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January 1854
Hastings & Green
Catalogue of Antioch College for 1853 - 1854
List of faculty by "class" (of knowledge), with admissions, course requirements and information on preparatory school and coeducation.
GLC06027.03
1870 ca.
Frederick Douglass
With printed title "Fred[.] Douglass." on front, and gold printed border (where the photograph would normally be placed) on verso. Dark, rich image. No imprint. This image was used by the engraver Ritchie for a silhouette bust portrait of Douglass...
GLC06198
1844
American Anti-Slavery Society
Declaration of sentiments of the American Anti-Slavery Society. Adopted at the formation of said society, in Philadelphia, on the 4th day of December, 1833.
Leaflet published by the American Anti-Slavery Society, printed by William S. Dorr. Concludes with "We charge upon the existing national government, that it is an insupportable despotism, wielded by a power which is superior to all legal and...
GLC06200
1879
George, Henry, 1839-1897
Progress and Poverty: An inquiry into the cause of Industrial Depressions....
[Title continued] "...and of increase of want with increase of wealth - the remedy." Advance publication, with typed advertisement for book laid-in. Inscribed on free front endpaper to Mary A. Wilbur.
GLC06201
6 January 1796 - 9 May 1797
Poulson, Zachariah, 1761-1844
To the free Africans and other people of color in the United States
Two addresses by the conventions of delegates of the Abolition Societies of the United States. The first is dated 9 May 1797 and signed by Joseph Bloomfield as President of the Convention. The second is dated 6 January 1796 and signed by Theodore...
GLC06212
1850/09/30
Clay, Henry, 1777-1852
Colonization society membership certificate for Millard Fillmore [slavery]
Certificate countersigned by William McLain. Certificate made out to Fillmore as President of the US. Damaged, with slight loss of paper at top center.
GLC06216
1845
Child, Lydia Maria Francis, 1802-1880
Letters from New York : Second series.
Second volume of journalism published by author and abolitionist Child. Includes a chapter on the rights of women. First edition. Printed by C.S. Francis (New York) and J. H. France (Boston). BAL 3152.
GLC06218
1862
The right way the safe way, proved by emancipation in the British West Indies, and elsewhere.
Regarding emancipation, Child writes, "Leaving the obvious considerations of justice and humanity entirely out of the question, I ask whether experience has not proved it to be a measure of plain, practical good sense, and sound policy... Free labor...
GLC06219
1860
Dall, Caroline H., fl. 1860
"Woman's right to labor," or, Low wages and hard work : in three lectures, delivered in Boston, November, 1859.
First edition. Published by Walker, Wise and Company.
GLC06220
1855
Fuller, Margaret, fl. 1855
Woman in the nineteenth century, and kindred papers relating to the sphere, condition and duties of woman
Edited by her brother, Arthur B. Fuller. Introduction by Horace Greeley.
GLC06221
1851-1854
[The Proceedings of the woman's rights conventions].
Compilation of the 1850 through 1854 women's rights conventions. Contents include the 1850 convention held at Worcester; the 1851 convention held at Worcester; the 1852 convention held in Syracuse; the 1853 convention held at the Broadway Tabernacle...
GLC06228
16 April 1883
Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895
Address by Hon. Frederick Douglass, delivered in the Congregational Church, Washington, D.C., April 16, 1883 : on the twenty-first anniversary of emancipation, in the District of Columbia.
"What Abraham Lincoln said in respect of the United States is as true of the colored people as of the relations of those States. They cannot remain half slave and half free. You must give them all or take from them all. Until this half-and-half...
GLC06116
3 January 1840-31 Decemeber 1847
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879
The liberator. [Vol. 10, no. 1 (January 3, 1840) - v. 17. no. 53 (December 31, 1847)]
Run of 416 weekly issues of the famous anti-slavery newspaper edited by William Lloyd Garrison.
GLC06109
1934
Cunard, Nancy, 1896-1965
Negro anthology made by Nancy Cunard 1931-1933
Published by Cunard at Wishart & Company in London, England. In the foreword, Cunard states "It was necessary to make this book ... for the recording of the struggles and achievements, the persecutions and the revolts against them, of the Negro...
GLC06115
1850
Burritt, Elihu, 1810-1879
Elihu Burritt's miscellaneous writings
Published by Thomas Drew, Jr. Printed wrappers with illustration, including a print of Burritt. Second edition. Includes the essay "Buying a Brother from Bondage" which describes the purchase of Frederick Douglass' freedom. Cover and some inner...
GLC06118
26 April 1887
A sketch of Henry Franklin and family
Date written as "4 mo., 26th, 1887." Contains an extract from the Philadelphia Inquirer regarding the death of Henry Franklin's son. The extract is included as a reflection of the lack of racial prejudice in France, where Franklin's son died....
GLC06120
30 September 1962
Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967
Fight for freedom: the story of the NAACP
Published by W. W. Norton & Company. Signed on the front flyleaf by Hughes, who inscribed the copy to Raymond Johnson. Signed and inscribed 30 September 1962 on the inner back cover by Evangeline Upshur Truman in Little Rock, Arkansas. Foreword...
GLC06123
4 April 1968
Allied Printing Trades Council
I am a man
Printed by Allied Printing in large black letters on white posterboard. Poster dates from the day of Dr. King's assassination. Refer to GLC05954 for a different printing of this poster.
GLC06124
8 April 1968
Honor King, End Racism
Large black letters printed on white posterboard state "HONOR KING: END RACISM!" Contains strings intended to suspend the poster from a marcher's neck. Poster designed for a march on April 8, 1968, 4 days after Martin Luther King's Jr.'s...
GLC06125
1923-1940
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Documents related to the NAACP [Decimalized .01-.08.02]
Created in New York, New York and Chicago, Illinois.
GLC06135
1835
Battey, Joel, 1790-?
Address of the Starksborough and Lincoln anti-slavery society to the public.
First edition, presented to Kimball 8 November 1834. Printed by Knapp and Jewett. In faded orange wrappers as issued. With printed constitution of the Society inside rear wrapper. Kimball signed outer cover. A note written on title page...
GLC06137
1857
J.O.E., fl. 1857
Attention South!! Abolish slavery.
Abolitionist folk art depicting a Black man as weeping and chained and shackled, surrounded by green curtains with yellow tassels. At top left are the words "Attention South!!" with the word "Abolish" at left and "Slavery" at right, signed in block...
GLC06140
November 1863
[Statement of belief].
Condemns those who defend the perpetuation of slavery on the grounds that it was not proscribed by the Constitution and who wish for a return to the Union as it was. Includes poem lamenting the failure of the Founders to address slavery.
GLC06142
1844-1858
Harmon, David P., 1800-1869
Collection of abolitionist materials including letters, documents and printed [Decimalized .01- .29]
Includes 15 ALS's by notable figures in abolitionist movement, large printed broadside (printing map at top) for election of 1856 (Fremont). Many of the letters discuss arrangements for lectures by abolitionists such as Lucy Stone, the Crafts...
GLC06143
1837
Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society
Proceedings of the Pennsylvania convention, assembled to organize a state anti-slavery society, at Harrisburg, on the 31st of January and 1st, 2d and 3d of February 1837.
Printed by Merrihew and Gunn. Cites participants, including Lewis Tappan from the Executive Committee of the American Anti-Slavery Society, and John Greenleaf Whittier from Massachusetts.
GLC06146
1884
Truth, Sojourner, 1797-1883
A narrative of Sojourner Truth; a bondswoman of olden time, emancipated by the New York Legislature in the early part of the present century...
(title continues)... with a history of her labors and correspondence drawn from her 'Book of Life;' also, a memorial chapter, giving the particulars of her last sickness and death." Published by the Review and Herald Office in 1884, Battle Creek...
GLC06153
17 March 1777
Whipple, William, 1730-1785
to Josiah Bartlett
Discusses Continental troop movements, specifically regarding Fort Ticonderoga and New Jersey. Also, rising cost of living and collapsing currency, taxation, Franklin's reception at Versailles, and New Hampshire politics.
GLC05878
1790
Prison reform
Extracts and Remarks on the subject of punishment and reformation of criminals
Printed by Zachariah Poulson. Published by order of the Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons.
GLC05883
1945/10/30
Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972
Speech re: transition to peacetime; economy
"Four days after the surrender of Japan, I issued executive order 9599 which laid down the guiding policies of your government during the transition from war to peace...to assist in the maximum production of civilian goods...to avoid both inflation...
GLC07720
1868 [?]
Republican Party
Paying Off the Democratic Public Debt
re: Civil War debts and "the legacy which the Democratic administration of James Buchanan bequeathed the Republican party."
GLC07722
7 April 1790
Higginson, Stephen, 1743-1828
to Henry Knox
Requests an appointment in government for his son. Discusses his, and the general population's, views on the current government. Writes that judging from the past, "there appears too much reason to fear yet further fluctuation, if not changes, in...
GLC02437.04578
15 May 1788
Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
to Sarah Lyons Flucker
Wishes he could give her "a precise idea of the estate, of our late mother in this Country [Hannah Waldo Flucker] one half of which belongs to your children." Notes that the land is not yet divided and its boundaries have to be verified by the state...
GLC02437.03873
10 April 1784
to Hannah Flucker
Writing to his mother-in-law, Knox discusses the lands in the Waldo patent and other business matters.
GLC02437.09103
12 January 1790
Gorham, Nathaniel, 1738-1796
Asks for Knox's advice concerning the federal assumption of state debt, specifically the states of Massachusetts, Georgia, and North Carolina. Makes his own suggestions, and asks Knox to share it with Alexander Hamilton and others.
Signer of the U.S...
GLC02437.04470
20 January 1790
Discusses the issue of state debt, writing "We understand here that Mr. Hamiltons report on finance was to be made on Thursday last - various are the conjectures on the nature of it. Many suppose that a proposal for the assumption of the State debts...
GLC02437.04476
17 April 1790
Says he has been laid up for the past week with the gout. Discusses a proposed congressional bill to regulate proceedings with the Indians. Gorham wants this to be extended to the Six Nations, stating "it is of great consiquence [sic] that more...
GLC02437.04588
10 June 1791
Gerry, Elbridge, 1744-1814
Written by Massachusetts Congressman Gerry to Secretary of War Knox. Says he requested 26 shares in the Bank of the United States from Deputy Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. Cox. Enclosed a $650 bank note "to make the first specie payment." Asks...
GLC02437.04983
1735/05/23
Thomas, fl. 1735
Bill of sale of a brigantine to Jonathan Clark
GLC03107.04734
[1739/05/26]
Storke, Sam, fl. 1739
to [?] re: shipping and mercantile services [fragment]
GLC03107.04736
1748/06/23
Douglass, Benajah, fl. 1747-1752
Promise to repay a debt to Daniel Tracy
GLC03107.04740
GLC03107.04741
1753/05/30
Massachusetts. General Court
Report of the Massachusetts Bay Assembly
The report orders that improvements be made on lands in the western part of Massachusetts.
GLC03107.04743
14 March 1786
Grayson, William, 1736-1790
Writes, "I received a tickett from you just as I was setting out from N York, & had not then time to answer it. I am sorry it is not now in my power to say any thing certainly on the subject matter of it. We yesterday had an audience before the...
GLC02437.03252
28 March 1796
to Abijah Hammond
No addressee listed, but previous research lists the addressee as "Abijah Hammond at New York." This information was added later in pencil. Unsigned, but handwriting suggests the author is Henry Knox. Mentions previous correspondence with Hammond...
GLC02437.06678
circa 1585-1763
Guide to handling money and finances [incomplete with fragmented pages]
The book contains instructions on how to fulfill various financial transactions, such as "Multiplication of Money," "Reduction," and the "Rule of Three." Extensive explanations and examples are given for each lesson.
GLC03107.04828
1766/09/24
Whiteman, Henry, fl. 1776
Account of Teunis van Vechten
Teunis van Vechten purchased buttons and a coat from Henry Whiteman.
GLC03107.04782
1820/06/12
Zimmerman, fl. 1820
to Mssrs. Lafarge, Patterson, & Havre re: trade in South America
Zimmerman writes that recent political unrest has left the South American provinces without a government, but hopes that a just system will be settled upon soon. He then describes how trade has been affected in the region. The letter is marked as a...
GLC03107.04789
Van Vechten, Teunis, 1707-1785
Order for tow cloth
GLC03107.04801
28 December 1788
to Alexander Hamilton
Asks for Hamilton's help if he is traveling to Albany. Is a purchaser, with Hamilton and others, of lands around the St. Lawrence River, the patents for which lands have been taken out of the Land Office in the name of Alexander Macomb. Aside from...
GLC02437.04063
4 December 1798
Hatch, Nathaniel, fl. 1798
Hatch expects that Knox will keep his word to let Hatch have "that pice of Land...being your part of the Eight hundred ackers Lying in Falmouth." Hatch would like to hear from Knox about "orders to take Care of the said Land."
GLC02437.07202
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