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19 February 1889
Cleveland, Grover, 1837-1908
[Presidential authority to the Secretary of State to affix the seal to the pardon of Seaborn Young].
GLC00076.16
1893 ca.
Yeager, F.M. (fl. 1893)
Battle of Antietam
Dunker Church, showing east front and west end. Soldiers in front are unknown.
GLC02912.01.01
19 June 1879
Brown, John Jr. (1821-1895)
to Alexander Milton Ross
Brown Jr. writes from Put-in-Bay Island located on South Bass Island (Lake Erie), Ohio. He mentions he will personally be traveling to Kansas and possibly Colorado to examine the land for the purpose of "settlement by Colored people of limited means...
GLC03007.56.11
1892
Kurz & Allison
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
circa 1882
["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
3 March 1895
Wallace, Lewis, 1827-1905
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
[1880 ca.]
Does a College Education Pay re: supporting college education
"The methods employed in any enterprise and occupation, have so changed within the last fifty years, that a necessity has risen for an advanced grade of intelligence and education."
GLC07650
1891/07/31
Wood, Robert, fl. 1891
An Appeal to the colored voters of Hart County [with Clabe Garvin]
Issued by 2 black men (Wood and Clabe Garvin) from Bowling Green, Ky., who claimed to be falsely imprisoned because they refused to vote for a klansman. Unevenly inked.
GLC07018
1880/05/10
Bissell, George E., fl. 1875-1895
to Benson J. Lossing re: monument for Custer and Little Big Horn
Mentions showing Genl. Custer's widow "a sketch I have just made for a monument for Gen. Custer and his men, killed at Little Big Horn".
GLC07025.01
December 21, 1895
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
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