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Anti-Andrew Jackson Broadside
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4890
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of a single large political broadside entitled "An Account of Some of the Bloody Deeds of General Jackson" produced during the 1828 U.S. presidential campaign. The broadside features vivid woodcut illustrations of seventeen coffins, each representing an individual allegedly executed on the orders of Andrew Jackson. These include six Tennessee militiamen court-martialed and executed during the Creek War, additional soldiers, Native American prisoners, and victims of...
Dates:
1814
Jefferson Davis Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-0404
Abstract
This is a collection of mostly personal correspondence of Jefferson Davis and his family members, in both the United States and Europe. This collection also includes three folders of photographs and other visual materials.
Dates:
1823-1917
Duff Green to Charles A. Wickliffe Letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4844
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of a three-page letter written and signed by Duff Green to Congressman Charles A. Wickliffe of Kentucky, dated July 8, 1833. There was no charge to send letters to congressmen like Wickliffe. The letter is written in Green’s distinctive and urgent tone and is marked “confidential.” In it, Green outlines a radical strategy to defeat the rise of Martin Van Buren by amending the Constitution to limit the presidency to one term and to eliminate the Electoral College. He...
Dates:
1833
Hestor L. Stevens Letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4237
Abstract
The collection consists of twelve letters written by Hestor L. Stevens (1803-1864), a representative from Michigan, detailing his law business in Washington, DC, during the election of 1860 and the beginning of the Civil War.
Dates:
1860 - 1861
Hutchinson Family Singers Concert Broadside
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4784
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of a rare printed broadside advertising a June 2, 1849, concert by the Hutchinson Family Singers in Portland, Maine, and includes a handwritten note on the verso by an unnamed concert attendee. The broadside announces a “Vocal Entertainment” by Judson, Abby, John, and Asa Hutchinson at City Hall and highlights two reform-oriented songs: "Glide on My Light Canoe (The Indian's Lament)" and "Uncle Sam’s Farm." These songs address themes of American Indian displacement,...
Dates:
1849
J.A. Means to Samuel Cochran Letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4738
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of a letter written by J.A. Means from Munroe Falls, Ohio, to his cousin, Samuel Cochran, in Cadiz, Ohio. The letter provides a unique firsthand account of the early development of Munroe Falls, capturing the experience of a surveyor engaged in laying out the village in the late 1830s. Means describes the challenges of frontier life, the isolation felt by his wife, Eliza, and the practical aspects of surveying and settlement.In addition to local affairs,...
Dates:
1837 April 12
James Dellet Plantation Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4823
Scope and Contents
This collection documents the economic operations of James Dellet's plantation in Claiborne, Monroe County, Alabama, with a particular focus on enslaved labor. It includes:A letter from political figure John Murphy to Dellet (1829) discussing debt repayment likely tied to plantation or labor dealings.A list titled “List of Negroes sent to James Dillet's Plantation,” detailing fifteen enslaved individuals, mostly women, valued at $9,180.A second inventory,...
Dates:
1829
John P. Robinson to Elisha Bartlett Letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4839
Scope and Contents
This collection comprises a single letter from Massachusetts Whig politician John P. Robinson to Dr. Elisha Bartlett of Lowell, Massachusetts, dated 1836 and sent from Washington, D.C. In it, Robinson offers a detailed and vivid account of his three-day observation of congressional proceedings during a turbulent political moment under President Andrew Jackson. Of particular note is Robinson’s report on the rise of Representative Henry A. Wise of Virginia to first propose what would become...
Dates:
1836
William W. Potter to Constituent Letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4785
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of a two-page stampless folded letter written on January 10, 1838, by Pennsylvania Congressman William W. Potter to his constituent James McManus in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania. Writing from Washington, D.C., Potter reaffirms his support for states’ rights and opposition to abolition, while explaining his vote against the Gag Rule resolutions then being debated in Congress.Potter outlines his reasoning for voting against Virginia Representative John M....
Dates:
1838 January 10