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1815
Campbell, George W., 1769-1848
Letter from... causes and particulars of the invasion of the city of Washington
Congressional report printed by Roger C. Weightman. Campbell had been late Sec. of Treasury. Report 38.
GLC05207.03
1813
Report of the Committee... as relates to the spirit and manner... [war of 1812]
Fuller title: Report of the Committee to whom was referred so much of the message of the President... as relates to the spirit and manner in which the war has been waged by the enemy.
GLC05217
1814
Madison, James, 1751-1836
Message of the President [war of 1812 re: American defeats on Canada border]
Fuller title: "Message from the President...as may tend to explain the causes of the failure of the arms of the U. States on the northern frontier." Printed by A & G Way. Message no. 54.
GLC05218
24 July 1781
Beckwith, George, 1753-1823
to Henry Clinton
Spy's report, titled, "Copy of a letter from a Gentleman in Phila. to Capt. Beckwith." The report points out that he might not be able to gain information about General George Washington's Army. Notes that Washington's correspondence with Congress...
GLC05223
20 April 1863
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
[Presidential authority to the Secretary of State to affix the seal to the pardon of Joseph Shoemaker].
GLC05227
28 September 1789
Washington, George, 1732-1799
to Samuel Huntington
Washington transmits several Acts and duplicates (not included) to Huntington, Governor of Connecticut. Includes Acts for allowing for compensation to the members of the Senate and House of Representatives, for the establishment of the Post Office...
GLC05231
1870s-1900s ca.
Riley, Richard, fl. 1870-1900
Collection of loose cyanotypes, Calhoun, Ala., mostly black students
The images derive from the Calhoun Industrial School, founded by the Hampton (Va.) Institute. Most appear to be circa 1895-1905 (based on when Riley worked at Hampton). The images were taken by Richard Riley. The Calhoun School was a social...
GLC05140.03
1860 ca.
Whipple, John Adams, 1822-1891
[R.W. Emerson]
Carte de visite bust portrait of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Note by previous owner on verso: "1803-1882 t[aken] @ [age] 58 = 1861."
GLC05141
1874 ca.
Warren's Portraits
Cabinet card photograph by Warren's Portraits, 3/4 seated
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, three-quarter length portrait, seated. Notes from collector inscribed on verso.
GLC05142
1875 ca.
Barton, Clara, 1821-1912
Clara Barton
Half-bust portrait showing Barton wearing medals. With note on back (apparently in her handwriting): "I have had some old time pictures brought down to convenient size for letters. Will you kindly accept." Pencil note of a previous owner: "t[aken]...
GLC05143
Sarony, Napoleon, 1821-1896
[Henry Ward Beecher]
Verso has pencil notes of previous owner: "t[aken] @ 62-65 = 1878."
GLC05144
1863 ca.
Johnny Clem, "Drummer Boy of Chickamauga"
Mounted. Ex-Greenway collection. Nice image. Signed "Very truly yours, Jns. L. Clem." Inscription on mount reads "Sergeant Johnny Clem and his autograph. Photo taken at Chicamauga, at 12 years of age and after two years os service and after promotion...
GLC05145
February 1904
Hall's Studio
Carry A. Nation, Home Defender
Full-length portrait, with hatchet in hand. Inscribed by Carrie Nation: "Carry A. Nation, Home Defender" This photograph shows Nation wielding a hatchet over her head with a grim look of determination on her face. With ink note on verso: "Dear...
GLC05147
1912
Tou, Edmond, fl. 1912
[Portrait photograph of John D. Rockefeller]
Signed in pencil by Rockefeller and Edmond Tou (on the plate). Image is ca. 1930, per Charles Hamilton. Note in ink on verso: "Return to: William Hoster, 281- 4th Ave, N.Y." A note in pencil from a previous owner notes "@ age 72 @ 1912," possibly...
GLC05148
1896 February 15
Marceau, Theo C., fl. 1896
[Large 3/4-length portrait photography of [Susan B. Anthony]
Large three-quarter portrait showing Anthony wearing a large black dress with puffed sleeves. Inscribed and dated by Anthony in Rochester, New York.
GLC05150
1865 ca.
D'Utassy, fl. 1865
Corneilis Vanderbilt
Three quarter length portrait. Signed on verso. Imprint: "D'Utassy's, formerly (Johnson, Williams & Co.)"
GLC05151
1861 ca.
Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889
Large albumen photograph, signed twice
Signed twice, once on albumen and once on mount. Per Charles Hamilton, signature and painted clothing on photograph look wartime.
GLC05153
circa 1870
Beadle, J.H., 1840-1897
Life in Utah or the mysteries and crimes of Mormonism; being an expose of their secret rites and ceremonies.
Title continues: "WITH A FULL AND AUTHENTIC HISTORY OF POLYGAMY AND THE MORMON SECT, FOR ITS ORIGIN TO THE PRESENT TIME." Illustrated advertisement for a book with this title. Broadside at foot reads: "PLEASE POST THIS UP IN A CONSPICUOUS PLACE."
GLC05154
1777/09/06
Gibson, John, 1729-1782
Instructions for officers entrusted with public money
Instruction to "any officer of the army of the United States... who hath been or shall be entrusted with or accountable for the public money."
GLC05155
3 October 1865
Stevens, Thaddeus, 1792-1868
[Speech by Thaddeus Stevens]
Stevens, a United States Representative from Pennsylvania, addresses his fellow citizens regarding an upcoming election for state governmental officials. Discusses post-war debt and expresses disapproval regarding the policies of President Andrew...
GLC05156
circa 1843-1847
LeMoyne, Francis Julius, 1798-1879
To the free and independent voters of the city and county of Philadelphia
The Liberty Party of Philadelphia suggests nominations for an upcoming election. States the Party's principle as "opposition to slavery as the great moral and political evil of this land" and requests voters to consider the "continual encroachments...
GLC05159
1798/01/17
Adams, John, 1735-1826
Message from the President [re: ratification of the 11th Amendment]
"Message from the President... Concerning the suability of states, in pursuance of a Resolution of the two houses, of the second of March last." First edition, printed by order of the House of Representatives.
GLC05161
1791
Carey, Stewart, and Co. (publishers), fl. 1791
Constitutions of the United States of America [adds Vermont]
"The Constitutions of the United States; according to the latest amendments; to which are annexed, the Declaration of Independence; and the federal constitution; with the amendments thereto. This edition contains the Constitution of Vermont, not in...
GLC05166
1 May 1912
Addams, Jane, 1860-1935
Twenty years at Hull-house, with autobiographical notes. With illus. by Norah Hamilton.
Inscribed: "Dear Miss Passmore I have had a very charming visit in your home and am glad to leave my name behind. Sincerely yours, Jane Addams, May 1, 1912." First edition, 1910.
GLC05168
18 June 1868
Gilman, Caroline, fl. 1868
Household woman.
Poem expressing the sentiment that woman's highest calling is performing household tasks. She provides a key to the persons in the poem and notes that the 1st, 2d, 3d and last stanzas were written originally in 1828 in Charleston, South Carolina...
GLC05169
1867
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902
Address in favor of universal suffrage, for the election of delegates to the constitutional convention.
Title continues: "Before the Judiciary committees of the Legislature of New York, in the Assembly chamber, January 23, 1867, in behalf of the American Equal Rights association." Inscribed Horace E. Smith, compliments of the author." In the original...
GLC05170
1898
Eighty years and more (1815-1897). Reminiscences of Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
Inscribed to Mr. and Mrs. Thadeus Wakeman, New York, "Progress is the victory of a new thought over an old superstition." Inscription dated 11 March 1898. Tipped-in is a 6 August 1902 postcard from Stanton's secretary addressed to Wakeman, as editor...
GLC05171
1870 ca.
Five albumen photographs of Annapolis, officer training and sailors [word processed inventory available]
Includes: 1. Gunnery Molde Room, 2. Infantry [sic] Drill, 3. Inside of Arm Ward, 4. Dress Parade in Summer, and 5. Hager's Class of 1861.
GLC05173
Stereograph view of Citadel at Fort Morgan showing effects of Farragut's shells
GLC05174.01
Stereograph view of freight shed at Savannah, by J.N. Wilson
GLC05174.02
1902/05/22
Anthony, Susan B., 1820-1906
The History of Woman Suffrage... in Four Volumes, Vol. IV. 1883-1900
Inscribed to Emily M. Gross. Edited by Anthony and Ida Husted Harper. Published by Susan B. Anthony.
GLC05175
Fredericks & Co.
[Richard Yates]
Inlaid on paper.
GLC05177
17 November 1868
to Campbell
Regarding a petition to Congress for women's suffrage. Written on "The Revolution" printed stationery, listing their platform. Written at the time when New York state was revising its Constitution (the revisions were rejected).
GLC05178
10 May 1824
Vanderbilt, Cornelius, 1749-1877
Statement of bills paid by Cornelius Vanderbilt for steamboat Thistle at first cost
Co-signed by William Gibbons. Lists bills Vanderbilt paid in April and May 1824, settled at $4617.88. Written on ledger paper.
GLC05179
1864
Warren, E.W., 1820-?
Nellie Norton: or, Southern slavery and the Bible. A Scriptural refutation of the principal arguments upon which the abolitionists rely. A vindication of Southern slavery from the Old and New Testaments.
Published by Burke, Boykin & Company. Cover consists of faded yellow paper. Outer back cover contains advertisements for other books.
GLC05180
1924-1930
Mellon, Andrew, 1855-1937
to Hamilton Fish, Jr.
Three letters typed in blue inks on Treasury Department stationery: n.d., 3/5/1929 and 5/15/1924, regarding efforts to stop manufacture and traffic in addictive drugs. With additional TLS of H. J. Anslinger, commissioner of the Bureau of Narcotics...
GLC05185
circa 1916
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
[Draft of Page 66 of "Fear God and Take Your Own Part"]
The page beginning: "of cheap platitudes, not by windy orating...." With lengthy autograph annotations by Roosevelt.
GLC05186
Republican "Wide-Awake," sixth-plate ruby glass ambrotype, election of 1860
Depicts a serious young man in a waterproof cap and cape, holding an oil torch. The image has been painted to suggest light from the torch. The "wide awakes" led processions supporting Lincoln in the election of 1860. Nevins "Emergence of Lincoln"...
GLC05187
1850s
Tieman, Daniel T., fl. 1850
Three portaits of a NYC reformer mayor: daguerreotype, ambrotype & later carte
The three items are: 1. Daguerreotype. Half view, seated, with left hand holding jacket label and right holding a book. Cased: 15.2 x 12.0 (2.0) cm. 2. Ambrotype half view, seated with hands in lap, no case, 8.2 x 7.1 (.6) cm. Varnished back. 3...
GLC05188
16 February 1885
Parker, Ely S., 1828-1895
Autograph letter by and copyright photo of Ely S. Parker [Decimalized]
GLC05190
26 February 1824
Parris, Albion Keith, 1788-1857
to John Andrew Shulze
Printed resolution signed by Parris as Governor of Maine to Pennsylvania Governor John Andrew Shulze. Certified by A. Nichols as Maine's Secretary of State. First page claims he is passing along a copy of a resolution passed by the legislature of...
GLC05191
1789
Smith, Adam, 1723-1790
An Inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations Vol. II
Signed on titlepage "Wm H. Harrison." Printed by Thomas Dobson. With bookplate of J. Cleves Short / Short-Hill / Nov. 17, 1817." and stamp of "Transylvania Library" on front pastedown. (Sprinkled calf binding was severely warped; front board...
GLC05192
14 August 1936
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945
Address of the President at Chautauqua, N.Y.
Speech focuses on peace, America as a good neighbor to other nations, and preventing war internationally. Discusses the causes that produce war such as fanaticism, racial hatreds, and religious intolerance. Finishes with, "We believe in democracy...
GLC05193
1850
Truth, Sojourner, 1797-1883
Narrative of Sojourner Truth : a northern slave, emancipated from bodily servitude by the state of New York, in 1828. With a portrait.
Printed for the author by J.B. Yerrinton and Son. Original paper front cover but lacks original back wrapper.
GLC05194
1862-1864
Bunnell, Jonathan, fl. 1862-1864
[Collection of Jonathan Bunnell, 121st regiment, New York, cavalry]
GLC05195
20 October 1864
Button, Charles W., fl. 1858-1877
Lynchburg Virginian. [October 20, 1864]
Includes an article discussing the recruitment of African Americans for military service. States "We prefer to organize colored regiments now, while we have an abundance of the white element in the field to absorb the other, and to guard effectually...
GLC05196
1836/06/25
Scott, Winfield, 1786-1866
to Colonel Beall
Orders Beall to pursue and overtake a party of Indians escaping to Florida during the second Seminole War. Written at Camp Roanoke.
GLC05197
9 January 1776
Van Cortlandt, Pierre, 1721-1814
to Abraham Yates, Jr.
Signed as member of the New York Committee of Safety, asking members of Congress to arrive punctually on the day the Session adjourns. Launches into a discourse on what it means to have a senate and to be a senator.
GLC05199
6 April 1804
Tayler, John, fl. 1804
Address to the Republican electors of the state of New York
Address to the Republican electors of New York from the Committee of Publication and Correspondence reccomending Morgan Lewis over Aaron Burr to become the Governor of New York state. Docket on verso. Twelve names are printed on the bottom of the...
GLC05200
1870-1893
Hartsuff, Arthur, fl. 1870-1893
Letters of Army doctor under McCook, McKenzie & Miles re: Indian Wars [decimalized]
GLC05201
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