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1852/08/23
$2,500 Reward! Mississippi Co., Missouri broadside advertising runaway slaves
Broadside advertising four runaway slaves and their characteristics, offering more compensation if captured in a free state. (With losses to text.)
GLC07238
1863
Everett, Edward, 1794-1865
Oration Delivered on the Battlefield of Gettysburg
GLC07743.01
circa 1863
[Broadside recruiting African Americans for military service]
Color recruitment broadside depicting a Union soldier holding a United States flag with an attached banner declaring "Freedom to the Slave." In the background on one side, African American troops march holding a United States flag bearing the words...
GLC08249
6 November 1917 circa
N. Y. State Woman Suffrage Party
How to vote for woman suffrage amendment, election day, November 6th, 1917
Instructs voters which box to check on the ballot in order to vote in favor ammending the New York State Constitution to allow women the right to vote.
GLC08961
1910 circa
New Jersey Woman Suffrage Association
Plain Facts for the Working Man
Encouraging working men to vote for women's suffrage. Argues that letting their wives vote will improve their own situation. States that the wife, who has so many responsibilities, can better take care of the home and the family, if she has the...
GLC08962
1915 circa
Woman Suffrage Party of the City of New York
Votes for Women! The Woman's Reason
List of arguments for why women should be allowed to vote, including "Because women must obey the laws just as men do, They should vote equally with men. Because women pay taxes just as men do, thus supporting the government, They should vote...
GLC08963
1943
United States. Office of War Information
Ten Years Ago:/ The Nazis burned these books/ ... but free Americans can still read them
OWI Poster no. 66. Government Printing Office # O-528869. Poster in red and black tones. In the center is a black & white photograph showing a crowd of people standing next to a bonfire and giving the Nazi salute.
GLC09520.03
1944
United States. Public Health Service. Division of Nurse Education
Be a cadet nurse
Image by Jon Whitcomb. NE Poster #3. Government Printing Office # O-599074. Color poster of two women in cadet nurse uniforms. The woman on the left wears a military-style uniform with blue jacket and cap. The woman on the right wears a white nurse...
GLC09520.04
1942
Office of War Information, Division of Public Inquiries
We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain-- : remember Dec. 7th!
Government printing Office O-491977. OWI No. 14. Quotes Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. Shows a tattered, torn U.S. flag flies at half-staff as dark smoke billows in the background. Allen Russell Saalburg (1899-1987), artist.
GLC09520.08
United States. Office of War Information. Division of Public Inquiries.
United/United Nations fight for freedom
OWI No. 79. Government Printing Office # O-534058. Flags of the member nations of the United Nations wave amidst smoke of a bombardment, with military airplanes, ships and tanks in background.
GLC09520.30
1918
United States Food Administration
Food will win the war
Color poster by Charles E. Chambers of people standing on a boat or shoreline at New York Harbor. They appear to be European immigrants. In the foreground, a man appears to be pleading with a woman holding a basket of food. In the background can be...
GLC09522
Geisel, Theodor Seuss, 1904-1991
Starve the squander bug/buy war bonds
WFD No. 865. Government Printing Office 16-35253-1.
GLC09524
2023
Who Can Vote?: A Brief History of Voting Rights in the United States (Copy 1)
TE00007.01
December 18, 1785
Washington, George, 1732-1799
to unknown
re: a debt owed him and his shortage of funds.
GLC00655.01
April 3, 1836
Houston, Sam, 1793-1863
to Samuel P. Carson
Written to his Secretary of State. Written at Camp West of Brasos
GLC01172
June 17, 1850
Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852
to Robert Hallowell Gardiner
One circular letter addressed to Robert H. Gardiner from Daniel Webster dated June 17, 1850. Pertains to the debate whether slavery will be instilled in New Mexico and Texas, retorts statements published about his remarks on slavery from a speech...
GLC01231
September 25, 1862
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
to John Ross
Protection of the Cherokee Indians against the Confederacy. Ross was the first and only elected Chief of the Cherokee Nation from the time it was formed until his death in 1866. He led the Eastern Cherokee in the "Trail of Tears" west of the...
GLC01233.03
January 1, 1866
Dole, William P., 1818-1889
Signed as Commissioner of Indian Affairs.
GLC01233.04
January 2, 1848
Buchanan, James, 1791-1868
to B.S. Schoonover
Discusses his presidential prospects and thanks Schoonover profusely for his support. Describes at length the faithfulness and devotion the people of Pennsylvania have shown him over the years. Mentions that if it was up to him, he would not have...
GLC01239
October 16, 1853
Walker, William, 1824-1860
to George Washington Wright
Writes to Wright, former California Representative, introducing Henry P. Watkins as an agent for the Sonora Enterprise. Intending to combine southern California with Sonora, Mexico, Walker requests that Wright assist Watkins in this enterprise.
GLC01358.01
January 11, 1881
Johnston, Joseph Egleston, 1807-1891
to Fitz-John Porter
Johnston, at the time of this letter was a representative from Virginia, refuses to contribute to a memorial for George Armstrong Custer. Written on Congressional stationery.
GLC01359
December 12, 1794
to Tobias Lear
Washington expresses pleasure at the Virginia Assembly's passing a bill concerning internal navigation of the Potomac, and mentions the quantities of tobacco in his warehouses and price differentials.
GLC01402
April 1, 1906
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
to Quentin Roosevelt
Writes to his son regarding family matters and missing his children. Written on White House letterhead with corrections in Roosevelt's hand.
GLC01410.01.01
December 30, 1777
Clinton, George, 1739-1812
to James Duane
Written by Clinton as Governor of New York and a Brigadier General in the Continental Army to Duane as a Continental Congressman. Recipient inferred from the reference to "Mrs. Duane" at the end of the letter. References Duane's letter of 23 December...
GLC01412.21
October 29, 1827
Clay, Henry, 1777-1852
to Don Francisco Tacon
Clay, Secretary of State, replies to a note from Spanish Minister Tacon concerning the presence of Commodore Porter (possibly David Porter, Commander in Chief of the Mexican Navy) and his actions in Key West, Florida. Claims that Porter did not...
GLC01419
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