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[General Robert E. Lee and staff]

Image showing General Robert E. Lee and two members of his staff. The staff members are identified as possibly Lee's son G.W. Custis Lee (on his right) and Aide Col. Walter H. Taylor (on his left). Brady photographed Lee after his return from...

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Charleston, S. C. prints [photographs showing destruction]

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Charleston, South Carolina 1865.

One photograph entitled, "Charleston, South Carolina, 1865" taken by Mathew Brady. Image shows the interior of Fort Sumter prior to the ceremony for the fourth anniversary of its bombardment.

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Charleston, South Carolina. 1865.

One photograph entitled, "Charleston, South Carolina. 1865" taken by Mathew Brady. Image shows Union troops lounging on the front steps of Charleston City Hall. The building appears to have suffered minor damage.

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Charleston, South Carolina. 1865.

One photograph entitled, "Charleston, South Carolina. 1865" taken by Mathew Brady. Image is of Roper's Hospital in Charleston, South Carolina. The long, three story building, stands in the background. The foreground are high wooden fences with piles...

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Charleston, South Carolina. 1865.

One photograph entitled, "Charleston, South Carolina," taken by Mathew Brady dated 1865. Image is of an unidentified street scene showing storefronts with stripped awnings. The sidewalk and small parts of the buildings are in disrepair. A man sits in...

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3 portraits of Civil War soldiers in uniform: 1 quarter type, 2 sixth type

3 tintype images accompanied by a "Union" military case with cannon.

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Front of Arlington House

Image of Robert E. Lee's estate at Arlington, Virginia. Union soldiers sit on the front steps of the portico, dwarfed by the immense columns they lean on. The estate was used by Union soldiers as a hospital and later turned into Arlington National...

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[View on the James River]

One undated image was taken by Andrew J. Russell. The image is of a stretch of the James River; the specific scene has not been identified. The image may have been taken during General George B. McClellan's Peninsula Campaign. It depicts the banks of...

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[Photograph of the effect of a shell explosion near Fredericksburg, Va.]

One undated photograph was taken by Andrew J. Russell. The image shows General Herman Haupt leaning against a stump and surveying the damage to artillery caissons caused by a shell. The caissons lie in wreckage next to the dead mules who had hauled...

GLC03093

Albumen of Ulysses S. Grant at time of Lincoln funeral

Portrait of General Ulysses S. Grant. Grant wears a black mourning armband, his left hand tucked in his coat in a "Napoleonic" pose. Probably taken while Lincoln's courtege traveled through Philadelphia. (See GLC01270, carte de visite).

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to Henry A. Muhlenberg

Comments on the 1840 presidential campaign and states that they are "in the midst of a higher political excitement than I have ever yet witnessed ... " Believes that Pennsylvania will support Democrat Martin Van Buren though the Whigs have...

GLC02919

Address of Senator Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts in honor of Theodore Roosevelt, Ex-President of the United States before the Congress of the United States Sunday, February 9, 1919 [word processed inventory available]

Memorial address at the time of Theodore Roosevelt's death. Printed by the Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. Pasted within the book are 13 letters, one photograph of Henry Cabot Lodge, three manuscripts, and five prints of Roosevelt....

GLC02920

to Alfred Edmund Burr

Bright, a United States Senator from Indiana, declines an offer from Burr, Chairman of the Democratic State Central Committee, to "visit Connecticut and address the Democracy of that state during the present Canvass." Bright served as a U.S. senator...

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to Alfred Edmund Burr

Davis, a United States Senator from Mississippi, declines an invitation from Burr, Chairman of the Connecticut Democratic State Central Committee, to attend a canvass preceding the 1860 presidential election. Writes "Although the state of my health &...

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to Alfred Edmund Burr

Declines an invitation from Burr, Chairman of the Connecticut Democratic State Central Committee, to speak at a canvass preceding the 1860 presidential election. States "I fervently hope that our Democratic friends in Connecticut may be so earnest...

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to Alfred Edmund Burr

Slidell, a United States Senator from Louisiana, regretfully declines an invitation from Burr, Chairman of the Connecticut Democratic State Central Committee, to speak at a canvass preceding the 1860 presidential election. States "The Democracy of...

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to Alfred Edmund Burr

Stevens, writing as chairman of the National Democratic Executive Committee, transmits an article (not included) for publication in the Hartford Times, a Connecticut newspaper. Instructs Burr, Times founder and publisher, to publish his enclosed...

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to Alfred Edmund Burr

Toombs, a United States Senator from Georgia, regretfully declines an invitation from Burr, Chairman of the Connecticut Democratic State Central Committee, to speak at a canvass preceding the 1860 presidential election. States "I consider your...

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to Willie Olcott Burr

Signed as President, typed on White House stationery. Wilson refutes the imputation made on Noone, stating that Noone's honesty is not questionable. Willie Olcott Burr was editor of the Hartford Times.

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to Alfred Burr

Signed as President. Letter regarding the investigation of statements made against Mr. Spellacy.

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[Endorsed check from Gideon Welles]

Check for $16.25 signed by Gideon Welles to "B" and endorsed on verso by Brady.

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to J. Vincent Browne

Informs that he has received his letter about cordage and tea. States that the Committee of Manufactures of the Senate is now meeting about the tariff and will report tomorrow. Remarks that " ... you have already engaged their attention and we hope...

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[Portrait of Supreme Court Justices]

Formal group portrait of the Supreme Court Justices in robes. Signed by the nine justices: Owen J. Roberts, J.C. McReynolds, Charles Evans Hughes, Harlan Fisk Stone, Hugo L. Black, William O. Douglas, Stanley Reed, Felix Frankfurter, and Frank...

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[Portrait of Supreme Court Justices]

Formal group portrait of the Supreme Court Justices in robes. Signed by justices William O. Douglas, Hugo L. Black, Earl Warren, Felix Frankfurter, Tom Clark, Charles E. Whittaker, John Marshall Harlan, William J. Brennan Jr., and Potter Stewart.

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to Lord Sydney

Written by General Cornwallis, the leader of British forces at Yorktown, who had accepted the post of Governor General of India in February 1786 to Lord Sydney as Home Secretary in the Pitt government. Wants Lord Sydney to talk to King George about...

GLC02921

Album of letters to Burr and Henry Deming [decimalized]

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to A. E. Barr & Co.

Begins by asking Burr to consider this letter private and confidential. Discusses the possible mistaken publication of his letter in the Times. Informs he received a request from a reporter from the Hartford Times and might have answered...

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to Henry C. Deming

Informs that he will gladly present his share of payment for a proposed compliment to a "most deserving friend Burr." Written to Deming as the Mayor of Hartford, Connecticut.

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to Thomas H. Seymour

Cushing, former United States Representative, states that he proposes to leave soon for Hartford, Connecticut (possibly to campaign prior to the 1860 Presidential election). Cushing served as a U.S. congressman from Massachusetts (1835-1842) and as a...

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to Alfred Edmund Burr

Deming, Mayor of Hartford, Connecticut, transmits a copied letter (included on pages two and three of this document) to Burr, who previously served as Chairman of the Democratic State Central Committee. Informs Burr that he previously sent the...

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to Alfred Edmund Burr

Dix, postmaster of the City of New York, declines an invitation from Burr, Chairman of the Connecticut Democratic State Central Committee, to speak at a canvass preceding the 1860 presidential election. Dix served as a U.S. senator from New York...

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to Henry Champion Deming

Responds to a previous letter from Deming, Mayor of Hartford, Connecticut, in which Deming requested a donation to honor Alfred Edmund Burr, Chairman of the Democratic State Central Committee. Expresses enthusiasm in providing a testimonial for Burr...

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to Alfred Burr

Remarks, " ... my conviction that this is preeminently the time, possibly the only time, for an earnest & successful effort to overthrow sectionalism in the Northern States." Marked private at top.

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to Alfred Edmund Burr

Van Buren, a Democratic party leader from New York, declines an invitation from Burr, Chairman of the Connecticut Democratic State Central Committee, to speak at a canvass preceding the 1860 presidential election. States "the Democrats of New York &...

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to Alfred Edmund Burr

Wood, Mayor of New York City, informs Burr, Chairman of the Connecticut Democratic State Central Committee, that he will be able to speak at a political convention preceding the 1860 Presidential election. Written on New York Mayor's Office...

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Items related to the creation of the Robert Gould Shaw Monument by Augustus Saint-Gaudens [Decimalized .01-.06]

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Galveston entrance, Texas, from a trigonometrical survey under the direction of A.D. Bache superintendant of the survery of the coast of the United States

Map of the Galveston entrance in Texas from 1853. Sailing directions written on righthand side of document, including information about tides. Harbor shown is the Gulf of Mexico. Includes compass. Scale noted on bottom. Triangulation by R.H...

GLC02941

to Samuel Hooper

Written from camp near Damstown. Banks, commanding a division, Army of the Potomac, replies to a note from Hooper, a United States Representative from Massachusetts. Relates that he has been busy organizing his staff, and will soon make...

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to Samuel Hooper

Banks, commander of the Military District of Washington, Army of the Potomac, writes to Hooper, a United States Representative from Massachusetts. Discusses the court martial of Lt. Goodrich (possibly the son of John Goodrich, former Representative...

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to Peter Wager

Buchanan writes as a United States Senator from Pennsylvania. Discusses a possible mistake regarding the price of wine he ordered from Wager. Writes, "We have nothing new here except what you see in the papers. I think a deeper & stronger feeling...

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Items pertaining to John Augustine Washington [Decimalized .01-.02]

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Columbian centinel and Massachusetts federalist. [Vol. 32, No. 37 (January 8, 1800)]

Includes a report from James Craik and Elisha C. Dick, physicians from Alexandria, Virginia, present at the 14 December 1799 death of George Washington. Contains a detailed description of funeral honors dedicated to Washington by the inhabitants of...

GLC02960

The Texas cook book.... [first Texas cookbook]

Edited by the Lady's Association of the First Presbyterian Church. Standard fare plus some ethnic dishes. With 60 interleaved manuscript recipes.

GLC02936

Address to the reader of the documents relating to the Galveston Bay....

One of the first accounts of Texas written in English. Printed by G.F. Hopkins and Sons. First edition, first issue, printed without appendix. Graff 1494, Howes S1137.

GLC02937

[Sale of land to Archibald Hotchkiss]

Sale of land document from John Davidson to Archibald Hotchkiss. Handwritten note in pencil on top of document: "Galveston Bay: Texas Land co. 450." Docket on verso.

GLC02938

County map of the state of Texas

County map of Texas from 1887. Colored in pink and green. Includes a smaller map of the "plan of Galveston and vicinity." Page numbers on top of map are 64 and 65. Published by Wm Bradley & Bros.

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Documents regarding the Deschapelles plantation in Louisiana during and after Reconstruction [Decimalized .01-.03]

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to John Brown Dillon

Harrison offers his opinion to Dillon, who is publishing a pamphlet on the subject of slavery: "our Union is a Union of Sovereign Independent States &... in every particular where power is not expressly surrendered by that instrument to the General...

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to James H. Wilson

Celebratory discussion of union victories in the South. Sherman writes that he "knocked the daylight through Georgia," that General Wilson and General George H. Thomas gave confederate Generals "Hood & Forest a taste of what they have to Expect by...

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