Unknown [Union autograph and sentiment album]
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC06620 Author/Creator: Unknown Place Written: s.l. Type: Scrapbook Date: circa 1864 Pagination: 1 v. : 46 p. ; 13.7 x 19.7 cm. Order a Copy
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.' "
The United States Sanitary Commission, formed in 1861, unified the efforts of benevolent societies and the Federal Government in acquiring donations and provisions for the Union Army.
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