Large scrapbook, measuring 12.5 x 16.5, containing more than 70 items affixed inside from a variety of notable figures. Highlights of the scrapbook include: Ernest Shackleton and Rudolph Blankenburg (signatures); William Ellery (free franked cover addressed to Rhode Island Governor Nicholas Cooke, May 1778); Jonathan Trumbull (ADS, a payment receipt); Charles Francis Adams (ALS, regarding payment for a gift for his son); Nathaniel Banks (ALS, on Gov. George S. Boutwell's appointment as Treasury Secretary by President Hayes); Benjamin F. Butler (ALS, recommending a young man for a position as "Night Inspector"); and Cyrus West Field (LS, on tickets for a dinner).
Other items, many signed by politicians and members of Congress, are: Nathaniel Mitchell (ALS), Pierpont Edwards (ALS), Joseph Trumbull (free frank), Tench Coxe (two clipped signatures), P. A. Porter (ALS), William Augustus Muhlenberg (ALS), Ira Harris (ALS), Gideon Tomlinson (signature), William Dale Owen (signature), Isidor Rayner (TLS), Duncan U. Fletcher (DS), Charles F. Manderson (AQS), Thomas Swann (ALS), Martin Dies (signature), Charles J. Faulkner (signature), Theodore Freylinghausen (ALS), Lafayette S. Foster (signature), Francis G. Newland (TLS), William C. Dawson (signature), Thomas Ward Osborn (ALS), Joseph E. Brown and James D. Cameron (signatures), George A. Pearre (TLS), Roscoe Conkling (signature), John Huyler (ALS), Solomon Foot and Samuel S. Phelps (signatures), Philip Allen and Charles T. James (signatures), Truman Smith and Isaac Toucey (signatures), Thomas W. Cobb (ALS), Leonard Bacon (ALS), Earl of Dufferin (signature), Samuel M. Shoemaker (ALS), Calvin Goddard (ALS), Charles Ewing (LS), Isaac Sanders (ALS), Averell Harriman (TLS), Joseph Reed Ingersoll (ALS), Edward Eggleston (signature), Mary A. Livermore (signature), Celia Thaxter (signature), Giovanni Schiaparelli (signature), Benjamin Say (check), Charles Hays (signature), David Daggett (ALS), Ebon C. Ingersoll (signature), John Hill (signature), Jacob A. Ambler (signature), William Milnes Jr. (signature), Hugh Nelson (endorsement), Joseph Anderson (DS), Horatio C. Burchard (signature), John F. Benjamin (signature), Norman B. Judd (signature), Jacob D. Cox (signature), John P. Hale and Moses Norris Jr. (signatures), Charles G. Atherton and James Bell (signatures), Nathan Smith (ANS), James Brooks (ALS), George Henry Lewes (ALS), Tristam Burges (signature), Peleg Sprague (signature), Princess Alice (signature), three pay orders from Virginia with embossed revenue stamps, a letter to Charles Biddle, a letter to painter John Trumbull, a letter to politician John Chew Thomas by his brother, a letter to the Earl of Huntingdon, Christmas card photographs from Herbert and Lou Henry Hoover bearing facsimile signatures, and a manuscript Civil War-dated military telegram from Capt. Balch to Admiral Dahlgren. In overall very good to fine condition.
