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Zachariah Chandler carte de visite vignette bust portrait by Brady

Signed on front: "Z.Chandler, Mich."

GLC05597.01

Carte de visite vignette bust portrait by Brady

Signed on front: "John Conness." (Slightly stronger image than the Bogardus.)

GLC05597.03

Garrett Davis, carte de visite vignette bust portrait by Brady

Signed on front: "Garret Davis of Ky." Unionist, turned anti-war in 1864.

GLC05597.04

Jams R. Doolittle, carte de visite vignette bust profile portrait by Brady

Signed on front: "J. R. Doolittle Wis." [Wisconsin added in different hand].

GLC05597.06

Soloman Foot, carte de visite vignette bust profile portrait by Brady

Signed on front: "S. Foot, Vt."

GLC05597.07

Carte de visite vignette bust portrait of James Harlan by Brady

Signed on front: "Jas. Harlan, Iowa."

GLC05597.10

Carte de visite vignette bust portrait by Brady

Signed on front: "Ira Harris, New York."

GLC05597.11

Carte de visite vignette bust portrait of Tomothy O. Howe by Brady

Signed on front: "Timy O. Howe, Wis."

GLC05597.13

Carte de visite vignette bust profile portrait by Brady

Signed on front: "S.C. Pomeroy, Kansas."

GLC05597.17

Carte de visite vignette bust portrait by Brady

Signed on front: "L.W. Powell, Kentucky"

GLC05597.18

Carte de visite vignette bust portrait by Brady

Signed on front: "Willard Saulsbury, Delaware"

GLC05597.19

Carte de visite 3/4 length standing portrait by Brady

Shows Sprague standing near ornate chair. Signed on photograph image area: "Wm Sprague [illegible]."

GLC05597.20

Carte de visite vignette bust portrait by Brady

Signed on front: "JohnB. Henderson, Mo."

GLC05597.21

Carte de visite vignette bust portrait by Gardner

Dating based on existence of pre-printed frame for tax stamp on verso. Another signed photograph in GLC 558.05. Signed on front: "Wm. M. Stewart"

GLC05597.22

Carte de visite vignette bust portrait by Brady

Signed on front: "Geo Read Riddle, Del" ("Del." added in another hand).

GLC05597.25

[Reconstruction era freedmen labor contract]

Spells out terms of work by former plantation slaves, including rules, regulations, wages, and punishments. Signed by ten freed slaves and by J.W. Eggleston as Justice of the Peace. Dated between 26 December 1866 and 28 February 1867.

GLC05531

to the Committee of Correspondence of Wellfleet, Massachusetts

Writing on behalf of Boston's Committee of Correspondence, Cooper gives comments on the opinion of Bostonians regarding tea sold without tax.

GLC05537

to unknown

Asks his correspondent to deliver a letter. Requests that he be sent an act from his correspondent's state concerning interstate import duties. Discusses Rhode Island's opposition to impost duties called for by Congress under the Articles of...

GLC05538

to Captain Denny

Discusses a dispute between the United States and the Six Nations over land. Contends that "there is nothing in the Constitution...that gives the Legislature much less the Executive a shadow of Power to cede...a single foot of ground, the...

GLC05542

A Comprehensive and Explanatory Dictionary of the English Language

Published by Jenks, Hickling and Swann, 1854. Signed on front loose endpaper: "Jno G. Nicolay / Springfield, Ill. / Dec 19th 1858."

GLC05552

Union Martyrs. [Photographs of Union generals killed during the war (maquette)]

"Union Martyrs." Maquette of 17 trimmed CDVs of Union Generals killed in the Civil War, mounted on board (as a maquette) for reproduction by photographic studio. Attributed to Brady studio by previous owner. Each mounted with a white curling border...

GLC05558

Resolution of Congress dealing with the British occupation of N.Y.

GLC05571

to John Dickinson re: announcing treaty and calling for ratification

Signed as President of Congress. Docketed on free frank.

GLC05578

to H. Hollingsworth re: order to purchase or seize food

[At height of Valley Forge supply crisis.]

GLC05581

[Report of a meeting to elect envoys from the Colony of Rhode Island to King Charles II].

Also signed by William Brenton, William Raulston, Benedict Arnold, and John Froster. William Dyer and John Green were asked to serve as envoys "in the name & behalfe of the whole Colony."

GLC05582

Patience Wilsons bill present unto the honoured court 29 (2) 1647.

Also signed by Will Colbron, John Jackson, and Speaker of the House Joseph Sills. An itemized bill for an addition to the prison. Docketed. Signed on the verso as Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Winthrop refers the bill to Magistrate...

GLC05583

to Nellie Taft re: tired of living without his wife

"Charley and I agreed last night that we were tired of living without our wives. We don't feel quite respectable and we are confident we are not happy." Writes that he wants to get a railroad car for his wife and others to travel in comfort....

GLC05585.02

to Nellie Taft re: President McKinley, nomination, politics and campaigning

Mentions that President McKinley believes he has friends in Cincinnati. One person who he assumed was his friend would prefer to nominate someone else. Mentions that his walks on Syracuse Hill are for medical purposes.

GLC05585.03

Ordering troops to Lunenburg and Halifax

Ordering Col. Thomas to take troops to relieve the garrison at Lunenburg (N.S.) and then for the relieved officer to go to Halifax.

GLC05588.02

[John L. Worden]

Depicts Worden seated with crossed legs with foremost arm resting on a small table.

GLC05595.03

Carte de visite vignette bust portrait of William G. Brownlow with retouching

GLC05596.03

Carte de visite 3/4 profile, half-length portrait, by Sarony, with AQS on verso

With a short quotation from his own poetry on verso: "Truth crushed to earth shall rise again...."

GLC05596.04

Carte de visite "Mezzo-Tinto photograph" bust portrait of Caleb Cushing

Vignette image. Cushing wears an unusual tie which appears to be speckled and tied in the "four-in-hand" method.

GLC05596.05

Daniel S. Dickinson, carte de visite half length portrait by Brady

Said to have been beaten by Andrew Johnson for Lincon's second Vice President.

GLC05596.06

Carte de visite vignette bust portrait by Landy

GLC05596.07

Carte de visite half-length portrait by Brady

Fenton was New York's first Republican governor.

GLC05596.08

[Horace Greeley]

Carte de visite half-length seated portrait

GLC05596.10

Carte de visite profile bust portrait of Reverdy Johnson by Bedann, with 3 cent revenue stamp verso

GLC05596.12

Carte de visite half length standing portrait of James R. Lowell by Warren

Shows the poet standing with his hand draped over the top of a chair, holding his hat, and wearing a substantial beard.

GLC05596.14

Carte de visite vignette bust portrait

Assistant Postmaster General under Lincoln (1864) and served as U.S. Postmaster General 1866-69.

GLC05596.17

Carte de visite bust portrait

GLC05596.18

Carte de visite 3/4 length seated portrait by Brady, published by Anthony

GLC05596.19

Carte de visite vignette bust portrait

GLC05596.20

Carte de visite 3/4 length seated portrait

Whittlesy served as Lincoln's Comptroller of the Treasury. Portrait shows a very old man in the seat.

GLC05596.21

Carte de visite half length profile portrait by Brady, published by Anthony

(Autograph also available in GLC 4224, autograph album.)

GLC05596.22

Carte de visite vignette bust protrait by Bogardus

Signed on front: "John Conness, Cala., U.S.S."

GLC05597.02

Carte de visite vignette bust portrait by Brady

Signed on front: "John Dixon, Connecticut." (Autograph also available in GLC 4224, autograph album.)

GLC05597.05

Carte de visite vignette bust portrait by Brady

Signed on front: "J.W. Grimes, Iowa" ("Iowa" in a different hand). Grimes, from Iowa, was instrumental in getting a not-guilty verdict in President Johnson's impeachment.

GLC05597.08

Carte de visite vignette bust portrait of Benjamin F. Harding

Signed on front: "B. F. Harding."

GLC05597.09

Carte de visite vignette bust portrait by Brady

Signed on front: "J.M. Howard, Mich." Howard served as Senator from Michigan, 1861-71.

GLC05597.12

Carte de visite vignette bust portrait of Henry S. Lane

Signed on front: "H.S. Lane, Ind." Another signed portrait in GLC 558.04. (Autograph also available in GLC 4224, autograph album.)

GLC05597.14

Carte de visite bust portrait, seated in chair

Signed on front: "J. A. McDouglall, Calf."

GLC05597.15

Carte de visite vignette bust portrait

(Somewhat better version in GLC 2095.) Signed on front: "Charles Sumner"

GLC05597.23

Carte de visite vignette bust portrait by Brady

Signed on front: "Alex Ramsey Min."

GLC05597.24

Grand Review of the Armies of Grant and Sherman. Reviewing stand

E. & H. T. Anthony & Co., publisher. Caption: "Grand Review of the Great Veteran Armies of Grant and Sherman at Washington, on the 23d and 24th May, 1865. The Army of the Potomac. The stand in front of the President's House occupied by the President...

GLC05137.253

Grand Review of the Armies of Grant and Sherman. Maj. Gen. Humphrey and Staff

E. & H. T. Anthony & Co., publisher. Caption: "Grand Review of the Great Veteran Armies of Grant and Sherman at Washington, on the 23d and 24th May, 1865. The Army of the Potomac. Looking up Pennsylvania Avenue from the Treaury Buildings. Maj. Gen...

GLC05137.254

Grand Review of the Armies of Grant and Sherman. Maj. Gen. Humphrey and Staff

E. & H. T. Anthony & Co., publisher. Negative by Brady & Co., Washington. Same as GLC 5137.254. Caption: "Grand Review of the Great Veteran Armies of Grant and Sherman at Washington, on the 23d and 24th May, 1865. The Army of the Potomac. Looking...

GLC05137.255

Grand Review of the Armies of Grant and Sherman. Maj. Gen. Frank Blair and Staf

E. & H. T. Anthony & Co., publisher. Negative by Brady & Co., Washington. Caption: "Grand Review of the Great Veteran Armies of Grant and Sherman at Washington, on the 23d and 24th May, 1865. The Army of the Potomac. Looking up Pennsylvania Avenue...

GLC05137.256

[Frederick Douglass]

Inscribed on front "Frederick Douglass. Born 1817." Inscribed verso: "Frederick Douglass. Born February 1817." With newspaper obituary pasted on the back. The albumen surface has been slightly scratched.

GLC05146

W.T. Sherman, General

Handsome image inscribed "W.T. Sherman. General." Imprint on back "Imperial Carte DeVisite by Brady." Pencil note of previous owner on back: "became Gen. in 1869. ta[ken at] 49 [i.e., in 1869]. Edges have been slightly trimmed affecting the print.

GLC05149

[Mary E. Walker, M.D.]

Photograph of the Civil War surgeon Mary Walker wearing her army Medal of Honor. Walker's medal was revoked in 1917 when conditions for the medal were changed to warrant only battle conditions. Her Medal of Honor was reinstated in 1977. An...

GLC05152

to Simeon Baldwin re: American Colonization Society Report (printed letter)

Slavery-related circular letter concerning the death of the Society's agents in Africa who had sought to save recaptured colonists, and calling for continuing efforts. Caldwell was Secretary of the American Colonization Society.

GLC05157

National Guard camp. Four men near a tent. With Maltese cross emblem on tent

No identification. Handwritten on back: "S.M. Mitchell, M.D., L. Johnson, J. W. Fritz, Bethlehem, Pa. July 1860, Camp of the National Guard." One man lies on a make-shift bed just inside a tent. Another man sits beside him, another leans against...

GLC05137.246

National Guard camp. Soldiers and young boy in uniform sitting inside a tent

No identification. Handwritten on back: "July 1860. Capt. Durang, Capt. Jas. W. McLeddy & Son George, Bethelem, Pa., 1860." The men are both wearing white pants. On a plain, cream colored mount.

GLC05137.247

National Guard camp. Lone soldier in a field wearing harness for drum or flag

A single soldier standing at attention. Handwritten on verso: "Capt. Wm. K. Mcferrier, Camp Scene, Behtlehem, Pa. 1860, National Guards" On a plain, cream colored mount.

GLC05137.248

National guard in camp at Bethlehem, PA

Several men standing outside a tent with a sign on it that says "Little [illegible]". Handwritten on back: "DeWitt C. Baxter, H. Sternverger, John S. Duns, R.H. Jacobs, E. W. Ferry, John Warner, Camp Scene, Bethlehem, Pa. 1860." The men are wearing...

GLC05137.249

National guard encampment, man and son

Same as GLC 5137.247. Writing on back in same hands as GLC 5137.247 but not the same note. "National Guard, Bethlehem, Pa., July 1860" "Leddy & son during camp of the [illegible] National Guard." On a plain, cream colored mount.

GLC05137.251

National guard encampment, soldier in tent

A soldiers in a tent. Handwritten on back: W. C. Macferrir (sp?), Camp of National Guards, Bethlehem, Pa. July 1860." "W. Macfenan in tent." Good view of tent interior. On a plain, cream colored mount.

GLC05137.252

Soldiers near a tent, Richmond, July 1864

Four officers outside a tent. Two officers in foreground in heavily decorated, ornate uniforms with helmets and plumes. A black man in the background. No identification. Handwritten on back: "At Richmond, July 1884. Dr. Jones in foreground...

GLC05137.265

Camp Princeton, July, 1873

J.B. Brown, Photographer, Philadelphia. Stereoscopic Views of Camp Princeton, 5th Reg. M.N.G., Cape May, N.J., July, 1873. Group of soldiers sitting under a tent.

GLC05137.268

to William M. Price

Jackson writes of his reliance on the "virtue and incorruptibility, of the sovereign people" who will never surrender their sovereign power to the "despotic rule, and government, of a moneyed Rogocracy."

GLC05138

[R.W. Emerson]

Carte de visite bust portrait of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Note by previous owner on verso: "1803-1882 t[aken] @ [age] 58 = 1861."

GLC05141

Cabinet card photograph by Warren's Portraits, 3/4 seated

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, three-quarter length portrait, seated. Notes from collector inscribed on verso.

GLC05142

Clara Barton

Half-bust portrait showing Barton wearing medals. With note on back (apparently in her handwriting): "I have had some old time pictures brought down to convenient size for letters. Will you kindly accept." Pencil note of a previous owner: "t[aken]...

GLC05143

[Henry Ward Beecher]

Verso has pencil notes of previous owner: "t[aken] @ 62-65 = 1878."

GLC05144

Johnny Clem, "Drummer Boy of Chickamauga"

Mounted. Ex-Greenway collection. Nice image. Signed "Very truly yours, Jns. L. Clem." Inscription on mount reads "Sergeant Johnny Clem and his autograph. Photo taken at Chicamauga, at 12 years of age and after two years os service and after promotion...

GLC05145

Corneilis Vanderbilt

Three quarter length portrait. Signed on verso. Imprint: "D'Utassy's, formerly (Johnson, Williams & Co.)"

GLC05151

Large albumen photograph, signed twice

Signed twice, once on albumen and once on mount. Per Charles Hamilton, signature and painted clothing on photograph look wartime.

GLC05153

Instructions for officers entrusted with public money

Instruction to "any officer of the army of the United States... who hath been or shall be entrusted with or accountable for the public money."

GLC05155

Message from the President [re: ratification of the 11th Amendment]

"Message from the President... Concerning the suability of states, in pursuance of a Resolution of the two houses, of the second of March last." First edition, printed by order of the House of Representatives.

GLC05161

Five albumen photographs of Annapolis, officer training and sailors [word processed inventory available]

Includes: 1. Gunnery Molde Room, 2. Infantry [sic] Drill, 3. Inside of Arm Ward, 4. Dress Parade in Summer, and 5. Hager's Class of 1861.

GLC05173

Stereograph view of Citadel at Fort Morgan showing effects of Farragut's shells

GLC05174.01

Stereograph view of freight shed at Savannah, by J.N. Wilson

GLC05174.02

The History of Woman Suffrage... in Four Volumes, Vol. IV. 1883-1900

Inscribed to Emily M. Gross. Edited by Anthony and Ida Husted Harper. Published by Susan B. Anthony.

GLC05175

[Richard Yates]

Inlaid on paper.

GLC05177

Republican "Wide-Awake," sixth-plate ruby glass ambrotype, election of 1860

Depicts a serious young man in a waterproof cap and cape, holding an oil torch. The image has been painted to suggest light from the torch. The "wide awakes" led processions supporting Lincoln in the election of 1860. Nevins "Emergence of Lincoln"...

GLC05187

to Colonel Beall

Orders Beall to pursue and overtake a party of Indians escaping to Florida during the second Seminole War.
Written at Camp Roanoke.

GLC05197

Public good: being an examination into the claim of Virginia... [land claims]

Full title: "Public good: Being an examination into the claim of Virginia to the vacant Western Territory, and of the right of the United States to the same." Published by Charles R. & George Webster. (Not first edition.) An account of the question...

GLC05213

[Affidavit on the Battle of Lake Erie]

Also signed by Holmes Weaver. Deposition describing the naval actions at the Battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812, focusing on Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry and Captain Jesse D. Elliot. Claims that on the 10th of September, 1813, Elliot "did...

GLC05225.01

[Affidavit on the Battle of Lake Erie]

Deposition describing the naval actions on 10 September 1813 at the Battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812, focusing on Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry and Captain Jesse D. Elliot. Claims that Elliot "did not do his duty in the action on that...

GLC05225.02

Collection of 42 cyanotype photographs of the Fitchburg, Massachusetts Railroad [decimalized .01-.13]

The Fitchburg railroad ran from Massachusetts into Vermont and New York. The photographs were taken in E. Deerfield, North Adams, and Fitchburg. Images include railroad personnel, locomotives, tunnels, and trestles. These photographs create an...

GLC05235

Views of electric light plant and electric light inside Hoosac Tunnel

Lot includes three different views of the exterior of this very early electric light plant; view of two employees and dynamo inside the plant; and an intriguing view of an electric light in operation inside the tunnel! The technical difficulties of...

GLC05235.01

Employees of engineering office

Various views of employees of the Engineering Office of Fitchburg Railroad Co. (F.R.R.), including three copies of a portrait of the bearded "Pat" O'Hara and his penetrating eyes; "Der Gang" sitting under a gas jey; two prints of a surveying party in...

GLC05235.02

Views of coaling trestle, East Fitchburg

Different views of a coaling trestle in East Fitchburg, Massachusetts, in winter.

GLC05235.03

Steam locomotives and trains

7 cyanotypes of F.R.R. steam locomotives.

GLC05235.04

Birdseye views of roundhouse and train yard in winter

# 1) "Fitchburg." View of train yard in the winter. Many train cars lined up on tracks, various buildings. Town visible in the rear of image. # 2) Typed inscription: "North Adams, Mass." Appears to be an aerial view of the Rail yard and town....

GLC05235.05

Boston & Albany boxcars in train yard

Two views of the rail yard, North Adams, Mass.

GLC05235.06

F.R.R. East Deerfield, Mass.

Title from verso. Two rail cars atop a wooden railroad bridge over the Deerfield river in East Deerfield, Mass.

GLC05235.07

[Trolley car]

Trolley car with four sets of bench seats.

GLC05235.08

Composite images of railroad tracks going around a curve

Five copies (three double exposures) of a curve in the rail line near the Deerfield River.

GLC05235.09