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Luther C. Ladd. Dated between 1861 and 1865. A portrait of Civil War soldier Luther C. Ladd of the Sixth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Militia. The envelope bears the inscription: “Luther C. Ladd, of Alexandria, N.H., was shot in the Baltimore…

Col. Ellsworth, the martyr. Dated between 1861 and 1865. This Civil War envelope depicts Colonel Elmer E. Ellsworth, the first Union soldier killed in the war. Ellsworth was shot and killed while in the process of taking down a Confederate flag above…

John Bull's sympathy. Dated between 1861 and 1865. This Civil War envelope depicts England, represented by John Bull, sitting on a Confederate cotton bale with his back turned to an African-American slave about to be whipped.

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Remember Fort Sumter! Dated between 1861 and 1865. This Civil War envelope depicts the bombardment and destruction of Fort Sumter as an untouched American flag waves above the fort.

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We fight for our country Civil War envelope. Dated between 1861 and 1865. This Civil War envelope depicts the state seal of Massachusetts adorned by the American Eagle, two American Flags, and the phrase, "We Fight for Our Country." Below the seal…

A blank and undated Order of the Eastern Star card. At bottom: "Folder No. 1565."

An undated Masonic Civil War ode by Rob Morris entitled, "We Swear to be True to a Brother." Intended to be sung. At head of title: "Air - The Flag of Our Union."Published in a slightly different form as "Cherish the Pledge," in Rob Morris's book…

An advertisement for a lecture by Rob Morris, the Masonic author, poet, and lecturer. Includes poetry by Morris and is dated 1880.

A portion of Ben B. Lipset's Buzz Aldrin Ephemera Collection. Includes Lipset's poem "Mission Accomplished," a photograph of Buzz Aldrin fraternally inscribed to Lipset, and a letter of appreciation from A. H. Lavender, the public affairs officer at…

Signed photograph of President Gerald R. Ford, addressed to the Caldwell Consistory, Valley of Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite. Signed by President Ford below photograph, on mat.

Photograph is the first official…