Skip to main content
Currently showing 7 results of 7. Page: Page back
 of 1
Page forward

Filters

 to Filter »
1.
Creator:
Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885
Inclusive Dates:
1869-1892
Abstract:
Correspondence and memorabilia related to the Civil War General and President.
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Programs (documents)
Timetables.
Portraits.
Subject:
Presidents -- United States -- Correspondence.
Subject Strengths:
Military history
Civil War (U.S.)
Politics, government and public administration
2.
Collection Title:
Creator:
Joyce, John A. (John Alexander), 1842-1915.
Inclusive Dates:
1880-1880
Abstract:
Typescript of a poem entitled "The Third Term," a criticism of the idea of a third term for a United States President.
Type of Material:
Typescripts.
Poems.
Subject:
Poets, American.
Presidents -- Term of office -- United States.
Subject Strengths:
Literature -- American Poetry
3.
Creator:
Newman, F. W. (Francis William), 1805-1897.
Inclusive Dates:
1864-1905
Abstract:
Papers of the British scholar, man of letters. Seventy-six letters written between 1864 and 1897 to Moncure Daniel Conway on a variety of topics including politics, religion, and social reform.
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Photographs.
Subject:
Abolitionists -- Great Britain.
Capital punishment.
Free schools.
Free will and determinism.
Irish question.
Marriage law.
Prostitution.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
Scholars -- Great Britain.
Antislavery movements.
Slavery -- United States.
Social reformers.
Temperance.
Subject Strengths:
Activism and social reform
Literature -- British
Civil War (U.S.)
4.
Collection Title:
Creator:
Sherman, John, 1823-1900.
Inclusive Dates:
1852-1898
Abstract:
Papers of the American statesman. Sherman was a U.S. Congressional representative from Ohio, 1855-61; U.S. Senator, 1861-77; U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, 1877-81; U.S. Senator, 1881-97; and U.S. Secretary of State, 1897-98. Cf. Dictionary of national biography. Letters on fiscal policy, political issues, appointments, and the Republican Party, written to Anson Burlingame, Hamilton Fish, Ulysses S. Grant, and others.
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Subject:
Politicians -- United States.
United States -- History -- 1865-1898.
United States -- Officials and employees -- Selection and appointment.
United States -- Politics and government -- 19th century.
Subject Strengths:
Politics, government and public administration
5.
Collection Title:
Creator:
Dix, John A. (John Adams), 1798-1879.
Inclusive Dates:
1831-1879
Abstract:
Papers of the Army officer; U.S. Senator (1845-1849); U.S. Secretary of the Treasury. During the Civil War, President Lincoln commissioned Dix a major-general, and ordered him to take charge of the Alexandria and Arlington Department, then reassigned him to the Department of Maryland. Dix later served as commander of the Department of the East. After the Civil War, Dix was named Minister to France (1866-1869), and following his return to the U.S., the life-long Democrat became the Republican Party nominee and the successful candidate for the Governorship of New York State (1873-1875). Includes more than 130 items of outgoing correspondence, more than half of which were written to Edwards Pierrepont between 1861 and 1877. Subjects include the Civil War, Reconstruction, New York State and national politics, and French politics and foreign relations preceding the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War.
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Subject:
Finance, Public -- United States.
Governors -- New York (State)
Political parties -- New York (State)
Political prisoners -- United States.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
Subject Strengths:
Military history
New York State
Politics, government and public administration
Civil War (U.S.)
6.
Creator:
O'Geran, Graeme.
Inclusive Dates:
1783-1991
Abstract:
Autographs of the first 41 presidents of the United States (Washington through George H. W. Bush) and a few of other notable individuals (among them Edison, Ford, and Firestone). Signed items include letters, documents and photographs.
Type of Material:
Autographs.
Photographs.
Subject:
Inventors -- Autographs.
Presidents of the United States -- Autographs.
Autographs -- Collections.
Subject Strengths:
Science and medicine
Politics, government and public administration
7.
Creator:
Huntington, Collis Potter, 1821-1900.
Inclusive Dates:
1797-1904
Abstract:
Papers of the American railroad magnate and capitalist, whose financial interests included steamship, manufacturing, construction, and land companies. Philanthropist, trustee of the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute and supporter of Tuskegee Institute. Collection includes incoming correspondence (1856-1904); letterpress copybooks (1868-1901); legal and financial (including real estate) records (1797-1901); amd personal papers (1862-1901). Notable among the real estate records are documents relating to the furnishing and household expenses of Huntington's San Francisco residence, and records relating to the design, construction, decoration, furnishing, and maintenance of Huntington's palatial home on 57th St. in New York City.
Type of Material:
Account books.
Bills of sale.
Blueprints (reprographic copies)
Clippings (information artifacts)
Correspondence.
Daybooks.
Deeds.
Ledgers (account books)
Letterpress copybooks.
Maps (documents)
Mortgages.
Photographs.
Receipts (financial records)
Stock certificates.
Subject:
California, History, 1850-1950.
Capitalists and financiers, United States.
Ciphers.
Entrepreneurship.
Palaces -- United States.
Philanthropists -- United States.
Railroad law -- United States.
Railroads -- California.
Railroads -- History.
Railroads -- Freight -- Rates.
Railroads -- United States.
Railroads and state -- United States.
Upper class -- United States.
Subject Strengths:
Railroads
Business and Industry