Self-Paced Courses: Explore American history with top historians at your own time and pace!
3 February 1844
Ogden, F. W.
"A Card"
Two copies of the Ward broadside, "A Card," responding to Ogdin & Grammont report on archives, 1844/02/03, 33 x 20 cm.
GLC02145.05.02
7 February 1825
Hendricks, William (1782-1850)
"A JOINT RESOLUTION..."
Full title reads "A JOINT RESOLUTION, RESPECTING THE GRADUAL EMANCIPATION OF SLAVES, AND COLONIZATION OF PEOPLE OF COLOR WITHIN THE UNITED STATES." Respecting the Graduate Emancipation of Slaves, and Colonization of People of Color Within the United...
GLC04521
31 May 1858
Wright, Augustus R.
"Arrest of Walker-Central America"
Speech given by Rep. Augustus Wright in the House of Representatives on the arrest of William Walker in Central America. Walker was an American Citizen who expatriated himself to Nicaragua. He was later captured by the navy without legal...
GLC02691.11.003
16 November 1818
Monroe, James (1758-1831)
"Commencement" address to Congress
Commencement Message of President Monroe to both houses of Congress. Begins with positive assessment of America's situation and a discussion of a trade agreement with Great Britain. Then gets into relations with Spain, the real thrust of the speech...
GLC05569
22 May 1865
Glover, Ridgeway
"Home of Lincoln"
View of front and side of Lincoln's Springfield home decorated in funerary bunting.
GLC05136.45
February 1865
Walker, Lewis E.
"Hon. Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States"
Yellow mount with printed inscription: "American & Foreign Portrait Gallery." Inscription in ink on verso: "Meserve no. 92, probably by Brady." Seated bust portrait of Lincoln with spiky haircut. Modern photograph of E. & H. T. Anthony stereocard...
GLC05136.49
8 January 1864
E. & H.T. Anthony & Co.
"Hon. Abraham Lincoln, President of United States"
Yellow mount with printed inscription "American & Foreign Portrait Gallery." Anthony's Prominent Portraits, #2968. Half length, seated view of Lincoln, with pink tinted face, hands, and chair. [O-84 variant]
GLC05136.34
[1857/12 ?]
Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865)
"House divided" speech fragment re: slavery, Dred Scott, Kansas
A single page beginning "Why Kansas is neither the whole, nor a tithe of the real question." Written before the debates with Stephen A. Douglas, apparently in response to that Senator's Dec. 9, 1857 speech in opposition to Buchanan's State of the...
GLC02533
Hutchings, James M. (1820-1902)
"Hutchings' California Scenes - Methods of Mining"
One printing entitled, "Hutchings' California Scenes - Methods of Mining," published in 1855. Contains illustrations and information on various methods of mining; sinking a shaft, canals, hydraulic telegraph, sluicing, hydraulic washing, the...
GLC09830
10 October 1850
Chase, Salmon P. (Salmon Portland) (1808-1873)
"I do not believe in a democracy which claims that its graciousness is measured by its indifference to human rights." As Senator.
GLC08335
Showing results 1 - 10