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E. & H.T. Anthony & Co.
"Private Box at Ford's Theatre, the place where President Lincoln was assassinated"
Yellow mount with printed inscription "Photographic History, The War for the Union." Anthony's War Views, #3403.
GLC05136.36
Unknown
[carte de visite photograph album of Lincoln and family]
Carte de visite photograph album of Lincoln and family containing eleven photographs (#i-xi) and one engraving (#xii).
i. "Death bed of Lincoln." Photo of engraving showing Andrew Johnson, Charles Sumner, and other political figures gathered...
GLC05136.52
11 March 1855
Sully, Thomas (1783-1872)
to Charles Lanman
Discusses Gilbert Stuart's portrait of Commodore James Lawrence, and informs that it would probably be worth $300 or more. Mentions some institutions that may be interested in acquiring it, like The Academy of Fine Arts, Congress, the City Council...
GLC05503.01
1830-1910
Ward, John Quincy Adams (1830-1910)
Archive of designs, drawings, studies, and sketches for entrance to NYSE, statues, memorials, correspondence, etc. [decimalized: .001-.370, .210b]
This archive consists mostly of drawings and sketches, although there is some typescript and manuscript material as well. For the fine art items, most were previously mounted and bound into scrapbooks. Most of the scrapbooks have been dismounted...
GLC06343
circa 1830-1910
[Sculpture designs: 4 standing figures, 1 female and 3 male]
Two of the sketches are probably of George Washington. Black ink, tracing paper.
GLC06343.033
[Standing man in profile with out-stretched arm]
Probably George Washington. Graphite; wove paper.
GLC06343.034
[Standing man facing front with out-stretched arm]
Probably George Washington. Pale graphite.
GLC06343.035
[Standing man with crossed arms]
Probably Washington. Graphite; wove paper.
GLC06343.036
[Fountain design mounted with crouching Native American with canoe below]
Small figure with sword [Washington?]. Graphite, black ink; tan tracing paper.
GLC06343.201
4 December 1856
Taney, Roger Brooke (1777-1864)
to Ira Joseph Patch
Declines a request from Patch to part with a letter from Francis Scott Key. Written to Patch at Salem, Massachusetts.
GLC03210.01
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