1893 ca.

Fitchburg Railroad Company

Header Record

Title: View South from office window Fitchburg

Two copies of the same image, looking over roundhouse and town in winter.

GLC05235.12

1893 ca.

Fitchburg Railroad Company

Header Record

Title: View up Main St. from office window F.R.R. Fitchburg, Mass.

Two copies of the same image. Title from verso. Main St. branches off in two directions. One branch passes the "American House" and the other branch passes in front of a hardware store. A trolley line runs in the center of the street in front of the hardware store. People with horses and wagons are on the triangular piece of land created by the merging of the roads.

GLC05235.13

circa 1696

Sanson, Nicholas, 1600-1667

Map

Title: Carte generale de la Caroline dresse sur les memoirs le plus nouveaux

Map of North and South Carolina in an early period of settlement. Includes an inset of the area around Charleston, which locates plantations. This copy has a pencil note "1740" in margin, but no evidence for dating. In fact, this map remained current without change in French atlases for more than half a century. Borders are colored in pink, yellow, and green. Reference number: Cumming 120, Phillips 3448.

GLC05236

12 March 1776

Faden, William, fl. 1750-1836

Map

Title: A Chart of Delaware Bay and River

Chart by Joshua Fisher. Depicts areas of Western New Jersey, Delaware, and Pennsylvania. There is extra shading on the shorelines of these states. Engraved by William Faden. Includes list of river pliots who subscribed to have it published. Slight tears and burns on edges. Lists 22 pilots and 22 "Masters of Vessels."

GLC05237

1722

De L'Isle, Guillaume, fl. 1718

Map

Title: Carte d'Amerique

Mercator projection including North and South America, with parts of Western Europe and Africa. Boundaries outlined in color. Shows North America from French perspective with English colonies restricted to the coast. Includes latitude and longitude lines and various port cities. Note marked "advertisement" on bottom right hand corner. Marked "70" on verso.

GLC05238

1864

Buttre, John Chester, 1821-1893

Print

Title: Abraham Lincoln President of the United States

Done after a Mathew Brady photograph. Shows Lincoln surrounded by an emblematic border done by New York illustrator William Momberger. The images in the borders portray the defeat of the dragon "Secession," freed slaves, western emigration, rural prosperity, and eventual peace between North and South.

GLC05239

8 October 1846

Dorr, Thomas Wilson, 1805-1854

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Metcalf Marsh

Discusses complaints against a physician for neglect. Asks Marsh to obtain a position in a post office for a friend of the "constitutional cause." Marked "Private." Dorr had been released from prison the previous year; he had been convicted of treason to the state of Rhode Island after the Dorr Rebellion.

GLC05240

1862-1863

Magie, James K., fl. 1862-1863

Header Record

Title: Collection of James K. Magie, C company, 78th regiment, Illinois, infantry [Decimalized .01-.51]

Private in the Army of the Cumberland. The letters are written to his wife, Mary, who lived in Macomb, Illinois. (There are 46 manuscript items plus 5 printed items which include 3 newspaper clippings.) Magie also held the position of Brigade Postmaster while stationed in Franklin, Tennessee. This position allowed him to make frequent trips into Nashville, where he bought newspapers for 5 cents each and sold them in camp for 10 cents. He frequently discusses his profits and cautions his wife not to let anyone else know how much money he is able to send her. At home Magie was a co-owner…

GLC05241

1801/04/25

Boudinot, Elias, 1740-1821

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Jacob Burnett re: Jefferson inaugural, Napoleonic wars

GLC05242

11 May 1784

Hall, Lyman, 1724-1790

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Susa Street

Regrets he was not there for his mother's last illness and thanks Street for the care given to her. Is himself elderly and advises against his friends and relatives coming to Georgia, as "they may sicken soon & die." If he envies anyone, "it is him who content with a little, enjoys that little without anxiety, loves God, & has his delight in Jesus Christ, looks forward with pleasing expectation of the glory that shall scarcely shall be revealed; that lyes down to sleep, indifferent whether he awakes in this or in the other world." Sends his blessing to his relations. Hall was a…

GLC05243

26 September 1862

Knowlton, Henry C., 1828-1926

Autograph letter signed

Title: to [Harlow Higinbotham]

Addressed only to "Dear Friend." Discusses mutual acquaintances and personal matters. His friend is in Clarksburg, West Virginia and he asks him "What sort of a place is Clarksburg?...Have you seen any guerillas yet!" Discusses the Emancipation Proclamation, "What do you think of Lincoln's 'emancipation proclamation?' To use Artemas Ward's elegant phraseology I think that it is 'hunky' every way." Mentions Stephen Douglas and states "I wish Douglas had lived, but he would rather be dead, than living, to see the degeneracy of some of his professed disciples." On letterhead of the…

GLC05244

1900-1910

Horsfall, Charles G., fl. 1900-1910

Header Record

Title: Collection of letters of Charles Horsfall [decimalized .01-.53]. [various places]

Writes to his children and wife about Klondike gold fields, mining, life in Alaska, Mormons, and the 1906 election. Horsfall was a Mormon.

GLC05245

1814

Shaler, William, 1773-1833

Autograph manuscript

Title: Diary as secret US agent re: negotiations at Ghent, meetings, confidences

Shaler's diary from Ghent where he served temporarily on the Peace Commission while on his way to Algiers to negotiate a treaty. Shaler gained the confidence of Henry Clay, who relayed to him the negotiating positions of both sides. The book does not include his service in Algiers.

GLC05246.03

1826

Shaler, William, 1773-1833

Book

Title: Sketches of Algiers, political, historical and civil...

Printed by Cummings, Hilliard and Company. First edition. Original worn paperboards and quarter leather. Written by Shaler as American Consul General at Algiers. Includes chapter 7 "Extracts of the journal kept in the consulate of the United States, at Algiers," which appears to be the only original materials. (The rest appears to derive from other works, as per Shaler's preface.)

GLC05246.04

1935

Shaler, William, 1773-1833

Book

Title: Journal of a voyage between China and... America...in 1804

Collateral. Modern fine press reprint (no. 164) by the Saunder Studio Press, with an introduction by Lindley Bynum and illustrations by Ruth Saunders. Facsimiles of the titlepage and beginning reprinted from the Huntington Library copy. This is the first separate printing in book form. It originally appeared in the American Register, 1808. It is said to be the earliest first-hand account of California by an American.

GLC05246.05

June 14, 1849

Houston, Sam, 1793-1863

Letter signed

Title: Legal document in re Houston v. Jas. Hastarr re: land bought from Austin

GLC05248

November 27, 1871

Dewitt County Board of Freeholders

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Petition for election to determine if DeWitt County, Texas should aid in the construction of the Gulf Western Texas and Pacific Railway]

Made pursuant to a 12 April 1870 state act authorizing counties, cities, and towns to aid internal improvements. Signed by sixty-five men, several from both sides of the Sutton-Taylor feud. Date from docket.

GLC05249

3 January 1868

McGuire, Andrew M., fl. 1867

Manuscript

Title: [Witness' statements in Missouri v. Andrew McGuire regarding Richmond bank robbery]

Signed by Mary Ann Harlow, George Wasson, F.H. Conkey, R. Rimmer, A. Childs, Thomas Woodson, B. Murfee, G. Limerick, Jesse Dean, John Brock, James Chichester, William Barton, John Barnhill, Philip Woodson, Martha Gilpin, George Wapon, and B. Minifer as witnesses. Signed by D.H. Quisenberry, presiding over proceedings. Witnesses report seeing McGuire and four to seven others on the road to Richmond, Missouri, and at the robbery site. Witnesses physically identified defendant and his horse. McGuire identified as a "bushwhacker" and his character is attested to. Witnesses describe the murder…

GLC05250

1828/09/12

Warrington, H., fl. 1828

Autograph letter signed

Title: to: Italian ambassador.

Written as British emissary, to the Italian ambassador, concerning an offer of $100,000 to prevent kidnappings of British nationals.

GLC05251

1862 ca.??

Gibson, Randall Lee, 1832-1892

Photograph

Title: Tintype standing portrait, wearing regulation CSA frock coat

GLC05253

1861/11/22

Letter

Title: to Randall L. Gibson re: transferring command to Columbus, Ky.

Letter signed by J. F.(?). Illegible as Major, La. [illegible]. Docketed. Collateral to tintype, GLC 5253

GLC05253.02

15 June 1865

Johnston, Joseph Egleston, 1807-1891

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Colonel Ewell

Possibly to Richard S. Ewell. Johnston's wife, Lydia Mulligan McLane Johnston, wrote to Ewell two days before. Discusses the travels of other acquaintances in Virginia, including Mr. Paxson. Writes, "...we are here- Mainly in the hope that such an addition to the natural attractions of the place might bring you to join us- The society of another unpardoned rebel like you would make me contented as long as you might choose to stay. If you can't come, which the death of greenbacks may make possible, you must give the feeble indemnity of longer and more frequent letters- a fuller…

GLC05254

1862-1865

Pamphlet

Title: Three pamphlets regarding the Civil War and Lincoln assassination [Decimalized .01-.03]

Collection of three pamphlets: 1) "Opinion on the Constitutional power of the Military to try and Execute the Assassins of th president", 2) "The Loyalist's Ammunition", 3) "Expusion of Mr. Bright : Speech of Hon. Andrew Johnson, of Tennessee, in the Senate of the United States, Friday, January 31, 1862."

GLC05255

1820-1890

Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851

Header Record

Title: Collection of two items pertaining to James Fenimore Cooper [Decimalized .01-.02]

GLC05258

1895/03/06

Crane, Stephen, fl. 1895

Autograph letter signed

Title: to James Billson re: drinking exploits in Galveston, Texas

Drinking exploits with the Mayor of Galveston and the editor of "Galveston News." With TLS of Sam H. Penland re: Crane's visit. Written at Galveston

GLC05259