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1885
Unknown
Portraits of North American Indians
Photographs of Native Americans: Indian delegation photographs of War chiefs, war dance groups, married couples, children, etc. Images from 1858-1884.
GLC04490
1880
Workingmen's Party of California
Chinatown declared a nuisance!
Attacks both the Democratic and Republican Parties for not stopping Chinese immigration, but reserves special vitriol for Ulysses S. Grant. Includes notes from a Board of Health meeting describing sub-par living conditions and rampant disease. Part...
GLC06232.03
January 1884
Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) (1822-1885)
to Tiffany and Co.
Requesting a contribution of $5,000 towards completing the base of the Statue of Liberty. "You will no doubt deplore with us the marked indifference of the citizens of New York to the munificent gift of the French People to the People of the United...
GLC08978
1881
United States. Congress.
Map showing Indian Reservations in the United States West of the 84th Meridian and Number of Indians belonging thereto, 1881.
One map related to the Indian reservations in the United States in the West dated 1881. Legends include "Indian Lands as established," "Lands, the Indian title to which is being extinguished," and "Lands to be established as Indian Lands." Also one...
GLC09679
1900
Gannett, Henry (1846-1914)
Proportion of Foreign Born to Total Population of the United States at the Twelfth Census 1900.
One map containing the results of the of the twelfth census of the foreign immigrant population in the United States printed in 1900. Results were compiled by geographer Henry Gannett. Map shows that the largest foreign populations were in the...
GLC09668
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