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1860/06/15
Houston, Sam, 1793-1863
Election Proclamation by the Governor! [elections before the Civil War]
Setting Texas elections just before the Civil War.
GLC04945
circa 1845
American Republican Party of Kingston
American Republican Town Nominations. "Beware of Foreign Influence"
Nativist Election broadside, with large eagle, by the American Republican Party of Kingston attacking Roman Catholic immigrants. "Beware of Foreign Influence" is attributed to Washington's Farewell Address. Prints the address of John Young as...
GLC07450
1859 circa
[Twenty Star American "Abolitionist Flag"]
Large American cotton flag with only 20 stars. Fragile. The flag consists of 9 alternating red or white cloth strips sewn together with 20 somewhat irregular stars. The blue field is mottled and the flag has staining. The flag is identified as an...
GLC05762
1858/05/30
Billy Bowlegs and the Florida War.
Illustrated supplement to The Picayune newspaper. Describes its contents as a "faithful portrait of Billy Bowlegs, the last King of the Everglades." Explains activities in the Seminole Wars since 1835 and dubs Bowlegs a "keen, cunning and determined...
GLC04201
[1847]/03/31
Rochester Daily Advertiser Extra. [Mexican War]
Taylor's "Repulse of Santa Anna's Army!!"
GLC07430
7 July 1832 - 11 January 1839
Conyers, Thomas, 1795-1879
[Soldier letterbook from the Black Hawk War]
Letterbook of Major Conyers, commander of the mounted Detachment from 1st Regiment Missouri Volunteers during the Black Hawk War. This bound volume contains orders, memoranda, incoming and outgoing correspondence, company appraisements and...
GLC07381
December 1, 1833
Madison, James, 1751-1836
American Colonization Society membership certificate, signed blank
Printed membership certificate signed by Madison as President and R. R. Gurley as Secretary. The American Colonization Society resettled Black freedpeople in Liberia. D.B. Mattern letter 6/14/96, Madison accepted the presidency per his 19 February...
GLC04675.02
1847-1848
Santa Anna, Antonio López de, 1794-1876
Report to Minister of War and Navy [In Spanish].
Santa Anna's report on the loss of Mexico City in the battle of Cerro Gordo. Includes troop positions and commanders. With later fountain pen ink notes.
GLC06293.01
1826
Finley, Anthony, fl. 1826
A New American atlas... [fifteen copper-plate engraved maps]
Anthony Finley publisher and putative compiler. Folio volume. Includes maps of the United States ("Map of the United States Constructed," New York, Ohio, Missouri, and the different regions of America. Period hand-color.
GLC04173
28 April 1832
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Special order No. 7: Brigade muskets during Black Hawk War
Lincoln's signature "A. Lincoln, Capt." on verso of receipt.
Basler, Roy P. The Collected Works Of Abraham Lincon. (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1953), Vol. I p. 9-10.
GLC01302
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