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circa 1815-1860
Ward, John Quincy Adams, 1830-1910
Cavalier-looking man [European explorer] armed with a musket and sword with native Americans. A ship appears anchored in the background.
Iron gall ink; tracing paper.
GLC06343.205
7 August 1855
Raymond, Henry J. (Henry Jarvis), 1820-1869
to unknown
Directed to "Gentlemen." Agrees to deliver a lecture on slavery during the upcoming winter, noting, "I shall fail to say anything possessing either novelty or merit upon a topic which has been more profoundly and carefully discussed in Boston than...
GLC05603.01.25
8 November 1790
Slater, I.J., fl. 1790
to Robert Patterson
Docketed as an "Extract" by Knox. Relates to Colonel Patterson details of the recent military campaign against the Maumee [Miami] Indians. States that they "sent on the 29th a Detachment of Two hundred men...to follow the Indians." Watermarked "VI...
GLC02437.10226
1861-1865
Gresham, Walter Q., 1832-1895
[Signature of Gresham on a small card]
GLC02878.04.09
28 August 1803
Taitt, D., fl. 1803
to Henry Knox
Written from "Cape Briton," possibly Cape Breton, in Nova Scotia, Canada. Declares that several years ago, he contacted Knox to find out about the fate of a boy left under Knox's care by the late Mr. Alexander McGillivray. As he did not hear back...
GLC02437.07816
14 April 1794
Stevens, Ebenezer, 1751-1823
Introduces Knox to an acquaintance of his from Antigua.
GLC02437.06080
17 May 1795
Knox, Henry, 1750-1806
to Edward Rutledge
Mentions an expedition going west and a personal trip up to Maine.
GLC02437.06417
1905
Underwood & Underwood, fl. 1888-1930
President Roosevelt and Booker Washington reviewing the 61 "Industry" floats .
Roosevelt and Washington are in the center of the picture, flanked by a sizable crowd. A lone black man stands guard in the foreground.
GLC06449.43
1861-1877
[Carte de visite of Horace Greeley]
From negative in Brady's National Portrait Gallery. Anthony imprint on verso. Three quarter length standing portrait of a bald, heavyset man in civilian dress. White mount with gold border
GLC06391.28
01 May 1836
Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848
To: Morton Eddy.
Lambasting Daniel Webster: "His Constitutional doctrins are radically unsound."
GLC08068
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