Manuscripts

Original portfolio

Description: Leather pouch.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: undated
Call number: mssClough
Creator: Clough, J. B (1823-1887)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Luanne R. Abel Green and George F. Clough, October 2005.
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Johnston: Portfolio (partial)

Visual Materials

Contains one leather portfolio with title page and one black and white drawing by Harrison Clarke. The title page is a hand-lettered draft that includes editing marks.

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Pabst extract Indian calendar 1906

Visual Materials

Image of a promotional calendar from Pabst Extract featuring a bust-length portrait of a Native American Indian man in full tribal regalia and feathered headdress surrounded by vignettes of village life, dancing, and significant objects including pipe, basket, pelts, sheathed knife, tomahawk, doll, beaded leather pouch, and shells; advertising text and "Hiawatha's Wooing" printed on verso.

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Certificate

Manuscripts

Joel B. Clough lifetime membership, Missionary Society, Methodist Episcopal Church, Alexandria, Virginia.

mssClough

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Original album bindings

Visual Materials

Very large leather album with brass bindings. Empty pages inside, with cut-outs where photographs were once inserted. Some handwriting in pencil on pages.

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Joel B. Clough letters

Manuscripts

Letters from Joel B. Clough to his wife written between January 1863 and February 1864. The letters discuss operations of the Construction Corps in Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania; Adna Anderson, Herman Haupt, and other staff of the Military Railroads and Construction Corps; Aquia Creek, Potomac Creek, Fredericksburg, and Alexandria camps, battles and skirmishes, including Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, and Bristoe Campaigns, Joseph Hooker, George G. Meade, and other commanding officers of the Army of the Potomac; political news, especially the Democratic Party. Clough also mentions the visit of Lincoln, Halleck, and Stanton to Aquia Creek on April 18, 1863. Also included is a copy of a photograph of J.B. Clough taken in the 1870s, and ephemera.

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Bernard M. Baruch? letter to the British Embassy, Washington, D.C

Manuscripts

Typescript copy. Hoping to include enclosed letter to Churchill in official mail pouch. (1 page)

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