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[Philadelphia?]: [Manuel Kean], 1973. Ring bound. Very good. Ring bound. Approx. 11.5" x 10". Various addresses separated by thick paper board. All material is copied type script on the front sides of the paper. First speech is titled "The Intellectual Lincoln - A Preliminary Assessment. Address Read Before the Lincoln-Civil War Society, February 10, 1973". It is 10 pages long and signed Manuel Kean at the end. Second address is 7 pages and titled "First Lecture on Discoveries and Inventions [April 6, 1858]. [Source material taken from "Basler, Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, 1953, ii, pp. 437-42]. Third address is 8 pages and titled "Second Lecture on Discoveries and Inventions [February 11, 1859] (Basler: pages 356-63). Following this address are copies of typed letters to William M. Morris and Thomas J. Picket (Basler - page 374 and page 377). Fourth address is 12 pages: "Address Before The Wisconsin State Agricultural Society, Milwaukee, Wisconsin September 30, 1859" (Basler: pages 471-82).…
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Attending the Philadelphia Sanitary Fair in the Summer of 1864
by [CIVIL WAR]. [ABRAHAM LINCOLN]
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Two tickets to the Great Central Fair in Philadelphia. One admitted a pupil of the public schools of Philadelphia and was used on Saturday, June 11, according to the stamp on the verso. The other is an apparently unused "Season Ticket" that admitted the bearer "To All Parts of the Fair," except the Children's Exhibitions but was "Forfeited if Transferred and Not Good unless Endorsed." The verso includes the oath, "I hereby promise that this Ticket shall be used to obtain admission to the Fair by myself only" and a blank line for a signature.
[CIVIL WAR]. [ABRAHAM LINCOLN]. Great Central Fair Tickets, June 1864. Pair of passes for the Great Central Fair, held in Philadelphia, June 7-28, 1864. One ticket is for one day's admission for a public school student. The other is a season ticket. 1 p. each, 3½ x 2¼ and 3½ x 2 in.
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During the Civil War, several northern cities hosted sanitary fairs between 1863 and 1865 to raise money for the care of wounded soldiers. The Great Central Fair, held at Logan Square in Philadelphia in June 1864, was a fundraiser for the United States Sanitary Commission and was one of the largest fairs. The main exhibit building, constructed in forty working days by local volunteer skilled labor, enclosed 200,000 square feet. It featured nearly one hundred departments offering a broad range of displays from Arms and Trophies to Fine Arts to Umbrellas and Canes. Curiosities included a $1,000 doll house, a recreated parlor of William Penn with Penn artifacts, the boat used by Arctic explorer Elisha Kent Kane, and George Washington's carriage.
Over three weeks, the fair welcomed more than 400,000 visitors. The season ticket offered here cost $5, a week's pay for a day laborer or a domestic, and several days' wages for skilled workers. The fair served more than 9,000 meals per day in its restaurant and had a daily newspaper with descriptions of the various departments. During its existence, the fair raised approximately $1 million for the Sanitary Commission, second only to New York City in money raised.
President Abraham Lincoln attended the fair with his family on June 16. He also donated forty-eight signed copies of the Emancipation Proclamation (printed under the auspices of George Boker of the Union League), which were sold for $10 each.
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Both have glue discolored on the reverse sides. The smaller card has a 1" edge tear on the right side, neatly repaired with archival tape.
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1973 collection of copied typed addresses and information related to Abraham Lincoln read before the Lincoln Civil War Society of Philadelphia
by [Abraham Lincoln] [Manuel Kean, Past President Lincoln Civil War Society, Philadelphia]
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16 full-page and one two-page photographs ofin Journal of American History (October, November, December, 1908)
by [Civil War Photographs from the Edward Bailey Eaton Collection. Abraham Lincoln]
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First Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. Near fine in original wrappers with wear at the extremities. Civil War scenes and portraits, including the final portrait of Abraham Lincoln in a two-page spread,
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General Orders, No. 69
by (GENERAL ORDERS -- CIVIL WAR). LINCOLN, Abraham
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Washington: War Department, 1864 February 22. Handbill. 2pp. 12mo. Very good. File holes at left edge, not affecting text -- almost a "Near fine." "A PROCLAMATION" being Lincoln's revoking of the blockade of the port of Brownsville, Texas. Declares "that the blockade of the said port of Brownsville shall so far cease and determine from and after this date, that commercial intercourse with said port... may... be carried on... until the rebellion shall have been suppressed...." Spells out "prohibited articles, namely: cannon, mortars, fire-arms, pistols, bombs, grenades, powder, saltpetre, sulphur, balls, bullets, pikes, swords," et cetera, plus other exceptions. Signed in type by Lincoln and also by Secretary of State William H. Seward and Assistant Adjutant General E.D. Townsend. Not in Monaghan.
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General Orders, No. 43
by (GENERAL ORDERS -- CIVIL WAR). LINCOLN, Abraham
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Washington, DC: War Department, 1863. Paperback. 16mo. Self-cover. 35pp. Very good. Mild age toning; minor binding traces. Lengthy Court Martial proceeding against the U.S. Army Quartermaster at St. Louis, Justus McKinstry (1814-97), who is charged with "prostituting his office" in these 61 specifications -- in 26 of which is he found "Guilty," with the recommendation "To be dismissed the service." Lincoln, who signs in type at the conclusion, supports this finding. Also signed in type by Adjutant General L. Thomas, who dissolves the General Court Martial.
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Lincoln’s treatment of Gen. Grant; Mr. Lincoln’s treatment of Gen. McClellan; The taint of disunion. . . In: Document No. 12. . . .
by [LINCOLN, Abraham -- CIVIL WAR]
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[New York: (printed by Thomas R. Dawley) 13 Park Row, and at all Democratic Newspaper Offices, 1864]. 8vo. [8 pp (unpaginated).], bound into mostly blank volume. Half-calf over marbled boards, marbled endpapers, raised bands on spine, red, black & gilt morocco spine labels (minor scuffing, wear to corners), still VG copy, from the library of noted New York City book collector, Thomas Bell with his bookplate designed by Nancy Barnhart on front pastedown, who was noted for his impressive library devoted mostly to Americana, with many titles on Lincoln, and sold at Anderson Galleries Auction in 1917. First edition of this scarce Democratic Party Copperhead influenced presidential campaign pamphlet perpetuating the complaints of mistreatment by Democratic candidate and former Civil War general George B. McClellan. This piece appears to have been published at the height of the Cold Harbor campaigns by the Union Army under command of Lieut. General Ulysses S. Grant, which were suffering heavy…
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Autograph letter signed; describing Lincoln's review of the troops of the Army of the Potomac. Approx. 1000 words.
by [CIVIL WAR; LINCOLN, Abraham] PENFIELD, Ira, Private, 17th Connecticut Volunteer Infantry
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Camp near Brooks Station,, Saturday April 11, 1863.. Fine original condition.. 15-1/2 x 9-3/4 inches.. "...Yesterday I witnessed one of the grandest sights that I ever beheld. Our whole corps was reviewed by the President, Generals Hooker, McLain, Howard, Steinway, Secretary Seward and an innumerable host of Brigadier Generals, and it was a sight that has paid me for coming to war." The spectacle is described in great detail. Private Penfield was soon to be captured at Chancellorsville, spending 12 days as a prisoner of war before being exchanged. He survived the war to carry on his father's carriage making business in Monroe, Connecticut and later founded a small private academy.
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Document signed
by CIVIL WAR LINCOLN Abraham
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1863. Signed. LINCOLN, Abraham. Document signed. City of Washington, July 7, 1863. Folio, single sheet (measures 7-3/4 by 9-3/4 inches folded) partially printed and accomplished in secretarial hand, signed. Framed with a portrait of Lincoln, measures 19 by 16 inches total. $49,000.Fine July 7, 1863 official presidential order signed by Lincoln shortly after the Union's powerful but costly victories at Gettysburg and Vicksburg, here calling for New York to draft thousands of men under the controversial March 3, 1863 Conscription Act, a law that would provoke the bloody New York draft riots that erupted only six days after the date of this rare Civil War signed document. Handsomely framed with a portrait of Lincoln.""The summer of 1863 witnessed the great Union victories at Gettysburg and Vicksburg during the same week in July, but little more than a week later it saw the eruption of the bloody riots in New York City"" (Wilson, Lincoln's Sword, 182). This important July 7,…
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