Scope and Content This collection contains a number of letters, documents, and records related to Peleg Clarke Jr. While the collection spans from 1853 to the early 1900s, a bulk of the collection was created over the course of the Civil War. The year 1862 is heavily represented. During this time, Clarke Jr. provided goods and services to the Union Army. However, in 1862 his steam sawmill was confiscated. A number of materials (even as late as 1866) in the collection relate to this incident. Historians and...

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This collection inludes copies of political cartoons from 1800s to 2010s. This collection consists of 2 cubic feet of materials. This collection is still being processed.

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This collection includes an assortment of letters, newspaper clippings and personal documents spanning from 1870 to 1916. Most of the collection is focused on the period between 1914-1916. Several of the newspapers, include articles related to Reams’s passing. Some letters are addressed to Richard Hoxie after Ream’s death. Several of the letters have been printed while most are handwritten.

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James Jay Monaghan was a well known collector of Lincolniana in the early to mid-twentieth century. Born in 1891, Monaghan was also a scholar of Abraham Lincoln. Monaghan published a bioliography of works by and about Abraham Lincoln. Many of those materials are accessible in the Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincoliana. This finding aid includes a list of those artifacts, pamphlets and other materials. This collection is organized by Monaghan number.

Scope and Content This collection contains a variety of materials broken down into six series, most of which relates to the Abraham Lincoln and the American Civil War. The first, Abraham Lincoln Legal Documents, contains documents penned and/or signed in Lincoln’s hand, including legal proceedings, affidavits, and jury notes. The second series, Abraham Lincoln Correspondence, contains letters Lincoln created over the course of his legal career and presidency. Miscellaneous Legal Documents make up the next...

Scope and Content The Carl Schurz collection is organized into three series. The first and most substantial series is a collection of correspondences mostly written by Carl Schurz himself. The collection is comprised mostly of original documents; however, some of the correspondences are also photocopies and have been noted as such in the breakdown. Other authors in the collection include Abraham Lincoln and Gideon Welles. The addressees of the letters are incredibly varied and range from other statesmen like...

Scope and Contents Bernhardt Wall was an American artist and noted historian who lived from 1872-1955. Wall was born in New York. Throughout his life, Wall also lived in California and Texas. Wall was a veteran of the Spanish American War. Wall was a student at the Buffalo Art League during the late 1800s. By 1915, Wall set out to become an artist full time. Wall authored The Odysssey of the Etcher of Book in 1945. Wall died in California in 1956.This collection includes works, correspondences and...

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This class consists of numerous original and reproduction weapons from or relating to the Civil War-era. Types of weapons include knives, bullets, cartridges, and firearms. included are a reproduction of the pistol that John Wilkes Booth used to assassinate Abraham Lincoln and an original Burnside Rifle.