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1775/09/05
Rhode Island Assembly
Acts and Resolutions re: preparing for war [with manuscript note]
Printed folio, stab stitched and signed by Henry Ward as Secretary. Addressed to the Town Clerk of Cumberland, Rhode Island.
GLC01491
circa 1864
[James Sanks Brisbin's epaulets]
Consists of two gold colored brass epaulets. Each epaulet contains (on the epaulet's top) a brass button and an eagle embroidered with silver thread. Measurements reflect epaulet as positioned on a shoulder (width is measured from inner shoulder)....
GLC01504.03
1841
Tallmadge, Daniel B., fl. 1841
Review of the opinion of Judge Cowen, of the Supreme Court of the State of New-York, in the case of Alexander McLeod
A review of the New York Supreme Court acquittal of Alexander McLeod, a Canadian fighting for the British who boasted that he had murdered an American in New York State during the 1838 border skirmishes.
GLC01512.02
15 February 1944
Baruch, Bernard M., 1870-1965
Report on war and post-war adjustment policies
Co-authored with John M. Hancock. Report on how best to demobilize soldiers and civilians after World War II, and return them to work. Also discusses how to return the government's workforce to peacetime leadership. Commissioned by James F. Byrnes...
GLC01592.01
1675
Penn, William, 1644-1718
England's present interest discovered, with honour to the prince, and safety to the people.
Advocates religious freedom in England. With heraldic bookplate of Robert Cony. Published seven years before Penn's founding of Pennsylvania.
GLC01672
1682
William Penn's last farewell to England.
Title continues: "being an epistle containing a salutation to all faithful friends, a reproof to the unfaithful, and a visitation to the enquiring, in a solemn farewell to them all in the land of my nativity." Printed for Thomas Cook.
GLC01673
circa 1865
[List of forces and commanders involved in operations against Mobile, Alabama]
Full title is "Operations against Mobile, Ala.: Organization of the Union Forces (Commanded by Major-General Edward R. S. Canby) March-April, 1865." Contains a list of Union major generals, brigadier generals, colonels, captains, and other leaders...
GLC01545.12
1788
Hamilton, Alexander, 1757-1804
The Federalist: a collection of essays. [First edition by M'Lean]
12mo. First edition.
GLC01551
28 July 1862
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Treaty between the United States of America and the Ottawa Indians of Blanchard's Fork and Roche De Boeuf.
Certifies that the Ottawa Indians of Blanchard's Fork and Roche De Boeuf in Franklin County, Kansas, will dissolve as a tribe within five years from the ratification of this treaty and will become citizens of the United States. Lists the articles of...
GLC08531
1856
Conspiracy disclosed! Kansas Affairs. Read! Read!! Read!!!
An attack on Fremont and the Republican in the election of 1856. Published by the Granite State Club, Washington. Contains map intitled "Freedom and Slavery, and the Coveted Territories."
GLC08535
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