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circa 1850
Sartain, John (1808-1897)
Engraving of Joseph Hopkinson.
Adhered to scrapbook mount. Adhered to lower right is typed biographical note. Based on the ca. 1810 portrait by Thomas Sully.
GLC02453.55
circa 1860
H.B. Hall & Sons
Engraving of John James Ingalls.
Adhered to scrapbook mount.
GLC02453.56
circa 1870
Unknown
Engraving of Thomas Dunn English.
Adhered to scrapbook mount. Song lyrics printed in background, "Oh' don't you remember sweet Alice Ben Bolt."
GLC02453.57
Engraving of Henry Timrod.
Adhered to scrapbook mount. "Drawn from a painting by P.P. Carter." "Owned by the Hon. William A. Courtenay."
GLC02453.58
Buttre, John Chester (1821-1893)
Engraving of George William Curtis.
Adhered to scrapbook mount. Adhered to lower right is a short biographical note.
GLC02453.59
ca. 1890
Engraving of Eugene Field.
Adhered to scrapbook mount. Short biographical note also adhered to scrapbook mount.
GLC02453.60
circa 1880
Wilcox, John Angel James (b. 1835)
Engraving of John Fiske.
GLC02453.61
Engraving of Paul Hamilton Hayne.
Adhered to scrapbook mount. Short biographical note is adhered to lower right. "Fords, Howard & Hulbert, N.Y." appears below the image.
GLC02453.62
Engraving of Charles Fenno Hoffman.
Adhered to scrapbook mount. Short biographical note is adhered to bottom right. Engraved from a portrait by Henry Inman.
GLC02453.63
Engraving of Josiah Gilbert Holland.
Adhered to scrapbook mount. Short biographical note is adhered to bottom right.
GLC02453.64
circa 1885
Perine, George Edward (1837-1885)
Engraving of Benson John Lossing.
Adhered to scrapbook mount with biographical sketch adhered to lower right. From Lossing's book, History of New York City. "Drawn by J.L. Giles, N.Y."
GLC02453.65
Engraving of John Lothrop Motley.
Adhered to scrapbook mount. Below image reads, "On steel by John Sartain Phila. after Photograph from life"
GLC02453.66
Pelton, Oliver (1798-1882)
Engraving of James Parton.
Adhered to upper left is a biographical note. Inscribed in pencil lower left is, "c:" and lower right is, "my scarce print."
GLC02453.67
no date
[a prayer]
Written on stationary from Anniston, Alabama and dated 189_. A prayer.
GLC02691.11.106
January 16, 1840
Fillmore, Millard, 1800-1874
to Solomon Haven
Fillmore writes as a U.S. Representative to Haven, serving as lawyer in Buffalo, New York. Complains of the cold, writing "People here know nothing of comfort in cold weather. Their houses are all built for a southern summer, but by some mistake we...
GLC01088
23 September 1789
Fenno, John, 1751-1798
Gazette of the United States. [No. XLVII (September 23, 1789)]
Reports on the Senate proceedings and prints twelve proposed amendments to the Constitution, an early form of the Bill of Rights. Reports on a debate in the House of Representatives on judicial salaries. Contains news from Europe, including the...
GLC01063
30 June 1895
Sarony, Napoleon, 1821-1896
[Portrait of Harriet Beecher Stowe]
One portrait of Harriet Beecher Stowe taken by Sarony dated June 30, 1895. Inscribed to Frank Leonard. Signed twice, recto and verso after an excerpt from Uncle Tom's Cabin.
GLC01091
March 13, 1837
Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892
to Samuel Joseph May
Invites May to the quarterly meeting of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society in Lynn, Massachusetts. Indicates that "Stanton, Garrison, Loring, Sewall, everybody wishes thee to be with us on the occasion." Mentions a Missouri statement from years...
GLC00979
November 1891
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr., 1841-1935
Speeches By Oliver Wendell Holmes, Junior.
Inscribed to philanthropist Charles Fairchild and signed with initials "O. W. H." With autograph explanatory notes on Civil War persons mentioned in his speeches, including W. Putnam, W.F. Cabot, James Lowell, General Charles Lowell, Paul Revere...
GLC01001
November 20, 1861
Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872
to Henry S. Randall
Writes to Randall, a biographer of Thomas Jefferson, about the relative qualities of Jefferson, John Adams, John Quincy Adams, and Alexander Hamilton. Expresses thanks for Randall's "vindication of Jefferson from the personal calumnies which had...
GLC00935
1866-1886
Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891
Materials relating to the writing of William T. Sherman's memoirs [Decimalized .01-.03]
These three documents all appear to have been written on pages taken from a history of Julius Caesar given to Sherman by Charles McMillan.
GLC00955
January 25, 1789
Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848
to James Bridge
Adams describes acting like a recluse, spending most of his time in study. He praises the fourth volume of Edward Gibbon's "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire." Adams asks that if Bridge sees a mutual friend, Stacey, to ask him to return Adams'...
GLC00958.03
August 10, 1791
Adams denies that his father had any part in writing the Publicola letters, which attacked Thomas Paine's "Rights of Man" as too radical. Adams does acknowledge that he is the author, claiming that idleness motivated his effort to "dabble in...
GLC00958.07
1751
Oliver, Daniel, fl. 1751
Poem, "To a young Friend"
GLC01450.313
1759? ca.
Poem, "Come Soldiers All" re: battle on Plains of Abraham
GLC01450.314
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