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Rise of Industrial America, 1877-1900

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18 November 1847

Beach, Miles J. (fl. 1847)

Document

Title: Receipt for a financial transaction

GLC03131.15.57

18 November 1847

Beach, Miles J. (fl. 1847)

Document

Title: Receipt for a financial transaction

GLC03131.15.057

3 January 1848

Wells, George, (fl. 1848)

Receipt

Title: Receipt of payment to F.K. Bailey

GLC03131.15.58

3 January 1848

Wells, George, (fl. 1848)

Receipt

Title: Receipt of payment to F.K. Bailey

GLC03131.15.058

15 March 1848

Unknown

Receipt

Title: Receipt of payment

GLC03131.15.59

15 March 1848

Unknown

Receipt

Title: Receipt of payment

GLC03131.15.059

9 October 1848

Andrews, W.W., (fl. 1848)

Receipt

Title: Receipt of payment

GLC03131.15.60

9 October 1848

Andrews, W.W., (fl. 1848)

Receipt

Title: Receipt of payment

GLC03131.15.060

1855

Wells, Hiram C. (fl. 1825-1900)

Receipt

Title: Receipt of goods purchased

GLC03131.15.62

1855

Wells, Hiram C. (fl. 1825-1900)

Receipt

Title: Receipt of goods purchased

GLC03131.15.062

28 October 1856

Merrill, S.S., (fl. 1856)

Receipt

Title: Receipt of payment

GLC03131.15.61

28 October 1856

Merrill, S.S., (fl. 1856)

Receipt

Title: Receipt of payment

GLC03131.15.061

1 March 1860

Hazlett, Albert (1837-1860)

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Anne Brown Adams

One letter from Albert Hazlett to Anne Brown Adams dated March 1, 1860. Thanking her for her letter to him in "his prison home." Discussing his fate and death and visits from the "ladies" and "gentlemen."

GLC03007.56.01

3 March 1863

Staw, D.R., (fl. 1863)

Receipt

Title: Receipt of payment

GLC03131.15.63

3 March 1863

Staw, D.R., (fl. 1863)

Receipt

Title: Receipt of payment

GLC03131.15.063

21 October 1865 - 11 July 1910

Noyes, William Wallace (1846-1910)

Typed document signed

Title: [Series of documents regarding the genealogy of William Wallace Noyes]

Various documents regarding the Civil War Service, pension, marriages, and death of William Wallace Noyes. All are photocopies of the original documents.

GLC02150.41

1871

Wells, Hiram C. (fl. 1825-1900)

Document

Title: Pension data slip

GLC03131.15.35

1871

Wells, Hiram C. (fl. 1825-1900)

Document

Title: Pension data slip

GLC03131.15.035

1871-1894

Hemans, Daniel W. (fl. 1872-1881)

Header Record

Title: Letters with wife Nancy, to Rev. & Mrs Shiras [decimalized]

Letters by missionaries from north of the Missouri River, 38 miles north of Santee Mission in South Dakota, describing teaching English, arithmetic, and bible to Yankton Sioux Indians. The collection was written to Rev. and Mrs. Alexander Shiras of the Bureau of Education in Washington, D.C., mostly by either Daniel Hemans or his wife, Nancy Hemans, with the greatest concentration of letters in the early 1870s and early 1880s. Both Nancy and Daniel were Santee Sioux Indians. Daniel joined the mission to the Yankton Sioux as an interpreter and a teacher, and eventually became a preacher.

GLC02429

1877

Choynski, I. N., (1834-1899)

Broadside

Title: The Tables Turned

"The Tables Turned" illustrated 1877 broadside with Denis Kearney in prision stripes, with Chinese caricatures poking insults at him. He had been jailed for inciting a riot aimed at Chinese workers in San Francisco.

GLC09664

1 March 1877

Sherman, William Tecumseh (1820-1891)

Autograph letter signed

Title: to Henry H. Gorrings

Addressed to Lieutenant Commander Gorrings, Gettysburg. Thanks him for sending the note from Lord Napier at Gibraltar. Comments on Napier's conduct during the Abyssinian campaign, "He was extremely polite to several of our army officers who visited Calcutta, Delhi etc. ... In his conduct of the Abyssinian Campaign, ... He organised, conducted that Campaign, and closed all its barriers[?] without a change of plan or of Commander. an event that proved him a perfect organizer & General." Written on stationary of the Headquarters Army of the United States.

GLC04512

11 January 1877

Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) (1822-1885)

Document signed

Title: Pardon of William H. Walker, convicted of retailing spiritous liquors without paying special required tax.

Convicted of retailing spiritous liquors without paying special required tax. Pardoned by recommendation of the Congressmen from South Carolina, and because he was unable to pay the $100 fine. (c/s Hamilton Fish)

GLC00068.12

12 January 1877

Paluer, E.E., (fl. 1877)

Document

Title: Independent Order of Odd Fellows Representatives Certificate

GLC03131.15.37

12 January 1877

Paluer, E.E., (fl. 1877)

Document

Title: Independent Order of Odd Fellows Representatives Certificate

GLC03131.15.037

13 January 1877

Baker, David (fl. 1876-1877)

Printed letter signed

Title: to Peter Cooper

Partially printed letter from the Division of Loans, with Treasury Department letterhead. Acknowledges the recipient's desire to redeem $100,000 worth of bonds.

GLC06473.06

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