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Proclamation by Governor J. Gregory Smith convening the State General Assembly in special session in order to ratify the amendment to the U.S. Constitution abolishing slavery.

Society established 1783 to perpetuate friendship among officers of the Revolutionary army founded by Geo. Washington and named for Roman general, Cincinnatus.

The order of exercises for the third annual meeting for the Vermont Teachers Association, which was a three-day convention that took place in 1853 in Rutland, Vermont. On the back of the broadside is a handwritten draft of a resolution to request the…

Text continues: "Help the "Y" help the fighters fight - United War Work Campaign - November 11 to 18." Poster showing a mason lifting a stone, "YMCA," with the silhouette of a soldier in the background.

A floor plan of the House of Representatives Manuscript note attached to broadside: "My dear Member. I send you a lithographic drawing shewing the seats of the members Speaker, Clerk & assistant Clerk so that in reading a debate you can imagine their…

A printed report from Governor John Wolcott Stewart (1825-1915) about the Burdett v. Estey & Co. case regarding a patent. The report was published as an extra from the Brattleboro Reformer, a newspaper in Brattleboro, Vermont.

Poem protesting Charles Sumner's resolution proposing that the names of battles with fellow citizens not be placed on the regimental colors of the United States.Verse in twenty-eight stanzas first line: Blot our our battle records, boys. Text in two…

Evening performance of "The Drunkard, a moral domestic drama". Participants listed.

Frederick Strothmann was a first generation American and son of two German immigrants, which makes for an interesting tension in this highly charged and racially tinged poster. Strothmann was already a working illustrator before the war and submitted…

First line : The love of life and happiness our theme. Decorative gilt border.