony (Firm)

Photograph signed

Title: Carte de visite of Ulysses S. Grant

Signed as Lieutenant General.

GLC02136.01

1864 ca.

Photograph signed

Title: [Carte de visite of Philip Henry Sheridan]

Bust portrait of Union General Philip Sheridan. Signed on image.

GLC02136.03

1886 August 24

Kuhn Bros., fl. 1886

Photograph signed

Title: [Cabinet photograph of Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman]

Signed on mount and verso. On mount of the West End Gallery, St. Louis, Mo., inscribed on verso to "Dr. Thomas T. Mirror, Seattle, W[ashington]. T[erritory]." on 1886 August 24.

GLC02136.04

1865 ca.

Brady, Mathew B., 1823-1896

Photograph signed

Title: [Carte de visite of Quincy Adams Gillmore]

Signed on mount, 3/4 standing by Anthony from Brady.

GLC02136.05

1865 ca.

Meade, George Gordon, 1815-1872

Photograph signed

Title: [Carte de visite of George Gordon Mead]

Meade, the hero of Gettysburg. Signed on image, bust by Brady

GLC02136.06

1861 ca.

Lewis, R.A., fl. 1861

Photograph signed

Title: [Carte de visite of Robert Anderson]

GLC02136.07

26 May 1869

Rees, R.A., fl. 1869

Photograph signed

Title: [Carte de visite of P.G.T. Beauregard]

Signed on image & verso 3/4 bust by R.A.Rees, Richmond. Inscribed to Miss C. M. J. Kearn, New Orleans, 1869 May 26.

GLC02136.08

1865 ca.

Charles D. Fredricks & Co.

Photograph signed

Title: [Benjamin Franklin Butler]

Carte de visite signed on mount. Butler photographed in civilian clothing, 3/4 seated profile.

GLC02136.09

1865 ca.

Brady, Mathew B., 1823-1896

Photograph signed

Title: Carte de visite of Henry Wager Halleck]

Signed on mount. 3/4 standing by Brady.

GLC02136.10

1865 ca.

Photograph signed

Title: Major General John Sedgwick

Signed carte de visite of Maj. Gen. John Sedgwick

GLC02136.13

1865 Nov 11

Warren Post Office Block

Photograph signed

Title: [Carte de visite of Nathaniel Prentiss Banks]

Inscribed by Banks to L. J. Cist (see GLC 749 Lincoln ALS to same for the Mississippi Sanitary Commission). Dated in another hand from the same time. With two cents revenue stamp on verso.

GLC02136.14