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1910
Lincoln Said Women Should Vote
Washington woman suffrage poster, featuring Abraham Lincoln's quote, "I go for all sharing the priviledges of government who assist in bearing its burdens, by no means excluding women."
GLC09103
1919/05/20
Lincoln, Robert T. (1843-1926)
to Isaac Markens re: enclosing a piece of Lincoln manuscript
"I am enclosing to you a piece of Lincoln mss which is not exciting but is characteristic. It was no doubt held in President Lincoln's hand when making the address to Mr. Molina..."
GLC07519.02
1911
Welles, Gideon (1802-1878)
Diary of Gideon Welles
Three volume diary of Gideon Welles, with an autograph letter signed from Welles to Andrew Boyd pasted to front of first volume. The diary recounts Welles' tenure as the Secretary of the Navy. Each volume contains several illustrations of...
GLC00584
1908/10/29
Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)
to John T. Stewart re: his hope to be remembered as a friend to labor
Signed as President. Roosevelt also writes that he hopes to be thought the best President for farmers, small businessmen and "Abraham Lincoln's plain people."
GLC02793.057
23 June 1915
to Oscar King Davis
"I am pretty well disgusted with our government ... in a democracy like ours people will always do well or ill largely in proportion to their leadership. If Lincoln had acted after the firing on Fort Sumter in the way that Wilson did about the...
GLC08003
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