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F. Ray Risdon Collection of Lincolniana and American Political Life

A Selection of Materials : Administrative Documents


Today’s red tape is tomorrow’s valuable artifact; for proof look no further than the 500 official documents held in this collection.  Permits, logs, contracts, and other records dating back to the late 1700s provide context for the great moments of history, large and small. In addition to the seven items shown below that demonstrate the wide range of legal and bureaucratic materials we hold, there are stock receipts for California railroads, Confederate currency, and land grants to veterans of the War of 1812.  Click on the thumbnails to see the full-size image.

 

   

Box 74 A customs form for the schooner Federal George. (1799)

 
   

Box 1 One of over 30 monthly quartermaster reports from the 34th Mass. Infantry. Through these reports one can track the unit's activities from 1862 to 1865.

 
  Box 74 This pass, signed by brevet Lieutenant Colonel Drake De Kay, gives permission to Mr. Ezra Hill to pass through Union lines during the first summer of the War. (1861)

 

 

 
   

Box 74 A chattel slavery bill of sale (1822).

 

 
  Box 74 An Oath of Allegiance to the United States of America, signed by Samuel Miller of the Shenandoah Valley. (1862)

 

 

 




   

Box 74 A poll tax receipt for A.S. Ensworth, resident of San Diego, CA. (1862)

 

 

 
   

Box 83 John C. Fremont's bond of $6000 to Charles Gould. (1857)

 

 
   
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