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1862, 1878

Ruggles, Daniel, 1810-1897

Header Record

Title: [Collection of documents related to Daniel Ruggles experience at the Battle of Shiloh] [Decimalized .01-.03]

GLC00617

1861, 1863-1865

Harpers Weekly

Header Record

Title: Harper's weekly. [Vol. 5, no. 210 (January 5, 1861); vol.7, no. 314 (January 3, 1863) - vol. 9, no. 470 (December 30, 1865)] [Decimalized .01-.04]

Features article and illustration on emancipated children in New Orleans.

GLC00623

1863/09/03

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Document signed

Title: Printed draft call for troops from Pennsylvania

Printed document signed by Lincoln.

GLC01202

[1791]

Randolph, Edmund, 1753-1813

Pamphlet

Title: Report of the Attorney-General. Read in the House of Representatives,

A2-H2 I2(-I2) ($1 signed). Submitted by Edmund Randolph as Attorney General on the U.S. judicial system and revising the Judiciary Act of 1789. Randolph was helped in drafting this report by Justice James Wilson. Sabin 67816. Evans 23909

GLC01035

[1790]

Hamilton, Alexander, 1757-1804

Pamphlet

Title: The Secretary of the Treasury [...], relatively to [...] a Mint

A-E2 F2(-F2) ($1 signed). Regarding establishment of a Mint. Submitted by Hamilton as Secretary of Treasury as an appendix to his report on the Public Credit. Evans 23920.

GLC01036

1865 ca.

Various

Header Record

Title: Carte de visite portrait of Richard Taylor, with later enlargement [Decimalized .01-.02]

Two bust portraits of Richard Taylor.

GLC01176

1777/04/14

Hancock, John, 1737-1793

Broadside

Title: Resolution [revising act of Congress for governing troops]

Printed by Dunlap. Signed in type by John Hancock.

GLC01182

1777/09/28

Howe, William, 1729-1814

Broadside

Title: Proclamation offering protection to those who remain peaceably at home

Printed by James Humphreys, Junr. Printed at Philadelphia but issued from Howe's Head Quarters at Germantown.

GLC01183

1778/02/03

United States. Continental Congress.

Broadside

Title: Act: re: requiring officers to take oath of office

Signed in type by Charles Thomson. Prints the oath to be taken and describes the circumstances for taking the oath.

GLC01184

1776/12/31

United States. Continental Congress.

Autograph document signed

Title: Extract from minutes of Congress re: raising Maryland troops

Disbound. Directs Smallwood to raise Maryland troops Was written in Congress.

GLC01205.02

1865 ca.

Brady, Mathew B., 1823-1896

Photograph signed

Title: Ulysses S. Grant, Lt. Gen., USA.

Published by E. & H.T. Anthony of New York from photographic negative in Brady's Nat'l Portrait Gallery. Inscription on the versi reads: "The last and best [illegible]"

GLC01229

1864 ca.

Photograph

Title: Carte de visite of Ulysses S. Grant and two staff members

Possibly Wilderness campaign? Grant, seated with map on his lap, with two staff members, one of them seated.

GLC00559.01

1864 ca.

Brady, Mathew B., 1823-1896

Photograph

Title: Carte de visite of Ulysses S. Grant

GLC00559.02

February 17, 1787

Bowdoin, James, 1726-1790

Broadside

Title: A Proclamation: [amnesty offer to Shays's rebels]

Offers pardons to Massachusetts citizens who participated in Shay's Rebellion (1786-1787). Document includes a printed seal of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Printed by Adams and Nourse. Noted in Ford no. 2474.

GLC00518

1780, 1798

Header Record

Title: Two documents relating to Indian land in Indian Mills, Burlington County, New Jersy [Decimalized]

GLC00540

1865 ca.

Photograph

Title: Carte de visite of Ulysses S. Grant, with three stars

Seated portrait. This image appears to be from the time when Grant accompanied Lincoln's funeral train.

GLC00559.03

1865 ca.

Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891

Photograph

Title: Carte de visite of William T. Sherman with two stars by Anthony

With canceled 2 cent tax stamp on reverse.

GLC00559.04

February 27, 1869

Seward, William Henry, 1801-1872

Header Record

Title: Fifteenth Amendment resolution [Decimalized GLC00788.01-GLC00788.02]

GLC00788

February 27, 1869

Seward, William Henry, 1801-1872

Printed document signed

Title: [Fifteenth Amendment resolution]

Reconstruction amendment passed to combat southern opposition to federal policies toward freed slaves. Printed certificate sealed and signed, attached to printed resolution with a purple ribbon and red State Department seal. With printed circular letter.

GLC00788.01