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| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Civil War handbill that reads: "Charleston Mercury Extra...The Union Is Dissolved!" |
| Date: | 06 27 1839 |
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| Description: | Invitation for Darwin Clark to the Independence Ball on the 4th of July, 1839 at the American Hotel. |
| Date: | 12 20 1855 |
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| Description: | Letter confirming the purchase of two State of Maryland Lottery tickets by Mr. Charles A. Kingsley through the Chicago office of Pyfer & Co. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Page showing the month of April from the Hillside Home School calendar. Included are two small cyanotype photographs, one of a house and the other of a fie... |
| Date: | 1861 |
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| Description: | Chicago and Northwestern Railway pass belonging to Reverend Jackson Kemper. |
| Date: | 1861 |
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| Description: | 1861 Racine and Mississippi Railroad Pass belonging to Jackson Kemper. |
| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Stage Company Pass belonging to Reverend Kemper. The pass bear engravings of a train and a stage coach. |
| Date: | 1859 |
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| Description: | 1859 Chicago, St. Paul & Fond du Lac Railroad pass belonging to S.S. Merrill. Pass is signed by George Dunlap. |
| Date: | 11 08 1860 |
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| Description: | Receipt for a package delivered to Brees' Express via Morris & Essex Railroad. There is an engraving of a train traveling through a rural landscape near th... |
| Date: | 12 30 1856 |
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| Description: | A Marshall & Isley, Bankers, check in the amount of $12,500.00 written to J. Alder Ellis from Samuel Marshall. |
| Date: | 12 19 1853 |
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| Description: | A Wisconsin State bank check in the amount of $12.00 written to Fredericka Lindenthald from Samuel Marshall. |
| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | Receipt issued by the American Board of Commissioners of Foreign Missions to Frederick Smith for a contribution of ten cents from the Sabbath School of the... |
| Date: | 04 21 1861 |
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| Description: | "Warning to Traitors." A threatening handbill warning against treasonable and dangerous utterances, signed by the "Vigilance Committee." |
| Date: | 08 22 1862 |
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| Description: | A call to arms issued by Confederate colonel John H. Morgan, asserting that the Confederacy is winning the war. He mentions George B. McClellan, Thomas J. ... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | A rattlesnake labeled "SECESSION," with an arrow through its neck, is in front of a federal shield. The shield is protecting the Constitution and the Holy ... |
| Date: | 10 08 1811 |
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| Description: | A handbill entitled "McKinley, The Poltroon & Assassin, In His True Colors." |
| Date: | 08 28 1862 |
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| Description: | A Commissioner's Notice of the draft, beginning on the first of September. On the first two days, claims of exemption from military service were to be hear... |
| Date: | 10 10 1861 |
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| Description: | Recruiting poster. At the top is printed "Attention! Mechanics." Underneath is an eagle with a banner in his beak, which reads "Rally, Boys! Rally!" and "Y... |
| Date: | 11 1860 |
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| Description: | Confederate Presidential Election ballot. Jefferson Davis and Alex. H. Stephens were elected without opposition. The corrosion on the front is caused by th... |
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