Politicians -- United States -- 19th century
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 31 Collections and/or Records:
1888 United States election squibs
Collection — Folder S3519
Identifier: S3519
Scope and Contents
This collection includes two election squibs as mock ticket stubs regarding the 1888 United States presidential election between Republican Benjamin Harrison and Democrat Grover Cleaveland. Both election squibs note the fictional company Salt River Packet, a reference to a colloquial political slogan “up salt river” that implied political defeat, especially for an important leader and the rest of their party. The satirical advertisements refer to other political leaders in the form of stop-over...
Dates:
1888
Abraham L. Brick papers
Collection
Identifier: L539
Scope and Contents
This collection includes typed, autographed correspondence from Abraham L. Brick and others in Indiana and Washington, D.C. from 1850 to 1950, regarding personal and business matters; invitations to social events ranging from 1884 to 1901 regarding presidential and congressional events; photographs and tintypes of family, public events and places, including the Panama Canal, from 1866 to 1907 and undated; scrapbooks, diaries, expense account books, and other volumes.
Dates:
1850-1950
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Abraham L. Brick papers
Abraham Lincoln collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S1170
Scope and Contents
This collection contains materials about Abraham Lincoln, including photocopies of various writings and speeches he made. There is also material that discusses his genealogy and personal accounts of encounters with Abraham Lincoln. Research covers the date range of 1800-1959. The third folder consists of facsimiles related to Abraham Lincoln, primarily images. There is also an oversize folder (OBC083).
Dates:
circa 1888-1959, undated
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Abraham Lincoln collection
Alvin P. Hovey letter
Collection — Folder S0686
Identifier: S0686
Scope and Contents
The collection contains a letter written by Alvin P. Hovey to Isabelle de la Hunt in response to a kind letter she sent him while he was in the U.S. House of Representatives. Hovey was a friend of her son.
Dates:
1888
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Alvin P. Hovey letter
Alvin Peterson Hovey portrait
Collection — Folder OBC178
Identifier: OBC178
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a print of a portrait of Alvin Peterson Hovey created sometime betwen 1889 and 1891.
Dates:
circa 1889-1891
Barton Griffith papers
Collection — Folder S2183
Identifier: S2183
Scope and Contents
This collection includes photostats of original letters written between 1821 and 1832, along with their typed transcripts, from members of the Griffith Family in Indiana to each other and to relatives in Pennsylvania, concerning family matters, daily life and settling in Indiana, unrest between Native Americans and white pioneers, trade, national politics including discussion of John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, and Andrew Jackson. All of the correspondents were probably Quakers, based on their...
Dates:
1821-1834
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Barton Griffith papers
Benjamin Franklin Stevens letter
Collection — Folder S1249
Identifier: S1249
Scope and Contents
This collection comprises one photocopied letter from Benjamin Harrison in Washington, D.C. to Benjamin Franklin Stevens in Indianapolis, Indiana on October 20, 1886, regarding Harrison's political campaign and a request for Stevens' assistance with the campaign and with preventing voter fraud.
Dates:
1886
Caleb Blood Smith speech and document
Collection — Folder S1201
Identifier: S1201
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of a pamphlet of a speech given by Caleb Blood Smith in Washington, D.C. before the U.S. House of Representatives on February 3, 1848, regarding the Mexican-American War and its costs, and a May 18, 1849 document enumerating appointments in the U.S. Treasury Department.
Dates:
1848-1849
Ed Johnson photograph collection
Collection — Folder SP172
Identifier: SP172
Scope and Contents
This collection contains 4 black-and-white photographs taken by Ed Johnson ranging from 1930 to circa 1933 in Illinois regarding the Offutt coper shop in Old Salem, Illinois where Abraham Lincoln studied at night and the graves of his father, Thomas Lincoln, his stepmother, Sarah Bush Lincoln, and his sweetheart, Ann Rutledge.
Dates:
1930, undated
Ewing family collection
Collection
Identifier: L323
Scope and Contents
This collection comprises personal and business papers from the Ewing family, particulraly the brothers William Griffith (W.G.) and George Washington (G.W.) Ewing and their companies in Fort Wayne, Indiana and numerous other locations in the Midwest, ranging from 1818-1887, regarding land speculation; the fur trade; trade and relations with Native Americans and Hoosier pioneers; the settlement of Indiana and the Old Northwest; the development of Fort Wayne; state and national politics; and...
Dates:
1818-1889
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Ewing family collection
