The Singleton Collection is organized into four discrete yet interrelated units. The first consists of 79 photographs by Mathew Brady (1823-1896) and Alexander Gardner (1821-1882) of scenes of the Civil War taken between 1861 and 1865. Included are...
Image of a group portrait of 133 U. S. Major Generals on horses; names of officers printed below portrait. "Copyrighted 1887 by Kurz & Allison, Chicago."--text, bottom left. "Kurz & Allison, Art Studio, 76 & 78 Wabash Avenue, Chicago."--text,...
Image of twelve Union generals posed around a table containing a military map. "Lith. of Sarony, Major & Knapp, 449 Broadway, N.Y."--text, bottom centered. "Geo. B. McClellan / Comm. Stringham / Irvin McDowell / Franz Siegel / John E. Wool / John...
Image of a blank Confederate States Army military certificate; Generals Lee, Jackson, and unidentified, Confederate soldiers on the battlefield, and Confederate flags surrounded by columns. "A. Hoen & Co. Lith. Baltimore."--text, bottom centered.
Image of a military register certificate with a list of names of military personnel framed by images of battle scenes, soldiers reunited with families, women of liberty, columns,and portraits of Abraham Lincoln and his war generals; history of the...
Image of Generals Ulysses S. Grant and William T. Sherman in a Council of War in front of a tent smoking cigars and pointing at a map; ammunition and soldiers in background. "Entered According to Act of Congress in the Year 1865, by William...
Image of a general posing in his uniform and looking to his left; wrapped Sunkist orange logo at right. "Valencias"--text, upper center. "Golden West / Citrus Ass'n. / Tustin, Orange County. / California."--text, lower right. "Western Litho. Co....
The correspondence includes 365 letters separated chronologically into 37 folders by year. Box 1 has 20 folders inclusive of the years 1837-1859. Twenty folders account for one folder for each year except 1838, 1839, and 1843 which do not have any...
The collection, which deals with the Mexican War, consists of correspondence, military orders, reports, lists of prisoners, and paroles of honor. Participants include: William Orlando Butler, Sylvester Churchill, Ethan Allen Hitchcock, George W....
A collection of historical cases that the Los Angeles Superior Court placed on long-term deposit at the Huntington Library in 1996. Additional material was subsequently transferred to the Huntington in 2002 and interfiled with the main collection....
Charles Magnus' New York Printing Establishment - Offices: 12 Frankfort St., New York and 520 7th St., Washington, D.C. Twelth Edition 3000 of Magnus' all around Map.
Rec'd with Sur. Gen. letter of Mar 9, 1876. The above map... is strictly conformal to the field notes of the survey thereof on file in this Office, which have been examined and approved. Surveyor Generals Office, San Francisco, California, March...
Received with Surveyor General's letter of September 4, 1858. The above map... is strictly conformal to the field notes of the survey thereof on file in this Office, which have been examined and approved. Surveyor Generals Office, San Francisco,...
The above map... is strictly conformal to the field notes of the survey thereof on file in this Office, which have been examined and approved. Surveyor Generals Office, San Francisco, California, November 13th 1885. W.H. Brown ... Surv. Genl. Cal....