Color postcard of a lock house on the Champlain Canal. American flag in background by a truss bridge. Lampposts line the edge of the canal. Tints of pink and yellow in the sky.
New lock and bridge on the Barge Canal in Lockport, N.Y. with pedestrian bridge in foreground. Several stairways and railways are prominently featured on the right side of the card.
Two-page letter from Lysander Spooner in Hartford [Connecticut] to Gerrit Smith dated October 11, 1860, reporting on a visit to New York [City] and progress on Smith's libel suit.
Durant, Thomas J.(Thomas Jefferson),1817-1882; United states--Politics and government--1865-1877; Louisiana--Politics and government--1865-1950
Nine letters from various correspondents to Thomas Jefferson Durant, a lawyer and Louisiana state senator, and one of the few prominent Southerners who supported the Union during the Civil War. After the war he practiced in Washington D.C.