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[Photograph of four people]

One photograph of four people circa 1920. The photograph features two men and two women. They are in swimsuits in a snowy place. The hill behind them is covered in snow.

GLC10047.02.274

[Photograph of three people]

One photograph of three people circa 1920. The photograph features a man and two women posing for the camera on a side walk. A building and a road are on either side of the people.

GLC10047.02.284

[Family portrait]

One undated photograph of an unknown family. The family consists of two older women and two young boys. They are all in traditional outfits possibly from a Slavic culture.

GLC09579.119

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

To Mrs. John M. Pemberton

Letter dated Seoul, November 18, 1950 addressed to his wife, "My Darling." Describes his adoration of her and expresses missing her. Admits that he hadn't sent as much mooney to her as he should have and promises to send something by the end of the...

GLC09598.05

to Maria Damuth

Complains of boils all over his legs. Firing on Rebel lines continues and "yesterday our men blew up another of thear Forts." Rails against Democrats as traitors and tells his sister not to spend any money at stores owned by Wisconsin Democrats....

GLC03523.14.30

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

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

Letters and sketches: with a narrative of a year's residence among the Indian tribes of the Rocky Mountains

Published by M. Fithian. Dedication included on the inside front cover to the Sisters of St. John's Asylum from Father Felix Joseph Barbelin. Smet records his journey past Chimney Rock, Nebraska, along the Missouri River, travelling as far as Fort...

GLC04145

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 Tench Tilghman

Writes that it is not in his power to send him Congress's resolve of 6 July 1779, concerning Margaret Corbin. Explains that her case is "peculiar": "Her husband and son killed and herself wounded in the services, were misfortunes of so aggravated as...

GLC02437.01595

to Sterling Price

General Maury informs General Price he was disappointed that Price recently failed to visit Vicksburg. Reports on marching with General Lee (possibly Stephen Dill Lee). Relates that due to a railroad accident, the 35th Mississippi lost an estimated...

GLC05012.01

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 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

to Ebenezer Dunton

Large amount of text loss in the upper left corner of page 1 and upper right corner of page 2. Explains that boards will be delivered at St. Georges (likely in Maine) so that Dunton can continue building the fences and stables at Knox's estate....

GLC02437.06711

to Pierre C. L'Enfant

Requests a meeting to go over some papers Jefferson received from President Washington, so that the relationship between the commissioners superintending the building of Washington, D.C. and L'Enfant could be "entirely understood." L'Enfant designed...

GLC07669

to Joseph Peirce

Discusses the situation with the construction of the house and states that "I am making great exertions to endevor [sic] to be arrange my business in such a manner, as to set [out for] the province of Maine in the in the course of the next month ......

GLC02437.10301

to Henry Knox

Returns a copy of the Nautical Almanac for 1774 because it is missing pages containing calculations of the eclipses of Jupiter's satellites for the month of May. He wishes to exchange it for a complete one. Oliver one of the founders of the...

GLC02437.00046

to General Jackson

Appears to discuss property rights and possibly selling land located in Maine. Requests Jackson tells Henry Knox that the people (possibly the Commissioners for the Sale of Lands) will consider themselves at liberty to sell some land in Maine after...

GLC02437.06324

Propposals for Building

Appears to be in Jackson's hand. This document seems to be an estimate a builder gave Jackson to construct 4-story houses for Henry Knox in Maine. Each house is to have a 32 foot front and be 48 feet deep. Gives an estimate of £300 per house....

GLC02437.08389

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

Lucretia R. Garfield

One print of First Lady Lucretia Garfield. Engraved by E.G. Williams & Bro.

GLC08878.1125

Eliza Ballou Garfield

One print of Eliza Ballou Garfield, mother of President James A. Garfield. Engraved by John Sartain.

GLC08878.1126

Mrs. Nellie Grant Sartoris

One print of Nellie Grant Sartoris, daughter of President Ulysses S. Grant. Engraved by Samuel Sartain from an original photograph by Mathew B. Brady.

GLC08878.1151

Main Woods [February 16, 1906]

One newspaper clipping from the newspaper Maine Woods dated February 16, 1906. Contains ads for firearms, as well as an article on a hunting trip. Also featured is a part article part advertisement about a woman's medicine written by a nurse Martha...

GLC10142.02.01

Main Woods [February 16, 1906]

One newspaper clipping from the newspaper Maine Woods dated February 16, 1906. Contains ads for firearms, as well as an article on a hunting trip. Also featured is a part article part advertisement about a woman's medicine written by a nurse Martha...

GLC10142.02.02

[Portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt]

One portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt. The artist is not credited.

GLC08878.2097

Mamie Doud Eisenhower

One portrait of Mamie Eisenhower, wife of Dwight D. Eisenhower. Below portrait is a note regarding where the portrait physically resides and a remark on her personality. Reverse side contains a biographical page.

GLC08878.2101

Florence Kling Harding

One print of Florence Kling Harding from an original painting by Fulop Laszlo dated 1921. Reverse side contains biographic page on Grace Coolidge.

GLC08878.2111

[Portrait of Gerald Ford]

One print of Betty Ford. Reverse side is a biographical page on Pat Nixon.

GLC08878.2118

[Portrait of Pat Nixon and Lady Bird Johnson]

One copy of a double-sided printing of portraits of Pat Nixon and on the reverse is Lady Bird Johnson.

GLC08878.2119

[Portrait of Pat Nixon and Lady Bird Johnson]

One copy of a double-sided printing of portraits of Pat Nixon and Lady Bird Johnson.

GLC08878.2123

[Portrait of Jackie Onassis Kennedy and Mamie Eisenhower]

Two copies of a double-sided printing of portraits of Jackie Onassis Kennedy and on the reverse is Mamie Doud Eisenhower. Portrait of Jackie Onassis Kennedy was painted by Aaron Shikler on 1970.

GLC08878.2125

[Portraits of First Ladies Ellen Axson Wilson and Edith Wilson]

One copy of a double sided printing of First Lady Ellen Axson Wilson and on the reverse side a portrait of First Lady Edith Wilson. Portrait of Ellen Axson Wilson contains a caption of how she served as First Lady. Reverse side the portrait of Edith...

GLC08878.2134