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1862 ca.
Elias, Dexter, fl. 1861
Gen. A.S. Johnston
Carte de visite size vignette engraved portrait of a mustacioed Albert Sidney Johnston (1803-1862) by Elias Dexter.
GLC01442.07
[Carte de visite Leonidas Polk]
Carte de vsite size vignette engraved portrait of Gen. Polk in uniform.
GLC01442.13
1865 ca.
Brady, Mathew B., 1823-1896
[Carte de visite photograph of Richard Taylor]
Half length portrait of Richard Taylor wearing civilian clothes. Published from a Brady negative by E. H.T. Anthony.
GLC01442.17
Wilson, J.N., 1827-1897
[Carte-de-visite of Rev. J.F. O'Neill]
Tentatively identified as Rev. J.F. O'Neill seated with a book.
GLC01442.19
1862-1864
Photo album with 39 carte de visite Civil War photos, including Brigham Young
With fore-edge painting. Includes views of Jim Bridger, Brigham Young, Ute and Shoshone Indians. Album presented "By the Boys" [troops] at Camp Douglas, to their commanding officer, Capt. E.B. Grimes, Q.M. Includes a few Washington DC scenes at end...
GLC01261
4 March 1861
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Inaugural address of the President of the United States, on the Fourth of March, 1861.
Lincoln focuses on increasing his support in the North while attempting to not further alienate the South. He references four important documents: Henry Clay's 1850 Speech on compromise, Webster's reply to Hayne, Andrew Jackson's proclamation...
GLC01264
December 19, 1864
to Ladies managing the Soldier's Fair
Written on Executive Mansion stationery. Lincoln alludes to the "good news" of Sherman's March to the Sea.
GLC01303
22 May 1849
[Patent for Abraham Lincoln's improvement in buoying vessels over shoals]
Patent granted to Lincoln for inventing "a new and improved manner of combining adjustable buoyant air chambers with a steamboat or other vessel for the purpose of enabling their draught of water to be readily lessened to enable them to pass over...
GLC01304
28 April 1832
Special order No. 7: Brigade muskets during Black Hawk War
Lincoln's signature "A. Lincoln, Capt." on verso of receipt.
Basler, Roy P. The Collected Works Of Abraham Lincon. (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1953), Vol. I p. 9-10.
GLC01302
1890 ca.
Parker, Charles W., fl. 1889-1890
[Benjamin Harrison]
Cabinet photograph of President Harrison. Part of a matching set, one with his wife's image. Image by Charles Parker of Washington.
GLC01456.01
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