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circa 1840
McKenney, Thomas Loraine (1785-1859)
Naw-Kaw A Winnebago Chief
Color lithograph of Naw-Kaw, a Winnebago Chief. He is holding a pipe and is wearing several medals around his neck.
GLC05120.02
1 October 1850
Phillips, Wendell (1811-1884)
to Francis Jackson
Requests Jackson to sign a statement in support of women's rights and to ask Theodore Parker to do the same. Sends his admiration of Jackson's neice's sketch of Parker and promises to sit for her when he returns to Boston. Encloses a letter from...
GLC03998.05
1856
Bingham, George Caleb (1811-1879)
Stump Speaking
Text underneath image reads, "Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1856, by Geo C. Bingham Esq. in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the southern District of New York." Text underneath title reads, "This...
GLC04075
7 November 1836
Lundy, Benjamin (1789-1839)
to Elizur Wright
Lundy writes to Wright, a fellow abolitionist. Lundy is on a committee organizing a convention held to establish a state anti-slavery society. The convention will meet at Harrisburg 19 December, and Lundy solicits Wright's participation. Signed by...
GLC04372.01
18 June 1859
N.B. Onthank
Original painted photograph of Abolitionist John Brown, inscribed by Brown to his children
This is a photograph which has been painted in watercolor by N.B. Onthank. Written on front bottom corner of mount is Brown's signature and salutation, which reads "June 18th 1859. Your Affectionate Father, John Brown." With the oval blind embossment...
GLC04447
1852
Stannard & Dixon
Topsy's Polka.
Signed by Henry Lawful. Sheet music cover from the play Uncle Tom's Cabin. Lithograph image in color of a young African American girl with a patterned head scarf. Printed by Stannard & Dixon, lithograph by Louisa Corbaux.
GLC05508.013.02
The Tom-Tit polka.
Sheet music cover from the play Uncle Tom's Cabin. "Companion to the Topsy Polka, composed by Stephen Glover." Image of a young girl with short, dark, curly hair. Lithograph by A. Laby.
GLC05508.013.03
Unknown
Poor Tom!
Signed by Charles Still and William Holland Love in upper right corner. Sheet music cover from the play Uncle Tom's Cabin. Written by Charles Jefferys and composed by Stephen Glover. Depicts a white slave owner, Legree, threatening the slave Tom,...
GLC05508.013.04
Hanhart, M. & N. (1852)
Uncle Tom's cabin No. 2: The slave mother.
Sheet music cover from the play Uncle Tom's Cabin. Ballad by George Linley. With illegible signature in upper right corner. Depicts a female slave with a small child fleeing from a master wielding a whip. Image by J. Brandard.
GLC05508.013.05
circa 1852-1860
Swift, H. (fl. 1852-1860)
Uncle Tom.
Title page and sheet music from the play Uncle Tom's Cabin. Dedicated to W.H.J, music by H. Swift. Published by W. Hill in New York.
GLC05508.013.06
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