Office, No. 22 North Market Street

Boston, Mass., Saturday Morning, May 19, 1849

8 pages. Vignette of spead winged eagle at the top of the masthead. Illustration on the front page of The Plum Curculio. Mainly a farming related newspaper with numerous such articles: The Plum Curculio, Grafting the Pear on the Apple Stock, Farm Gardens, The Foundered Horse, Applying Compost, Applying Dung to Wheat, Field Culture of Root Crops, Miking Cows, Plants and Poisons, The Kitchen Garden, Quince Trees & Honey Bees, Corn Fodder and Pumpkins for Milch...

Office, No. 22 North Market Street

Boston, Mass., Saturday Morning, April 28, 1849

The Fremont Expedition. The African Slave Trade.

8 pages. Vignette of spead winged eagle at the top of the masthead. Illustration on the front page of a Farm Cottage. Mainly a farming related newspaper with numerous such articles: Application of Manure. Merino Sheep vs Natives. Culture of Wheat. Thirteenth Agricultural Meeting at the State House. Carbon and Carbonic Gases. Farmers Try Experiments. Can Plants Avoid Poisons. Disease Among Fowls....

Slave Advertisements

4 pages. Numerous front page advertisements for sea going vessels to Liverpool, Glasgow, Hamburg, New York, Philadelphia, Boston, etc. Numerous ads for packets and steam boats to Vicksburg, Mobile, Natchez, Biloxi, Montgomery, Shreveport, Memphis, Louisville, etc. Front page slave advertisements. Other news; the Arrival of the Daniel Webster, News From California, Oregon, China and the Sandwich Islands. More Runaway Slave ads on the inside of the paper, the sale of a cook, the sale of a house servant, militia ads, local...

Tuesday, December 21, 1841. 4 pages. Front page has runaway slave advertisement. Articles include: The Patriotism of George Washington. Pay of Members of the Old Continental Congress. News From the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate. Message of President Fillmore. Christmas advertisements. Many other interesting advertisements, some with woodcut illustrations. Light staining. Very fine.

6 x 9 3/4, imprint.

THE SLAIN AT BALTIMORE

There's sorrow and there's weeping by mountain, vale and shore.
For Freedom's now slain marytrs, the Dead at Baltimore!
There's a swelling cry for vengeance on those counterfeits of men,
Who haunt that hold of pirates, that foul assassin's den.

And the hosts of truth are rising. From the giant woods of Maine
Come stalwart forms that fell her pines, mid winter's snow and rain,
From Hampshire, whose bare mountains as Freedom's altars swell,
Our Switzerland sends men as bold...

Includes red, white and blue flag remnants from one of the regimental flags carried by the 61st Pennsylvania Infantry during the Civil War. Beautifully displayed within 11 x 14 double mat boards of cream and red. The flag remnants are accented by a copy photograph of Union troops before the battle of Fair Oaks, Virginia, where the 61st Pennsylvania Infantry suffered their greatest losses in soldiers and officers, plus descriptive text about the regiment. Comes with letter of provenance which traces this flag back to a G.A.R. Hall in...

5 3/4 x 9 1/2, tipped to 7 1/4 x 10 3/4 album page.

HOW TO CLOSE THIS CRUEL WAR

By Mrs. Geo. P. Hardwick. Air: Happy Land of Canaan. Sold at T.J. Conry's cheap picture frame and news depot, 19 Seneca Street, Buffalo, N.Y.

How to close this cruel war, You can find no better law, But support the Constitution and the Union; And when the men you find, Who keep up this war for gain, Just drive them from this Happy Land of Canaan. Chorus: Then, ho, ho, ho! ha, ha, ha! It's time this cruel war was over; Gen. Meade says he's ready, To drive...

These hair strands originated from the estate of Mrs. Caroline Wright, wife of Governor Joseph A. Wright, of Indiana. The Lincoln's and the Wright's were good friends and the hair locks were given to Mrs. Wright by the Lincoln's just after Lincoln’s 1865 Inauguration. Mrs. Wright collected hair locks from famous personalities and these were given to her by the Lincoln's as a token of their friendship. This hair relic consists of several small strands of hair that are encased with a 3X magnified cover to amplify the hair for better viewing. The 8 x 10...

These hair strands originated from the estate of Mrs. Caroline Wright, wife of Governor Joseph A. Wright, of Indiana. The Lincoln's and the Wright's were good friends and the hair locks were given to Mrs. Wright by the Lincoln's just after Lincoln’s 1865 Inauguration. Mrs. Wright collected hair locks from famous personalities and these were given to her by the Lincoln's as a token of their friendship. These hair relics consists of several small strands of hair that are encased with a 3X magnified cover to amplify the hair for better viewing. The 14 x 11...

On April 14th, 1865, John Wilkes Booth and his fellow conspirators executed their plan to disrupt the Government of the United States by having Booth shoot President Lincoln at Ford's Theater, and Lewis Powell attack the Secretary of State, William H. Seward in his home in Washington, D.C. A third conspirator, George Atzerot, was suppose to murder Vice President Andrew Johnson in his hotel room but he got cold feet and fled. This display includes hair strands of Abraham Lincoln and Mary Lincoln which originated from the estate of Mrs. Caroline Wright,...

Sent home by Private of the 117th New York Infantry who died in 1864!

7 1/4 x 9 1/2, imprint, with large vignette of spread winged eagle.

DIXIE'S FARMS

Air- Uncle Sam's Farm

We're a going into business, boys, I'd have you understand. For there never was so good a time to speculate in land; We're bound to make our fortunes quick, without a deal of toil, By some real estate investments in the market of Free Soil.

Chorus- So come along, come along! Uncle Sam can pay; Right down to Dixie's land- we shall find the way;...

7 3/4 x 3 1/4, imprinted form with vignette, filled out in ink. Petersburg, Va., 9th May 1861. Four months after date, I promise to pay to Branch T. Hunt or Order, without offset, Six Hundred Dollars, Negotiable and payable at the Branch Bank of Va., at Petersburg, Value received. Saml. S. Northington. The following is written on the reverse: This note was given as a credit when paid on the note of $2,177.76. Mr. Northington has a rect. for this note which must be returned when the note is given up. Pittman. Very fine.

George B. McClellan for President!

George H. Pendleton for Vice President!

3 3/4 x 9 1/2, imprint. Vignette of spread winged eagle with American flag at the top. Highland (is crossed out and Clermont is written in) County, Ohio. Presidential Election, Tuesday Nov. 8, 1864. For President of the United States, GEORGE B. MC CLELLAN, Of New Jersey. For Vice President, GEORGE H. PENDLETON, Of Ohio. For Electors of President and Vice President of the United States. Electors at Large, Charles Reemelin, Thomas W. Bartley. Also lists the names...

Criswell #143. Richmond, Va., March 1, 1864. Equestrian statue of George Washington, Confederate flags and motto, "Deo Vindice." Orange-red and black. Engraved by J. Archer, Richmond, Va., and printed by Evans & Cogswell, Columbia, S.C. Has five of the original coupons attached. Red C.S.A. Treasury Department seal at upper left corner. Very fine.

Please note that the enlargement photos are cropped because the bond is larger than our scanner bed.

For President, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, For Vice President, ANDREW JOHNSON. 1864 UNION Presidential Ticket. Jackson County [Ohio] is handwritten at the top. Patriotic red, white and blue design with American shield and Constitution printed within, a pair of American flags flank the 21 Electors who are listed by name at the center. Clasped hands and Union are at the bottom. Very fine condition. Very desirable 1864 Abraham Lincoln election ticket!

Footnote: One of the electors listed on this ticket, John McCook, (3rd from the bottom), was the father of Union...

The Official Proceedings of Congress. Published by John C. Rives, Washington, D.C. Twenty-Eighth Congress, 1st Session. Thursday, January 7, 1864. Imprint, 16 pages, 8 1/2 x 11 1/4.

Military Interference With Elections. Reconstruction of the Union. Message From The House. Message From The President. Exchange of Prisoners. In The Senate. Post Office Appropriation Bill, and much more.

Some who spoke are as follows: Ten Eyck, Cox, Washburne, Stevens, Morrill, Smith, Powell, McDougall, Howard, Johnson, Farnsworth, Fenton, Anthony, Foot, Grimes,...

Postally used cover with 3 cents George Washington stamp [U.S. #26] tied on with Ala. circular date stamped, Feb. 13, 1861. Addressed to Mr. E.L. Stickney, Marion, Perry Co., Ala. Slightly irregular right edge where the envelope was originally opened.

The Alabama Secession Ordinance was passed on January 11, 1861, so this cover is considered early Confederate period.

5 1/2 x 8, imprint.

Tramp! Tramp! Tramp! Or, the Prisoners' Hope. Music published by Root & Cady, Chicago. Sold at Wholesale by Horace Partridge, No. 27 Hanover Street, Boston. Light age toning and wear. Very fine.

Tramp! Tramp! Tramp! The Prisoners Hope, by George F. Root, was written to give hope to the Union prisoners of war and it became one of the most popular songs to come out of the Civil War.