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1841-1845 - An archive of correspondence between an exceptionally wealthy Massachusetts bootmaker-politician and his son regarding life as a student at Philips Exeter Academy and chronicling the devastating seven-year depression that followed The Panic of 1837

by Nathaniel and George White

1843 – File copy of a letter sent to President John Tyler by Andrew Jackson recommending Major General John M. Davis be appointed the Pittsburgh Postmaster for his service during the War of 1812

by Andrew Jackson

Hermitage, Tennessee

1843 - Letter from an important missionary at the Oneida Duck Creek Reservation in Wisconsin describing his effort "endeavoring to labor for the good of the Indians.

by Henry Root Colman

1844 – Minutes of a Vermont Whig Convention supporting Henry Clay over James Polk and asserting opposition to increased federal expenditures and the annexation of Texas and support for restricting presidential vetoes and patronage, while encouraging regulation of currency, distribution of public lands, and a protective tariff

Royalton, Vermont

1845 Essays on Human Rights and Women Rights: "Woman is Denied Her Natural Dignity when the Laws Depress Her Below Man

by [1845 Essay on Woman Rights], Women Rights

1846 Letter written to Daniel Webster "Vera Cruz is in Revolt

by [George Bancroft]

Mansfield, Mass : n.p. , 1846

1847 manuscript copy of an 1828 law, certified with an attached, partly printed document, “Executive Department

Tuscaloosa, Alabama 1847

1850s - Five different religious pamphlets published by the American Tract Society

[New York] : American Tract Society , 1850

1851: America's Taste.; The Cultural Events of a Century Reported by Contemporary Observers in the Pages of the New York Times

by LONGLEY, Marjorie, et al.

1851 General Store Ledger of ?? H. Patterson & 1880 Cotton Book of Dillahunty & Sons, Henry County TN

1851

1852 - A Congressional pamphlet containing the correspondence between the Governor of the Oregon Territory and President Millard Fillmore regarding his refusal to enforce the relocation of the territory's capital from Oregon City to Salem

by I owe it to the people of the United States, whose agent I am; to the people of Oregon, whose rights it is my duty to protect, and to my official oath, to decline any participation in executing your act

Washington DC 1852

1852 Autograph Inscription to Mr. John B. Pollock College Hall, Cincinnati by Robert M. Charlton

by [Robert M. Charlton]

Washington DC : n/a , 1852

1853 - A British exporter explains to the treasurer of the first major textile mill in Lowell, Massachusetts, that shipments of madder have been affected by a lack of available vessels but are unlikely to harmed by the "Russian affair" which should be quickly resolved

by James C. Collier to Ebenezer Chadwick

Manchester, England to Boston 1853

1853 - Letter from the Secretary of the Navy placing the flagship of the Home Squadron at the disposal of one of the worst ambassadors ever appointed who destroyed U.S. credibility in Central America and whose diplomatic filibustering gave rise to William Walker's attempt to conquer Nicaragua

1854 Engraved Scale Survey of the Harbor of Cleveland, Ohio

by Cleveland Topographical Bureau

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : Wagner & McGuigan, Lithographer , 1854

1859 - Letter on behalf of John C. Fremont forwarding an article from the San Francisco Bulletin defending his ownership of the Mariposa Ranch that was sent to the influential Washington DC journalist-politician, Francis P. Blair, from San Francisco by the poet-politician Colonel Charles James

by Colonel Charles James

1860 ASSOCIATION TRACT, NO. 2. STATE SOVEREIGNTY AND THE DOCTRINE OF COERCION, BY THE HON. WM. D. PORTER; TOGETHER WITH A LETTER FROM HON. J. K. PAULDING, FORMER SEC. OF NAVY. THE RIGHT TO SECEDE, BY "STATES." READ AND SEND TO YOUR NEIGHBOR

by Porter, William D.

[Charleston 1860

1860s Gum Copal Circular and Price List

Boston, Massachusetts : Stephen Whipple & Bro , 1860

An 1861 Court Order for Children to Support Pauper Parents, [together with] Testimony Relating to the Case

Wolf Township, Sycoming County, PA 1861

1861-1875. The gold yield in Nova Scotia. Annual statistical exhibit [cover title]

by Heatherington, A.

Halifax : Mining Gazette Office and Canadian Mines Bureau , 1876