1852

Stannard & Dixon

Print

Title: Topsy's Polka.

Signed by Henry Lawful. Sheet music cover from the play Uncle Tom's Cabin. Lithograph image in color of a young African American girl with a patterned head scarf. Printed by Stannard & Dixon, lithograph by Louisa Corbaux.

GLC05508.013.02

1852

Stannard & Dixon

Print

Title: The Tom-Tit polka.

Sheet music cover from the play Uncle Tom's Cabin. "Companion to the Topsy Polka, composed by Stephen Glover." Image of a young girl with short, dark, curly hair. Lithograph by A. Laby.

GLC05508.013.03

1852

Print

Title: Poor Tom!

Signed by Charles Still and William Holland Love in upper right corner. Sheet music cover from the play Uncle Tom's Cabin. Written by Charles Jefferys and composed by Stephen Glover. Depicts an enslave, Legree, threatening an enslaved man named Tom, "Didn't I pay down twelve hundred dollars cash for you. a'nt you mine now, body and soul!"

GLC05508.013.04

1852

Hanhart, M., fl. 1852

Print

Title: Uncle Tom's cabin No. 2: The slave mother.

Sheet music cover from the play Uncle Tom's Cabin. Ballad by George Linley. With illegible signature in upper right corner. Depicts a female slave with a small child fleeing from a master wielding a whip. Image by J. Brandard.

GLC05508.013.05

circa 1852-1860

Swift, H., fl. 1852-1860

Sheet music

Title: Uncle Tom.

Title page and sheet music from the play Uncle Tom's Cabin. Dedicated to W.H.J, music by H. Swift. Published by W. Hill in New York.

GLC05508.013.06

1858

Howard, Frank, fl. 1852

Sheet music

Title: Uncle Tom's glimpse of glory.

Title page and sheet music from the play Uncle Tom's Cabin. Words written by Eliza and dedicated to Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom's Cabin. Music by Frank Howard. Published by E.H. Wade, Boston.

GLC05508.013.07

11 October 1779

Witherspoon, John, 1723-1794

Autograph document signed

Title: Requisition of a quarter cask of spirits

Requisition of a quarter cask of spirits

GLC08136

1905

Twain, Mark, 1835-1910

Book signed

Title: Henry Wellington Wack

Henry Wellington Wack: "The story of the free Congo State..." signed by Clemens with autograph note above frontpiece portrait: "A bucket of whitewash for the miscreant King Leopold."

GLC08137

30 October 1864

Clanton, James H., fl. 1864

Autograph letter signed

Title: Summarizing a scouting report

Summarizing a scouting report

GLC08138

01 November 1863

Foster, John Gray, 1823-1874

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry W. Halleck

Union Major General, proposing a raid on Richmond

GLC08139

2 October 1863 circa

Broadside

Title: Satirical Union Broadside

"Chattanooga Sentinel-Extra...the Ladies of Selma are respectfully requested to preserve all their chamber lye..."

GLC08140

1867

Autograph document signed

Title: Extraordinary slave-related court document

Aa complex legal case in which a freed man of color is fraudulently sold as a slave to pay for a purchase of cattle.

GLC08141

14 November 1841

Kell, John McIntosh, 1823-1900

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mrs. M. S. Kell

Future Confederate Raider writes of first experiences on board ship a month after his entering the Navy.

GLC08142

03 December 1860

Gourdin, M., fl. 1860

Autograph letter signed

Title: to George W. Cullum

Prominent South Carolinian writes of the secession of that state and the dissolution of the Union

GLC08143

February 14, 1861

Gibbons, S.B., fl. 1861

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Louisa (sister)

Va. militia Col. re: seeing Alabama Governor and troops, and mentioning Davis' Inauguration

GLC08144

10 October 1862

Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889

Manuscript document signed

Title: Calling for new law

Calling for new law governing replacement of fallen soldiers to Confederate Congress

GLC08145

17 November 1862

Turner, John Addison, fl. 1850-1862

Newspaper

Title: The Countryman. [Vol. 3, no. 8 (November 17, 1862)]

Turnwold Plantation printed newspaper, "The Countryman," two uncut copies of the same issue. Contains an article opposing the education of negroes.

GLC08146

04 September 1863

Plumly, B. Rush (Benjamin Rush), 1816-1887

Autograph letter signed

Title: "Corps d'Afrique"

"Corps d'Afrique" recruiting letter, and card from Plumly's Brigade, 16th Regiment, New Orleans. [Plumly was former underground railroad operator]

GLC08147

October 1814 - March 1815

Manuscript document

Title: War of 1812 Journal

War of 1812 Journal of Privateer Little Wasp

GLC08149

November 1794

Wells, James, fl. 1794

Manuscript document signed

Title: Whiskey Rebellion Traitors

Whiskey Rebellion Traitors - re: "Raising a [liberty] poll...in sign of Treason" Treasonous activity in Bruners Town

GLC08150

30 May 1864

Seddon, James A. (James Alexander), 1815-1880

Manuscript letter signed

Title: to Fendall Griffin

Response to Griffin's request for the release of two slaves impressed into Confederate service. Seddon denies the request on the grounds that Griffin has not provided enough details about the circumstances of the impressment, such as who impressed the slaves and under whose charge they currently served. Written on stationary of the War Department of the Confederate States of America. Seddon was the Confederate Secretary of War.

GLC08154

1862-1863

Header Record

Title: [Collection of 4 documents pertaining to Confederate ironclads] Decimalized

GLC08155

07 May 1862

Lee, Robert E., 1807-1870

Letter signed

Title: to Benjamin Huger

Placement of troops during Petersburg Campaign

GLC08156

28 June 1856

Welles, Gideon, 1802-1878

Autograph letter signed

Title: to unknown

Discusses the prospects of the newly formed republican party in the election of 1856. Comments that some would like to see William Freame Johnston on the ticket but Welles hopes Johnston will withdraw. Also discusses the prospects of Millard Filmore, the Whigs, James Buchanan, and the Know Nothing Party, and comments on their various supporters. William Freame Johnston was nominated by the North American Party to run for vice president with John C. Fremont on the Republican ticket but withdrew.

GLC08161

02 March 1865

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Document signed

Title: Pardon of Prince L. Hudgins

Pardon of Prince L. Hudgins, under indictment in Missouri for conspiring against the government of the U.S.

GLC08163