1912

Tou, Edmond, fl. 1912

Photograph signed

Title: [Portrait photograph of John D. Rockefeller]

Signed in pencil by Rockefeller and Edmond Tou (on the plate). Image is ca. 1930, per Charles Hamilton. Note in ink on verso: "Return to: William Hoster, 281- 4th Ave, N.Y." A note in pencil from a previous owner notes "@ age 72 @ 1912," possibly referring to the date of the photo and Rockefeller's age at the time.

GLC05148

1896 February 15

Marceau, Theo C., fl. 1896

Photograph signed

Title: [Large 3/4-length portrait photography of [Susan B. Anthony]

Large three-quarter portrait showing Anthony wearing a large black dress with puffed sleeves. Inscribed and dated by Anthony in Rochester, New York.

GLC05150

1865 ca.

D'Utassy, fl. 1865

Photograph signed

Title: Corneilis Vanderbilt

Three quarter length portrait. Signed on verso. Imprint: "D'Utassy's, formerly (Johnson, Williams & Co.)"

GLC05151

1861 ca.

Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889

Photograph signed

Title: Large albumen photograph, signed twice

Signed twice, once on albumen and once on mount. Per Charles Hamilton, signature and painted clothing on photograph look wartime.

GLC05153

circa 1870

Beadle, J.H., 1840-1897

Broadside

Title: Life in Utah or the mysteries and crimes of Mormonism; being an expose of their secret rites and ceremonies.

Title continues: "WITH A FULL AND AUTHENTIC HISTORY OF POLYGAMY AND THE MORMON SECT, FOR ITS ORIGIN TO THE PRESENT TIME." Illustrated advertisement for a book with this title. Broadside at foot reads: "PLEASE POST THIS UP IN A CONSPICUOUS PLACE."

GLC05154

1777/09/06

Gibson, John, 1729-1782

Broadside signed

Title: Instructions for officers entrusted with public money

Instruction to "any officer of the army of the United States... who hath been or shall be entrusted with or accountable for the public money."

GLC05155

3 October 1865

Stevens, Thaddeus, 1792-1868

Pamphlet

Title: [Speech by Thaddeus Stevens]

Stevens, a United States Representative from Pennsylvania, addresses his fellow citizens regarding an upcoming election for state governmental officials. Discusses post-war debt and expresses disapproval regarding the policies of President Andrew Johnson. Criticizes provisional governments and lack of governmental representation among southern states. States "If we succeed it will so strengthen the hands of the Union Members of Congress as to enable them to overcome all opposition, and Reconstruct the Government upon the principles of Justice." The edges of this document are discolored and…

GLC05156

circa 1843-1847

LeMoyne, Francis Julius, 1798-1879

Broadside

Title: To the free and independent voters of the city and county of Philadelphia

The Liberty Party of Philadelphia suggests nominations for an upcoming election. States the Party's principle as "opposition to slavery as the great moral and political evil of this land" and requests voters to consider the "continual encroachments of the slaveholding States upon the rights of the free States."

GLC05159

1798/01/17

Adams, John, 1735-1826

Pamphlet

Title: Message from the President [re: ratification of the 11th Amendment]

"Message from the President... Concerning the suability of states, in pursuance of a Resolution of the two houses, of the second of March last." First edition, printed by order of the House of Representatives.

GLC05161

1791

Carey, Stewart, and Co. (publishers), fl. 1791

Book

Title: Constitutions of the United States of America [adds Vermont]

"The Constitutions of the United States; according to the latest amendments; to which are annexed, the Declaration of Independence; and the federal constitution; with the amendments thereto. This edition contains the Constitution of Vermont, not in any former one."

GLC05166

1 May 1912

Addams, Jane, 1860-1935

Book signed

Title: Twenty years at Hull-house, with autobiographical notes. With illus. by Norah Hamilton.

Inscribed: "Dear Miss Passmore I have had a very charming visit in your home and am glad to leave my name behind. Sincerely yours, Jane Addams, May 1, 1912." First edition, 1910.

GLC05168

18 June 1868

Gilman, Caroline, fl. 1868

Autograph manuscript signed

Title: Household woman.

Poem expressing the sentiment that woman's highest calling is performing household tasks. She provides a key to the persons in the poem and notes that the 1st, 2d, 3d and last stanzas were written originally in 1828 in Charleston, South Carolina, while the remainder was written in Boston and Roxbury, Massachusetts in June 1863.

GLC05169

1867

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902

Pamphlet signed

Title: Address in favor of universal suffrage, for the election of delegates to the constitutional convention.

Title continues: "Before the Judiciary committees of the Legislature of New York, in the Assembly chamber, January 23, 1867, in behalf of the American Equal Rights association." Inscribed Horace E. Smith, compliments of the author." In the original wrappers.

GLC05170

1898

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902

Book signed

Title: Eighty years and more (1815-1897). Reminiscences of Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

Inscribed to Mr. and Mrs. Thadeus Wakeman, New York, "Progress is the victory of a new thought over an old superstition." Inscription dated 11 March 1898. Tipped-in is a 6 August 1902 postcard from Stanton's secretary addressed to Wakeman, as editor of the Torch of Reason in Silverton, Oregon. Stanton's secretary asks if the Robert Ingersoll essays published in the Torch of Reason had been collected into a volume. First edition.

GLC05171

1870 ca.

Photograph

Title: Five albumen photographs of Annapolis, officer training and sailors [word processed inventory available]

Includes: 1. Gunnery Molde Room, 2. Infantry [sic] Drill, 3. Inside of Arm Ward, 4. Dress Parade in Summer, and 5. Hager's Class of 1861.

GLC05173

1865 ca.

Photograph

Title: Stereograph view of Citadel at Fort Morgan showing effects of Farragut's shells

GLC05174.01

1865 ca.

Photograph

Title: Stereograph view of freight shed at Savannah, by J.N. Wilson

GLC05174.02

1902/05/22

Anthony, Susan B., 1820-1906

Book signed

Title: The History of Woman Suffrage... in Four Volumes, Vol. IV. 1883-1900

Inscribed to Emily M. Gross. Edited by Anthony and Ida Husted Harper. Published by Susan B. Anthony.

GLC05175

1861 ca.

Fredericks & Co.

Photograph signed

Title: [Richard Yates]

Inlaid on paper.

GLC05177

17 November 1868

Anthony, Susan B., 1820-1906

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Campbell

Regarding a petition to Congress for women's suffrage. Written on "The Revolution" printed stationery, listing their platform. Written at the time when New York state was revising its Constitution (the revisions were rejected).

GLC05178

10 May 1824

Vanderbilt, Cornelius, 1749-1877

Document signed

Title: Statement of bills paid by Cornelius Vanderbilt for steamboat Thistle at first cost

Co-signed by William Gibbons. Lists bills Vanderbilt paid in April and May 1824, settled at $4617.88. Written on ledger paper.

GLC05179

1864

Warren, E.W., 1820-?

Book

Title: Nellie Norton: or, Southern slavery and the Bible. A Scriptural refutation of the principal arguments upon which the abolitionists rely. A vindication of Southern slavery from the Old and New Testaments.

Published by Burke, Boykin & Company. Cover consists of faded yellow paper. Outer back cover contains advertisements for other books.

GLC05180

1924-1930

Mellon, Andrew, 1855-1937

Typed letter signed

Title: to Hamilton Fish, Jr.

Three letters typed in blue inks on Treasury Department stationery: n.d., 3/5/1929 and 5/15/1924, regarding efforts to stop manufacture and traffic in addictive drugs. With additional TLS of H. J. Anslinger, commissioner of the Bureau of Narcotics, 1-19-1933.

GLC05185

circa 1916

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Typed document

Title: [Draft of Page 66 of "Fear God and Take Your Own Part"]

The page beginning: "of cheap platitudes, not by windy orating...." With lengthy autograph annotations by Roosevelt.

GLC05186

1860 ca.

Photograph

Title: Republican "Wide-Awake," sixth-plate ruby glass ambrotype, election of 1860

Depicts a serious young man in a waterproof cap and cape, holding an oil torch. The image has been painted to suggest light from the torch. The "wide awakes" led processions supporting Lincoln in the election of 1860. Nevins "Emergence of Lincoln" p. 305 describes such a procession in New York. (Underneath the ambrotype in its case is a printed notice: "Photography, 1839-1889. From the Collection of Albert Raborn Phillips, Jr. 1940.")

GLC05187