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01 July 1881
Garfield, James A. (James Abram) (1831-1881)
Inaugural Address of James A. Garfield / Mar. 4, 1881 [inscribed to Mrs. Blaine]
Inscribed to Mrs. Blaine by Garfield the day before he was shot by Guiteau.
GLC03558
30 December 1899
Hay, John (1838-1905)
to John G. Walker
Typed letter on Department of State letterhead signed by Hay as Secretary of State. Written to retired Rear Admiral Walker as President of the Isthmian Canal Commission. Says that President McKinley wants Senator George Peabody Wetmore's son to...
GLC03804.36
4 December 1888
Douglass, Frederick (1818-1895)
to Robert Adams
He is disturbed over the "clamour raised for the disfranchisement of the colored voters of the South." Written on letterhead from Cedar Hill, Douglass's Washington, D.C. home.
GLC04997
16 June 1889
Lillie, Gordon William (1860-1942)
to C. C. Morgan
Written on stationery of Pawnee Bill's Oklahoma Colonization Company. Informs Morgan of his plans to establish a settlement (possibly the colony which was later known as "Pawnee Bill's Old Town and Trading Post" in Oklahoma). Advises Morgan that a...
GLC05476
1884
Royce, C. C.
Map of the former territorial limits of the Cherokee Nation of Indians
From the Fifth Annual Report printed by N. Peters. (Map printed by C.C. Royce.)
GLC05689
20 November 1882
Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)
to Henry B. Adams
"I am quite in sympathy with democratic principles; it is democratic practice that I object to... Jefferson has always been my pet aversion; to me he seems merely an intriguing doctrinaire, mighty in word and weak in action, revengeful but timid, of...
GLC05792
27 August 1884
to Amy Post
Douglass writes to Post, a New York abolitionist and suffragist. Had been to Post's home in Rochester, and regretted her absence. Relates that he and Helen, his wife (they married in January 1884) had for their honeymoon traveled through Chicago...
GLC05819
12 February 1897
Bell, Alexander Graham (1847-1922)
to Clara Hammond McGuigan
Bell writes to Superintendent of the Mystic Oral School McGuigan about current issues in deaf education. He is waiting in Washington because he may be called to testify before a Congressional Committee concerning a bill supported by both of them...
GLC06277
1 June 1882
Guiteau, Charles (1841-1882)
My Case [poem]
Faded ink. "For Saturday's Star." A poem justifying his assassination of President Garfield. "I executed / the Divine command. And Garfield did remove / to save my party / and my country / from the bitter fate of war...." The fifth page has had...
GLC06319
02 February 1887
Gibson, Randall Lee (1832-1892)
to Grover Cleveland re: passage of a railroad grant bill
Written as Senator from Louisiana.
GLC03505
31 January 1896
Washington, Booker T. (1856-1915)
Address of Booker T. Washington, principal of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, Tuskegee, Alabama, before the Hamilton Club, Chicago
With autograph corrections. Washington's address establishes that he believes in the African American to be the glue that holds and can hold the North and the South together. He believes that African Americans in both the North and South struggle...
GLC07934
1884/02/01
Anthony, Susan B. (1820-1906)
re: apathy of women in Suffrage movement
"And my answer to the Men-is-that if they insist of leaving the women of this republic disfranchised until the vast majority of them demand it-there is no hope for our emancipation from political serfdom."
GLC07419
24 March 1894
to Benjamin Franklin Auld
Thanks Auld for helping him obtain the date when Auld's father, Hugh, began the ship building firm where Douglass served in Baltimore. Asserts that Hugh may have begun the business as early as 1827, and he (Douglass) may have been eight years old in...
GLC07484.01
1879/05/19
The Exodus [oppression of blacks in the South and their leaving for the North]
Apparently a sentiment or quotation written on blue lined paper, removed from a notebook or autograph album. This may be unrhymed verse. "If they were generally and systematically whipt starved and shot to death and if there were no rational ground...
GLC07563
23 November 1887
to unknown
Discusses equality of treatment for blacks in the South. Pleased that black lawyers are now allowed to practice, and says it "implies a wonderful revolution in the public sentiment of the Southern States." However, worries because some teachers of...
GLC08992
22 August 1879
[Douglass quotation on each citizen's right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness]
One note from Frederick Douglass dated August 22, 1879. Writes that the government owes every citizen equal opportunity to live and when it does not provide this service should be overthrown.
GLC01116
26 October 1879
to Emily Collins
Offers his home as a place to stay during her attendance at the eleventh annual meeting of the American Woman Suffrage Association, to be held in District of Columbia in early January 1880. Emily Parmely Collins worked for women's rights in New York...
GLC01197
1871-1894
Hemans, Daniel W. (fl. 1872-1881)
Letters with wife Nancy, to Rev. & Mrs Shiras [decimalized]
Letters by missionaries from north of the Missouri River, 38 miles north of Santee Mission in South Dakota, describing teaching English, arithmetic, and bible to Yankton Sioux Indians. The collection was written to Rev. and Mrs. Alexander Shiras of...
GLC02429
1880-1895
Jackson, William Hicks (1835-1903)
Selected western views [Yellowstone] [some with U.S. Dept. of Interior imprints]
21 large and 29 smaller photographic prints.
GLC02436
Lower Falls on Lake Fork
Lower Falls on Lake Fork, attributed to number 243. Photo of waterfall in forest. Another copy of the same photo in GLC02436.02. With gilded edges.
GLC02436.01
Lower Falls on Lake Fork, attributed to number 243. Photo of waterfall in forest. Another copy of the same photo in GLC02436.01. With gilded edges.
GLC02436.02
Grand Lake
Grand Lake, attributed to number 67. Photo of lake with mountains in the background. With gilded edges.
GLC02436.03
Falls at Foot of Round Top Mtn.
Falls at Foot of Round Top Mtn., attributed to number 79. Photo of waterfall at the bottom of a mountain. With gilded edges.
GLC02436.04
Tower Falls 115 Feet
Tower Falls 115 Feet. Photo of waterfall situated between large rocks. With gilded edges.
GLC02436.05
Distant View Of The Castle Geyser.
Distant View Of The Castle Geyser, attributed to number 445. Photo of geyser in the distance surrounded by a forest. With gilded edges.
GLC02436.06
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