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Petition to Abraham Lincoln for recruitment of black troops
Date:
ca. 1862
Object Number:
MSS.BV.Petitions
Medium:
Paper

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The American landscape. No 1 : Engraved from original and accurate drawings; executed from nature expressly for this work, and from well authenticated pictures; with historical and topographical illustrations
1830
Eulogium on the Life and Character of William Wilberforce, Esq.
1833
An Address to the inhabitants of the British Settlements in America, upon slave-keeping
1773
Anticipations of the future, to serve as lessons for the present time. In the form of extracts of letters from an English resident in the United States, to the London Times, from 1864 to 1870
1860
"Santa Claus in Camp"
January 3, 1863
Beschryvinge van Nieuvv-Nederlant
1656
Ye book of copperheads
1863
Petition
November 28, 1776
Miranda to Pres. Adam, March 24, 1798
1798
A memoir of Granville Sharp : to which is added Sharp's "Law of passive obedience," and an extract from his "Law of retribution"
1836
The case of our fellow-creatures, the oppressed Africans, : respectfully recommended to the serious consideration of the Legislature of Great Britain, by the people called Quakers..
1784
Siamese Twins
1836
Santa Claus and his Works
1870
Oud en nieuw Oost-Indiën... Volume 5, part 1 (deel 5, stuk 1)
1724-1726
Terms of Surrender
April 9, 1865
Indenture of Peter van Dyck and Cornelia, his Wife, Documenting the Administration of Margrieta van Varick's Estate
September 4, 1719
Personal Forgiveness and Public Justice
23 April 1864
Pocket Map of the Panama Canal
Minutes of the 4th Annual Convention for the Improvement of the Free People of Color
1834
Histoire philosophique et politiue des etablissements et du commerce des Europeens dans les deux Indes
1778
Christy's and White's Ethiopian melodies : containing two hundred and ninety-one of the best and most popular and approved Ethiopian melodies ever written
ca. 1854
To The People of Louisiana, Their Executive and Representatives Greeting
January 29, 1861
Indiæ Orientalis. II. pars : in qva Iohan.
1599
Abraham Lincoln: The Prarie Years
1926
The Martyred President
1865
The Fugitive Slave Bill, its History and Unconstitutionality
1850
Petition from Lydia Heckle to Marinus Willett, Mayor of New York, re: Miranda expedition, May 16, 1807
1807
Declaration of sentiments of the American Anti-Slavery Society : adopted at the formation of said society, in Philadelphia, on the 4th day of December, 1833
Publication: 1848-1855
An Historical Account of the Black Empire of Hayti: comprehending a view of the principal transactions in the revolution of Saint Domingo; with its antient and modern state
1805
Pictorial map of New York and vicinity, showing the suburban towns, and railroad and water communications
1871
Communication from His Honor the Mayor, Fernando Wood, Transmitted to the Common Council of New York, January 7th, 1861
1861
Het gezandtschap der Neêrlandtsche Oost-Indische Companie...
1693
Abraham Lincoln: The War Years
1939
Victory and Re-Union
1865
Telegram, New Orleans, 1858
1858
Beldad y la Bestia
1864
The Child's Anti-Slavery Book
1859
Original wood blocks from the archives of McLoughlin Brothers, Publishers, New York
ca. 1978
Howes & Gardener's Olympic Arena Announcment
1844
A Brief Description of NEW-YORK: Formerly Called New-Netherlands..
1670
Petition to Abraham Lincoln for recruitment of black troops
ca. 1862
Provisional Constitution and Ordinances for the People of the United States
1858
Letter of Eustace Surget, New Orleans, October 20, 1860
1860
Guía de Nueva York, para uso de los Españoles é Hispanoamericanos...
1863
The Slave's Friend, Vol II
1836
Common Sense
1776
The Suffrage Question in Relation to Colored Voters in the State of New York
1860
Speech of His Excellency George Washington, Esq; president of the United States of America, delivered to the Honorable the Congress
Archbishop Hughes to Thurlow Weed
April 21, 1861
A voice from Harper's Ferry : a narrative of events at Harper's Ferry, with incidents prior and subsequent to its capture by Captain Brown and his men
1861
Dawson and Ferguson Slave Sale
1843
A Plan of the City and Environs of New York as they were in the Years 1742-1743 & 1744
1813
A Dissertation on the Influence of Climate on Longevity
1846
Cato: A Trajedy
1713
De Bow's Review
1861
Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman
ca. 1869
Broadside with original black crepe
ca. 1865
"The Harper's Ferry Insurrection - The U.S. Marines Storming the Engine-House - Insurgents Firing through Holes in the Doors"
October 29, 1859
Henry Leverich Commerical Memo Book
1831
Regionum Indicarum per Hispanos olim devastatarum accuratissima descrptio, : insertis figuris æneis ad vivum fabrefactis.
1664
Brown Brothers Correspondence Ledger
1825
Groups of statuary
1877
Illustrations of cholera asphyxia in its different stages. Selected from cases treated at the Cholera Hospital, Rivington Street
1832
Miscegenation: the theory of the blending of the races, applied to the American white man and negro..
1864
From Robert Lincoln
Properties, Including Vacant Plots, Foreclosed in Manhattan During 1930-1931-1932
March 29, 1933
Contract with Brooks Brothers for Civil War Uniforms
Ali Baba y los cuarenta ladrones.
ca. 1864
Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising
1887
The Dog's Grand Dinner Party
ca. 1869
American Ornithology; or The Natural History of the Birds of the United States
1880
The Great West
1859
State of Connecticut response to Tilton
September 3, 1864
Wonderful Willie! : What he and Tommy did to Spain / sketches and rhymes by L.D. Bradley.
ca. 1899
Register, 1845
1845
Receipted bill, John Vernon to Benjamin White
1794
American Bastille
The Fairy Gift
1939-1940
The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands
Reynolds's political map of the United States
1856
State of Minnesota response to Tilton
September 9, 1864
Lynch-Stoughton Journal
1783-1788
Letter of CH Austin to Ferguson & Walker, Apalachicola, September 29, 1845
1845
Receipted bill, Nicholas Roosevelt to Nicholas Bayard
May 15, 1766
Letter, "I estimate that an attack..."
1834
Miss Vanity's Holiday
After 1859
Journael Gehouden opt’ schip den gulden Bever en tschip den gulden Otter van de Manathans naer Patria Ende Wedrom naer de Manathans (Journal kept aboard the Ship the Golden Beaver and the Ship the Golden Otter from the Manhattans to Patria and the return)
October 1660- June 1663
Ossawattomie Brown
ca. 1859
State of Delaware response to Tilton
September 12, 1864
Map of the Borough of Manhattan of the City of New York, showing relation between the distribution of foreign stock and negro population with the dissemination of communist and socialist propaganda during the summer of 1932
1932
Letter of George P. Bowers to Ferguson and Walker
1844
The Crayon
1855
Important meeting of the African Civilization Society, at the Cooper Institute, Wednesday evening, March 7th, 1860, at eight o'clock
1860
Heedless Johnny
1870
A journall, with observations on my travail from Boston in N.E. to N.Y., New Jersies, & Philadelphia...
1697
The N. O. massacre
1866
"In relation to Foreign Nations." Draft of Federalist #64
ca. 1788
A Catalogue of the different specimens of cloth collected in the three voyages of Captain Cook, to the Southern hemisphere : with a particular account of the manner of the manufacturing the same in the various islands of the South Seas...
1787
Loss of the packet ship Albion
1822
The definitive treaty of peace and friendship, between His Britannick Majesty, the Most Christian King, and the King of Spain : concluded at Paris, the 10th day of February, 1763, to which, the King of Portugal acceded on the same day...
1763
Great Attraction at the Masonic Hall...Joice Heth
1835
"St. Nicholas. Dec. 6th. A.D. 343"
1810
Ledger, 1678-1684
1678-1684
A Song for the times, or John Brown
1860-1870
First Report of the Committee of the Whole Convention
1787
New School Building
ca. 1816-1826
Thoughts on African Colonization
1832
Declaration of Independence
1776
Morgan Iron Works
1861
Old Christmas : from the Sketch book of Washington Irving
1878
Poems, Henricus Selyns
1659-1686
Grant's the man.
1864
Plan of the City of New York
1776
Pastoral Scene by Andrew R. Smith
1822
The Life of Arthur Tappan
1870
Considerations on keeping Negroes; recommended to the professors of Christianity, of every denomination. : Part second.
1762
Get off the track! : a song for Emmancipation, sung by the Hutchinsons, respectfully dedicated to Nath.l P. Rogers, as a mark of esteem for his intrepidity in the cause of human rights
1844
The sketch book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.
1819
Totius Neobelgii Nova Et Accuratissima Tabula
After 1674
An elementary course of civil engineering
1846
Slave Sale Document
Rule of Three, with London Merchant
1816
A word for the African: a sermon, for the benefit of the American colonization society, delivered in the Second Presbyterian church, Newark, July 24, 1825
1825
Some historical account of Guinea, its situation, produce and the general disposition of its inhabitants.
1771
Walker's Appeal, In Four Articles
1829
"A Visit from St. Nicholas"
1862
Novi Belgii Novaque Angliae Nec Non Partis Virginiae Tabula
After 1655
The Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant
1885-1886
Napoleon's Authorization for the Sale of the Louisiana Territory
April 24, 1803
Creative: Tronvig Group