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1864
Truth, Sojourner, 1797-1883
Carte-de-visite of SojournerTruth
Caption on mount reads :"I sell the Shadow to Support the Substance. Sojourner Truth." Copyright stamp on verso
GLC09082
July 1835
American Anti-Slavery Society
The Anti-Slavery Record. Vol 1, no. 7.
Published by the American Anti-Slavery Society, printed by S. W. Benedict & Co. With images of a schoolhouse and slave children being whipped, asks, "Which of these systems of education shall we hand down to posterity."
GLC09083
March 23, 1863
Gorsuch, Joseph B., ?-1864
to Joseph Curtis and his wife, Mary Gorsuch Curtis
Written in camp near Vicksburg, Mississippi (possibly in Louisiana). Gorsuch, Captain of the 83rd Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, replies to a letter from his aunt and uncle. Expects the Battle of Vicksburg to commence soon. Has heard rumors...
GLC00653.09.08
1820
Hillhouse, William, fl. 1820
The Crisis, No. 1 or Thoughts on Slavery, Occasioned by the Missouri Question.
Printed by A. H. Maltby & Co, New Haven, Connecticut. Denounces slavery and its introduction into the new Territories: "The extension of slavery to the new and unculivated regions of the west...is a great calamity...It is a blot on the human...
GLC09062
2 October 1789
Hamilton, Alexander, 1757-1804
to Sharpe Delaney
"As in the first establishment of Revenue systems, imperfections and inconveniencies will naturally present themselves in practice, which could not have been foreseen in their formation; it is of the greatest moment, that the best information should...
GLC09063
circa 1880-1890
Volck, Adalbert John, 1828-1912
Gen'l Stuart's raid to the White House
Depicts Confederate cavalrymen under the command of General J.E.B. Stuart descending upon the Federal line only to find one Hezekiah Skinflint, a sutler who had provided provisions, in this case "ale and lager," to the soldiers. Many Southerners held...
GLC00493.21
18 August 1921
Program of the Forty-Eighth Annual Meeting of the National Women's Christian Temperance Union
GLC09400.643
20 May 1920
Dawes, Charles G., 1865-1951
Speech endorsing Gov. Frank O. Lowden for president
He focuses on the high cost of living and the business of running the government which he feels the Governor of Illinois is the best candidate for.
GLC02679.43
14 March 1918
From General Headquarters: Secretary of the Treasury has requested Congress to enact law proving for organisation of 500,000,000...
McCain requests Charles Dawes appointment for directorship of the War Finance Corporation.
GLC02679.62
August 1952
Students for Democratic Action, fl. 1952
The Big Little Person's Book of Songs For Democratic Action
The book, published by the Students for Democratic Action (SDA), is a mix of common picketing and protest songs and original works by the author. The table of contents is ordered by genre of the song as follows: popular folk songs; old favorites; SDA...
GLC09590
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