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1835
S. Stiles & Co. (fl. 1835)
Map of colonization grants in Texas
Land grants in Texas. Streeter 1164. Once belonged to Anthony Dey.
GLC02759
1942
War Manpower Commission
Americans All
US government printing office O-476311. Features men working on a tank surrounded by surnames of European origins. also features a quote by Franklin D. Roosevelt "... it is the duty of employers and labor organizers to provide for the full...
GLC09530
16 January 1799
Stewart, John
Va. Resolutions recommending amendment to bar aliens from Congress
Also asking that aliens be barred from the Judiciary and Executive departments.
GLC03765
circa 3 March 1863
Lane, D.M. (fl. 1863)
Deserters!
Broadside created by Provost Marshal Captain Lane. Lists men who failed to report at headquarters for duty from the Fourth Congressional District of Pennsylvania. They are therefore "subject to Arrest as Deserters from the United States Army."...
GLC05647
circa August 1927
Unknown
[Broadside against the Sacco-Vanzetti execution]
This document is a printed broadside that quotes a columnist from the New York World and reads, "What more can these immigrants from Italy expect? it is not every prisoner who has a President of Harvard University throw on the switch for him." Sacco...
GLC05712.02
26 November 1833
Santa Anna, Antonio López de (1794?-1876)
[Decree secularizing California missions and opening them to colonization].
GLC06294
circa 1832
[Broadside condemning Andrew Jackson]
"Why did the Irishmen of Philadelphia, oppose the reelection of Andrew Jackson?" Broadside quotes the opinion of Daniel O'Connell, a prominent Irish leader, regarding Jackson: "he did not believe…it was expedient to clothe military men with civil...
GLC09341
1 September 1857
[Broadside supporting Know-Nothing party]
Supports the American, or Know-Nothing, Party in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. Encourages all "who are in favor of 'Americans Ruling America!'" to send delegates to the Harrisburg Convention of September 1857.
GLC09342
1855
[Platform of Know-Nothing party]
Platform of the American, or Know-Nothing, Party, adopted by the National Convention, June 15, 1855, calling for severe limits on immigration, stricter naturalization policies, and restricting political office and public school teachers to...
GLC09343
1877
Choynski, I. N., (1834-1899)
The Tables Turned
"The Tables Turned" illustrated 1877 broadside with Denis Kearney in prision stripes, with Chinese caricatures poking insults at him. He had been jailed for inciting a riot aimed at Chinese workers in San Francisco.
GLC09664
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