Four-page letter from Lysander Spooner in Boston [Massachusetts] to Gerrit Smith, dated November 2, 1855, in which Spooner disucsses anti-slavery arguments and the distribution of 300 copies of his book, "the Unconstitutionality of Slavery."
Postal data: posted, postmarked [wavy postmark with number 1 and letter D] (BROCKPORT, N.Y., AUG 18, 1915, 7-PM ), stamp; Postcard type: divided back (CORRESPONDENCE; ADDRESS ONLY); Logo (POST CARD) in stylized lettering; Written message (Sept 18...
Postal data: posted, postmarked [wavy postmark] (FULTON, N.Y. [date indiscernible]); stamp; Postcard type: divided back; Printing information: card number (D 9473); (Made in Germany); Logo (POST CARD) in stylized lettering in red ink; Written...
Postal data: posted, postmarked [wavy postmark with letters I and C] (UTICA, N.Y. NOV 3 12 - M 1913); Postcard type: divided back [solid line] (THIS SPACE MAY BE USED FOR MESSAGE THIS SPACE FOR THE ADDRESS); Logo (POST CARD); Written message:...
Canal Board; Debt; Revenue; Enlargement; Tolls; Expenses; Champlain Canal; New York State Assembly; Erie Canal; New York (State); Report
Page 4 of a fifty-one page document of the Report of the Canal Board in answer to resolutions respecting the canal debts and revenues and the enlargement of the Erie Canal addressed to the Honorable The Assembly. This page includes a table of tolls...
Erie Canal; New York (State); Land sale; Advertisement.
Advertisment for New York Canal Lands on Sale that appeared on March 6, 1824 in the New-York American. Two hundred thousand acres were offered for sale on or near the intended route of the Erie Canal, anticipating accessibility by water "as soon as...
Five-page letter dated August 20, 1866, from A. P. Aldrich in Barnwell, South Carolina, to Lysander Spooner [of Boston, Massachusetts] regarding the economic hardships faced by the South during the reconstruction era.
Jerry Rescue Convention; Antislavery movements--United States
Three-page printed "address" by Gerrit Smith presented at the Jerry Rescue Convention in Syracuse [New York]. On back, addressed to Lysander Spooner in Boston, Massachusetts, in Smith's hand.
Charles Sumner (1811-1874) was a United States senator from Massachusetts and a campaigner against slavery. This is a draft, ca. 1855, of a version of the speech delivered in New York on May 9, 1855, and published that year under the title "The...
Typed letter by Juliana Force to Harry Gottlieb, dated December 18, 1928. Letter showing concern for Gottlieb's wife's health, including mention of an enclosed check in sympathy and faith in future sales during his upcoming exhibition. Added...
Postal data: posted, postmarked [wavy postmark with letters I & C] (ROCHESTER, N.Y., NOV 11, 12-PM, 1910), stamp; Postcard type: divided back (This side for Correspondence.; This side for Address.); Logo (POST CARD); Written message (Nov. 12 -...
Postal data: posted, postmarked (REA, JUL 11, PM, 1908 PA.), stamp; Postcard type: divided back; Printing information: series number (Serie No. 1809 11 Made in Germany.); Logo (POST CARD) in stylized lettering embellished with Art Deco style...
Postal data: posted, postmarked (LOCKPORT, N.Y., 1907), stamp; Postcard type: divided back; Printing information: order number (118534); Logo (Post Card) in stylized lettering with bumblebee in curve of the C; Written message (Dear Little Sisters. ...
Postal data: posted, postmarked [striped oval postmark], stamp; Postcard type: divided back (CORRESPONDENCE; ADDRESS ONLY); Logo: POST CARD in stylized lettering; Written message: [written horizontally] (Dear Mother, Just a card. I sent you a...
