1873

Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916

Photograph

Title: Nine photographs of San Francisco ca. 1877

1) "Cliff House" [the famous restaurant] 2+3) Outcroppings with sea lions (both faded), 4) row houses, 5) Victorian mansion, 6) white-breasted seabirds on a rock, 7) view of churches, 8) chicks of seabirds, 9) coromants on a cliff.

GLC03030.24

1873

Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916

Photograph

Title: Waterfall

GLC03030.25

1873

Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916

Photograph

Title: Nine photographs of Native Americans, including Ute Braves

GLC03030.26

1873

Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916

Photograph

Title: Castle-like structure

GLC03030.27

1873

Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916

Photograph

Title: Frozen Waterfall

GLC03030.28

1873

Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916

Photograph

Title: Street scene with children

GLC03030.29

1873

Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916

Photograph

Title: Steamship at dock

GLC03030.30

1873

Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916

Photograph

Title: Photograph of lower town with #27 in background

GLC03030.31

1873

Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916

Photograph

Title: Monument to Gen. James Wolfe [Quebec?]

GLC03030.32

circa December 18, 1860

Meigs, Montgomery C. (Montgomery Cunningham), 1816-1892

Autograph letter signed

Title: to: his son.

GLC07059.07

circa 1870-1906

Tidball, John C. (John Caldwell), 1825-1906

Header Record

Title: Collection of items pertaining to John C. Tidball [Decimalized .01-.03]

Date inferred based in Tidball's service as Commander of the District of Alaska.

GLC04041

1868-1869

Photograph

Title: [Albumen print of young woman]

Possibly Mary (Moore) Kelly. Previously housed with 4197.41, 4197.42, 4197.43

GLC04197.38

April 24, 1872

Speakman, Jesse C., fl. 1872

Autograph letter signed

Title: to C. M. Epperly

Informs his cousins that his wife has died of consumption. Asks them to help take care of his three children. Inquires if they have sold their farm yet.

GLC02715.126

29 November 1868

Speakman, Jesse C., fl. 1872

Autograph letter signed

Title: to C. M. Epperly and Mary M. Epperly

Writes that they have written many letters to the Epperlys but have received none in return.

GLC02715.128

15 August 1877

Phleager, H.D., fl. 1877

Autograph letter signed

Title: to his mother

Apologizes for not having written and tells her the news from the area.

GLC02715.129

February 14, 1863

Jones, Joseph, fl. 1862-1865

Autograph letter

Title: to Nancy E. Jones

He sends Phebe Jane Walker his sympathies about Joseph's death. They are working on a fort and he hopes they will get to stay in it. He finds the Confederates "al friendly and kind I tel you it is awful to think that we half to kill them on the account of some wicked leading men."

GLC02739.036

8 March 1866

Neafie, Theodore F., fl. 1861-1877

Letter signed

Title: to: sister Carrie.

Describes possible plans to travel to Fort Riley or perhaps somewhere further west to build a fortune, and a hope that she not become alarmed if his communications are not often.

GLC07164.61

circa 1867-1884

Rogers

Photograph

Title: [Harriet Beecher Stowe's winter home]

Cabinet card showing the winter home of the Stowes with four people sitting on the front lawn, including Harriet Beecher Stowe and her husband, Professor Calvin Stowe. Inscription on verso states the house has been torn down. Inscribed "For my friend Chas G. Ball[illegible] / Fm. Mercer[?] / Apr 6-1914."

GLC01584.02

circa 1870-1880

Hastings, fl. 1880

Photograph signed

Title: [Harriet Beecher Stowe]

Side profile image of Stowe as an older woman. Signed by Stowe beneath the image. Photographed by Hastings. "Dunbar" is written in the upper-left corner.

GLC01584.03

20 August 1867

Gibson, Tobias, fl. 1861-1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Captain J. W. Francis

A passionate letter in which Tobias refuses to comply with General Sheridan's orders to act as a commissioner of elections. He claims that supporters of negro voting rights are violating the U.S. Constitution, which he believes supports a "white mans government." He argues that social peace either excludes suffrage for blacks or severely restricts it. He fears giving political power to Black people and that white people would become inferior. "I must respectfully decline to change all my school boy lessons & to adopt a faith which Consigns the land of Washington & Jefferson [3]…

GLC04501.099

3 December 1868

Gibson, Randall Lee, 1832-1892

Autograph letter signed

Title: to his father Tobias Gibson

Discusses sending an old man and his daughter to work at Live Oak plantation. Mentions purchasing articles for his wife. The family's poor financial circumstances continue. A heart felt letter in which Randall discusses family quarrels and jealousies arising from his financial success and his ability to help the family. Written on "Gibson & Austin, Attorneys at Law" letterhead from Randall Lee Gibson's law office.

GLC04501.038

September 1866

Carpenter & Mullen Magnolia Gallery

Photograph

Title: Carte de visite [Gibson family]

Image of McKinley Gibson, Louisiana Hart Gibson, Maria (Ridie) Tevis, and Margaret Howard Preston playing backgammon. The circular pattern on Ms. Preston's dress has been drawn with ink.

GLC04501.078

20 February 1871

Gibson, Tobias, fl. 1861-1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Sarah [Gibson] Humphreys

A melancholy letter discussing the difficulty of running a profitable plantation. Tobias worries over his children and his failings. He mentions the death of his wife, 20 years ago to the day. He writes of another woman he fell in love with after Louisiana died: "we were everything to each other but the nuptial ceremony . . . ." but "we do not correspond, but I hear occasionally of her."

GLC04501.100

5 August 1870

Coit, Mary B., fl. 1870

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Ellen

This letter may have been written by Charles Morgan Coit's wife to his sister, Ellen.

GLC03603.345

15 March 1866

McSherry, Anna, 1833-?

Autograph letter

Title: to Henry F. McSherry [incomplete]

Written by Anna to her brother Henry. Says she is sorry she sent her last letter, which reported that Henry's resignation was accepted and that another surgeon was being sent to replace him. Says it is not true. Says Admirals Lee and De Clymer both intervened in Washington to keep the resignation from going through. Wonders where he is and says "how I would like that wonderful trunk of the Danish storyteller Anderson to carry me to China and in ... the Wyoming." Says their father is still anxious about his resignation and that he would "just [be] throwing away what is most valuable, a…

GLC03523.21.52