Ten thousand dollar bond signed on January 13, 1873 by Georgia Secretary of State, Nathan Crawford Barnett binding himself to the Reconstruction Governor of Georgia..... Read More about 1873 Bond Signed by Georgia Reconstruction Governor James M. Smith for Nathan C. Barnett, Georgia...
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Political memorabilia satirizing the “Greenback” Party likely issued during the U.S. Presidential election of 1880. The small, printed leaf imitates the shape and design of..... Read More about C.1880 Uncle Sam Satirical “Greenback” Political Bank Note
“Counterfeit” edition of this 1860 Confederate imprint originally published in Charleston, South Carolina by “Evans & Cogswell, Printers to the Convention” which famously prints the..... Read More about Declaration of the Immediate Cause which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from...
Charles Frederick Fisher (1816–1861) President of the North Carolina Railroad, politician, and soldier. Here writing as a young journalist in support of the Democratic Party..... Read More about To the freemen of the Tenth Congressional District, Composed of the counties of Rowan, Davie,...
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Pursuant to an Act of the Pennsylvania Assembly concerning elections, the state required that sections of that Act pertaining to voting procedures, ballots, voters, and..... Read More about C.1902 Pennsylvania Election Polling Place Broadside:] Instructions to Voters and Election Officers
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Unrecorded on OCLC, a rare and ephemeral campaign biography throwaway from the 1888 New York gubernatorial race which re-elected sitting-Governor David B. Hill to a...... Read More about 1892 U.S. Presidential Candidate:] An Outline of the Official Life and Public Services of His...
Speech of U.S. Senator David Barton (1783–1837) of Missouri concerning debate on an appropriation bill. Barton takes his colleague, Senator Hugh L. White of Tennessee..... Read More about Speech of Mr. Barton, of Missouri, in Reply to Mr. White, of Tennessee, Upon the Appropriation...
Future Gettysburg orator Edward Everett is irritated and writes this one-page letter to Nathaniel Greene, Postmaster. Everett is irked as he was sent an unsolicited..... Read More about 1840 Autograph Letter Signed by Edward Everett, future Gettysburg Orator
Ohio newspaper extra attacking noted anti-slavery, Free Soil Party Congressman Joshua R. Giddings (1795–1864) of Ohio for abusing his Congressional travel mileage allowance. Cleverly using..... Read More about “Let Freemen Read!” Joshua R. Giddings’ Falsehoods Repelled! [opening lines of broadside...
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A concurrent resolution likely put forth by California Representative Everis Anson Ayes “prescribing a new form for the American flag.” Hayes first introduced this resolution..... Read More about History of the American Flag:] 62d Congress, 1st Session. H. Con. Res. 16. In the House of...
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A concurrent resolution likely put forth by California Representative Everis Anson Ayes “prescribing a new form for the American flag.” Hayes had first introduced this..... Read More about History of the American Flag:] 63d Congress, 1st Session. H. Con. Res. 6. In the House of...
Original editorial cartoon drawing depicting the Tammany Tiger of New York City’s Democratic Party political machine. The political cartoon is signed at the lower left..... Read More about Original 1897 Tammany Tiger Political Cartoon by F.K. Houston
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A biography of one of the most divisive figures in South Carolina’s history: Benjamin Ryan Tillman (1847–1918) a.k.a. Pitchfork Ben, white supremacist governor of South..... Read More about Pitchfork Ben Tillman, South Carolinian. [Inscribed and Signed by Author
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Study of white supremacist South Carolina politician and later Democratic governor and U.S. Senator, Benjamin Tillman (1847–1918), and the popular movement he championed. This copy..... Read More about The Tillman Movement in South Carolina. [Inscribed Copy
Quotation on law handwritten by German-American Francis Lieber (1798 or 1800–1872), legal and political theorist and author of the Lieber Code on the conduct of..... Read More about Autograph Manuscript Quotation Signed on Law by Francis Lieber, German-American Jurist, Author of...
Rare broadside proclamation by Friedrich Wilhelm IV, King of Prussia, declaring his dedication to German unity. The broadside was issued in the immediate aftermath of..... Read More about An die Deutsche Nation! Eine neue glorreiche Geschichte hebt mit dem heutigen Tage für Euch an!...
Includes examinations of the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the Federal and various state constitutions. Six appendices including “Negroes on the Navy,”..... Read More about An Historical Research respecting the Opinions of the Founders of the Republic on Negroes as...
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Rare tract in support of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, printing an address and a letter by George M. Dallas (1792–1864) of Philadelphia, late..... Read More about Fugitive Slave Act:] The Great Union Meeting in Philadelphia, On the 21st of November, 1850....
Contemporary Eastern Shore, Maryland newspaper printing of George Washington’s eighth and final State of the Union Address. His address was delivered to Congress in Philadelphia..... Read More about 1796 George Washington Final State of the Union Address published in Easton, Maryland’s...
Biased biographical guide to those legislators of the United States Congress, 68th, 1st session, 1923-1924, many who are seen as antithetical to Protestant interests and/or..... Read More about The Protestant Who’s Who in Congress. Records of National Senators and Representatives on...
Letter signed by this influential Boston politician, in the closing months of his life, here writing to a Mrs. Pepper, possibly the wife of Pennsylvania..... Read More about 1924 Autograph Letter Signed by Henry Cabot Lodge, Republican senator and Massachusetts Historian
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A rare broadside broadcasting a “Mass Meeting” to campaign for presidential candidate Herbert Hoover in the Fall of 1928. The rally took place in Clearfield..... Read More about Hoover for President. Mass Meeting… [opening lines of Pennsylvania broadside
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A study of Abraham Lincoln’s political liberalism presented as a series of essays examining such topics as the dilemma over Fort Sumter, constitutional law, the..... Read More about Lincoln the Liberal Statesman. [Inscribed by the Author
Issued after the Emancipation Proclamation, a scarce pamphlet calling for the establishment of a separate territory for freed African Americans, carved out of the State..... Read More about Vindication of the Policy of the Administration. Speech of Hon. J.H. Lane, of Kansas, in the...
Published for the first time, the autobiography of this remarkable man born into slavery on a Louisiana plantation. Lynch rose to become Speaker of the..... Read More about Reminiscences of an Active Life: The Autobiography of John Roy Lynch
