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1848/06/12
Vanderlyn, John
to Ingraham Kip re: selling his work
Discussed the inability to sell two "views of Niagra Falls", "It is painful and humiliating to the artist to be obliged to stoop...to procure a sale".
GLC07029
1818/09/23
West, Benjamin
to June Porter re: sending three pencils used in creating religious works
(Pencils not included.)
GLC07030
27 September 1823
Jefferson, Thomas (1743-1826)
to Palmira Johnson
Sends a lock of hair (not included) and a "likeness of the head also from which it is shorn as taken by [Gilbert] Stewart." Written in the third person.
GLC07150
27 June 1862
Albert (fl. 1862-)
to Sister Sophia
He writes about the drills they are forced to endure. He says the further they are from the enemy, the more strict they are with them. His sister has been named best music scholar at her school.
GLC07205.030
15 December 1861
Albert (fl. 1861-)
He asks if she went to the dance she told him about and tells to remember him while she is waltzing. Tells her to remember him to several people.
GLC07205.047
circa 1856
Bingham, George Caleb (1811-1879)
Stump Speaking
Civil War print of a man addressing a crowd. A note at the bottom indicates it was "Engraved by Goupil & Company after a painting by George Caleb Bingham." Another notes that it was "Reproduced at the Lakeside Press by Donnelly Sheet Fed Gravure."
GLC08442.11
1861
Jackson, Richard H. (fl. 1861-1864)
to Father
Possibly included with GLC07705.032
Includes a sketch of a windmill.
GLC07705.033
12 May 1862
He includes sketch with a soldier standing next to a cannon, tee pees, an American Indian and a banner that says "Union." He mentions a Sergeant Chas E. Hill.
GLC07705.062
21 December 1862
Jackson, Henry (fl. 1861-1864)
to Richard H. Jackson
He received John Davis's letters, along with the Zouave uniform, and portrait of a young lady which will be delivered to his mother in due time.
GLC07705.245
21 January 1864
Jackson, H. (fl. 1861-1864)
He writes about the performance of "Barney Williams and his Wife.."
GLC07705.299
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