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circa 1878
Bradley & Rulofson.
[Cabinet photograph of Joshua Abraham Norton]
Signed "Emperor Norton." Three-quarter profile photograph of a seated Norton. He is wearing an officer's uniform.
GLC02729.01
Norton, Joshua Abraham (1819-1880)
[Two items relating to Joshua Abraham Norton, self-proclaimed emperor of the United States] [Decimalized]
Joshua Norton was an Englishman who came to America during the California Gold Rush of 1849 and proclaimed himself emperor of the United States. Mark Twain is said to have modeled the character of Huck Finn on Norton.
GLC02729
1897-1916
Mosby, John S. (1833-1916)
to Sam Chapman re: letters on slavery, the war, Lincoln, Grant, Lee, Stuart [decimalized]
A collection of letters from John Singleton Mosby, of Warrenton, Virginia, to Samuel Chapman of Covington, Virginia, most written on stationery of the Department of Justice. (Other recipients are noted in the inventory.) The letters discuss the...
GLC03921
7 January 1891
Hamlin, Hannibal (1809-1891)
to C. E. Potts
Replies to a letter from Potts in Troy, New York. Thanks Potts for a copy of the "Wide Awake Vocalist," an 1860 Presidential campaign song book for the Republican Party candidates (Abraham Lincoln and Hamlin). Reminisces about the campaign, and...
GLC01595.02
10 September 1887
Herndon, William Henry (1818-1891)
to Friend Whitney
The recipient of this letter is possibly Henry Clay Whitney, lawyer and Lincoln biographer. Herndon states that he is available any Saturday for Whitney to come see him. Informs that he never received the photo Whitney sent. Asks him to send...
GLC02490.09
16 April 1883
Douglass, Frederick (1818-1895)
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
18 February 1878
[Fifty-cent interest-bearing note from the Imperial Government of Norton I]
Signed by Joshua Abraham Norton as Norton I, self-proclaimed emperor of the United States. Check number 2510. On verso, affixed note reads "Yours Truly A.J. Bryant Mayor, San Francisco. Oct. 22nd, '78."
GLC02729.02
circa 1880-1890
Volck, Adalbert John (1828-1912)
Passage through Baltimore
Comments on Abraham Lincoln's stealthy trip through pro-South Baltimore on his way to Washington to be inaugurated. Lincoln's plans were changed in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania on 22 February 1861 to avoid trouble in Baltimore. He boarded a special train...
GLC00493.02
14 February 1887
Porter, Fitz-John (1822-1901)
to Charles Guy Warden
General Porter, New York City Police Commissioner, instructs Warden to wish his father, author Robert Bruce Warden, luck in a literary undertaking. Indicates that R. Warden's project involves Salmon P. Chase, who had served as Secretary of the...
GLC00214.02.11
1 May 1898
Shaffer, Albert (fl. 1898)
[Certification of the Civil War service of William B. Swingle]
Signed by Shaffer as P.C. (Post Commander) and Layton T. Smith as Post Adjutant. Partially printed certification that Swingle had "served as a Union Soldier... in Company A, 137th Regt Pennsylvania Volunteers and also in Battery D, 6th New York...
GLC08442.07
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