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Letter signed

to Robert Patterson

1816/03/19

Monroe, James, 1758-1831

Signed as Secretary of State to the Director of the Mint, Patterson. The Mint, in Philadelphia, was being repaired. It was unaffected by the British invasion of Washington.

GLC02002
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Typed letter signed

to Edna Sheldon Blair

March 29, 1922

Harding, Warren G., 1865-1923

President Harding rejects Blair for appointment as a civil service commissioner, "in view of the fact that there is one woman serving on the Board already I have not thought it preferable to consider a woman applicant for the vacancy." Concludes that...

GLC02008
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Document signed

[Land grant for Toppan Webster].

8 August 1807

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Countersigned by Secretary of State James Madison. Grants 100 acres to Webster, an assignee of Samuel Jess, on the basis of the act of Congress appropriating land for former soldiers and for the society of the United Brethren. The act had been...

GLC02010
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Document signed

Pass for John Ford

2 June 1865

Stanton, Edwin M. (Edwin McMasters), 1814-1869

Signed by Edwin Stanton as Secretary of War. Pass for John Ford to visit the stage and private boxes in Ford's Theatre.

GLC02011
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Autograph endorsement signed

to George Washington Custis Lee

circa February 13, 1862

Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889

Autograph endorsement signed in pencil "J.D.", on address leaf of a letter from Weldon N. Edwards to Jefferson Davis dated 13 February 1862 from Raleigh, North Carolina. Edwards, writing as president of the North Carolina Secession Convention, sends...

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Letter signed

to James Tyler Ames

29 November 1861

Field, Cyrus W. (Cyrus West), 1819-1892

Field writes to Ames in Chicopee, Massachusetts. Writes, "As a personal favor to me will you consent to manufacture in the very best manner of the very best materials one repeating gun, similar to the one you saw exhibited to the President in...

GLC02019
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Object

Gold liberty coin

1927

Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945

Coin ca. 32 mm diameter. Collateral to FDR gold order

GLC01983.03
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Document signed

[An act appropriating funds to purchase two lots for building the Mint].

1793/03/02

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

Signed as Secretary of State.

GLC01984
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Newspaper

Columbian centinel. [Vol. 17, no. 12 (April 21, 1792)]

21 April 1792

Russell, Benjamin, 1761-1845

Discusses the recent actions of Congress relating to the establishment of the United States Mint. Describes the actions as: "An act establishing a mint and regulating the coins of the United States."

GLC01984.02
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[Jefferson Indian Peace medal]

1801 ca.

Based on Houdon's bust of Jefferson. Copies of this medal were given by Lewis and Clark to Indians they met on their expedition. See Alfred L. Bush, Life Portraits of Thomas Jefferson, p. 13; Noble E. Cunningham, Jr., The Image of Thomas Jefferson in...

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