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14 April 1684
Indian Treaty
Indian land sale-Flushing Meadows, NY. MDS by 8 Indians.
GLC08077
01 January 1834
Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845
to James Kirke Paulding
Vowing to destroy second bank of the United States.
GLC08083
24 June 1837
to Benjamin P. Butler.
To the Attorney General; blaming the banks for the Panic of 1837: "The connection of banks with the government I have considered more dangerous to liberty than the union of church and state."
GLC08084
02 April 1865
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
to Mary Todd Lincoln.
Lincoln's last letter to Mary Lincoln, day before the fall of Richmond, Re: dramatic news of the final collapse of the confederate defenses.
GLC08090
29 March 1861
to Simon Cameron
Orders Secretary of War Cameron to send a naval expedition to resupply Fort Sumter. Indicates that specific instructions were in an attached memorandum (not included) and instructs Cameron to cooperate with Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles.
GLC08093
11 December 1796
Washington, George, 1732-1799
to Sir John Sinclair
Written by President Washington to Sinclair the Scottish politician and writer on finance and agriculture. Describes the natural characteristics of various sections of the country, their chief resources, climates, interests and activities, relative...
GLC08095
circa 1830-1910
Ward, John Quincy Adams, 1830-1910
[Two skulls with partial skull sketch on reverse]
Conte crayon, chalk, graphite; wove paper.
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[Three men sailing with wind-beings blowing sails]
Iron gall ink; wove paper.
GLC06343.064
[Two portraits of man in hat]
Mirror images signed. Graphite; wove paper.
GLC06343.065
Mirror images signed. Graphite; crease down center; wove paper.
GLC06343.066
Boy sitting on bench; reverse side, man in rocking chair drawn in boundaries of large brown stain; graphite; wove paper.
Seagulls and cricket; black ink wash; wove paper
GLC06343.067
[Woman eating and sketch of boy below]
Graphite; wove paper.
GLC06343.068
4 August 1855
[Landscape, rock formation with trees]
Inscribed, "Mount Morris." Graphite; wove paper.
GLC06343.069
[Five sketches of cats]
Graphite, iron gall ink; lined wove paper.
GLC06343.070
1867
Chambers, Joht W., fl. 1867
The Late Dr. Edward Ruggles
Newspaper clipping of obituary of Dr. Edward Ruggles. Chambers signed as Secretary of the American Institute.
GLC06343.071
1857
Dr. Edward Ruggles, Brooklyn 1857
Sketch of a man working at a sewing machine. Iron gall ink; wove paper glued at back corners to heavy backing.
GLC06343.072
[Goateed man in defensive pose]
Graphite or charcoal; orange wove paper.
GLC06343.073
[Sketch of heavenly scene with haloed figure and couple in hammock]
Text on reverse, "Bring wood to make me bright and banish every evil sprite . . . The family is the Nation. The hearth [illegible] the alter of Liberty." Wove paper.
GLC06343.074
[Sculpture design: standing man [possibly James A. Garfield] holding up a paper in one hand]
Graphite; tan tracing paper.
GLC06343.075
[Four sculpture designs: standing man (James A. Garfield)]
GLC06343.076
[Sculpture design: standing man]
Possibly James A. Garfield. Graphite; tan tracing paper.
GLC06343.077
Possibly James A. Garfield. Graphite; tan tracing paper; pressure sensitive tapes.
GLC06343.078
Possibly James A. Garfield. With hand on pedestal. Graphite; wove paper.
GLC06343.079
[Various sketches and sculpture designs]
Greco-Roman themes, nude models, soldiers, etc. Bound with string. Graphite, charcoal, tissue and wove papers.
GLC06343.080
[Small woman figure being wrestled by a large male figure]
GLC06343.081
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