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January 1854
Hastings & Green
Catalogue of Antioch College for 1853 - 1854
List of faculty by "class" (of knowledge), with admissions, course requirements and information on preparatory school and coeducation.
GLC06027.03
1855
Nell, William C., 1816-1874
The colored patriots of the American Revolution, with sketches of several distinguished colored persons: to which is added a brief survey of the condition and prospects of colored Americans.
Signed several times on the inside cover by Mrs. George H. Washington at an unspecified date. Signed 23 December 1978 in blue pen on the inner front cover by William D. Hoyt. Published by Robert F. Wallcut. Includes an introduction by Harriet...
GLC06176
1851
Lewis, Morgan Henry, 1818-1881
League of the Ho-De-No-Sau-Nee, or Iroquois
Published by Sage and Brother Publishers. Includes an inscription from W. H. Samson in memory of Arthur Leutchford, dated December 1907. Contains Mrs. Arthur Leutchford's card with an address. Also includes an extract of a letter from George S...
GLC06202
1835/04/15
Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845
to George Pessenger and William P. Varian
Thanking Pessenger and William P. Varian as representatives of the Democratic Electors of New York's Eleventh Ward for a side of beef, which Jackson says gives him as great if not greater pleasure than many fancier gifts. Pessenger and William P...
GLC06204
1860
De Bow, James Dunwoody Brownson, 1820-1867
The interest in slavery of the Southern non-slaveholder. The right of peaceful secession. The character and influence of abolitionism.
Printed by Evans & Cogswell. Stab-stitched. Debow, a publisher and statistician, issues a pro-slavery and pro-secession polemic. Tries to convince non-slaveholders to uphold the institution of their "section," the South. Uses several arguments to...
GLC06158.12
1849
Thompson, George, ?-1893
Prison life and reflections; or, a narrative of the arrest, trial, conviction, imprisonment, treatment, observations, reflections, and deliverance of Work, Burr, and Thompson...
(title continued)... who suffered an unjust and cruel imprisonment in Missouri Penitentiary for attempting to aid some slaves to liberty. Published by A. (possibly Alanson) Work.
GLC06169
1845
Clark, Lewis Garrard, 1812-1897)
Narrative of the sufferings of Lewis Clarke, during a captivity of more than twenty-five years, among the Algerines of Kentucky, one of the so called Christian states of North America.
Printed by David H. Ela. Signed on front and rear cover by Caleb Hobart of East Maison (possibly Tennessee). Dictated by Clark. With an introduction, verifying Clark's testimony, by Joseph Cammet Lovejoy (anti-slavery figure and brother of...
GLC06177
September 1, 1860
Beauregard, Pierre Gustave Toutant, 1818-1893
Annual report of Major G. T. Beauregard, Corps of Engrs- for the works under his charge during the year 1860.
Includes a report on the status of defenses at Proctor's Landing, Virginia. Beauregard notes that operations at the Landing were closed 30 September 1858 for want of funds, and that a fort keeper has manned the fort since. Reports that 30 August...
GLC06180
1850s?
Porter, Noah, fl. 1850
Quarter plate daguerreotype in original gilt decorated leather case
A 1/4 plate daguerreotype. Youthful bust-length pose in academic robes. Porter was the president of Yale 1871-1886 and previously edited Webster's American Dictionary after the death of Chauncey Goodrich.
GLC06184
24 August 1835
Fannin, James Walker, Jr., 1804-1836
[Agreement for sale of five slaves]
Fannin receives $2800 in payment from J. F. Perry for the purchase of five slaves "African Negroes": Billy, John, Joe, Peter, and Betcey.
GLC06186
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