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1863
"When This Cruel War is Over."
Advertisement /song sheet with small hand-colored picture of Union soldiers in the countryside entitled "Reconnoitering Party after the battle of Gettysburg."
GLC04706.26
circa 1880-1890
Volck, Adalbert John, 1828-1912
Index for Confederate War Etchings
A index listing all the etchings.
GLC00493.30
Buying a substitute in the North during the war
Image comments negatively upon the Northern policy of allowing men to find a substitute to take their place in the draft. Shows a well-dressed and dandified agent with a holstered pistol showing a timid gentleman into a low class pub where the...
GLC00493.07
1908-1924
Dixon, Joseph K., 1856-1926
American Indian Archive, 21 letters [decimalized .01-.07]
Includes letters from William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody, Theodore Roosevelt, European military leaders and a TMS of John J. "Blackjack" Pershing on American Indian contributions to victory.
GLC03911
circa 1900
Wells, Cora E., fl. 1900
J. Q. A Ward, the Eminent American Sculptor
Features an article on Ward and his works and, photos of Ward, the New York Stock Exchange pediment, and a George Washington sculpture at Wall St. Printed ink; coated wove paper.
GLC06343.037
25 October 1864 - 24 July 1865
Pope, A. Fred, fl. 1864-1865
[Confederate Officer prisoners of war poem and sentiment album]
Inscribed on the title page by Fred Pope, Bargetown, Kentucky, and dated October 1864. Signed by over 100 Confederate prisoners of war at Prison No. 1, Camp Chase, Ohio, with rank. Includes poems, songs, quotations, and sentiments by imprisoned...
GLC02259
1875
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892
Memoranda During the War [presentation copy to J.Q.A. Ward]
Inscribed on a printed "Remembrance Copy" notice. To Ward from "his friend the Author."
GLC03737
1864
National Union Free Convention
President Lincoln and General Grant on Peace and War.
Promotes the Union cause. Reprints an interview with Lincoln titled "Mr. Lincoln's view of Democratic strategy," and a letter of General Grant dated 16 August 1864 to E.B. Washburne. Grant's letter informs that the Confederacy is very weak and...
GLC00702
1813
Jeakes, Joseph, fl. 1812-1813
His Majesty's ship Shannon... capturing the American... Frigate Chesapeake
Published G. Webster. War of 1812 print.
GLC03282
Marshall, William Edgar, 1837-1906
[Pen and ink drawing of council of war at Gettysburg]
Signed in pencil by Marshall, and apparently intended for publication. The original pen and ink drawing shows Meade, Sykes, Newton, Butterfield, Getty, and Howard. Mounted; dimensions refer to the image.
GLC02057
1861-c.1925
Waite, Horatio Loomis, fl. 1861
War letters to his wife, documents, photographs, sketches and drawings. [Decimalized .01- .173]
Union Navy Lt. Commander. Waite-Long Families archive, including 11 Civil War Letters to his wife, documents, photographs, sketches and drawings, and a cane.
GLC08284
Sears, Edward H., fl. 1861-1886
[Libby prison autograph album with sketches of Union prisoners of war]
Signed by U. S. Navy Lieutenant Sears "with his mark". Hand drawn titlepage and watercolor drawings of Libby Prison and Castle Thunder. Also contains a sketch of a prisoner of war titled "Prison scene" with the quote, "Gentlemen, I wish to God I...
GLC01885
25 August 1867
Ward, John Quincy Adams, 1830-1910
[Reverse side of "American Institute" medal design with eagle]
Inscribed, "Awarded To." Iron gall ink; tracing paper.
GLC06343.157
1815-1860
Bachelder, John B. (John Badger), 1825-1894
[watercolor. panoramic view of #28 showing American flag and outbuildings]
Hall & Spaulding. note on verso. Frontier flavor
GLC02673.29
circa 1830-1910
[Sculpture design sketch of Native American on horse hunting a buffalo]
With smaller sketch of man on horse in upper right corner. Graphite on tracing paper.
GLC06343.001
[Fountain design mounted with crouching Native American with canoe below]
Small figure with sword [Washington?]. Graphite, black ink; tan tracing paper.
GLC06343.201
5 November 1864
Punch, or the London Charivari
The American Brothers; Or, "How WIll They Get Out of It?"
Reproduced from Punch.
GLC05603.02.92
[Various statue designs based on Greek ideals of "Education, War, [and] Statesmanship"]
Ten separate sketches. Graphite on wove paper.
GLC06343.011
May 1914
American literary figures: 36 letters, quotes and documents [decimalized .01-.37]
Hopkinson was a congressman, jurist and author of the lyrics to "Hail Columbia!"
GLC02453
1862
State Arsenal in Central Park 57th St. Troops Leaving for the War
GLC09118.18
1 January 1918 - 29 April 1919
Osborn, Ella Jane (fl. 1918-1919)
[Diary of World War I army nurse Ella Jane Osborn] [word processed inventory available]
Ella Jane Osborn, originally from Wainscott, Long Island, New York, departed as an Army Nurse in January of 1918 and spent the majority of her assignment stationed near Toul and Nancy, in the Lorraine region of northeastern France, near the German...
GLC06570
Osborn, Ella Jane, 1881-1966
GLC06570.01
[Front side of "American Institute" medal design with male and female figures]
GLC06343.156
[Relief sketch of man in robe with staff, a Native American, and a woman's head]
Various sketches depicting a man in hooded robe with staff, and other figures and vignettes. On reverse side, several profile sketches of a woman's head. Graphite on wove paper.
GLC06343.016
1937-1963
Various
[World War II letters of Leonard Eugene Graeff of Harrisburg Pennsylvania] [Decimalized .001-.602]
672 items, primarily letters from and to Leonard Eugene Graeff. Many of the letters are between him and his parents Raymond James Graeff and Susan Prowell Graeff. The items date from 1937 to 1963 with the bulk of the material from 1942-1945. The...
GLC09611
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