1863 ca.

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Pamphlet

Title: The President's dedication address at Gettysburg

Printed by Miller & Mathews. Contains textual variations indicative of a very early printing of the Gettysburg Address.

GLC06811

1852/08/23

Broadside

Title: $2,500 Reward! Mississippi Co., Missouri broadside advertising runaway slaves

Broadside advertising four runaway slaves and their characteristics, offering more compensation if captured in a free state. (With losses to text.)

GLC07238

1863

Everett, Edward, 1794-1865

Book signed

Title: Oration Delivered on the Battlefield of Gettysburg

GLC07743.01

circa 1863

Broadside

Title: [Broadside recruiting African Americans for military service]

Color recruitment broadside depicting a Union soldier holding a United States flag with an attached banner declaring "Freedom to the Slave." In the background on one side, African American troops march holding a United States flag bearing the words "U. S. Regt. Colored Troops." On the other side, African Americans walk into a public school. The Union man stands on a Confederate flag, while a slave tears the flag in half. A broken set of shackles lay in the foreground. On verso, a printed statement declares "All SLAVES were made FREEMEN BY ABRAHAM LINCOLN, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES,…

GLC08249

6 November 1917 circa

N. Y. State Woman Suffrage Party

Broadside

Title: How to vote for woman suffrage amendment, election day, November 6th, 1917

Instructs voters which box to check on the ballot in order to vote in favor ammending the New York State Constitution to allow women the right to vote.

GLC08961

1910 circa

New Jersey Woman Suffrage Association

Broadside

Title: Plain Facts for the Working Man

Encouraging working men to vote for women's suffrage. Argues that letting their wives vote will improve their own situation. States that the wife, who has so many responsibilities, can better take care of the home and the family, if she has the vote.

GLC08962

1915 circa

Woman Suffrage Party of the City of New York

Broadside

Title: Votes for Women! The Woman's Reason

List of arguments for why women should be allowed to vote, including "Because women must obey the laws just as men do, They should vote equally with men. Because women pay taxes just as men do, thus supporting the government, They should vote equally with men. Because women suffer from bad government just as men do...Because women are citizens of a government of the people, by the people, and for the people, and women are people, they should vote equally with men."

GLC08963

1943

United States. Office of War Information

Poster

Title: Ten Years Ago:/ The Nazis burned these books/ ... but free Americans can still read them

OWI Poster no. 66. Government Printing Office # O-528869. Poster in red and black tones. In the center is a black & white photograph showing a crowd of people standing next to a bonfire and giving the Nazi salute.

GLC09520.03

1944

United States. Public Health Service. Division of Nurse Education

Poster

Title: Be a cadet nurse

Image by Jon Whitcomb. NE Poster #3. Government Printing Office # O-599074. Color poster of two women in cadet nurse uniforms. The woman on the left wears a military-style uniform with blue jacket and cap. The woman on the right wears a white nurse's uniform with a nurse's cap. Both women are wearing cadet nurse shoulder patches and caduceus (medical symbol) pins. Captions below title: "For information go to your local hospital or write U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps, Box 88, New York 8, N.Y." "A lifetime education free, for high school graduates who qualify."

GLC09520.04

1942

Office of War Information, Division of Public Inquiries

Poster

Title: We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain-- : remember Dec. 7th!

Government printing Office O-491977. OWI No. 14. Quotes Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. Shows a tattered, torn U.S. flag flies at half-staff as dark smoke billows in the background. Allen Russell Saalburg (1899-1987), artist.

GLC09520.08

1943

United States. Office of War Information. Division of Public Inquiries.

Poster

Title: United/United Nations fight for freedom

OWI No. 79. Government Printing Office # O-534058. Flags of the member nations of the United Nations wave amidst smoke of a bombardment, with military airplanes, ships and tanks in background.

GLC09520.30

1918

United States Food Administration

Poster

Title: Food will win the war

Color poster by Charles E. Chambers of people standing on a boat or shoreline at New York Harbor. They appear to be European immigrants. In the foreground, a man appears to be pleading with a woman holding a basket of food. In the background can be seen part of a large ship, the Statue of Liberty, and a rainbow stretching across the New York skyline. A man waves his cap in that direction.

GLC09522

1943

Geisel, Theodor Seuss, 1904-1991

Poster

Title: Starve the squander bug/buy war bonds

WFD No. 865. Government Printing Office 16-35253-1.

GLC09524

2023

Traveling Exhibition

Title: Who Can Vote?: A Brief History of Voting Rights in the United States (Copy 1)

TE00007.01

December 18, 1785

Washington, George, 1732-1799

Autograph letter signed

Title: to unknown

re: a debt owed him and his shortage of funds.

GLC00655.01

April 3, 1836

Houston, Sam, 1793-1863

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Samuel P. Carson

Written to his Secretary of State. Written at Camp West of Brasos

GLC01172

June 17, 1850

Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852

Printed letter signed

Title: to Robert Hallowell Gardiner

One circular letter addressed to Robert H. Gardiner from Daniel Webster dated June 17, 1850. Pertains to the debate whether slavery will be instilled in New Mexico and Texas, retorts statements published about his remarks on slavery from a speech earlier that year on March 7th.

GLC01231

September 25, 1862

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to John Ross

Protection of the Cherokee Indians against the Confederacy. Ross was the first and only elected Chief of the Cherokee Nation from the time it was formed until his death in 1866. He led the Eastern Cherokee in the "Trail of Tears" west of the Mississippi. Basler, Roy P. The Collection Works Of Abraham Lincoln. (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1953), Vol. V 1861 - 1862, p. 439 - p. 440.

GLC01233.03

January 1, 1866

Dole, William P., 1818-1889

Letter signed

Title: to John Ross

Signed as Commissioner of Indian Affairs.

GLC01233.04

January 2, 1848

Buchanan, James, 1791-1868

Autograph letter signed

Title: to B.S. Schoonover

Discusses his presidential prospects and thanks Schoonover profusely for his support. Describes at length the faithfulness and devotion the people of Pennsylvania have shown him over the years. Mentions that if it was up to him, he would not have sought out the presidency but the support for his nomination was so great that he could not avoid it. Expresses his surprise at learning that Governor Francis Shunk's administration would oppose his nomination since he had exerted all his influence to get the governor elected. Comments that it seems General Lewis Cass and himself will be the…

GLC01239

October 16, 1853

Walker, William, 1824-1860

Autograph letter signed

Title: to George Washington Wright

Writes to Wright, former California Representative, introducing Henry P. Watkins as an agent for the Sonora Enterprise. Intending to combine southern California with Sonora, Mexico, Walker requests that Wright assist Watkins in this enterprise.

GLC01358.01

January 11, 1881

Johnston, Joseph Egleston, 1807-1891

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Fitz-John Porter

Johnston, at the time of this letter was a representative from Virginia, refuses to contribute to a memorial for George Armstrong Custer. Written on Congressional stationery.

GLC01359

December 12, 1794

Washington, George, 1732-1799

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Tobias Lear

Washington expresses pleasure at the Virginia Assembly's passing a bill concerning internal navigation of the Potomac, and mentions the quantities of tobacco in his warehouses and price differentials.

GLC01402

April 1, 1906

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Typed letter signed

Title: to Quentin Roosevelt

Writes to his son regarding family matters and missing his children. Written on White House letterhead with corrections in Roosevelt's hand.

GLC01410.01.01

December 30, 1777

Clinton, George, 1739-1812

Autograph letter signed

Title: to James Duane

Written by Clinton as Governor of New York and a Brigadier General in the Continental Army to Duane as a Continental Congressman. Recipient inferred from the reference to "Mrs. Duane" at the end of the letter. References Duane's letter of 23 December 1777. Says nothing of importance has happened at headquarters. Sends news of movement of Washington's army outside Philadelphia. Reports that British crossed the Schuylkill River and that some minor skirmishes have taken place. The British retreated to Philadelphia and Washington has gone to "Gulph" - near Valley Forge. Says "I believe [they]…

GLC01412.21