Manuscripts
Letterpress book of the Secretary of the Treasury
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Thomas T. Eckert Letterpress Books (EC 26-33)
Manuscripts
The collection is made up mostly of items related to Eckert's duties as part of the United States Military Telegraph Office during the Civil War, including 35 volumes of telegram ledgers containing roughly 16,000 telegrams from 1862 to 1866. These include telegrams both still in code and decoded (the sent messages are ciphered; the received telegrams are mostly decoded).
mssEC 1-76
Salmon P. Chase. Secretary of the Treasury
Visual Materials
Image of a full-length portrait of United States Secretary of the Treasury Salmon P. Chase sitting at a table holding a pen during the American Civil War; map of the United States on back wall, view out window of soldiers marching in formation.
priJLC_MIL_000899
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Letter book
Manuscripts
Colonel Stevenson writes of military and shipment details, and of supplies necessary for the troops under his command. This collection of letters consists of typescripts selected from the original letter book, held by the New York Historical Society. The letters have been arranged chronologically for the sake of continuity, and include letters to and from Colonel Stevenson.
mssHM 16954
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Brock Collection: Miscellaneous papers of the U. S. Treasury Dept., (bulk 1791-1859)
Manuscripts
Collection of scattered letters and documents to and from various offices and officials of the Treasury Department: Secretaries of the Treasury, Registers, Comptollers, Auditors, Solicitors, Paymasters, the Land Office, Customs officers, and others. Included are individual items related to finances of the Revolutionary War and Early Republic, including pensions paid to the war veterans, and John Jacob Astor's "proposal for loaning monies to the United States," (1813), a group of documents and letters relative to Nathaniel Denby, U.S. Naval agent in Marseilles in 1845-1851, and correspondents and documents addressed to various customs collectors and internal revenues agents, predominantly in Virginia
mssBR Box 202
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Grover Cleveland, Washington, D.C., appointment to John B. Coyle :
Manuscripts
Appointment of John B. Coyle as Second Assistant Engineer in the Revenue Service of the United States. Signed by President Grover Cleveland and by Acting Secretary of the Treasury Hugh S. Thompson. Printed form, filled in.
mssHM 48300
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Daniel Webster "Second Speech on the Sub-Treasury":
Manuscripts
Partial autograph draft of speech "Second Speech on the Sub-Treasury" delivered in the Senate 1838 March 12 and published in The Works of Daniel Webster, Volume IV (1851), bound together with Daniel Webster autograph letter signed to Nicholas Biddle, 1837 February 24; printed excerpts from North American Review and Harper's Magazine; and portraits of Webster.
mssHM 789