1862/10/21

Cooper, Peter, 1791-1883

Pamphlet

Title: A letter from Peter Cooper to ....Abraham Lincoln

Addressing opposition to slavery and duty of govt to induce slaves to fight for the Union. Printed with "what they have to do who stay at home" regarding the Sanitary Commission by F.L. Olmstead. Loyal Publication Society, No. 28-Part II. Disbound

GLC06853

1867

Book

Title: Six hundred dollars a year: a wife's effort at low living under high prices

Contains information for women on managing household finances, making money, and filling out tax forms. Complains of high taxes. Written in the form of one anonymous woman's experience. Anonymous. Printed by Ticknor & Fields.

GLC06854

1868/05/21

Newspaper

Title: Revolution. [Vol. 1, no. 20 (May 21, 1868)]

Disbound. Paginated [305]-320. Edited by E.C. Stanton and Parker Pillsbury. Includes editorial by Stanton "The Last Republican Lamp has Gone out" and articles. This issue records the annual meeting of the American Equal Rights Association. Although it survived only for two years, the weekly "made a contribution to the women's cause out of proportion to either its size, brief lifespan, or modest circulation" (Griffith, Elizabeth Cady Stanton).

GLC06855

1896 ca.

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902

Pamphlet signed

Title: Bible and church degrade women

Group of 3 essays dealing with women's status in church and suffrage. Inscribed to Rev. William Gannet (?) with quotation on the first page of the text: "Progress is the victory of a new thought over an old superstition" Printed by the Office of Free Thought Magazine

GLC06856

1849

Mott, Lucretia, fl. 1849-1860

Pamphlet

Title: A Sermon to the medical students

First edition. 12mo. Printed gray wrappers. An important speech on anti-slavery and women's rights. Described on the cover as a "revised Phonographic Report." Mott rejects the doctrine of original human depravity, credits the birth of reform movements to "people... thinking and acting for themselves." Other topics include abolition (which caused some people to leave the meeting), capital punishment, and peace. DAB notes that Mott was acknowledged as a minister among the Quakers. The Feminist Companion pp. 766-777 notes this sermon as especially noteworthy.

GLC06857

1882

Hanson, E.R., fl. 1882

Book

Title: Our woman workers. Biographical sketches of women... in the Universalist Church.

Title continued: "for literacy, philanthropic and Christian work." Inscribed by Mary Livermore to her daughters. Among those profiled: Clara Barton, Alice and Phoebe Cary, M. Louise Thomas, Elizabeth Oakes Smith, and Frances Dana Gage. (Title is "Our Woman [sic] Workers.") Accompanied by a loose printed poem, laid-in, from a newspaper.

GLC06858

1920

Grimke, Angelina W., 1880-1958

Book

Title: Rachel. A play in three acts

First play written, produced, and acted by African-Americans, attempting to dramatize racial inequities. The program notes call the play "the first attempt to use the stage for race propaganda in order to enlighten the American people relative to the lamentable condition of ten millions of colored citizens in this free republic." Printed by the Cornhill Company. Brown boards. Angelina Weld Grimke was the daughter of Archibald Grimke, nephew of the Grimke sisters.

GLC06859

1837

Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885

Book

Title: Right and Wrong in Boston. Annual report of the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Soc.

Subtitle: "Annual report of the Boston Female Anti-slavery Society, with a sketch of obstacles thrown in the way of emancipation by certain clerical abolitionists and advocates for the subjection of women." Printed by Isaac Knapp. 16mo. Rebound. Women formed their own anti-slavery societies in Philadelphia, Boston, Andover and elsewhere. The report chides clergy for hobbling anti-slavery efforts and digresses from anti-slavery to address "the sphere of women," a major issue in that year. In 1837, the societies held a national convention in New York and were widely ridiculed in the press.…

GLC06860

1854/10/23

Phillips, Wendell, 1811-1884

Letter signed

Title: to Charles T. Beach re: printed circular letter on anti-slavery

"The present is the most auspicious period for the diffusion of antislavery statements." Counter signed by Francis Jackson.

GLC06862

1864 ca.

Object

Title: Red, white and blue, "Union" patriotic folding paper lantern

Lantern made from corrugated wove paper with cardboard top and base, hanging loop and internal metal candle holder. The paper is printed with blue horizontal stripes (on upper) and red-white vertical stripes (on bottom). The word "Union" (hard to read) is printed at top in the blue as part of the design, with printed Eagles. Too fragile for exhibtion (per SLD 10/9/01).

GLC06864

24 March 1848

Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895

Newspaper

Title: North star. [Vol. 1, no. 13 (March 24, 1848)]

Douglass' Abolitionist newspaper; re: Theodore Parker's John Quincy Adams eulogy, anti-slavery meetings, etc. Waterstained across top.

GLC06865

1862-1865 ca.

Broadside

Title: To the women of New England [circular letter]

Circular letter written to Chairman of the Selectmen of Eaton Grant, Mass. U.S. Sanitary Commission, explaining purpose and seeking national support.

GLC06866

1833

Child, Lydia Maria Francis, 1802-1880

Book signed

Title: An Appeal in the Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans

First book of American abolitionist movement; inscribed in pencil with respects of "the author" to J. J. Dixwell. Exlibris stamp of Meadville Theological School on top, with duplicate sold stamp. Includes engravings.

GLC06867

1865/04/15

Newspaper

Title: Chicago tribune. [Vol. 18, no. 280 (April 15, 1865)]

"The Terrible end." "The news reaches us just as we are going to press, and we hold our forms open to the last moment." The central column has "Postscript. 4 o'clock A.M. Terrible News." Lincoln assassination issue. Foxed.

GLC06869

14 June 1864

F.T. Cooper & A.N. Kimball

Newspaper

Title: Daily Mississippian. [Vol. 3, no. 39 (June 14, 1864)]

re: Genl Sheridan's defeat by Hampton's cavalry near Richmond, Death of Genl Ambrose Burnside; printed in exile in Selma, AL. Lamination repairs at edges and center

GLC06870

1864/01/04

Newspaper

Title: Spirit of the age. [Vol. 15, no. 20 (January 4, 1864)]

A scene in the life of General Stonewall Jackson, negro troops

GLC06871

1 April 1865

Selby, Julian A., 1833-?

Newspaper

Title: Columbia phoenix. [Vol. 1, no. 5 (April 1, 1865)]

Capture, sack, and destruction of the city of Columbia. Evacuation of Charleston.

GLC06872

1864/04/27

Newspaper

Title: Camden weekly confederate. [Vol. 3, no. 4 (April 27, 1864)]

Reprinting of official Yankee account of storming of Ft. Pillow by Genl. Forrest; Battle of Bull Run; Battle of Derussy

GLC06873

2 January 1863

Broadside

Title: The Courier. [January 2, 1863]

Evening edition. Latest news from Vicksburg. "Heavy skirmishing -- A general engagement soon expected." Printed on small onlong piece of necessity paper 2 days before surrender of Vicksburg, 4 days before surrender of Port Hudson.

GLC06874

8 July 1863

Gardner, William, fl. 1863

Broadside

Title: General Order No. 61.

"Every man can feel the proud satisfaction that he has done his part in the heroic defense of Port Hudson. The place is surrendered at the last moment it is proper to hold it." Printed on necessity paper inside the fort. Uneven inking and spotting overall. Old paste adhesive stains, possibly from posting.

GLC06875

1777

Book

Title: Annual Register. History, politics and literature for the year 1776. Vol. 19

Printed by J. Dodsley. Includes first English printing of the Declaration of Independence. Bookplate of L.H. King Harmen.

GLC06876

1751/05/01

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790

Document signed

Title: Promissary notes no. 15, no. 16 to raise funds for Pennsylvania hospital

First American incorporated public hospital; no. 16 is signed in by Franklin; subscribers signatures excised as cancellation.

GLC06877

1805/10

Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813

Autograph document signed

Title: Medical bill to the estate of Manuel Eyre (c/s Samuel Griffits)

With separate consultation bill by Samuel P. Griffits ("Griffetts")

GLC06878

1918/06/19

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Typed letter signed

Title: to W.S. Rainsford

Misaddressed to "Ranisford." TR writes in part "I think vulgar boasting and vulgar depreciation of the courage and efficiency of our enemies represent the nadir of patriotism and good taste..." On stationery of the Kansas City Star. Corrected in T.R.'s hand.

GLC06879

1914/12/12

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Typed letter signed

Title: to W. S. Rainsford

"I am a radical and I could never be anything else; but I am a sane radical and I know we cannot get people to digest too much radicalism..." Corrected in T.R.'s hand. On personal stationery. Some water damage to inks.

GLC06880