Major Long's Expedition to the Rocky Mountains and Expedition to the Rocky Mountains
Description:
Spine title, on publisher's printed labels: Major Long's Expedition to the Rocky Mountains., Engravings by Young & Delleker, Cephas Grien Childs, Alexander Lawson, Francis Kearney, and William Hay; after Stephen H. Long, Samuel Seymour and Titian Ramsay Peale., Some maps on double leaves., Text and atlas in slipcase., BEIN: Bookplate of Joseph Y. Jeanes., GEO: Atlas wanting, no slipcase., and BAC: British Art Center copy complete with atlas. Bound in publisher's original tan boards. Inscribed: Maine Charity School from Mrs. Lord.
Publisher:
H.C. Carey and I. Lea, Chesnut St.
Subject (Geographic):
West (U.S.), Ohio River, Missouri River, and United States
Subject (Topic):
Discovery and exploration, Indians of North America, Languages, Geology, Discoveries in geography, and Glossaries, vocabularies, etc
BEIN USA198: From the Cary Collection of Playing Cards., Title from wrapper., Suit system: Monitors, Merrimacks, Zouaves, drummer boys., Type: Historical., Composition of deck: 52 [A, K, Q, J, 10-2]., Issued in Wrapper, red, white, and blue: ARMY & NAVY / PLAYING CARDS / MANUFACTURED BY / A. DOUGHERTY, New York. / Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1865, by / ANDREW DOUGHERTY, / In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for / the Southern District of New York., Aces: Ace of Monitors: TO COMMEMORATE / THE GREATEST EVENT IN NAVAL HISTORY. / THE SUBSTITUTION OF / IRON FOR WOOD. / A. DOUGHERTY / MANUFACTURER / 26 BEEKMAN ST. N.Y.; ace of Merrimacks: A. DOUGHERTY / MANUFACTURER / 26 BEEKMAN ST. N.Y., and CourtCards: Courts are caricatures.
Humphreys, James Y., 1783?-1850, playing card maker
Published / Created:
[1800?]
Call Number:
USA204
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
text and still image
Description:
BEIN USA204: From the Cary Collection of Playing Cards., Title from Ace of Spades., French suit system., Type: Historical., Composition of deck: 52 [A, K, Q, J, 10-2]., Aces: AS: [eagle] / E. PLURIBUS UNUM / [pip] / J.Y. HUMPHREYS., and CourtCards: KS: Andrew Jackson; QS: Athena; JS: King Phillip; KH: George Washington; QH: Venus; JH: Red Jacket; KD: John Quincy Adams; QD: Justice; JD: Gy-ant-wachia; KC: Thomas Jefferson; QC: Ceres; JC: Joseph Brant.
Correspondence relating to Jonathan Edwards's mission to Stockbridge, Massachusetts. Includes a letter from Edwards to Elisha Williams stating the reasons why Abigail Williams Sergeant Dwight should not be made headmistress of a Native American female boarding school; a letter to Elijah Williams regarding dissenters in the Stockbridge church; a letter to Ephraim Williams and his family addressing their grievances against the church; and a letter to Joseph Dwight about a Mohawk tribe leaving Stockbridge. Also includes a deposition where Japheth Bush attested that he was assigned to build the Native American female school. Also includes two letters from Elisha Williams to Edwards and two letters from Joseph Dwight to the Stockbridge church discussing Abigail Williams Sergeant Dwight’s involvement with the female school
Description:
Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) was a theologian and leader of the Great Awakening. He served as minister of the Congregationalist Church at Northampton, Massachusetts from 1726-1750 and became a missionary to the Mahican and Mohawk Indians at Stockbridge, Massachusetts in 1751. and In English.
Subject (Geographic):
Massachusetts, Stockbridge, United States, Massachusetts., and Stockbridge (Mass.)
Calvinism, Clergy, Dissenters, Religious, Girls' schools, Indians of North America, Education, Missions, Mahican Indians, Missions, American, Mohawk Indians, Off-reservation boarding schools, Stockbridge Indians, Women, Women school principals, and Church history
BEIN: Copy 2 was James W. Abert's personal copy and includes a ms. letter from John Fremont tipped in, ordering Abert to make preparations for departure from St. Louis in 1845. Copy 2 is also extra illustrated with 12 plates of watercolors of Indians attributed to James W. Abert, which were never published., BEIN: Copy 3 has colored plates., MUDD: Egi Ar48 845: folded leaf and map missing., Caption title., At head of caption title: 29th Congress, 1st Session, [Senate.], [438]., and Map entitled: Map showing the route pursued by the exploring expedition to New Mexico and the southern Rocky Mountains made under the orders of Captain J.C. Fremont, U.S. Topographical Engineers and conducted by Lieut. J.W. Abert, assisted by Lieut. W.G. Peck, U.S.T.E. during the year 1845.
Publisher:
s.n.
Subject (Geographic):
Southwest, New, Arkansas, and United States
Subject (Topic):
Discovery and exploration and Exploring expeditions
N.A.A.C.P. publications and related ephemera, 1915-1978 and National Association for the Advancement of Colored People publications and related ephemera, 1915-1978
Description:
BEIN JWJ Zan N213 +915N: Some of these items are accompanied by articles printed from the World Wide Web., A collection of NAACP items. Most were published by the organization itself, one was published by a sympathizer, and two, emblematic of racial prejudice, were produced anonymously., The sympathetic publication is a broadside with the title "Strong man!" It was distributed by Hollywood Beauty Secrets Company, owned by Mr. & Mrs. Homer Goodwin, Hollywood, California, and it urged people to join the NAACP., The anonymous items, probably from 1963, are a dollar bill with a message stamped on it and a contribution card, one or both of which were likely produced by the Ku Klux Klan., and Included in the collection are two letters to individuals on NAACP stationery, not listed among the titles of the printed works.
Publisher:
National Association for the Advancement of Colored people
Subject (Geographic):
Texas, Waco., and United States
Subject (Name):
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
Autograph letters and documents by, addressed to and about Nathan Hale. Box 1 contains five autograph letters by Nathan Hale: autograph letter, signed, to Betsy Christopher, 1775 October 8, from Camp Winter Hill in Boston; autograph letter, signed, to his brother, Enoch Hale, 1776 June 3, from New York, describing military preparations and the current state of the Continental Army; a comic verse autograph letter, signed, to his Yale classmate, Benjamin Talmadge, undated; an autograph verse letter to an unidentified recipient describing scenes at Camp Winter Hill, undated; and an autograph letter fragment to an unidentified correspondent, undated. Letters to Nathan Hale, all dating from 1773-1776, include autograph letters by Betsy Hallam; John Hallam; Robert Latimer; William Little; Elihu Marvin; Gilbert Saltonstall; Benjamin Talmadge; and Ebenezer Williams. A 1777 March 27 letter from Nathan Hale's father, Richard Hale, to Samuel Hale comments on the rumor that Nathan had been betrayed by his cousin and notes that he was "a Child I sot much by but he is gone." Other papers include Elisha Bostwick's memoir of his services in the Revolutionary War, which mentions Nathan Hale; and twentieth-century photostats, notes, and documents concerning Nathan Hale's life and genealogy. Box 2 contains Hale's military receipt book for wages, arms and ammunitions he issued to his men, with their counter-signatures under each receipt, 1776 June-August. Box 3 contains an autograph letter, signed, from Nathan Hale to "Mr. Mead," 1774 May 2; and Nathan Hale's commission as a captain in the "Army of the United Colonies," printed form filled out in manuscript, signed by John Hancock, President, 1776 January 1.
Description:
Nathan Hale (1755-1776), graduate of Yale College (Yale 1773), teacher, and officer in the Continental Army during the American Revolution. Executed by the British as a spy on September 22, 1776, he is reported to have said, "I only regret that I have but one life to give for my country.", In English., and Accompanied by a variety of modern manuscript and typed transcripts and photostats of these and other Hale-related documents, as well as historical and genealogical information on Hale and members of the Hale family.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, Great Britain, America., Massachusetts, and United States
Subject (Name):
Bostwick, Elisha, 1748-1834., Christopher, Betsy., Hale family., Hale, Nathan, 1755-1776., Hale, Richard, 1717-1802., Hale, Samuel, 1718-1807., Hallam, Betsy., Hallam, John, 1728-1811., Hancock, John, 1737-1793, Latimer, Robert., Little, William, 1749-1841., Marvin, Elihu, 1752-1798., Saltonstall, Gilbert., Talmadge, Benjamin., Williams, Ebenezer, 1755-1777., and United States. Continental Army
Subject (Topic):
Officers, Pay, allowances, etc, History, Politics and government, Colonies, and Economic aspects
