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1834 - A man in Lowell, Massachusetts, pleads directly to President Andrew Jackon to have his friend reinstated as the postmaster of Lowell, Massachusetts

Lowell, Massachusetts 1834

1838 - Letter from a Whig state Senator whose vote against his party allowed Democrats to take control of the Pennsylvania's House of Representatives during the contested election of 1838 that led to the Buckshot War

by John Strohm

1840 – An exceptional political letter describing America’s first major nation-wide campaign rally, which was held in Erie, Pennsylvania for William Henry Harrison, the Whig candidate for president in the 1840 election

by B. F. Fuller

Madison [Ohio] 1840

1841-1845 - An archive of correspondence between an exceptionally wealthy Massachusetts bootmaker-politician and his son regarding life as a student at Philips Exeter Academy and chronicling the devastating seven-year depression that followed The Panic of 1837

by Nathaniel and George White

1843 – File copy of a letter sent to President John Tyler by Andrew Jackson recommending Major General John M. Davis be appointed the Pittsburgh Postmaster for his service during the War of 1812

by Andrew Jackson

Hermitage, Tennessee

1844 – Minutes of a Vermont Whig Convention supporting Henry Clay over James Polk and asserting opposition to increased federal expenditures and the annexation of Texas and support for restricting presidential vetoes and patronage, while encouraging regulation of currency, distribution of public lands, and a protective tariff

Royalton, Vermont

1846 Letter written to Daniel Webster during the Mexican War: "Vera Cruz is in Revolt

by [Mexican War] [George Bancroft] [Daniel Webster]

Mansfield, Mass : n.p. , 1846

1852 Autograph Inscription to Mr. John B. Pollock College Hall, Cincinnati by Robert M. Charlton

by [Robert M. Charlton]

Washington DC : n/a , 1852

1853 - A British exporter explains to the treasurer of the first major textile mill in Lowell, Massachusetts, that shipments of madder have been affected by a lack of available vessels but are unlikely to harmed by the "Russian affair" which should be quickly resolved

by James C. Collier to Ebenezer Chadwick

Manchester, England to Boston 1853

1853 - Letter from the Secretary of the Navy placing the flagship of the Home Squadron at the disposal of one of the worst ambassadors ever appointed who destroyed U.S. credibility in Central America and whose diplomatic filibustering gave rise to William Walker's attempt to conquer Nicaragua

1856 – A terrific ‘Salt River Ticket’ ridiculing the supporters of John C. Fremont and Millard Fillmore after their candidates defeat in the 1856 presidential election

1859 - Letter on behalf of John C. Fremont forwarding an article from the San Francisco Bulletin defending his ownership of the Mariposa Ranch that was sent to the influential Washington DC journalist-politician, Francis P. Blair, from San Francisco by the poet-politician Colonel Charles James

by Colonel Charles James

1865... 1946

by Committee to End Slave Labor in America

Los Angeles : Committee to End Slave Labor in America , 1946

1865 & 1873 Signed letters by Wisconsin Historian Daniel Steel Durrie

by [Daniel Steele Durrie]

Madison, Wisconsin : n.p. , 1865

1866 – Sheet music expressing American outrage that France had attempted to install a puppet dictator in Mexico while the U.S. was preoccupied with its Civil War

by Words by E. B. Dewing. Music by J. P. Webster

Chicago : Lyon & Healy , 1866

1867 - A letter from an officer in the War Department describing the turmoil caused by President Johnson's firing of Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, the act which led to his impeachment by the Radical Republicans

1868 - A mysterious New York-to-London letter discussing the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson, opposition to the Radical Republicans, and the upcoming Democratic National Convention

1870 Illinois State Constitution Grants African Americans Suffrage

by African-Americana, Suffrage

1870's-1900 Massachusetts Scrapbook of newspaper clippings covering the Civil War, history, politics, domestic life, literature and more

by [Herman W. Haynes] [Scrapbook]

[Worcester?] : n/a , 1800

1877 – Long letter from a Piney Woods minister to a district judge pleading for support of Pascagoula River lumbermen whose businesses were being systematically destroyed by hostile federal marshals during Reconstruction

by S. J. Bingham

Moss Point, Pascagoula, Mississippi 1877