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1774 ca.
To the inhabitants... re: calling for appointing delegates from NY to Congress
Printed by John Holt. Evans 13660. only 2 copies recorded
GLC02439
1774/07/05
Advertisement re: NY delegate nominations for first Continental Congress
GLC02440
1776
New York. Legislature
In Provincial Congress [calling for election of revolutionary government]
Possibly printed by John Holt. Evans 14934.
GLC02442
19 November 1788
Phillips, Samuel (1752-1802)
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Commonwealth of Masachusetts set of resolutions to create separate districts within Massachusetts with representatives from each district. States the common dates for election of representatives and establishes that elected representatives must then...
GLC02444
1943
Office of War Information. Division of Public Inquiries.
[Franklin D. Roosevelt on Citizenship]
This poster features a quote of Franklin Delano Roosevelt from February 3rd 1943. He discusses citizenship, in red it reads, "Americanism is not, and never was, a matter of race or ancestry." The poster also has an image of an eagle holding the flag...
GLC09653.03.01
GLC09653.03.02
1942
Division of Information, Office for Emergency Management
Americans! Share the Meat
One poster entitled "Americans! Share the Meat," dated 1942. Pertains to meat rations during World War II. Poster contains list of civilians needing to limit their meat consumption to 2 1/2 pounds. Commissioned by the Food Requirement Committee...
GLC09653.08
1919
Christy, Howard Chandler (1872-1952)
Clear the Way
One poster illustrated by Howard Chandler Christy of a World War I poster labeled "Clear the Way" including a mesage to buy bonds at Fourth Liberty Loan. Imagery contains an allegorical female representing America and sailors loading a torpedo into a...
GLC09676.01
Americans All
One poster by Howard Chandler Christy related to World War I labeled "Americans All," printed by Forbes dated 1919, advertisement for Victory Liberty Loan. Imagery contains the female symbol of freedom, displayed with an American flag in the...
GLC09676.02
One poster by Howard Chandler Christy labeled "Americans All," printed by Forbes dated 1919, advertising for Victory Liberty Loan. Imagery contains allegorical female symbol for America displayed with an American flag in the background. Printed with...
GLC09676.03
1972
Chisholm, Shirley (1924-2005)
"Bring U.S. Together, Vote Chisholm 1972, Unbought and Unbossed.
Collection of two posters dated 1972, "Bring U.S. Together, Vote Chisholm 1972, Unbought and Unbossed," created for Shirley Chisholm's 1972 campaign.
GLC09721
Renesch, E.G. (Edward George), (1879-?)
Welcome Home
One poster printed in 1919 by E.G. Renesch, of a scene by which a corporal returns home to his family. Other noticeable trait of the image is the portrait of Lincoln hanging in the dining room with an American flag positioned behind the frame.
GLC09744
7 May 1792
Otis, Samuel A. (1740-1814)
[Congresstional order for Treasury Department to compile federal salaries]
Congress ordering the Secretary of the Treasury to present the senate with a statement of "salaries, fees and emoluments...of every person holding any civil office or employment under the United States...together with the actual disbursements and...
GLC08960.02
Circa 6 November 1917
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
Circa 1910
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
1828
Unknown
An account of some of the bloody deeds of General Jackson
One of the "Coffin Broadsides" that attacked General Jackson before the 1828 election. Accuses General Jackson of heartlessly executing six innocent militia men, and depicts their coffins. Also slanders Jackson in various ways and accuses him of...
GLC08974
1790
Description of the Scale of accompanying Dycas's Hydrometer
Explains how to use and read Dycas's Hydrometer, a device invented to determine the strength of alcoholic beverages, so that the proper tax could be applied.
GLC08993.02
1844
Gibbons, James Sloan (1815-1892)
Humanity's last appeal to the abolitionists of the United States, against the increase of slave territory
Urges Northerners to vote for the Whig ticket, and oppose the Democrats, who favor the annexation of Texas. Argues that annexation is planned only to increase slavery and the power of the slave states. Texas is large and suitable for slavery and...
GLC08997
post 1865
Slavery Days.
Printing of an anti-slavery poem written from the perspective of an older male slave who is close to dying. The first verse reads, "I am thinking now to day of the years that's pass'd away, When they tied me up in bondage long ago, In old Virginia...
GLC09003
28 September 1863
Hammond, James D. (fl. 1863)
White Slaves.
Wage slavery, quotes an 1858 speech which calls for restraint after New York City draft riots, and challenges Democratic agitators to dispute conclusions: " ... self-interest and patriotism both call upon Workingmen to stand by the government firm as...
GLC09013
1862
[Civil War draft broadside]
Satirical lampooning of medical exemptions: "Attention X-Imps!"
GLC09016
1868
Presidential Election broadside
Associating Democratic Party with former Confederate officers. Reprints portions of Democratic platform accompanied by negative allegedly found in Southern newspapers; includes four large cartoons by Thomas Nast depicting Nathaniel Bedford Forrest...
GLC09017
1893
United States Ex-Slave Owners Registration Bureau
[Reconstruction broadside]
Reconstruction broadside re: compensation for lost property. Urges reply " ... the time is fast approaching when it will be impossible to obtain an authentic record of slaves owned and recognized as property by law at that time ... "
GLC09019
Warren, Joseph
An Oration Delivered March 6th, 1775...
"...to commemorate the bloody Tragedy of the fifth of March 1770." Supplement to the Massachusetts Gazette. Boston: Mills & Hicks. Crucial Boston Massacre speech given by Warren under threat of death.
GLC09043
circa 1918
Dixie Editors Fear Dry Force Bill Will Lead to Negro Controls in South; Destroys States Rights
Prohibition broadside railing against the prospect of prohibition, because it opens the door to northern infringement upon southern whites. "[The fourteenth] amendment gives to Congress the power to force upon the South a vote for the negro - and a...
GLC09079
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