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re: eyewitness account of the capture of Herold and death of Booth

Discusses "the rights of master and the interests of the slave."

GLC07747.05

The Fort Pillow Massacre.

Depicts the April 1864 battle at Fort Pillow, Tennessee, in which witnesses reported that Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest violated the conduct of war by killing unarmed and surrendered soldiers. Underneath the print, text indicates that...

GLC07727

The Battle of Lake Erie, Commodore O.H. Perry's Victory.

Printed by J.H. Bufford's Sons in Boston, Massachusetts. Lithograph depicting the 10 September 1813 Battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812. The names of the ships depicted appear along the bottom.

GLC07728

Blowing Up the Fire Ship Intrepid commanded by Capt. Sommers...

[Title continued] "by the American Squadron under Commodore Edward Preble." Hand-colored copper-plate engraving by John Guerrazzi, London.

GLC07729

The attack made on Tripoli on the 3d. August 1804...

GLC07730

["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...

GLC07731.02

[Keepsake book of Mary Harrison]

Signed on first page. Book of poetry, some written out by Harrison, some addressed to or for Miss Mary S. Harrison, written by friends. There are dried leaves pressed between some pages.
Mary Harrison was the daughter of President William Henry...

GLC07732.02

[Albumen of John Howard's livery & sale stables]

Inscribed on verso: "the livery stable from which the horse was hired that Booth ran away after shooting President Lincoln April 14, 1865."
Also includes #7767 and a stamp for Kemp, Photographers, 137 S. Broad St., Trenton, N.J. The photograph is...

GLC07736

[Albumen of asassination sympathizers]

Image of seventeen men lined up outdoors, ten of with are carrying placards around their necks that read "assassin sympathizer." The ten men are in the custody of armed soldiers.
The photograph is mounted on a sheet of construction paper.

GLC07737

[Lincoln assassination conspirators]

Nine large plate albumen prints of the Lincoln assassination conspirators. Secret Service head Colonel Lafayette C. Baker selected Gardner to take the photographs of the conspirators while in they were in custody, awaiting trial aboard the U.S.S...

GLC07738

[Five cartes de visite and one miniature albumen portrait of Lincoln]

Includes photos by Alexander Gardner, Mathew Brady, and Anthony Berger. Four of the photographs are from engravings. Miniature portrait measures 2.5 x 1.8 cm.

GLC07739

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...

GLC07740.01

to William C. Endicott, Jr. re: cabinet post

GLC07741

Oration Delivered on the Battlefield of Gettysburg

GLC07743.01

Oration Delivered on the Battlefield of Gettysburg

Docketed on address leaf.

GLC07743.02

The Boys in Blue Want Abe to Stay

GLC07744

General Orders no. 51

GLC07746

President Lincoln's Farewell Address to his Old neighbors, Springfield, February 12, 1861

Published by N. Bangs Williams, Providence, Rhode Island.

GLC07748

to William Fessenden re: Lincoln assassination

With autograph corrections.

GLC07749.01

to Mr. Linton re: Lincoln assassination

GLC07749.02

to Charles F. Adams re: Lincoln assassination

GLC07749.03

Authority to affix the seal...to treat...on...suppression of African slave trade

GLC07751

to Sarah Pillsbury re: death of his wife Anna Douglass

Douglass writes "Thanks for your kind letter. Mrs Douglass was all you say of her and more. She was the post in the centre of my house. Different we were in many things. She was conservative and I radical, she was for the old I for the new, She did...

GLC07752.01

to John MacKay

Comments on MacKay's improving health and gives additional advice. Discusses congressional appropriations, reductions in budgets and appointments, and politics in Washington, D.C. at length. Mentions that the Oregon Bill, which expansionist...

GLC07755

to Editor of theTribune re: Cuban independence

GLC07759

Authority to affix the seal attesting to Alabama Act

GLC07761

to Mr. Clapp

One letter from Frederick Douglass to Mr. Clapp Dated July 13, 1889. The letter is regarding Douglass's work in Haiti. "The work before me in hayti is not very inviting. Neither the Diplomatic nor the Sanitary conditions are what I should like; but...

GLC07764

Pardon of Mary Scott, convicted of stealing

GLC07766

re: subscriptions for G.W. Julian speech "The Land Question"

GLC07772

to clerk of Southampton, Va. re: possibility of blacks being sent to Liberia

GLC07773

to William Cullen Bryant re: forwarding copy of his poem "Lincoln's Martyrdom"

GLC07749.04

to Mrs. James White

Dreams as omens, her husband

GLC07750

Half length seated carte de visite portrait of Frederick Douglass, with cane

GLC07752.02

[Carte de visite of Anna Douglass]

Three quarter length seated carte de visite portrait of Anna Douglass. Douglass appears to be holding a parasol.

GLC07752.03

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

[Susan B. Anthony]

Three quarter length standing portrait in black dress, holding flower. Imprint of Masceau on verso.

GLC07753.02

Representation du feu terrible a Nouvelle Yorck [Vue d'Optique] [Burning of Wall Street area, New York]

GLC07754

to Henry A. W. Wood re: a speech by President Wilson

GLC07756

to James Boyle re: Thanksgiving pardon

GLC07757

Circular letter appointing James M. Lovering receiver of draft commutation money

GLC07758

to J.G. Parke re: orders to "open attack at once" on Beaufort, N.C.

GLC07760

Brief autobiographical sketch: "A slave in 1837. Free man 1838..."

Includes envelope addressed to Charles Peirce, Fort Leavenworth, Kan.

GLC07762

Frederick Douglass's paper. [Vol. 13, no. 9 (February 17, 1860)]

GLC07763

Vignette bust portrait of Douglass (Currier and Ives print)

GLC07765

Memorial on the Upward Forces of Fluids...

GLC07767.01

re: improving navigation of Hudson River

GLC07767.02

to Isaac Faurot re: army's movement on Monter[r]ey

GLC07768.01

to Isaac Faurot re: struggle in Mexico

GLC07768.02

1860 Pro-Lincoln campaign ribbon, based on Brady portrait

GLC07769.01

1860 Pro-Douglas campaign ribbon, based on Brady portrait

GLC07769.02