28 June 1750

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790

Newspaper

Title: Pennsylvania gazette. [No. 1124 (June 28, 1750)] [Incomplete]

Includes international news from various overseas newspapers. Domestic news and classified ads inhabit pages 2 through 4. Section reserved for announcing the indentured servitude of residents, the return of runaway slaves, and departing ships. Directs reader to accompanying half-sheet for additional advertisements (not included).

GLC06670.146

5 July 1750

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790

Newspaper

Title: Pennsylvania gazette. [No. 1125 (July 5, 1750)] [Incomplete]

Includes international news from various overseas newspapers. Domestic news and classified ads inhabit pages 2 through 4. Section reserved for announcing the indentured servitude of residents, the return of runaway slaves, and departing ships. Directs reader to accompanying half-sheet for additional advertisements (not included).

GLC06670.147

12 July 1750

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790

Newspaper

Title: Pennsylvania gazette. [No. 1126 (July 12, 1750)] [Incomplete]

Includes international news from various overseas newspapers. Domestic news and classified ads inhabit pages 2 through 4. Section reserved for announcing the indentured servitude of residents, the return of runaway slaves, and departing ships. Directs reader to accompanying half-sheet for additional advertisements (not included).

GLC06670.148

2 August 1750

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790

Newspaper

Title: Pennsylvania gazette. [No. 1129 (August 2, 1750)] [Incomplete]

Includes international news from various overseas newspapers. Domestic news and classified ads inhabit page 2. Reports the rescue of a French ship carrying men, women, and children bound for Penobscot Bay. Pages 1 and 2 only.

GLC06670.149

4 January 1759

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790

Newspaper

Title: Pennsylvania gazette. [No. 1567 (January 4, 1759)]

Includes international news from various overseas newspapers. Domestic news and classified ads inhabit pages 2 through 4. Letter to the editors discusses the latest improvements to Pennsylvania Hospital and extends thanks for the community's charity. Section reserved for announcing the indentured servitude of residents, the return of runaway slaves, and departing ships.

GLC06670.150

1865/04/18

Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872

Newspaper

Title: New-York semi-weekly tribune. [Vol. 20, no. 2076 (April 18, 1865)]

Announcement of the assassination of President Lincoln and attempt on Seward's life. Includes a minute-by-minute account of Lincoln's last night under the supervision of his physician, Dr. Abbott. Also includes Captain Theodore McGowen's account of the assasination. The paper is uncut.

GLC08428.08.01

July 1, 1862

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Autograph note signed

Title: Presidential note to Secretary of War Edwin Stanton

Note from Abraham Lincoln asking that Charles F. Johnson be given parole in Cleveland. Johnson is unidentified, but presumably from Senator Lazarus W. Powell's state, Kentucky. Accompanied by photograph (GLC00206.02) of Lincoln and Tad, reading (with tax stamp on back). Printed Basler 5: 300, quoting Parke-Bernet catalog 905 of 1947.

GLC00206.01

9 February 1864

Berger, Anthony, fl. 1864

Photograph

Title: [Photograph of Abraham and "Tad" Lincoln]

Photograph of A. Lincoln and his ten-year-old son "Tad" reading. (with tax stamp on back). An enduring popular image of Lincoln and his youngest son. This informal joint portrait, taken in Brady's Washington studio, features Lincoln seated with a album of carte-de-visites on his lap; Tad, dressed in his best clothes, including watch fob and chain, stood on his father's left while they studied the album.

GLC00206.02

6 March 1849

Madison, Dolley, 1768-1849

Autograph quotation signed

Title: [Quotation for Mrs. Isaac Toucey]

Quotation of 17th century English writer Nicholas Breton, titled Truth, and dated 1616, copied out and signed by Madison. Inscribed "For Mrs. Toucey." "Truth is the glory of Time, and the daughter of Eternity; a title of the highest grace, and a note of divine nature . . . "

GLC02231.01

circa March 1850

Simms, William Gilmore, 1806-1870

Header Record

Title: [Two items from William Gilmore Simms] [Decimalized .01-.02]

GLC00496.224

September 12, 1905

Pierce, Hubert H.D., fl. 1905

Typed letter signed

Title: to William H. Jeffery

Pierce, third assistant Secretary of State, transmits the photograph contained in GLC00861.01. Responds to a 2 September 1905 letter from Jeffery (possibly publisher and printer William Hartley Jeffrey) requesting that Pierce acquire the signatures of the photograph's subjects, including President Theodore Roosevelt. Written on Department of State stationery.

GLC00861.02

15 June 1775

Goldthwaite, Thomas, 1717-1799

Printed document signed

Title: [Custom's document]

Partially printed document signed by Colonel Goldthwait, who was the commanding officer at Fort Pownall in Maine, and countersigned by his future son-in-law, Francis Archbald, Jr., the clerk at Fort Pownall. Certifies Nathan Pendleton of the sloop Seaflower, clearance to the custom's house of Penobscot Port. Specifies that the sloop was bound for New London, Connecticut, and that there were thirty thousand pine boards and fifteen thousand shingles on board.

GLC01412.63.05

August 19, 1775

Lake, Laban, 1750-1832

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Patience Lake

Reports that he is doing well and hopes that she is too. Gives an account of firing of cannons from the fort which escalated to fighting. Part of the address is lost, but the first name appears to be Patience, the name of Lake's wife.

GLC01412.63.06

1865

Header Record

Title: Congressional mourning ribbon for Abraham Lincoln and related letter [Decimalized .01-.03]

Accompanied by a letter of K.G. Ordway, the ribbon's designer and Sergeant at Arms of the House, to Orlando Kellogg, enclosing the ribbon and explaining that it was designed for members of Congress and how to wear it. Also accompanied by a signed card of George T. Brown, Sergeant at Arms of the Senate, permitting Kellogg and family. Dated April 15, 1865 - 29 July 1865.

GLC01423

20 July 1775

Waterbury, David, 1722-1801

Autograph document signed

Title: [Orders of Colonel David Waterbury]

Orders Lieutenant Briggs to proceed to the towns of Rutfield, New Fairfield, Danbury, Reding, and Newton, Connecticut. States the Briggs should give orders to all officers, doctors, and soldiers belonging to the 5th regiment to return immediately as Waterbury has orders to march to Albany right away. Lists six officers absent from camp that Briggs should order to return.

GLC01450.131.01

1775 circa

Seymour, Thomas, 1735-1829

Autograph document signed

Title: [Certification of service for Zephaniah Briggs]

Certifies that Briggs served in Captain Benjamin Lee's company in 1758 as a private soldier.

GLC01450.131.02

circa 1830-1880

Prud'homme, John Francis Eugene, 1800-1892

Engraving

Title: Engraving of Dolley Madison

Hand colored portrait engraving of a middle-age Dolley Madison, drawn by J. Herring after J. Wood.

GLC02231.02

1 March 1860

Photograph

Title: [Photograph of John Browned signed commission for Harper's Ferry]

A photograph of the commission, signed by John Brown as Commander in Chief, appointing Owen Brown a captain in John Brown's army. Document is dated 13 October 1859. Photograph is mounted on heavy piece of cardboard. The photograph is 14.5 x 20 cm, mounting 18.5 x 23 cm.

GLC03007.55

18 September 1862

Oakes, Cyrus, fl. 1862-1864

Autograph letter signed

Title: to S. P. Oakes

Written at Camp Wallace

GLC03136.003

17 September 1865

Book

Title: Hymn-Book for the Army and Navy [signed by Ira S. Dodd]

A book of Army and Navy hymns signed by Ira S. Dodd on 17 September 1865.

GLC03523.01.042

13 January 1743

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790

Newspaper

Title: Pennsylvania gazette. [No. 735 (January 13, 1743)]

Includes international news from various overseas newspapers. Domestic news and classified ads inhabit pages 3 and 4. Section reserved announcing the indentured servitude of residents and the return of runaway slaves.

GLC06670.001

18 January 1743

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790

Newspaper

Title: Pennsylvania gazette. [No. 736 (January 18, 1743)]

Includes international news from various overseas newspapers. Domestic news and classified ads inhabit pages 3 and 4. Section reserved for announcing the indentured servitude of residents and the return of runaway slaves.

GLC06670.002

2 February 1743

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790

Newspaper

Title: Pennsylvania gazette. [No. 738 (February 2, 1743)]

Includes international news from various overseas newspapers. Domestic news and classified ads inhabit pages 2 through 4. Section reserved for announcing the indentured servitude of residents and the return of runaway slaves.

GLC06670.003

10 February 1743

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790

Newspaper

Title: Pennsylvania gazette. [No. 739 (February 10, 1743)]

Includes international news from various overseas newspapers. Domestic news and classified ads inhabit pages 3 and 4. Section reserved for announcing the indentured servitude of residents and the return of runaway slaves.

GLC06670.004

17 February 1743

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790

Newspaper

Title: Pennsylvania gazette. [No. 740 (February 17, 1743)]

Includes international news from various overseas newspapers. Domestic news and classified ads inhabit pages 3 and 4. Section reserved for announcing the indentured servitude of residents and the return of runaway slaves.

GLC06670.005