Print comments on the issue of the annexation of Texas by the United States in the 1844 U.S. Presidential election. President Tyler is depicted uncomfortably astride a Democratic "Tex-ass" with Democratic candidate James Polk who has annoyed Tyler by ...
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Title from caption below image.
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H.R. Robinson, 142 Nassau Street, E.W.C. (signed on stone, E. Clay)
Subject (Geographic):
United States, United States., Texas, and Texas.
Subject (Name):
Polk, James K. 1795-1849 (James Knox),, Clay, Henry, 1777-1852, Tyler, John, 1790-1862, Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845, Equal Rights Party (N.Y.), Equal Rights Party (New York, N.Y.), Whig Party (U.S.), and Democratic Party (U.S.)
Subject (Topic):
Presidents, Election, Caricatures and cartoons, History, Animals, Symbolic aspects, Public buildings, and Annexation to the United States
The collection contains typescripts of four undated novels by Aleta B. Baker: Captive Amid the Astral: A Romance (355 pages); The Double Bridal (366 pages); The Mysterious Opal Globe: A Mystical Romance (67 pages); and Rathbone, Son of the Sun: A Roma...
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Aleta Blanche Baker, American author, was born in Maine in 1880, and died in Miami, Florida, on January 19, 1943. Baker was the founding director of the Order of the Portal, a Christian occultist group headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. In 1924 s...
37 ALS, 23 of them written by Smith to his brother John Curtis Bowen and his sisters Marcia and Lucia Smith, while he attended Middlebury College, Andover Theological Seminary, and Yale Theological Seminary. These letters carry local news and religiou...
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Smith was a missionary in Oregon and Hawaii. He was sent in 1838 to Oregon by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. In 1842 he became a missionary in Hawaii. He returned to the Northeast in 1846, and became a pastor of the Buckland...
Subject (Geographic):
United States., Oregon., and Hawaii.
Subject (Name):
Smith, Asa Bowen, 1809-1886., Smith, John Curtis., Smith, Lucia., Smith, Marcia., American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions., Andover Theological Seminary., First Congregational Church (Buckland, Mass.), and Yale College (1718-1887). Theological Department.
Manuscript memoir bound with string, in French, detailing Tureaud's employ as supercargo aboard the Alert, an American merchant vessel which departed Baltimore for the port of Vera Cruz in 1801 and his subsequent life in Louisiana. Narrative describes...
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Augustin Dominique Tureaud, born October 23, 1764, in La Rochelle, France. He fled San Domingo after a slave revolt, and moved to Baltimore where he sought to make his fortune in maritime trade. After a failed commercial voyage to Vera Cruz in 1801, T...
Subject (Geographic):
United States., United States, Latin America., Latin America, New Orleans (La.), Port Royal (Jamaica), and Veracruz (Veracruz-Llave, Mexico)
Subject (Name):
Bringier, Marius Pons., Tureaud, Augustin Dominique, b. 1764., Tureaud, Elizabeth Louise, b. 1788., Wood, Trist., Alert (Ship), Spring Bird (Ship), Crescent (Ship), and La Seine (Ship)
Subject (Topic):
Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815, Naval operations, Yellow fever, Merchant marine, Merchant mariners, Commerce, Social life and customs, Description and travel, and History
Approximately 65 manuscript letters, signed, relating to Simeon Baldwin or sons Ebenezer Baldwin and Roger S. Baldwin, 1788-1867. Circa 50 letters are addressed to Simeon Baldwin and pertain to his time as a city clerk, congressman, and judge in New H...
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Simeon Baldwin (1761-1851) (Yale 1781) was born in Norwich in the Connecticut Colony and practiced law in New Haven. In 1790, he was elected New Haven city clerk--he served this position until his election as a Federalist to the United States Eighth C...
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut., United States., Connecticut, New Haven (Conn.), and Washington (D.C.)
Subject (Name):
Baldwin, Ebenezer, 1790-1837., Baldwin, Roger S. 1793-1863. (Roger Sherman),, Baldwin, Simeon, 1761-1851., Baldwin, Simeon E. 1840-1927. (Simeon Eben),, and Baldwin family.
Subject (Topic):
Clerks, Judges, Legislators, and Politics and government
