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[Portrait of Lincoln] : private plate issued exclusively to members of the Bibliophile Society
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Portraits of Lincoln administration members and Confederate conspirators
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Consists of 88 photographs, including snapshots and carte-de-visite photographs. Union sitters include Edward Bates, Montgomery Blair, Simon Cameron, Salmon P. Chase, William Dennison, John Hay, Joseph Holt, William P. Fessenden, Hugh McCulloch, John G. Nicholay, William H. Seward, Frederick W. Seward, James Speed, Edwin M. Stanton, Miss Katherine Chase Sprague, John Palmer Usher, and Gideon Welles. Confederate sitters include Alexander Stephens, Linton Stephens, and John C. Breckinridge. Additional portraits of the Lincoln kidnapping and assassination conspirators are also included: Samuel B. Arnold, Georg A. Atzerodt, John Wilkes Booth, David E. Herold, Michael O'Laughlen, Lewis Powell (Lewis Payne, or Paine) Edward Spangler, and Mary E. Surratt. Also included are three portraits of Boston Corbett, the Union sergeant who shot John Wilkes Booth. Some of these items are noted as reproduced from Frederick H. Meserve holdings.
photPF 1870-1909
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W. H. Webber Chinese exclusion notebook
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This directory, compiled and used by immigration inspector W. H. Webber, is comprised of pasted-in clippings from San Francisco's Chinatown directories published by Horn Hong & Co., as well as handwritten lists by Webber, of residents living in Chinatown. The entries are dated by year and arranged by street name, though the entries are not in true chronological order. The earliest entries are dated 1883, the first year of enforcement of the Chinese Exclusion Act, and the last entries are dated 1916.
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Federalism: or, The question of exclusive power : the true issue in the present monetary and political discussions in the United States
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