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Geisel, Theodore (Dr. Seuss) (1904-1991)
Starve the squander bug/buy war bonds
WFD No. 865. Government Printing Office 16-35253-1.
GLC09524
5 November 1852
Smith, Gerrit
To the voters of Oswego and Madison counties New York
Thanking them for electing him to a seat in Congress, and reprising his anti-slavery, pro-equality platform.
GLC09329.02
1 December 1859
[Abolitionist broadside]
Abolitionist broadside endorsed "Distributed in the streets of Boston Thursday evening Dec.1, 1859, the day before the execution of John Brown." Bold text reads: "Let their epitaphs remain unwritten until the not distant day when no slave shall clank...
GLC09332
25 September 1852
[Slave sale]
Charleston slave sale by Louis D. De Saussure: "On Thursday…will be sold at Ryan's Mart, in Chalmers Street,…a prime gang of 25 Negroes, accustomed to the culture of Sea Island Cotton and Rice." Lists the enslaved people by with their names, ages and...
GLC09339
circa 1832
[Broadside condemning Andrew Jackson]
"Why did the Irishmen of Philadelphia, oppose the reelection of Andrew Jackson?" Broadside quotes the opinion of Daniel O'Connell, a prominent Irish leader, regarding Jackson: "he did not believe…it was expedient to clothe military men with civil...
GLC09341
1 September 1857
[Broadside supporting Know-Nothing party]
Supports the American, or Know-Nothing, Party in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. Encourages all "who are in favor of 'Americans Ruling America!'" to send delegates to the Harrisburg Convention of September 1857.
GLC09342
1855
[Platform of Know-Nothing party]
Platform of the American, or Know-Nothing, Party, adopted by the National Convention, June 15, 1855, calling for severe limits on immigration, stricter naturalization policies, and restricting political office and public school teachers to...
GLC09343
2 January 1860
Carrier's Address To the Patrons of the Boonsboro Odd Fellow.
"Carrier's Address To the Patrons of the Boonsboro Odd Fellow." Maryland pro-slavery broadside with two columns of text in verse, dealing with the political troubles of the day, including a section ridiculing abolitionist John Brown, who had been...
GLC09346
12 July 1862
[Instructions for guard duty]
Instructions for all enlisted and commissioned officers doing guard duty, issued by Major Wm. H. Haskell, 67th Regt. Ill, Guard Instructor, and Col. Joseph H. Tucker, Post Commander. Camp Douglas was a training camp near Chicago, but was used through...
GLC09360
9 July 1862
[Orders from the State of Maine]
Two Executive Orders and three General Orders from the State of Maine, printed together, re the necessity of raising additional troops for the Union cause. Bottom of page is a statement addressed to "the Patriotic Citizen Soldiery of Maine: …With the...
GLC09372
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