United States -- Politics and government -- 19th century.
Subject
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Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Descriptions and portraits of American government officials
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924070588326]
Identifier: 8056
Scope and content
Loose printed sheets (possibly page proofs) containing biographical sketches and portraits of prominent 19th-century government officials, with many of the portraits by Max Rosenthal. Subjects include Benjamin Franklin Butler, Nathan Clifford, John Jordan Crittenden, Caleb Cushing, Charles Devens, William Maxwell Evarts, Augustus Hill Garland, and Henry Dilworth Gilpin.
Dates:
circa 1891-1893.
Letters of prominent American political and military figures
Collection — Manuscript box 21 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065243176]
Identifier: 45m
Scope and content
Individual letters, mostly on routine business, written and signed by prominent Americans, including Charles Francis Adams, Robert Todd Lincoln, U.S. federal judge John Baxter, Mercer Beasley, Thomas Durfee, John W. Forney, attorney Isaac Hardeman, Congressman Frank Hereford, U.S. comptroller John Jay Knox, Congressman William McClelland, Civil War general Thomas H. Ruger, Congressman John Sergeant, U.S. Treasurer Francis E. Spinner, John Wentworth, and Civil War naval officer Henry Knox...
Dates:
circa 1826-1884.
Miscellaneous autographs, New York State
Collection
Identifier: 120
Abstract
Letters, legal documents, and other official communications, mainly concerning business transactions with signatures.
Dates:
1785-1907.
Social issues pamphlet collection
Collection
Identifier: 1220
Abstract
Pamphlets on social issues at the local, state, and national levels in the United States, with local and state pamphlets focused mainly but not exclusively on New York State or its localities. Topics include education, religion and moral issues, politics (especially surrounding the issue of slavery and the Civil War), temperance, agriculture, and railroads. Also included are pamphlets relating to libraries, historical societies, and history, as well as literary pamphlets (literary essays,...
Dates:
1806-1960-(bulk 1840-1880).