Sinclair writes about his new book, "The Way Out: What Lies Ahead for America." He also write a great deal about his book "Upton Sinclair Presents William Fox", and its influence on not only the United States but the world as well. He also writes...
Antislavery movements--United States; American Abolition Society; Slavery--Law and Legislation
Eight-page letter and envelope from Lysander Spooner in Boston [Massachusetts] to Gerrit Smith dated September 10, 1857, in which he encourages Smith to put forward a motion at the American Abolition Society annual meeting in Syracuse to purchase...
Promotional Materials; Democratic Party (Kings County, N.Y.); Higgins, James A.
Handbill asks voters to choose James A. Higgins for State Senator of the sixth district. Front: Photograph with sample ballot. Back: "Say it With Votes!" proclaims the handbill.
Promotional Materials; Correspondence; Republican Party (Kings County, N.Y.); Calder, William M. (William Musgrave), 1869-1945; Calder Lee, Elsie; Women--Suffrage--United States; Correspondence
Letter from Elsie Calder Lee requesting women voters re-elect her father, William M. Calder, Republican Senator.
Civil rights Religious aspects Catholic Church; Manhattanville College of the Sacred Heart; National Federation of Catholic College Students (U.S.); Social action; Social Action Secretariat
Senator Kenneth B. Keating and Odgen Reid at Fall National Federation of Catholic College Students Conference, September 26, 1964
Civil rights Religious aspects Catholic Church; Manhattanville College of the Sacred Heart; National Federation of Catholic College Students (U.S.); Social action; Social Action Secretariat
(left to right) Mary Moran (class of 1965). New York Senator Kenneth B. Keating, and Ogden Reid Fall National Federation of Catholic College Students Conference, September 26, 1964
Civil rights Religious aspects Catholic Church; Manhattanville College of the Sacred Heart; National Federation of Catholic College Students (U.S.); Social action; Social Action Secretariat
Mary Moran, Chairman of Social Action Secretariat (Class of 1965) with New York Senator K.B. (Kenneth Barnard) Keating
Promotional Materials; Pamphlets; Democratic Party (Kings County, N.Y.); MacMahon, J. Gratton; McDermott, Charles, J.; Connolly, Maurice E.; Roy, Robert H.; Johnson, Charles C.; Taylor, Franklin (Frank) J., 1884-; Vause, W. Bernard
Pamphlet lists Democratic nominees. Front describes four judges: Robert H. Roy and Maurice E. Connolly for Supreme Court; J. Gratton MacMahon and Charles, J. McDermott for County Court. Back has photos and biographies of Franklin (Frank) J. Taylor...
Antislavery movements--United States; Slavery--United States; Slavery--Law and Legislation
One-page letter from Gerrit Smith in Peterboro [New York] to Lysander Spooner, dated February 26, 1861, discussing the speech of Senator [Wilson?] on slavery "as law."
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...
Catalogue for exhibition of paintings by American and foreign artists held at the Studio, January 5-18, 1916. Artists included: Cecilia Beaux, Paul Albert Besnard, Robert W. Chanler, Howard G. Cushing, Frederic C. Freiseke, Beatrice How, George B....
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.
Fessenden, William Pitt,1806-1869; Adams, John C.; Allen, Charles, 1827-1913; Allen, James; Appleton, John; Bradbury, J. W.; Burbank, David; Chamberlain, J. E.; Chandler, Peleg W. (Peleg Whitman), 1816-1889; Cobb, Sylvanus, 1823-1887; Coe, George...
Correspondence of William Pitt Fesssenden, and his sons Francis Fessenden and James Deering Fessenden. The majority of letters are addressed to William Pitt Fessenden on financial and political matters, but a few are private; several letters are...
Seven autograph letters (one accompanied by envelope), signed, by Henry Burgh, and one portrait engraving autographed by Burgh. All letters are written on A.S.P.C.A. stationary and most concern the A.S.P.C.A. or cases of animal cruelty. They are...
