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Manuscripts
Black and white photograph of Harry Chandler (second from left, others unidentified) standing in front of a trimotor plane. Notes written between the participants around the margins of the print read, "W.B. See the 'do or die' expression on your face. H.C." and "H.C. The expression look to me as tho I was sure to die. However I had a very enjoyable trip thanks to you. W. B. PS H.C. on careful examination there seems to be others with doubts W.B."
mssLAT 01469
Visual Materials
Image of Abraham Lincoln in front of a tent looking to the left, General McClarnand to his left. Pinkerton is in civilian cloths and is looking right at the camera.
photCL 445 (80)
Manuscripts
Black and white photograph of Harry Chandler with (left to right): Governor Friend W. Ricardson, William Randolph Hearst, Maurice DeMond (founder and first president of the Los Angeles Breakfast Club), Louis B. Mayer, and Joseph M. Schenck. Taken at the Los Angeles Breakfast Club meeting on July 2, 1926. (See also LAT 01472.)
mssLAT 01262
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Visual Materials
Group portrait of the 24 members of the integrated petit jury impaneled by the United States Circuit Court for Virginia in Richmond, Virginia, for the treason trial of former Confederate president Jefferson Davis in May 1867. Standing from left to right are E. Fox, J. Freeman, J. R. Fitchett, Joseph Cox, Herman L. Wigand, L. Tabb, L. Boyd, Thomas Lucas, L. Lipscomb, A. Lilly, and (unknown first name) Wilburn. Seated from left to right are W. A. Parsons, L. Carter, C. P. Fitchett, John Newton Van Lew (in foreground), F. Smith, J. E. Frazier, J. B. Willis, B. Wardwell, Albert Royal Brooks, Lewis Lindsey, J. Morrisey, J. Turner (in foreground), and Dr. W. Scott. The portrait is composed of two photographs pasted together.
photOV 11470
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Visual Materials
Item is a black-and-white Confederate States of America lithograph depicting the Union Navy's bombardment of the Confederate-controlled city of Vicksburg, Mississippi. The foreground includes a fleet of seven warships flying American flags while firing at the town depicted in the background. One of the ships illustrated is the USS Brooklyn shown engulfed in flames with crew jumping overboard and retreating by rowboat. Text from left to right below the image lists the seven ships as "Monongahela; Hartford; Winona; Iroquois; Wissahicon; and Brooklyn." The lower half of the print includes the title and text that reads, "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year of 1863, by H.C. Clarke, in the Clerk's Office of the C.S. District of the western D. of Mississippi." Signed by lithographer, "B. Duncan & Co. Lith: Columbia. S.C." on the lower right.
priPEF 34
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Visual Materials
This photograph depicts members of the Congressional Committee who accompanied Abraham Lincoln's body from Washington, D.C. to his family home in Springfield, Illinois. Committee members such as Congressmen Isaac N. Arnold (back row, left) and T.W. Ferry (front row, third from right), along with other mourners, can be seen scattered throughout the front lawn and out onto the sidewalk of the Lincoln home. The house is decorated with black fabric festoon drapery; an American flag can be seen hanging in near the front porch.
photPF 26058
