Manuscripts

Ulysses S. Grant Memorial, Lincoln Park, Chicago

Description: A view of the memorial to General and President Ulysses S. Grant in Lincoln Park in Chicago. The memorial is built from large stones, with a covered area surmounted by an equestrian statue, depicting Grant as a soldier. There are people in the archways that line the covered area, and a couple with an umbrella walking along a path in the foreground.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: [circa 1893?]
Call number: mssLattaS, Box 117, Folder 7, Item 1
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Ulysses S. Grant

Visual Materials

A three-quarters length seated portrait of President Ulysses Simpson Grant, sitting in a wicker chair on the large porch surrounding the house in Mount McGregor in Wilton, New York, where he died July 23rd, 1885. Grant has a neatly trimmed gray beard and mustache, has a stockinged cap on his head and a blanket on his lap, and is examining the papers in his hands.

photPF 24,849

Flower-covered globe, World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago

Manuscripts

A view of a display of flower-covered sculpture, particularly a large model of the Earth, at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. The globe is ringed by flower-covered vases, with a low shrub to keep visitors out.

mssLattaS, Box 117, Folder 46, Item 1

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Ulysses S. Grant account book :

Manuscripts

Accounts kept by Ulysses S. Grant while a cadet at West Point in a printed, leather-bound cadet account ledger. Columns are for Store Keeper, Taylor, Shoe Maker, Barber, Post Master, Damages U.S., Subscriptions, Cash, and Total Amount. Most ledger entries fill the Store Keeper column and list Grant's purchases and expenses for clothing, various supplies, books, and a subscription to the Philadelphia Saturday Courier. There are remarks by Grant's instructors, for example the entry dated July 1842 "The Balance due by Cadet Grant is too great to admit of any increase." Also included is a loose note titled "Memoranda for Mr. Childe" and signed Edward C. Boynton (3 pages) and two loose notes in pencil regarding "furlough clothing" issued "to Cadet Grant when he visited his home in 1841" and his "indebtedness" being "two great to allow him anything but the strictly necessary articles for daily use." End pages contain several signatures.

mssHM 975

"Sol's Clock" sundial, Washington Park, World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago

Manuscripts

A view of "Sol's Clock", a sundial made out of plants, at Washington Park for the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. The sundial is on the side of a slight incline, with the numbers arranged in an arch and a tilted pole in the center.

mssLattaS, Box 117, Folder 41, Item 1

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Joseph A. Mower communication to Ulysses S. Grant

Manuscripts

This message from Joseph A. Mower to Ulysses S. Grant was sent during the Vicksburg Campaign, most likely in May 1863. The ironclad DeKalb mentioned in the note was sunk in July 1863. The message, written in pencil, is most likely in the hand of Mower's adjutant or aide-de-camp. The note reads: "Genl Grant- Gunboats DeKalb and Signal are here. Neither of them has instructions to convey us to Satartia. Jos. A. Mower Brig. Genl." On verso: "Signal Officer."

mssHM 83167

Prominent Confederate and Union Veterans and others gathered on East Cemetery Hill, Gettysburg on the anniversary of General Ulysses S. Grant’s birthday

Visual Materials

Group portrait of 38 men standing in a field. Two of the men are sitting on stones, one rests his foot on the breach of a cannon lying on the ground. Written in white, in the lower left corner: No. 1393A. / East Cemetery Hill, Gettysburg. / April, 29" 1893.

photCL 308 (23)

Ulysses S. Grant Memorial, Lincoln Park, Chicago

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