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[Collections of 129 items concerning the Alaska gold rush] [decimalized]

Writes to his wife Clara about his experiences during the Alaska gold rush, many of the letters from Nome.

GLC05755

Mormon Church archive of 72 letters & documents re: church court proceedings [decimalized]

156 letters and documents plus 14 bound notebooks containing minutes of the high council meetings of Weber Stake, North Ogden, Utah. Regarding Mormons tried for apostasy, attending a house of ill fame; criticizing Brigham Young and Joseph Smith and...

GLC05756

Thomas Dorr papers, relating to Dorr's rebellion [decimalized]

GLC05757

[Three manuscript Civil War maps of Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and Rappahannock Station] [Decimalized .01-.03]

Maps of battles at Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville and Rappahannock Station by A. Clark Baum of the 50th New York Volunteer Engineers.

GLC06013

Group of 7 Letters regarding the French and Indian War. [Decimalized .01- .07]

Group of 7 Letters regarding the French and Indian War.

GLC08014

Collateral: twentieth century books on James Winchester

Books on Winchester: 1) Winchester's letters (1817), 2) Descendants of William Winchester, 60 pp. (paperback), 3) Order book from War of 1812, 10 August 1812-3 Sept 1812.

GLC06997.082

Aaron Hobart Collection [Decimalized .01-.04.445]

Includes letters and documents that span Hobart's entire career, from the time that he was a law student, a lawyer, a representative, and, finally, a judge. The documents shed light on both Hobart's personal and political lives. The bulk of the...

GLC06313

[Collection of 2 letters written by the Sherman family]. Decimalized

See descriptions in GLC08326.01-.02

GLC08236

[Collection of 2 items celebrating Sherman's March to the Sea.]

GLC08277

Carte de visite decimalized

GLC02911

[Collection of Carte de visites] [Decimalized .01-.34]

GLC00241

[Soldier's archive] [Decimalized .01- .06]

Simon Mower Whistler, soldier's archive of Harrisburg, PA physician. With three war time diaries, manuscript memoirs, medical journal and watercolor of hospital ship "Connecticut."

GLC08362

Collection of two items related to Barzilla Smith, a privateer [Decimalized .01-.02]

GLC01450.014

[Decimalized .01- .03]

GLC06027

[Spies and Traitors Collection] Decimalized

GLC08389

[Three documents related to a French Primer on American Democracy][Decimilized .01-.03]

French primer on American Democracy by member of Society of the Cincinnati, including discussion of U.S. and State Constitutions. Includes ALS (04/14/1808) addressed to Monsieur Le Prefet [in French], and an MDS (07/15/1825) detailing de Blois's...

GLC07688

George Washington's Farewell address [Decimilized .01-.02]

Two copies of Washington's farewell address ("Circular to the States") The first is an official secretarial manuscript. The second is a published printing of the address.

GLC08079

Journal of the Second Session [of the U.S. Senate]

Each printed by John Fenno. With bookplates of John Rutherford (Senator -- NJ) Four volumes as follows: (1) Senate. 1st Cong. 2d Sess (New-York; with p.222-224 misprinted as "122-124"); (2) Senate. 2d Cong. 1st Sess. (Phila.; with p.228...

GLC02808

[Letters written by George A. Tittle while cruising the North Atlantic aboard the USS Kearsarge] [decimalized .01-.19]

Surgeon steward Tittle details the "Kearsarge's" 1862-1864 cruise, including her engagement with the CSS "Alabama." The USS "Kearsarge" eventually fought and sank the Confederate raider off the French coast on 19 June 1864. 19 letters divided into 2...

GLC02828

[Letters, including five while on U.S. gunboats off South America] [decimalized .01-.18]

Written by the Allen brothers (Union naval officers) -- Joseph H., George D., and William B. -- to their sister Mary Mayberry with letters of William Oves and Frank McIntire. GLC02829.06 mentions the USS "Monitor." The Allen family was from...

GLC02829

[Collection of John D. O'Connell, 14th regiment, US army, infantry] [Decimalized .01- .58.03]

Letters cover 1861-63, and are primarily written to Mary H. Perkins. Collection includes 57 letters, 4 color printed cards, and 1 color print portrait.

GLC02830

[Civil War diaries of John D. O'Connell]

Three autograph manuscript diaries, two of which are signed. The first volume, covering 1865, is approximately 86 pages, totally written in ink; also features additional printed pages with calendars, stamp rates, and other information. Signed "O...

GLC02830.58

[Collection of William H. Alden, F company, 6th regiment, Iowa, cavalry] [Decimalized .01- .53]

Forty eight long letters written while on the Sully Expedition to put down the Sioux uprising, under the orders of Abraham Lincoln. Private Alden, a seventeen year old Iowan, wrote this first-hand account mostly to his family. He discusses hand to...

GLC02831

Cartes of Fort Sumter & Charleston after capture, photographed by Osborne [word processed inventory available]

Pictures taken by Osborne shortly after the capture of Sumter. Album housed separately.

GLC04509

Reconstruction archive: CSA parole & oath, Bailey Family contracts with freedmen [Decimalized .01-.16]

The collection includes a Georgia parole for the soldier (sometimes "Edwin") of New Orleans (#1), an agreement dated 5/22/1865 to register his plantation while abiding by the laws now protecting freedmen (#7); oaths of allegiance and amnesty (#2-4, 8...

GLC04522