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Philip Case Lockwood memorial collection of Civil War portraits and autographs, 1862-ca. 1886.

Title: Philip Case Lockwood memorial collection of Civil War portraits and autographs, 1862-ca. 1886.

Scrapbook collection of Civil War photographs and autographs, assembled by Philip Case Lockwood.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (.38 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00542/catalog View

Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874. Correspondence, 1829-1874

Title: Charles Sumner correspondence, 1829-1874

Letters to Charles Sumner, lawyer, Republican senator from Massachusetts, and anti-slavery campaigner; with a smaller number of letters from Sumner to others.

ArchivalResource: 33 cartons (43.1 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00232/catalog View

Wallace, Lew, 1827-1905. Papers, 1799-1923 (bulk 1846-1906).

Title: Papers, 1799-1923 (bulk 1846-1906).

Official and personal correspondence, notebooks, ms. of autobiography, drawings, clippings, scrapbooks, and other papers, relating to Wallace's activities as an army officer during the Mexican and Civil wars, governor of New Mexico territory (1878-1881), U.S. minister to Turkey (1881-1885), and author, and his efforts to obtain arms and men for Mexican rebels fighting the French (1865-1867), lecturing, business interests in Crawfordsville and Indianapolis, Ind., and New Mexico, his involvement in the court-martial of conspirators in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and in the trial of Henry Wirz, commandant of Andersonville Prison, Ga., and his membership on a committee to oversee counting disputed ballots in Florida, Louisiana, and South Carolina, after the 1876 presidential election. Papers of Wallace's wife, Susan Elston Wallace (1830-1907), include family correspondence, letters (1881-1882) to her son from Europe, Turkey, and Egypt, and correspondence with publishers regarding her own writings. Letter books of Wallace's son and business agent, Henry Lane Wallace (1853-1926), relate to the family's business interests and a lawsuit involving a theatrical production of Ben-Hur. Papers of Wallace's father-in-law, Isaac C. Elston (1798-1867), of Crawfordsville, Ind., chiefly relate to his interests in developing Michigan City, Ind. (1830-1849). Elston family correspondence (chiefly 1864-1866) is from Crawfordsville, Cincinnati, Ohio, and Washington, D.C. Correspondents include Stephen Vincent Benét, Billy the Kid, James G. Blaine, Don Carlos Buell, Edward Canby, William Cannon, José M.J. Carvajal, William E. Chandler, Schuyler Colfax, Francis Marion Crawford, George W. Curtis, Caleb Cushing, Henry Winter Davis, Porfirio Díaz, William M. Evarts, Charles W. Fairbanks, Calvin Fletcher, Frederick T. Frelinghuysen, John C. Frémont, James A. Garfield, Lucretia Garfield, Richard J. Gatling, Ulysses S. Grant, Henry W. Halleck, Murat Halstead, Marcus A. Hanna, Benjamin Harrison, Edward Hatch, Rutherford B. Hayes, William Randolph Hearst, William Hendricks, William R. Holloway, Alvin P. Hovey, José María Iglesias, Edmund Kirby-Smith, Frederick Knefler, Mary H. Krout, Henry S. Lane, Abraham Lincoln, Robert T. Lincoln, Benson J. Lossing, George W. McCrary, John A. Mclernand, Robert H. Milroy, George W. Morgan, Oliver P. Morton, Reuben D. Mussey, Edward F. Noyes, Robert Dale Owen, James B. Pond, Albert G. Porter, John Baptist Purcell, Whitelaw Reid, William S. Rosecrans, Carl Schurz, Winfield Scott, William H. Seward, William F. Shanks, John Sherman, William T. Sherman, Edwin M. Stanton, Herman Sturm, John M. Thayer, Maurice Thompson, Will Henry Thompson, Benjamin H. Ticknor, John Tipton, John George Walker, David Wallace, Albert S. White, and Henry Lane Wilson.

ArchivalResource: 2 v. and 36 boxes.

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Saunders, Alvin, 1817-1899. Letter : Omaha, Neb., to John Milton Thayer, Fort Smith, Ark., 1864 Apr 20.

Title: Letter : Omaha, Neb., to John Milton Thayer, Fort Smith, Ark., 1864 Apr 20.

ALS written by Alvin Saunders, governor of Nebraska Territory, to Brigadier General John Milton Thayer, Fort Smith, Arkansas. Saunders discusses prospects for Nebraska statehood and plans for a state constitution. He also briefly discusses Thayer's Civil War service, use of soldiers from Nebraska in the Civil War and the Sioux War, and other news from Nebraska.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (4 p.) ; 26 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702162214 View

Thayer, John M. (John Milton), 1820-1906. Letter : Omaha, Neb., to J.D. Cox, 1870 Oct. 17.

Title: Letter : Omaha, Neb., to J.D. Cox, 1870 Oct. 17.

Letter, marked private, written by Nebraska senator John M. Thayer on Oct. 17, 1870 to Jacob Cox, Secretary of the Interior.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 folded sheet (4 p.)) ; 25 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/40406623 View

Thayer, John M. (John Milton), 1820-1906. Letter : Omaha, Neb., to Ulysses S. Grant, n.p., 1867 June 16.

Title: Letter : Omaha, Neb., to Ulysses S. Grant, n.p., 1867 June 16.

Autograph letter signed. Refers to Indian attacks on settlers and railroad workers in the Plains.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81879700 View

Elsa Spear papers, circa 1880s-1986

Title: Elsa Spear papers, circa 1880s-1986

Collection contains correspondence, articles, manuscripts, photographs, audio cassette tapes, and paintings created and collected by this Wyoming professional photographer and historian.

ArchivalResource: 0.7 cubic ft. + paintings (1 document box, 1 slim document box, 6 paintings)

http://rmoa.unm.edu/docviewer.php?docId=wyu-ah00262.xml View

Thayer, John M. (John Milton), 1820-1906. Letters to S.S. McClure, 1894, 1896.

Title: Letters to S.S. McClure, 1894, 1896.

Briefly discusses articles "My first acquaintance with Grant" and "An hour with Lincoln." Also discusses at length proposals for future articles on Grant, Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, Henry Halleck, and Edward Stanton.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/54859875 View

Thayer, John M. (John Milton), 1820-1906. Letter : Omaha, Neb., to Ulysses S. Grant, n.p., 1867 June 16.

Title: Letter : Omaha, Neb., to Ulysses S. Grant, n.p., 1867 June 16.

Autograph letter signed. Refers to Indian attacks on settlers and railroad workers in the Plains.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/54004166 View

Spear, Elsa, 1896-1992. Elsa Spear papers, ca. 1880s-1986.

Title: Elsa Spear papers, ca. 1880s-1986.

Elsa Spear Edwards Byron (1896-1992) was a professional photographer and a historian of the Sheridan County, Wyoming area. Her father, Willis Spear, was a cattleman and dude rancher and a state senator for 1914-1931. He founded the Spear brothers Cattle Company with his brother William "Doc" Spear and the Spear-O-Wigwam dude ranch resort in the Big Horn Mountains. Elsa acted as a guide for the dudes who came to visit the ranch and used the opportunity of theses trips into the Big Horn Mountains to take photographs. Her photographs were often accompanied by explanatory text; and her interest in the history of her family and of the area led her into further writing and historical research. She served on the State Geographical Board (1928-1932) and was responsible for recording names of geographical sites in the Big Horn Mountains and in Sheridan County.

ArchivalResource: .7 cubic ft. (2 boxes) + 6 paintings.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/45288545 View

Saunders, Alvin, 1817-1899. Letter : Omaha, Neb., to John Milton Thayer, Fort Smith, Ark., 1864 Apr 20.

Title: Letter : Omaha, Neb., to John Milton Thayer, Fort Smith, Ark., 1864 Apr 20.

ALS written by Alvin Saunders, governor of Nebraska Territory, to Brigadier General John Milton Thayer, Fort Smith, Arkansas. Saunders discusses prospects for Nebraska statehood and plans for a state constitution. He also briefly discusses Thayer's Civil War service, use of soldiers from Nebraska in the Civil War and the Sioux War, and other news from Nebraska.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (4 p.) ; 26 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82777588 View

Frederick M. Dearborn collection of military and political Americana, Part III: The Civil War: The Union, 1804-1915.

Title: Frederick M. Dearborn collection of military and political Americana, Part III: The Civil War: The Union, 1804-1915.

Autograph letters and documents of officers and statesmen associated with the Union in the Civil War collected by Frederick Myers Dearborn.

ArchivalResource: 8 boxes (4 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01501/catalog View

Thayer, John M. (John Milton), 1820-1906. Autograph letter signed : Lincoln, Nebraska, to "My Dear General," [William W. Belknap], 1873 Jun. 6.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Lincoln, Nebraska, to "My Dear General," [William W. Belknap], 1873 Jun. 6.

Concerning the possible replacement of Mr. Woolley as official trader by L. Murrin.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.) ; (8vo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270571907 View

Garrett, John A. (John Alexander), 1824-1877. Diary of John A. Garrett, 1864, Jan. 1 -- Dec. 31.

Title: Diary of John A. Garrett, 1864, Jan. 1 -- Dec. 31.

ArchivalResource: 1 pocket diary.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/754662364 View

Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885. Letter: Ironton, Mo., to [John Milton] Thayer, 1861 Aug. 16.

Title: Letter: Ironton, Mo., to [John Milton] Thayer, 1861 Aug. 16.

Instructions to send 2 companies from 1st Nebraska Volunteers to relieve 2 from 24th Illinois who have been guarding railroad to north.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; 25 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/31995588 View

Thayer, John M. (John Milton), 1820-1906. John M. Thayer letters to Mary Allen Thayer, 1866-1867.

Title: John M. Thayer letters to Mary Allen Thayer, 1866-1867.

58 ALS written to his wife Mary in Massachusetts while in Washington, D.C., first as lobbyist, then as Senator from Nebraska. Most of the correspondence is dated between December 1866 and April 1867. Thayer provides a short description of his work in Congress in each letter, detailing the delays of the vote to override the President's veto against Nebraska's admission. Many of the letters concern Thayer's plans to see Mary, with daily updates of delays in adjournment and the extra session of the Senate in March-April, 1867.

ArchivalResource: 0.25 linear ft. (1 box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702138560 View