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to John Wigram re: payment to be made to a widow

Written at the Manor of Livingston, in Ancram, New York.

GLC03107.04259

to Edward Porter Van Valkenburgh

Written on stationary of the law office of Frank B. Van Valkenburgh. Provides some family history for his brother Captain Edward Porter Van Valkenburgh. Gives a run down of Edward's Civil War service: enrolled September 18, 1861. Made a 1st...

GLC00686.28

"Remarks of Thurgood Marshall at the Annual Seminar of the San Fracisco Patent and Trademark Law Association in Maui, Hawaii"

One typewritten document entitled, "Remarks of Thurgood Marshall at the Annual Seminar of the San Fracisco Patent and Trademark Law Association in Maui, Hawaii" dated May 6, 1987. Details that the Constitution was not written with enslaved people in...

GLC09640.247

College bill sent to John S. Livingston for his son Johnston Livingston

The bill lists the charges for Johnston's education for the session commencing 26 April and ending 24 July 1833. Charges include tuition, room-rent, use of college library, servants' hire, printing, and fines for absences from prayers and...

GLC03107.04078

55 unidentified miscellaneous cartes de visite [decimalized]

Collection consists of 55 photographs, largely dating from the Civil War period, and primarily connected with the N.Y. Volunteer Engineers. The majority of the images are carte de visite portraits, although the collection also includes several...

GLC00919.24

to Richard W. Hutson

Apologizes for not writing. They had an unexpected move. General Lee put together a party to scour the Blue Ridge Mountains for military deserters. Reports that Lee chose A. P. Hill's 1st South Carolina and Richard S. Ewell's 12th of Georgia...

GLC08165.63

to Congressman Carlos J. Moorhead

One letter from Stephen T. Bass to Congressman Carlos J. Moorhead dated November 13, 1973. Bass supports the
impeachment of President Nixon and writes, "Must we have three more years of what history will recall as the most corrupt and inept...

GLC09613.02.1339

To Allison Kraft

One letter from David Shneidman to Allison Kraft dated August 11, 2023. Shneidman compliments the Inside the Vault program run by The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History and wants to donate this pin. (GLC10139.01) He is making the donation...

GLC10139.02

to Herman Lankamp

One letter from Congressman Carlos J. Moorhead to Herman Lankamp dated August 20, 1974. Moorhead responds to constituent's reflection on how Nixon will be perceived in the future. He writes "I hope [Nixon] will be remembered in history for his great...

GLC09613.02.3512.01

The celebrated collection of Americana formed by the late Thomas Winthrop Streeter...

(title continues)... Morristown, New Jersey sold by order of the trustees. Volume seven of a seven volume collection, plus index. Includes: transportation and communications, economics, education, sports, western hemisphere and the Pacific...

GLC03261.07

The New Citizen [Vol 3 no 3, (January 1914)]

One magazine entitled The New Citizen published January 1914. The magazine is dedicated to the woman's suffrage movement and contains a series of articles that are both political and informational regarding suffrage and general politics. Of...

GLC09960

Firefighters Work on Blazing Battleship

Official Navy photo on Pearl Harbor. Label on back of photograph: "US Sailors man boats at the side of the blazing USS West Virginia to fight flames started by the Japs." Taken during attack in 1941 and printed and released in 1942 for the one-year...

GLC09547.08

to Oscar King Davis

"I am pretty well disgusted with our government ... in a democracy like ours people will always do well or ill largely in proportion to their leadership. If Lincoln had acted after the firing on Fort Sumter in the way that Wilson did about the...

GLC08003

to Henry Knox

Written by Major Shaw, Knox's former aide-de-camp, to Brigadier General Knox. Letter expresses the touchiness Revolutionary officers had about rank. Says no word on Knox's promotion is to be had. Hopes "The period, however, cannot be remote when...

GLC02437.01370

to John Bryant

Marked as a "Duplicate" (of GLC03432.02). Discusses accounts related to military stores at the Armory in Springfield, Massachusetts, both payments and orders. Says he has not seen [Samuel] Hodgdon and therefore does not know the amount to pay some...

GLC03432.003

A. Adams

One print of Abigail Adams printed by Johnson, Wilson, & Co. Publishers. From an original painting by Gilbert Stuart.

GLC08878.1070

Abigail Adams. From a Portrait Taken at the Age of 21

One print of Abigail Adams engraved by Oliver Pelton after Benjamin Blyth's painting dated 1840.

GLC08878.1071

Abigail Adams

One print of Abigail Adams from an original painting by Benjamin Blyth dated 1840. From the Massachusetts Historical Society.

GLC08878.1077

Abigail Adams

One print of Abigail Adams from an original painting by Gilbert Stuart.

GLC08878.1078

Louisa Catherine Adams

One print of Louisa Catherine Adams dated approximately between 1834-1860. Engraved by G.F. Storm from an original painting by Charles Robert Leslie.

GLC08878.1079

[Print of Rose Cleveland]

One print of First Lady Rose Cleveland dated 1885. Engraved by John Chester Buttre.

GLC08878.1105

Mrs. Abigail Fillmore

One print of First Lady Abigail Fillmore.

GLC08878.1116

Lucretia R. Garfield

One print of First Lady Lucretia Garfield. Engraved by H.B. Hall & Sons.

GLC08878.1122

Lucretia Rudolph Garfield

One print of First Lady Lucretia Garfield. Engraved by Samuel Sartain.

GLC08878.1123

Mrs. Lucretia Garfield

One print of First Lady Lucretia Garfield. Engraved by H.B. Hall & Sons.

GLC08878.1124