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1767
Great Britain. Acts.
An Act for restraining... the Governor, Council and House... of New York
A response to New York's resistance to the Townshend Acts.
GLC03562.17
1770
An Act to enable the Governor, Council & Assembly...of New York [reconstituting]
GLC03562.18
1773
An Act to explain and amend... An Act to prevent paper bills of credit....
GLC03562.19
1774
An Act for the better regulating the government of... Massachusetts Bay
Reorganizing the government of Massachusetts. [one of the "Intolerable Acts"]
GLC03562.20
An Act for the impartial administration of justice [protecting Tory officials]
One of the five "Intolerable Acts"
GLC03562.21
1775
An Act to amend... An act for punishing mutiny [further amending Quartering Act]
GLC03562.22
1776
An Act to prohibit all trade... [with the rebelling colonies]
GLC03562.23
1778
An Act for repealing... An Act for the... regulating the government... of Mass.
GLC03562.24
An Act for the relief of captors of prizes [duties on privateers]
GLC03562.25
An Act for removing all doubts... concerning taxation [and repealing tea duty]
GLC03562.26
An Act to enable His Majesty to appoint commissioners [negotiate with America]
GLC03562.27
An Act for allowing the exportation of... wheat-flour... [to Canada]
GLC03562.28
1782
An Act to enable His Majesty to conclude a peace or truce with certain colonies
GLC03562.29
An Act for the better detaining, and more easy exchange of American prisoners...
GLC03562.30
1783
An Act to repeal... two acts... as prohibits trade.. with the United States
GLC03562.31
An Act for preventing certain instruments being required... [trade related]
GLC03562.32
An Act for appointing commissioners to enquire into the losses [for Tories]
GLC03562.33
24 December 1814
Great Britain. Treaties.
A Treaty of peace and Amity [Treaty of Ghent. Official British printing]
Printed by R. G. Clarke. [duplicate of GLC 3985.18]
GLC03562.34
17 August 1863
Benjamin, Judah Philip, 1811-1884
to Edwin DeLeon
Benjamin, Confederate Secretary of State, writes to DeLeon, a Confederate agent in Paris. Discusses previous correspondence from DeLeon, instructs him to write more often, and orders him "never to give your letters to private hands. Send them by...
GLC03563
1861-1865
Beauregard, Pierre Gustave Toutant, 1818-1893
to J. T. Doswell
Dated "Saturday morning." Beauregard encloses a note (not included) from "a gentleman who had offered me that servant girl & her family." Two of the family recently died, and though Beauregard regrets their death, he is "glad it has occurred before...
GLC03564
June 1863 after
Cartes de visite of officers (mostly white) of 59th US Colored Infantry
After June 1863, when the regiment was organized in LaGrange, Tenn. The photographs were originally in a photo album. The 59th was originally called the 1st US Tennessee Vols. (African Descent) and 1st West Tenn. Inf. Regt (African Descent). Some...
GLC03565
1862
Currier & Ives
Central Park, the drive.
Hand colored lithograph of pedestrians, carriages, and horseback riders along the Central Park drive. Color scheme is limited to blue, green, and yellow, with a touch of red. Several buildings are visible in the background, one of which is flying an...
GLC03566
1852
Currier, Nathaniel, 1813-1888
Surrender of General Burgoyne at Saratoga N.Y. Oct. 17th 1777
Created by Currier as a lithograph of the painting by John Trumbull, which hangs in the U.S. Capital Building. Signature in lower right corner of lithograph says "O. Knursch 1852." Fine print below the picture says "Entered according to act of...
GLC03567
18 June 1778
Pulaski, Casimir, 1747-1779
to Colonel Hoppé
Written by Brigadier General Pulaski, a Polish count, as commander of his independent cavalry brigade to a Colonel Hoppé as Quartermaster General in Easton, Pennsylvania. Pulaski was soliciting help for the creation of what would become the "Pulaski...
GLC03568
28 December 1800
Gallais, Francois Michel, 1757-1826
[Captain Gallais' observations on American merchant ships engaged in combat with French ships]
Written in French by a Captain Gallais of the corsair La Laure to First Consul of French Republic Napoleon Bonaparte. Translation in collateral file. Gallais is offering his opinion on how the French government should handle American merchant ships...
GLC03570
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