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1887/12/15
Tucker, Ada M.
Untitled
printed sheet of data for Tucker's sketch in second volume of The Biographical Dictionary of the Railway Officials of America.
GLC07642.16
31 January 1889
Carnegie, Andrew (1835-1919)
to Heram Hitchcock
States that they must begin at once for Carnegie Hall to be ready by next winter. Remarks that the location of the hall should not be below 56th Street. Discusses other financial and real estate arrangements for building Carnegie Hall. Written on...
GLC02896
1893 ca.
Yeager, F.M. (fl. 1893)
Battle of Antietam
Dunker Church, showing east front and west end. Soldiers in front are unknown.
GLC02912.01.01
2 March 1888
Barnum, P. T. (Phineas Taylor) (1810-1891)
to A. E. Barr & Co.
Begins by asking Burr to consider this letter private and confidential. Discusses the possible mistaken publication of his letter in the Times. Informs he received a request from a reporter from the Hartford Times and might have answered...
GLC02925.02
4 June 1897
Atkinson, Edward (1827-1905)
to the committee on the Shaw monument
Atkinson, treasurer of the Robert Gould Shaw monument committee, informs other members of the committee that he intends to depart for London, England, and St. Petersburg, Russia. States that he hopes to finish matters concerning the monument before...
GLC02928.04
circa 1897
Unknown
[Draft of inscription intended for the Robert Gould Shaw monument]
Includes hand written corrections. Describes the Shaw monument as a tribute to the famous 54th Massachusetts Colored Infantry, organized in Boston and reviewed by Massachusetts Governor John Albion Andrew 18 May 1863. Includes extracts from Andrew...
GLC02928.05
4 May 1884
Sherman, William Tecumseh (1820-1891)
to John E. Tourtelotte
Addressed to Tourtelotte as Major, 7th U.S. Cavalry. Comments upon his retirement three months earlier. " ... I feel that the End which we have so long contemplated has at last come, and looking at it in a Common Sense view it is better this than a...
GLC02964
12 October 1893
Douglass, Frederick (1818-1895)
to Mr. Peck
Typed on stationery of the Exposition Universelle de Chicago, Pavillon Haitien. Sympathizes with Peck, recently removed from a governmental office. Notes that he would have written a letter to the President (Grover Cleveland) on Peck's behalf, but...
GLC02990
19 June 1879
Brown, John Jr. (1821-1895)
to Alexander Milton Ross
Brown Jr. writes from Put-in-Bay Island located on South Bass Island (Lake Erie), Ohio. He mentions he will personally be traveling to Kansas and possibly Colorado to examine the land for the purpose of "settlement by Colored people of limited means...
GLC03007.56.11
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