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1887
Porter, David Dixon (1813-1891)
Report of the Admiral of the Navy
Printed by the Government Printing Office. Disbound but retaining original blue covers. Signed on covers to Hon. E.S. Tobey.
GLC05488
8 March 1878
Hayes, Rutherford Birchard (1822-1893)
[Presidential authority to the Secretary of State to affix the seal to the pardon of eight men].
Conditional pardon for John P. Muncie, Lewis Spencer, John M. Hibbard, William Griffin, William W. Workman, Henry Holzhauser, Samuel Walters, Eugene Slinker, John Frazier and James M. Norris.
GLC05489
28 February 1879
Stephens, Alexander Hamilton (1812-1883)
Life of Alexander Hamilton Stephens
Signed 28 February 1879 in Washington, D.C. Published 1878 by J. B. Lippincott & Co. in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Written by Richard Malcolm Johnston and William Hand Browne. With lengthy inscription to George M. Landers, written from the House...
GLC05551
18 February 1879
Garfield, James A. (James Abram) (1831-1881)
to Louis Abraham
Discusses the separation of church and states. Corrects a misunderstanding from a speech in which he gave the impression that the "Constitution forbade the states to make any law in aid of religion." What he meant was that the spirit of American...
GLC05559
circa 19 September 1880-1883
Hunt, Henry Jackson (1819-1889)
to W. Kalenski
Signed "HJH." Date range inferred from Hunt's location. Mentions [Kalenski's?] application for the Ordnance Department. Finds fault with the conclusions, not the facts, of an article on the Peninsula campaign. Defends McClellan's strategy in that...
GLC05561
1882
C.M. Bell Photographic Studio
[Chester A. Arthur]
Arthur with sideburn and mustache. Signed on mount.
GLC05600
9 March 1894
Nicolay, John G. (1832-1901)
to Norris Howes
Note sending his autograph. On stationary of the Boston Athletic Association.
GLC05603.01.15
1886
Kimball, W.W. (fl. 1886)
Special intelligence report on... the Panama Canal during the year 1885
Printed by the GPO. Illustrated with 9 lithographs and a large fold-out map.
GLC05643
1884
Royce, C. C.
Map of the former territorial limits of the Cherokee Nation of Indians
From the Fifth Annual Report printed by N. Peters. (Map printed by C.C. Royce.)
GLC05689
29 October 1884
Brown, Joseph E. (Joseph Emerson) (1821-1894)
[Speeches delivered by Senator Joseph Emerson Brown, 1880-1884]
Inscribed to son Joseph M. Brown and signed 29 October 1884. Contains speeches addressing various topics dated 1 June 1880- 26 June 1884.
GLC05700
15 November 1880
Douglass, Frederick (1818-1895)
to N. C. Corbin
Douglass, serving as a United States Marshal, replies to a letter from Colonel Corbin sent 12 November 1880. Corbin invited Douglass to serve on Inaugural Ceremony committees (for the inauguration of President James Garfield, to be held 4 March 1881...
GLC05717
14 June 1894
Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)
to Mrs. W. Chandler
On stationery of US Civil Service Commission. "There must be failure and sorrow, where life is as it should be, eager, strenuous, vigorous. It has been a hobby of mine that intellect was of small moment compared to character." With envelope.
GLC05726
20 November 1882
to Henry B. Adams
"I am quite in sympathy with democratic principles; it is democratic practice that I object to... Jefferson has always been my pet aversion; to me he seems merely an intriguing doctrinaire, mighty in word and weak in action, revengeful but timid, of...
GLC05792
27 August 1884
to Amy Post
Douglass writes to Post, a New York abolitionist and suffragist. Had been to Post's home in Rochester, and regretted her absence. Relates that he and Helen, his wife (they married in January 1884) had for their honeymoon traveled through Chicago...
GLC05819
1899
Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) (1868-1963)
The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study
Du Bois's detailed study uses history and sociology to consider the social experience of African Americans in the Seventh Ward of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Offers a comprehensive examination of black life, including migration, religion, crime...
GLC05823
9 April 1879
Edmunds, George F. (1828-1919)
to Alexander C. Twining
Discusses a question on Constitutional law and appropriations for the army. Refers to Rutherford B. Hayes' refusal to sign appropriation bills. Written on Senate Chamber stationery.
GLC05855
8 June 1890
to May Delany
To "the daughter of the daughter of my friend who sheltered me forty and five years ago, when I was a man without a country, a stranger and or sojourner, with little money and few friends, shall now have my autograph. No effort of memory is required...
GLC05906
20 April 1890
Sherman, William Tecumseh (1820-1891)
to Chaplain Charles Pierce
A copy of General orders No 77, dated 1 November 1, 1883, in which Sherman relinquished command of the Army of the United States. Deterioration affecting date and title at bottom. The original document was made in Washington, D.C., but the copy was...
GLC05924
1880 ca.
Garfield and Arthur campaign songbook
Bright pink cover. Printed by the Republican Congressional Committee.
GLC05941
1881/12/12
Guiteau, Charles (1841-1882)
to Appleton re: sends autograph with authenticity note of warden John S. Crocker
Countersigned and authenticated by John S. Crocker, the warden. On U.S. Jail stationery.
GLC05999
3 November 1879
Schurz, Carl (1829-1906)
to A. C. Barstow
Secretary of the Interior Schurz writes to the Chairman of the Board of Indian Commissioners about the Meeker Massacre at the White River Ute Reservation in Colorado. Mentions that Special Agent General Charles Adams secured the return of women and...
GLC06009
1879
Pamphlet
Mr. Wadleigh, from the Committee on Privileges and Elections, submitted the following report to accompany bill S. Res. 12.
Committee rejection of a proposed amendment that would have granted women the right to vote, issued as Senate Report No. 523 (45th Congress, 3rd Session). Collateral with this is the minority report in support of the proposed amendment, with title...
GLC06081
1 June 1882
The Truth and Removal [assassination of Garfield]
Signed only weeks before he was hanged for the assassination of President Garfield. The title refers to the "removal" of Garfield from the presidency as part of a cosmic belief system which Guiteau explains in his book. Inscribed to Miss Maggie...
GLC06095
12 August 1899
McKinley, William (1843-1901)
[Presidential pardon of Charles Anderson, who was covicted of selling liquor to Indians]
Anderson was pardoned by McKinley. Countersigned by James E. Bayard, acting Attorney General. includes seal.
GLC06105
16 April 1883
Address by Hon. Frederick Douglass, delivered in the Congregational Church, Washington, D.C., April 16, 1883 : on the twenty-first anniversary of emancipation, in the District of Columbia.
"What Abraham Lincoln said in respect of the United States is as true of the colored people as of the relations of those States. They cannot remain half slave and half free. You must give them all or take from them all. Until this half-and-half...
GLC06116
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