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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
1897
Washington, George (1732-1799)
A Catalog of the Washington collection in the Boston Athenaeum
Compiled by William Coolidge Lane. First edition, 8vo, frontis portrait, 1 other plate and 12 facsimile titlepages. "A catalogue of the books from Washington's library and assorted Washingtoniana on deposit at the Athenaeum, with an inventory of...
GLC06187
12 February 1897
Bell, Alexander Graham (1847-1922)
to Clara Hammond McGuigan
Bell writes to Superintendent of the Mystic Oral School McGuigan about current issues in deaf education. He is waiting in Washington because he may be called to testify before a Congressional Committee concerning a bill supported by both of them...
GLC06277
My Case [poem]
Faded ink. "For Saturday's Star." A poem justifying his assassination of President Garfield. "I executed / the Divine command. And Garfield did remove / to save my party / and my country / from the bitter fate of war...." The fifth page has had...
GLC06319
21 June 1885
to W. F. Giles [?]
Last name of recipient is illegible. Takes responsibility for his former law partner's death at the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain under Sherman's command. "McCook was my law partner and I caused his death. I have already written his child the exact...
GLC06340
25 November 1883-8 May 1889
12 invitations to commemorative events held in honor of Washington's inauguration as president and of the British evacuation of New York, 1883-1889.
GLC06343.226
6 April 1883
Corbin, Henry Clark (1842-1909)
to J.Q.A. Ward.
Written on "Society of the Army of the Cumberland/Garfield Monument Committee" stationery. Re: possible erection of a memorial to the late President Garfield in Washington, D.C.
GLC06343.232
21 November 1884
Lincoln, Robert T. (1843-1926)
"War Department" stationary. Secretary of War Lincoln writes discussing the erection and location of a proposed memorial statue to President James Garfield in Washington, D.C. The site selected was "the circle at the foot of the Capitol grounds...
GLC06343.234
circa December 1884
Work contract for the "pedestal for the Garfield monument at Washington, D.C."
Specified in the contract are the categories: "General [work mission]"; "Excavations"; "Foundations"; "Cut Granite Work"; "Inscription"; and "Bronze Stationary". The work was to be completed by 1885/09/15.
GLC06343.235
12 December 1884
The Garfield Monument Committee of the Society of the Army of the Cumberland
Agreement contract between The Garfield Monument Committee and J.Q.A. Ward, commissioning Garfield memorial pedestal.
Contract outlines commission cost [$25,000] to be paid to Ward, required work, and contingency plans if pedestal cannot be completed by Ward.
GLC06343.236
7 February 1885
"War Department" stationary. Secretary of War Lincoln discusses submission of Ward's "design, plan and specifications in detail" for the erection the pedestal for the President Garfield memorial in Washington, D.C.
GLC06343.237
25 February 1885
to J.Q.A. Ward
"War Department" stationary. Secretary of War Lincoln informs Ward that at a meeting on the previous day, a Commission approved Ward's proposal for a pedestal to memorial statue of President Garfield in Washington, D.C.
GLC06343.238
12 March 1885
Endicott, William (fl. 1885-1886)
"War Department" stationary. Secretary of War notifies Ward that the original deadline of 1885/09/15 "for completion of the pedestal for the Garfield statue" has been extended to 1886/07/01.
GLC06343.239
7 April 1885
"War Department" stationary. Secretary of War Endicott notifies Ward that enclosed within is his personal copy of the "articles of agreement entered into between the commission constituted by the Act of Congress" and himself to design the pedestal...
GLC06343.240
To: J.Q.A. Ward
Re: "Articles of Agreement" [rough draft] or work contract for the Garfield memorial pedestal. Summarizes Ward's duties and his work schedule. Signed by Endicott, along with Senator John Sherman, General James Barnett, and Ward [accompanied by green...
GLC06343.241
11 April 1885
"War Department" stationary. Secretary of War Endicott verifying "receipt of a copy of the contract for the pedestal of the Garfield Statue..." and the return of a model of the pedestal to Ward.
GLC06343.242
16 February 1886
"War Department" stationary. Secretary of War Endicott approves an extension requested by Ward on the deadline for the completion of the President Garfield memorial pedestal. Lined paper.
GLC06343.244
[22 June 1886]
United States. Congress. House
"JOINT RESOLUTION Setting apart public reservations for statues to Columbus, La Fayette, and James A. Garfield."
The House's Joint Resolution, "setting aside public reservations for statues to Columbus, La Fayette, and James A. Garfield." At the end of the document, Ward has written in pencil: "Note - This Bill was left on the House Calendar when Congress was...
GLC06343.245
12 October 1886
Written on "War Department" stationary [lined] by Secretary of War Endicott. Re: proper location within Washington, D.C., for the erection of the President Garfield memorial statue.
GLC06343.247
15 October 1886
Sheridan, Philip Henry (1831-1888)
Written on "Headquarters Army of the United States" stationary, lined. Re: the proposed location for the statue of Lafayette and the need to consider another site for the proposed statue.
GLC06343.248
20 November 1886
Rillegible, A.F.
to Mrs. [Lucretia] Garfield
Written on blue, laid "Office of Public Buildings and Grounds" stationary [envelope labeled as such]. The friend is confident in the mutual interest between Ward and Mrs. Garfield to meet each other, since Ward is the sculptor of the President...
GLC06343.249
1883/06/29
Adee, Alvey Augustus (1842-1924)
To: Col. Rockwell. Re: facsimile of "the Declaration" (presumably, Independence) and attempt to acquire an"impression" of the Presidential Seal.
GLC06343.301
1892
Ward, J.Q.A.
To: Olins Warner. Re: receipt for Ward's expenses and travel, written on a US War Department reimbursement form.
GLC06343.307
1883/12/08
Ward, John Quincy Adams (1830-1910)
Newspaper: "Harper's Weekly." Engraving of [Ward's] Washington statue unveiling on Wall Street, NY.
"Evacuation-Day" sculpture in front of U.S. Treasury building.
GLC06343.362
13 January 1877
Baker, David (fl. 1876-1877)
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
16 January 1877
United States. Dept. of the Treasury
[Transmittal of a check in the amount of $101,084.93]
Printed document from the Treasury of the United States with "Coin Transfer Check" enclosed. Worth $100,000 plus $1,084.93 in interest, for the redemption of bonds. Contains a printed signature from A. U. Wyman, Treasurer of the United States.
GLC06473.07
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