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27 September 1823
Jefferson, Thomas (1743-1826)
to Palmira Johnson
Sends a lock of hair (not included) and a "likeness of the head also from which it is shorn as taken by [Gilbert] Stewart." Written in the third person.
GLC07150
24 June 1858
Meigs, Montgomery C. (Montgomery Cunningham) (1816-1892)
to J. Glancy Jones
Meigs allays concerns over the Capitol Dome's stability: "There were plenty of people, who when Michel Angelo was building the Dome of St. Peter's thought it would never stand..." Jones was on the House Ways & Means Committee.
GLC08246.02
1860-1865 circa
Whistler, Simon Mower
[Soldier's archive] [Decimalized .01- .06]
Simon Mower Whistler, soldier's archive of Harrisburg, PA physician. With three war time diaries, manuscript memoirs, medical journal and watercolor of hospital ship "Connecticut."
GLC08362
Sketches From My Diary The Hospital Transport Service In The Civil War
There are 21 chapters of this manuscript.
GLC08362.01
Watercolor of Medical Ship The Connecticut
GLC08362.02
1882-1886 circa
[Medical Journal of Simon Mower Whistler]
GLC08362.03
9 August 1862- 14 May 1863
[Diary of Simon Mower Whistler]
GLC08362.04
24 June 1864- 17 December 1864
GLC08362.05
5 April 1865- 5 October 1865
GLC08362.06
circa 1856
Bingham, George Caleb (1811-1879)
Stump Speaking
Civil War print of a man addressing a crowd. A note at the bottom indicates it was "Engraved by Goupil & Company after a painting by George Caleb Bingham." Another notes that it was "Reproduced at the Lakeside Press by Donnelly Sheet Fed Gravure."
GLC08442.11
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