[Union autograph and sentiment album]

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GLC#
GLC06620
Type
Scrapbooks & Albums
Date
circa 1864
Title
[Union autograph and sentiment album]
Place Written
s.l.
Pagination
1 v. : 46 p. : Height: 13.7 cm, Width: 19.7 cm
Primary time period
Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
Sub-Era
The American Civil War

Includes thirty-five autographed quotations and sentiments, and ten signatures. This collection was possibly prepared for sale by the United States Sanitary Commission at the April 1864 Metropolitan Fair, held in New York City. The sentiments and autographs are written on separate pieces of paper inlaid into the album. Includes signatures and quotations contributed by John Pierpont, J. G. Holland, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Fred A, [Coggins?], Richard Henry Dana, Alfred Billings Street, Thaddeus Stevens, William Lloyd Garrison, Lydia Maria Child, Horace Greeley, John B. [Gerysh?], John G. Whittier, W. Henry [Green?], Grace [Franwood?], Charles Brandon Boynton, Wendell Phillips, Phoebe Cary, John Thomas Duffield, [Olanor?] Bourne, Lucretia Mott, Lowell Mason, Alice Cary, Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney, James Thomas Fields, William Cullen Bryant, George William Curtis, Samuel Irenæus Prime, Jacob Abbott, Louis Agassiz, Gerrit Smith, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Benson J. Lossing, Caroline Matilda Kirkland, Parke Godwin, William Pitt Fessenden, Benjamin Silliman, Gail Hamilton, M. B. Anderson, Arnold Guyot, and George Barratt. Lydia Maria Child states, "A. S. Carolinian, in a discussion with me concerning Slavery, said, 'You Northern women are mere beasts of burden.' I replied, 'It is better to be beasts of burden, than beasts of prey.' "

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