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Diary of Neta Snook [Southern]

The bulk of the diary documents Snook's experiences as a pilot between 1917 and 1920 when she was a student at the Davenport and Curtiss Schools of Aviation. Includes various formulas and notations on engineering and aerodynamics. In addition...

GLC07243.002

The Atlantic Monthly [Vol. 11 no. 60 (January 1863) - Vol. 11 no. 68 (June 1863)]

One bound volume of The Atlantic Monthly dated January to June 1863. The volume contains 54 articles, 27 poems, and 20 literary reviews. Some notable articles are; America the Old World by Professor Louis Agassiz; Banneker, Benjamin, The Negro...

GLC09900

The Man of Feeling in search of Indispensibles

One colored engraving entitled "The Man of Feeling in search of Indispensibles" dated February 12, 1800. Features a room full of women. One woman is entering the room via a door on the right of the image. A man kneels in the center inspecting dresses...

GLC09791.20

[Return of issues at the Artillery Park]

Taken from the last returns by Lieutenant William Strachan. Docketed by Samuel Shaw, who was likely with Henry Knox at New Windsor, New York. Includes rations drawn by women and children. Originally enclosed with GLC02437.00997.

GLC02437.00996

[Leonard Lyons column]

One newspaper clipping entitled, "Leonard Lyons Column." Pertains to a variety of news. Top of the page refers to it as the women's section of a newspaper. Continued from GLC09993.061.02.

GLC09993.061.03

Views In and Around Richmond, VA.

One photograph entitled, "Views In and Around Richmond, VA," taken by Mathew Brady dated 1865. The image shows a large number of soldiers, sailors, civilians, freedmen, and women posed in front of the U. S. Sanitary Commission (USSC) building in...

GLC05111.01.0046

to Sylvia Weiner

Moe mentions that after the ceremony they were served tea and cakes. He also mentions that there was a musical part of the program in which women played the piano and violin.

GLC09414.0873

to Sylvia

Jack writes that while he misses looking at New York girls, French women are very satisfying to look at. He also says that in the army you eat together, sleep together and work together and yet somehow manage to stand each other.

GLC09414.1597

The Liberator. [Vol. 9, no. 26 (June 28, 1839)]

With previous owner's signature ([I.] Stearns) in top margin of first page. Includes articles on the "Refuge of Oppression" and women in the Anti-Slavery Society. Contains resolutions from the Ohio Anti-Slavery Society and other miscellaneous...

GLC08875.49

[General Order No. 5 related to debt owed to the Filbert Street U.S.A. General Hospital]

The officers and the patients of the Filbert Street U.S.A. General Hospital are in debt to the Ladies' Committee of the Hospital for their attention to the sick and wounded soldiers. They thank the women for their services and convey "sincere wishes...

GLC06559.135

Making clothes for the boys in the army

Depicts three women sitting in a crowded bedchamber, engaged in the entire process of making clothing. On the far left, a woman wearing a bonnet spins the raw material into thread. The thread is then woven into cloth by the woman working the loom. On...

GLC00493.11

to Horatio L. Wait

A publisher thanks him for his contributions to war history and is sending him a contributor's copy of the Photographic History of the Civil War.

GLC08284.049

[Character of Robert E. Lee defamed by Susan B. Anthony...].

A response to Anthony's accusation in her History of Woman Suffrage that Robert E. Lee banished his youngest daughter, Annie Carter Lee (1839-1862) during the Civil War because of her Unionist sentiments. The author explains that Lee protected his...

GLC06073

to Sylvia Weiner

Moe went to Paris before heading to London. He writes that Parisian women are really something. He also visited Frank Mooney. He accidentally left his camera on the train, but went on to London. He says he is determined to find Alvin.

GLC09414.1425

[Scraps no. 1., 1849. New Series].

Cartoons satirizing changing social mores, especially the changing role of women in society and politics. Includes cartoons showing men asking permission of wives and mothers before engaging in activities and a gallant woman proposing to a bashful...

GLC05703

to Mary Moore

He has just finished the session and expects to be on his way home soon. He reports news from Parks about North Carolina women. He is anxious to be home with Nancy McCalle. He is often asked about his religion, to which he responds that he was raised...

GLC04191.22

[Quotation by General Banks]

"The sweetest solace that a soldier can receive is to know that the women of his country appreciate his sacrifices, and surrender their hours of leisure and luxury to his care and comfort. The voice of Christian kindness and of love stirs the blood...

GLC05869

[Articles established by the Colored Ladies Lincoln Association]

Hettie (also spelled Hetty) Chippie is listed as President and Mrs. Major Williams as Vice President. Organized to tend to sick and wounded Union soldiers, and to be connected to the Women's Pennsylvania Branch of the United States Sanitary...

GLC03434.03

The Aiken House, in front of Petersburg, Va., near headquarters Army of Potomac

A print of a photograph taken by John Reekie in February of 1865. Inscription on verso "Aiken House near Yellow [House]." A group of women pose on the porch and a Union soldier poses against the fence on the far left. The tent to the right is the...

GLC05111.01.0112

[Deed of manumission for slave Ann Simms]

Emancipation of a 23 year old female slave owned by Colonel John R. White and described as "of an orange color and about five feet seven inches in height." Lists her history and who he bought her from. Signed by three witnesses. Approved and...

GLC08564.04

to Mary

Mr Rollin has been working on their place but he says not to pay him right away. The man is hard to get along with and he may take advantage of women. He talks about the diameter of a cannon ball. Written in camp opposite Chattanooga

GLC02415.088

[Photograph album of Raymond D. Henley]

Album of World War II marine. Brown leather album cover bound with leather tie and printed with "Photo-Log U.S. Navy." First few pages are for listing autographs of friends but only two lines are filled in. Many photos are of various women. Many...

GLC06567.05

to Julia Knowlton

President-elect Major General Zachary Taylor writes to her to acknowledge receipt of a letter from her. Mentions his gratitude for the support of women in his election: "it was but rarely have I had intercours[e] with one of 'heaven's best gifts to...

GLC04381

to Catharine Macaulay

Discusses French criticism of her History and likens the ideal of a free America to that of ancient Israel. With Macaulay's note on p. 3 "I should not have..." Hopes that "a System of genuine Freedom may arise in America."

GLC01799

to Mary Moore, and Richard Moore

He mourns the passing of the year. He describes Christmas festivities, including time off for enslaved people and their joy in the holiday and in gift giving. To Richard he chides him for going to singing parties with desperate women and the hazard...

GLC04191.18

to Mr. H. D. Wetmore, Jr.

One postcard addressed to Bets, Davis, Jack and Mike from Nellie Joe Wetmore dated July 7, 1963. Front image of the postcard is Le Jardin des Tulieres in Paris, France. She says history and speeches are challenging. Mentions that she is leaving Paris...

GLC09573.01.06

[Items addressed to Donna Doniak from Art Instruction, Inc.]

One letter addressed to Donna Doniak from J. Almars. Text is promoting art training for men and women interested in advertising and commercial art.

GLC10079.02.03.01

Return of the sick & convalescents in General Hospital at West Point

Cogswell signs as hospital mate, directing his return to William Hull, commandant of West Point. Lists members of two regiments, artillery, invalids, and women with their corresponding condition. Lists John Forbes as hospital steward.

GLC02437.02984

to Sylvia Weiner

Moe talks politics and the inevitability of finding the world embroiled in another upheaval after this one. He writes that it is comparatively unimportant what happens to their generation. That they will have lived through one of the most thrilling...

GLC09414.0837

Progress of a race or the remarkable advancement of the Afro-American...

Full title is: "Progress of a race or the remarkable advancement of the Afro-American from the bondage of slavery, ignorance and poverty to the freedom of citizenship, intelligence, affluence, honor and trust." Published by J. L. Nichols & Co. Co...

GLC06126.01

to Henry Knox

Comments on General John Stark and the Battle of Bennington ( 16 August 1777): "I don't think all History from Adam to this day, can produce such an instance, which an unequal number of raw undisciplind militia, have attack'd a Superor number of well...

GLC02437.00639

The Tri-weekly telegraph. [Vol. 28, no. 28, whole no. 3523 (May 21, 1862)]

Terrible hailstorm in Lampassas, Texas. Lincoln's message to Congress. Affairs in Galveston. Stormy session of Cabinet. Federal gunboats at New Madrid. Compliment to Southern women. Davis's proclamation to the Confederacy.

GLC05959.51.039

[Provision return]

Countersigned by Samuel Shaw, aide-de-camp to General Henry Knox.Provision return for four men employed in the ordnance department. Four men and two women were issued one and a half rations a day for four days. Docket note regarding rations signed...

GLC02437.02254

Searching for arms

Depicts arrogant Northern soldiers rummaging for weapons through the house of a Southern sympathizer. A woman is holding her scared daughter in the right foreground. The two women are in nightgowns and have wrapped themselves in a curtain to cover...

GLC00493.05

The Epistle from the Yearly Meeting Held In London [Quaker conduct]

Letter to the quarterly and monthly meetings in Great Britain, Ireland, and elsewhere guiding Quaker conduct. The letter warns against overuse of credit, "[f]or by these Practices, many inncocent Wives and Children have been inevitably and...

GLC07628

Pennsylvania gazette. [No. 1129 (August 2, 1750)] [Incomplete]

Includes international news from various overseas newspapers. Domestic news and classified ads inhabit page 2. Reports the rescue of a French ship carrying men, women, and children bound for Penobscot Bay. Pages 1 and 2 only.

GLC06670.149

To his wife

Addressed "Dear Elizabeth". Still at Fredericksburg but things are packed. Trying to get rid of extra clothing, still feels weak. Nurses and women's work: "Tell Mrs Rosa that if she feels so bad she had better enlist herself, as a nurse. I...

GLC04558.037

An address

Different Christian denominations are working in an unprecedented, glorious way to spread the gospel, despite intense persecution. All Christians are bound together in love, and each has a "peculiar honor & privilege to unite their efforts for the...

GLC00687.196

For the Good of America

NAACP poster listing statistics regarding the 3,436 lynchings that occurred between 1889 and 1922. States "Do you know that the United States is the Only Land on Earth where people are burned at the stake?" Reports that 83 women have been lynched...

GLC06197

to Sylvia Weiner

Moe gushes about the sketch Sylvia made of Polgar's Palace in her previous letter, and showed it to his friends. He also mentions the first intelligent women he has met since he came into the army. Thanks Sylvia for the package, including the socks.

GLC09414.0761

to Sylvia Weiner

Moe reports that he received a cigarette ration for the first time in a month. He also received a letter from Dick and refers to the black market. He says that it had been one of the coldest days he's seen in France recently. He also tells Sylvia she...

GLC09414.1271

loan agreement for R.C. Bruce

will pay $50 dollars/ month

GLC09400.590

Zwei Jahrtausende Oberschlesien [German]

History of German Colonization of Silesia.

GLC02766.058

Little drops of water [poem signed and dated 1845]

GLC02453.07

to Morris "Moe" Weiner

Sylvia says money will be a little tight in the next month; but to leave it up to her whether she can send him money. She will get a raise in July. Says she liked his poem.

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