1830/05/25

Austin, Stephen F., 1793-1836

Manuscript document

Title: Official copy, permitting Hugh Witt to get land & settle in Texas (in Spanish)

Written in Spanish, signed for Austin by Samuel May Williams. Streeter, Texas 9.

GLC02930

1833/04/29

Ogden, Thomas L., fl. 1833

Broadside

Title: New Arkansas & Texas Land Co. grant to Sylvester Davis (cos. Jackson & Curtis)

Numbered 3895. Cosigned by Daniel Jackson and Edward Curtis. Streeter, Texas Rev. 1138.1.

GLC02933

1839/10/16

Kendall, Amos, 1789-1869

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Mark Healy

Wishes to know why his desire to purchase land in Arkansas and Mississippi should be related to Mr. Moore's actions, and hopes to have the situation resolved soon. On verso, what appears to be Healy's draft of a response, written in pencil. Free frank of Kendall as "P.M.G."

GLC02976

1841/04/29

Clopper, Nicholas, fl. 1841

Document signed

Title: Capital stock certificate for $50 for land in Portland, Republic of Texas

Signed as agent for sales. Engraved stock certificate. Streeter, Texas 450. Written at Galveston

GLC02934

1846/04/17

De Cordova, Jacob, 1808-1868

Autograph document signed

Title: [Receipt for $25 from W. Rhodes for surveying headright of James O. Rice]

Records the payment by De Cordova and James O. Rice to W. Rhodes, "administrator on the Estate of J.P. Kimball," for locating and surveying Rice's headright.

GLC02935

1849/09/03

Lamar, Mirabeau B., fl. 1839-1849

Manuscript document

Title: Land grant [1840] to Levi Jones & Edward Hall of 18215 acres on Galveston Island

Certified copy signed by George W. Smyth as Land Office Commissioner.

GLC02939

1844/03/04

Jones, Anson, 1798-1858

Autograph endorsement signed

Title: Republic of Texas Treasury warrant for $1000 signed by Compt. S. B. Shaw

Texas Treasury warrant endorsed on verso by Jones as Secretary of State for the Republic of Texas. Signed by Samuel B. Shaw as comptroller and Charles Mason as auditor.

GLC02940

[1810 ca.]

Mountford, Timothy, fl. 1804-1810

Letter

Title: to unknown re: humorous anecdote regarding servants' antics in Algiers

GLC02794.175

[1812 ca.]

Document

Title: Miscellaneous itemized list of goods and prices

GLC02794.176

1860/07

Photograph

Title: 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 the bed and a fourth stand off to the dies. All the men are wearing different uniform pants (i.e. different stripping) and the man on the far right of the image is wearing white pants. A large maltese cross is on the tent. On a plain, cream colored mount.

GLC05137.246

1860/07

Photograph

Title: 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

1860/07

Photograph

Title: 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

1860/07

Photograph

Title: 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 white pants and their jackets have tails. A woman wearing a hoop skirt sits on the right hand side of the photograph. On a plain, cream colored mount.

GLC05137.249

1860/07

Photograph

Title: 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

1860/07

Photograph

Title: 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

1838/05/07

Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845

Autograph letter signed

Title: 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

1860 ca.

Whipple, John Adams, 1822-1891

Photograph signed

Title: [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

1860 ca.

Photograph

Title: 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" p. 305 describes such a procession in New York. (Underneath the ambrotype in its case is a printed notice: "Photography, 1839-1889. From the Collection of Albert Raborn Phillips, Jr. 1940.")

GLC05187

1836/06/11

Jesup, Thomas S., 1788-1860

Autograph document signed

Title: Ordering southern army into battle against Creeks

GLC05690.01

1836/06/10

Autograph document

Title: Order No. 1 re: troop coordination [against the Creek Indians]

GLC05690.02

1836/06/16

Scott, Winfield, 1786-1866

Document signed

Title: Orders No 8

Printed orders with AES by Robert Parker Parrott following up on Scott's order.

GLC05693

1857/01/12

Houston, Sam, 1793-1863

Letter signed

Title: to John G. Tod re: obtaining a federal contract; the new Buchanan administration

Discussing the Buchanan administration: "Trouble comes enough when a man finds it out himself."

GLC05718

1835/10/23

Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845

Document signed

Title: to Carey A. Harris

Appoints Harris as interim Secretary of War "during the temporary absence of the Secretary fir that Department."

GLC05722.01

1836/03/30

Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845

Autograph manuscript

Title: to Lewis Cass

Calling captains back to their companies. Written in the third person. Pencil note added later identifies recipient as Carey A. Harris, which is incorrect.

GLC05722.02

1836/10/15

Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845

Autograph manuscript

Title: to Carey A. Harris re: criticizing paying John Ross to attend Congress

Written in the third person. "If Mr. Bell had been as attentive to the pay of the volunteers as he was to John Ross & others to have them paid for attending Congress & opposing the treaty the appropriation would have been made as required."

GLC05722.03