1890

Birch, Thomas, fl. 1890

Pamphlet

Title: Thomas Birch's sons auction catalog of Washington's papers [catalog no. 657]

Lacks cover

GLC07215.01

12 November 1883

Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895

Autograph letter signed

Title: to S. S. Conant

Douglass writes to Conant, Editor of Harper's Weekly. Because of other engagements, he may have trouble writing an article for Harper's immediately. Intends to send the article within the course of a fortnight.

GLC07483.01

24 March 1894

Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Benjamin Franklin Auld

Thanks Auld for helping him obtain the date when Auld's father, Hugh, began the ship building firm where Douglass served in Baltimore. Asserts that Hugh may have begun the business as early as 1827, and he (Douglass) may have been eight years old in 1825 when he came to Baltimore to look after Benjamin's brother Thomas. Estimated the date based on the death of Captain Aaron Anthony, his early master. Recalls his service to the Aulds in Baltimore, carrying water and Hugh's dinners. Writes, "The principle thing I desired in making the inquiries I have of you was to get some idea of my exact…

GLC07484.01

circa 1882

Object

Title: ["Any holder but a Slave holder" potholder]

Based on the accompanying letter (GLC 7731.01), created by Miss Lena, who gave the potholder to Frederick Douglass as a gift after reading his narrative. Depicts two African Americans (one male and one female) holding hands and dancing against a caramel colored background. Text is stitched above and below the dancing figures. Appears to be a form of needlepoint stitching.

GLC07731.02

3 March 1895

Wallace, Lewis, 1827-1905

Autograph letter signed

Title: to A. E. Allen

Apologizes for the delay of the photograph. States that assassination trial was "perfect in every respect." Provides the name of the officers that tried the Lincoln conspirators. The list of names accompanies a photograph that has been pasted on a piece of board along with the letter (GLC07740.02). The letter is also accompanied by three newspaper clippings entitled: "Was Mary Surrat guilty?", "He might have hanged", and "Gen. Holt dead." A short biography on Lewis Wallace is pasted adjacent to the photograph. The extent given is that of the board on which various pieces are pasted on.

GLC07740.01

1882

Dahlgren, John Adolphus Bernard, 1809-1870

Book

Title: Memoir of John A. Dahlgren

GLC07826

1880s ca.

Anthony, Susan B., 1820-1906

Autograph note signed

Title: The United States citizen's vote that Mr. Justice Hunt declared $100 damage...

"You have reason to exult, that you are a 'freeborn American' and I wish you may never be ashamed to boast of it. In all cases remember, that birth, without wisdom, is reproach and disgrace."

GLC07753.01

1888

Sarony, Napoleon, 1821-1896

Photograph signed

Title: William T. Sherman

Half length seated cabinet card portrait, in uniform, with arms crossed. Imprint of Sarony, New York, on recto.

GLC07795

1899 December 25

Taber Prang Art Co., fl. 1899

Photograph signed

Title: George Dewey

Bust portrait, dated Christmas. Imperial carte de visite in uniform.

GLC06442

January 21, 1878

Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878

Autograph quotation signed

Title: [Last lines of Bryant's poem Thanatopsis]

"So live, that when thy summons comes to join/ The innumerable caravan which moves/ To that mysterious realm where each shall take/ His chamber in the silent halls of Death,/ Thou go not, like the quarry slave at night,/ Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed/ By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave/ Like one who wraps the draping of his couch/ About him and lied down to pleasant dreams." Copied 12 January 1878; originally written between the years of 1811 and 1821.

GLC06631.02

18 May 1878

Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878

Autograph quotation signed

Title: [Verse from William Cullen Bryant's poem, The Battlefield]

Verse from Bryant's poem, "Truth crushed to earth, shall rise again/The eternal years of God are here. But Error, wounded, writhed in pain/And dies amid his worshippers." Signed and dated, New York, May 18th, 1878.

GLC06631.03

1892 March 18

Photograph signed

Title: Oliver Wendell Holmes

GLC06631.04

18 May 1891

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894

Autograph quotation signed

Title: The Chambered nautilus.

The last seven lines of his poem on immortality.

GLC06631.06

15 May 1888

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894

Autograph quotation signed

Title: Union and liberty.

This is the next to the last stanza of his poem on divine protection for humanity.

GLC06631.07

24 April 1882

Stephens, Alexander Hamilton, 1812-1883

Letter signed

Title: to Henry Moore Teller

Stephens, a United States Representative from Georgia, introduces Reverend Henry M. Turner to Teller, Secretary of the Interior. States that Turner, a resident of Atlanta, Georgia, is Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in the South. Praises Turner's character. States that Turner wishes to confer with Teller regarding an unspecified matter. A pencil note at the bottom of the page states "colored bishop." Written on House of Representatives stationery.

GLC06612

1886

Pamphlet

Pamphlet

Title: "Mormon" women's protest.

Title continues: "an appeal for freedom, justice and equal rights. The ladies of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints protest against the tyranny and indecency of federal officials in Utah, and against their own disfranchisement without cause. Full account of proceedings at the great mass meeting held in the Theatre, Salt Lake City, Utah, Saturday, March 6, 1886." This is a record of the protest held when it was apparent that the Edmunds-Tucker Act of 1887 would withdraw the right of suffrage from Utah women. Printed in Salt Lake City by the Deseret News. Flake, C.J. Mormon bib…

GLC06609

1882

Hanson, E.R., fl. 1882

Book

Title: Our woman workers. Biographical sketches of women... in the Universalist Church.

Title continued: "for literacy, philanthropic and Christian work." Inscribed by Mary Livermore to her daughters. Among those profiled: Clara Barton, Alice and Phoebe Cary, M. Louise Thomas, Elizabeth Oakes Smith, and Frances Dana Gage. (Title is "Our Woman [sic] Workers.") Accompanied by a loose printed poem, laid-in, from a newspaper.

GLC06858

December 21, 1895

Bissell, George E., fl. 1875-1895

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Benson J. Lossing re: Colchester Monument; traveling to Rome

Writes of Colchester Monument and a planned trip to Rome where he will embrace "The atmosphere of art, which I suppose must make artists of all who inhale it".

GLC07025.03

1879

Whittier, John G., 1807-1892

Header Record

Title: [Decimalized: John G. Whittier letter and poem].

GLC05508.262

10 March 1896

Williams, George, fl. 1862-1865

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry H. Bemrose

Williams, writing as President of the Young Men's Christian Association, urges Bemrose to use his influence to help secure a rejection of a bill in the House of Commons that will open picture galleries and museums on the Sabbath.

GLC05508.266

29 October 1884

Brown, Joseph Emerson, 1821-1894

Book signed

Title: [Speeches delivered by Senator Joseph Emerson Brown, 1880-1884]

Inscribed to son Joseph M. Brown and signed 29 October 1884. Contains speeches addressing various topics dated 1 June 1880- 26 June 1884.

GLC05700

15 November 1880

Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895

Autograph letter signed

Title: to N. C. Corbin

Douglass, serving as a United States Marshal, replies to a letter from Colonel Corbin sent 12 November 1880. Corbin invited Douglass to serve on Inaugural Ceremony committees (for the inauguration of President James Garfield, to be held 4 March 1881). Corbin informed Douglass that the ceremonies will require reception, military encampment, music, recreation, and other committees. Douglass declines, stating that because of custom requiring U.S. Marshals to serve a prominent role in the ceremonies, he will wait until he is assigned a role by those in charge. Written on United States Marshal…

GLC05717

January 1883

Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895

Autograph letter signed

Title: to unknown

Sends his autograph to an unknown recipient with a quotation: "What does it imply? The Mongolian, the Hebrew, the African, the least aggressive and sanguinary of men, why are the most hated and persecuted by Christian nations?"

GLC05716

16 December 1896

Gibbons, John, fl. 1896

Autograph letter signed

Title: to unknown

Cardinal Gibbons discusses his new book, "The Ambassador of Christ." The book's purpose "is to demonstrate the dignity and responsibility of the Christian ministry."

GLC05508.109

circa 1890

Howitt, William, fl. 1890

Autograph quotation signed

Title: [I have found every system of political religion...]

Howitt quotes the "History of Priestcraft," 3rd ed. p. 364: "I have found every system of political religion so hostile to the growth of true knowledge, so destructive of popular freedom and happiness, that I have been constrained to cry vehemently and unceasingly against it."

GLC05508.139