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Photo, Print, DrawingThe Radical Convention in Philadelphia, September 3d, 1866 Geary the candidate for Governor was in the procession. Every radical candidate for United States Senator took part. White men & women are you ... A racist poster attacking Republican gubernatorial candidate John White Geary for his support of black suffrage. (See also "The Constitutional Amendment!," no. 1866-5.) The artist purports to show the convention of Radical Republicans held in Philadelphia in September 1866. On a dais in the background left, black men cheer as a procession of white men arm-in-arm with blacks enter from the right. The legend...
- Contributor: Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress) - Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress) Dlc
- Date: 1866
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Photo, Print, DrawingThe constitutional amendment! One of a number of highly racist posters issued as part of a smear campaign against Pennsylvania Republican gubernatorial nominee John White Geary by supporters of Democratic candidate Hiester Clymer. (See also nos. 1866-6, 1866-7, and 1866-8.) Indicative of Clymer's white-supremacy platform, the posters attack postwar Republican efforts to pass a constitutional amendment enfranchising blacks. In "The Constitutional Amendment" a group of black men...
- Contributor: Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress) - Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress) Dlc
- Date: 1866
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Photo, Print, DrawingThe two platforms Another in a series of racist posters attacking Radical Republican exponents of black suffrage, issued during the 1866 Pennsylvania gubernatorial race. (See "The Constitutional Amendment," no. 1866-5.) The poster specifically characterizes Democratic candidate Hiester Clymer's platform as "for the White Man," represented here by the idealized head of a young man. (Clymer ran on a white-supremacy platform.) In contrast a stereotyped black head represents...
- Contributor: Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress) - Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress) Dlc
- Date: 1866
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Book/Printed MaterialLincoln and Cabinet. Annual greeting of the Carriers to the Patrons of "The Press". For January 1st, 1866 LAC sba 2022-02-23 create (1 card)
- Contributor: Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1866
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Book/Printed MaterialSeasonable motives to our duty and allegiance Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available Attributed to Nathanael Byfield. Cf. ESTC. English short title catalogue, W2998 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website. Positive photostat. LAC nsk 2021-04-19 create (1 card) LAC ddw 2022-10-03 update (1 card) LC Review of LAC Completed/Approved 2023-06-27
- Contributor: Byfield, Nathanael - Bradford, William - Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 19??
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Book/Printed MaterialThe address of the Lords and Commons to his Majesty, on the present state of America, &c. From the London Gazettee, of February 11... Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available Evans 14075. Scanned card stamped as no. 1125. LAC tnb 2020-11-23. LAC tnb 2020-11-23 create (1 card)
- Contributor: Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress) - Great Britain. Parliament
- Date: 1775
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Book/Printed MaterialLately re-printed, and to be sold by Joseph Crukshank, on the North-Side of Market Street, between Second and third Streets, Philadelphia, an account of the life of that ancient servant of Jesus ... Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available Not in Evans. Imprint 3. Scanned card stamped as no. 2411. LAC sba 2021-03-30. LAC sba 2021-03-30 create (1 card)
- Contributor: Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress) - Crukshank, Joseph
- Date: 1784
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Book/Printed MaterialWhig Young Men's Ball commemorative of the birth of Washington and the Battle of Buena Vista : Friday evening, February 22d, 1850 at the Musical Fund Hall. The honor of [blank]'s company ... LAC nsk 2021-12-01 create (1 card)
- Contributor: Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress) - Whig Young Men's Ball
- Date: 1850-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialWhig Young Men's Ball commemorative of the birth of Washington and the Battle of Buena Vista : Friday evening, February 22d, 1850 at the Musical Fund Hall. The honor of [blank]'s company ... Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available LAC nsk 2021-12-01 create (1 card) LAC ecr 2021-12-09 review
- Contributor: Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1850
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Book/Printed MaterialAddress of the Lancaster County Whig Committee to their brother Whigs of Lancaster and other counties of Pennsylvania ... Lancaster, Sept. 13, 1850 Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available LAC nsk 2021-12-01 create (1 card) LAC ecr 2021-12-09 review
- Contributor: Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress) - Whig Party (Lancaster County, Pa.)
- Date: 1850
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Photo, Print, DrawingThe Freedman's Bureau! An agency to keep the Negro in idleness at the expense of the white man. Twice vetoed by the President, and made a lawy by Congress. Support Congress & ... One in a series of racist posters attacking Radical Republicans on the issue of black suffrage, issued during the Pennsylvania gubernatorial election of 1866. (See also "The Constitutional Amendment!," no. 1866-5.) The series advocates the election of Hiester Clymer, who ran for governor on a white-supremacy platform, supporting President Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction policies. In this poster a black man lounges idly in the foreground...
- Contributor: Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress) - Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress) Dlc
- Date: 1866
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Book/Printed MaterialInaugural address of Abraham Lincoln : March 4th, 1865. LAC nsk 2021-08-03 create (1 card)
- Contributor: United States. President ( : Lincoln) - Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1865
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Book/Printed Material... Resolutions adopted at the annual meeting, Philadelphia, May 9, 1865. Printed within black border and signed : Thomas Earp, President; MacGregor J. Mitchenson, Secretary. LAC nsk 2021-08-04 create (1 card)
- Contributor: Northern Home for Friendless Children (Philadelphia, Pa.) - Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1865
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Book/Printed MaterialThe old Ephrata printing press on which the declaration of independence was printed, and the original house No. 702 Market Street in which it was actually written by Thomas Jefferson. Picture of press and house. History of the press and list of some of the books printed on the press. On the verso is printed the Declaration of independence. This broadside was made at the Centennial exhibition, Philadelphia, 1876. Online record has call number as Broadside portfolio 160 no. 6. LAC sba 2021-08-26. LAC sba 2021-08-26 create (1 card) Purchase May 1944.
- Contributor: Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress) - Old Ephrata Printing Press
- Date: 1876
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Book/Printed MaterialThe Pennsylvania hermit : Just published an interesting narrative of the life of Amos Wilson Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available Prospectus. Caption title. Woodcut illustration below title and additional woodcut illustration within text. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website. LAC aam 2021-09-27 create (1 card) LAC ecr 2021-09-28 review LC Review of LAC Completed/Approved 2021-10-04 LAC ddw 2022-11-07 update (1 card) LC Review of LAC Completed/Approved 2023-07-25
- Contributor: Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1821
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Book/Printed MaterialTo the Senate and House of Representatives, of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in General Assembly met : The petition of the subscribers, citizens of the said Commonwealth respectfully sheweth that your petitioners ... Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available Caption title. Regarding the formation of the Farmer's and Mechanics' bank incorporated in 1809. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website. LAC nsk 2021-03-29 create (1 card) LAC ddw 2022-11-07 update (1 card) LC Review of LAC Completed/Approved 2023-07-25
- Contributor: Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress) - Pennsylvania. General Assembly
- Date: 1809
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Book/Printed MaterialPettie's-Island lottery, for disposing of a great variety of curious pictures, jewellery, &c. &c Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available Caption title. Date of publication from ESTC and Evans. English short title catalogue, W2641 Evans, C. American bibliography, 12521 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website. LC copy: [Postive Phototstat] LAC aam 2021-09-30 create (1 card) LAC ddw 2022-11-07 update (1 card) LC Review of LAC Completed/Approved 2023-07-25
- Contributor: Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1772
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Book/Printed MaterialThe agents of the Farmers' and Mechanics' Bank offer the following proposals, to the Legislature; either of which the Company will agree to accept Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available Caption title. Regarding the formation of the Farmer's and Mechanics' bank incorporated in 1809. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website. LAC ael 2020-03-02 create (1 card) LAC aam 2021-10-15 update (1 card) LAC ddw 2022-11-07 update (1 card) LC Review of LAC Completed/Approved 2023-07-25
- Contributor: Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress) - Pennsylvania. General Assembly
- Date: 1809
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Book/Printed Material[Letter reporting a resolution adopted by the Executive Committee requesting the clergy deposit copies of their sermons or addresses pertaining to the death of President Lincoln]. Signed by Richard Eddy, Librarian. LAC nsk 2021-08-04 create (1 card)
- Contributor: Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress) - Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Eddy, Richard
- Date: 1865
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Book/Printed MaterialRegulations to be observed in the delivery and distribution of fuel and straw to the garrisons on the sea coast, and recruiting parties. Given at the War-office of the United States in ... Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available Evans 33097 Scanned card stamped as no. 3901. LAC ael 2021-04-01. LAC ael 2021-04-01 create (1 card)
- Contributor: Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. War Department
- Date: 1797
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Book/Printed MaterialGrand national inauguration ball, March Fourth, 1857 : [invitation].
national inauguration ball, March Fourth, 1857 Printed invitation to James Buchanan's inaugural ball held at at Washington, D.C.'s Judiciary Square in a special building erected for the event to accomodate 6,000 people. The invitation lists the "managers" of the inaugural ball, including members of Congress, officers of the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps, and citizens. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LAC ecr 2021-11-02...- Contributor: Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1857
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Book/Printed MaterialThe Triumph of freedom over slavery : Thirty eighth Congress of the United States of America ... A resolution ... that the following article be proposed ... as an amendment to the ... Lithographed by J. Gibson, N. Y. LAC nsk 2021-08-02 create (1 card)
- Contributor: Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1865
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Book/Printed MaterialIn Congress, July 4, 1776, a declaration by the representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress assembled
Also known as: Dunlap Declaration of Independence This document is the first printed version of the American Declaration of Independence. On June 7, 1776, Richard Henry Lee of Virginia introduced a resolution urging Congress, meeting in Philadelphia, to declare independence from Great Britain. Four days later, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston were appointed as a committee to draft a declaration of independence. The committee's...- Contributor: United States - Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress) - Ridgely, David - Force, Peter - Dunlap, John
- Date: 1776
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Photo, Print, DrawingEmancipation. [above] : "And by virtue of the power and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves ... shall be free!" (Procl. of Eman.) Cartoon. LAC nsk 2021-08-04 create (1 card)
- Contributor: Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1865
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Photo, Print, DrawingJeff. Davis caught at last : hoop skirts & southern chivalry. Cartoon. Above: The only true picture of the capture of Jeff. Davis, from the account furnished by Col. Prichard of the 4th Mich. Cavalry. LAC nsk 2021-08-04 create (1 card)
- Contributor: Alfred Whital Stern Collection of Lincolniana (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1865