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circa 1830-1910
Ward, John Quincy Adams, 1830-1910
[Two sketches: one woman standing with knee resting on mount, one sitting holding hair]
Graphite, wove paper.
GLC06343.106
[Nude woman standing with one arm raised]
Black ink with pale skirt drawn in graphite; thick tracing paper.
GLC06343.107
[Man in loincloth holding dagger]
Graphite; tracing paper.
GLC06343.108
[Two small figures on panel surrounded by various grasses and Cat Tails sprouts]
Graphite, black ink; tracing paper.
GLC06343.109
[Two female figures, one in water]
Graphite, black ink, tracing paper.
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09 March 1831
Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848
To: Joseph Blunt.
Criticizing Jackson administration and spoils system, including mention of Peggy Eaton affair: They have no "character to lose."
GLC08081
16 October 1845
to Richard Rush
Predicting Civil War in wake of slavery's expansion. .
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7 May 1837
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
to Mary Owens
To the woman he almost married: "Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented." Owens rejected Lincoln's marriage proposal in 1837, the second of the three...
GLC08085
11 December 1859
To: William Kellogg.
Re: Election of 1860 & difficulties in dealing with Horace Greeley and Greeley's support of Stephen Douglas.
Basler, Roy P. The Collected Works Of Abraham Lincoln. (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1953), Vol. III 1858 - 1860, p. 506
GLC08086
[Two sketches of female nudes, one standing, one seated with leg up on knee]
Black ink; tracing paper.
GLC06343.111
[Two standing males, one nude with musket, one in 18th century garb]
Graphite; tan tracing paper.
GLC06343.112
[Woman with foot raised holding tablet and lightning bolt (?)]
Black ink over graphite; wove paper.
GLC06343.113
[Nude figure with out-stretched hand]
Pale charcoal or graphite; wove paper.
GLC06343.114
[Standing male holding musket]
Graphite; wove paper.
GLC06343.116
[Three male nudes, two sitting, one standing with cloth draped over arm]
Graphite; tracing paper fragment.
GLC06343.117
[Standing female figure with crown, staff, and out-stretched arm]
Charcoal and graphite; wove paper.
GLC06343.118
[Five sculpture designs: man and woman embracing, 2 soldiers, figure with arm raised, two figures facing each other]
Graphite; thin wove paper, many creases and wrinkles.
GLC06343.120
[Boy leaning on stool]
With 3 action sketches on reverse side. Graphite; thick wove paper.
GLC06343.121
1830-1910 circa
[Hunched male figure with bent leg]
GLC06343.122
[Winged figure (sketched on both sides), seated male nude with small woman]
Graphite, tracing paper.
GLC06343.123
[Figures around old bearded man in coffin]
GLC06343.124
[Seated female in Roman garb with hand covering face]
Graphite; textured wove paper.
GLC06343.125
[Winged figure from behind, small sketches of soldiers on reverse side]
GLC06343.126
[Grided sculpture design of angel offering peace between a victorious warrior about to strike a vanquished warrior]
Black ink, graphite; thick wove pap
GLC06343.127
[Geometric designs: cube, cylinder, star-shaped design]
GLC06343.128
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