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Boston’s Crusade Against Slavery


Photograph Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) Autograph letter, signed, to Charles Sumner, 24 April 1855. MS Am 1 (1902) – Gift of Edward L. Pierce, 1874.

C. Seaver, Jr., photographer (Boston, Mass.) William Lloyd Garrison and his daughter Fanny (Helen Francis) , carte-de-visite, ca. 1856. bMS Am 1906 (687) – Bequest of Oswald Garrison Villard, 1949. Photograph
       
Photograph William Lloyd Garrison (1805-1879) “Who talks of weariness in freedom’s cause”: autograph manuscript, 1872. bMS Am 1906 (672) - Bequest of Oswald Garrison Villard, 1949.
George Kimball Warren, photographer (Boston, Mass.) Charles Sumner. Portrait file, S – No source, no date.


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Photograph William Cooper Nell (1816-1874) "The colored patriots of the American Revolution": broadside advertisement (Boston, ca. 1855). bMS Am 1953 (1613) – Gift of Crawford Blagden, 1978. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) [Personal account book]: autograph manuscript, 1856. MS Am 1340 (152) – Trustees of the Longfellow House Trust, 1976.

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Photograph Mathew Brady, photographer (New York). Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, carte-de-visite. *2001M-8 – Several library funds, 2001.
A. C. Platt (Sandusky, Ohio), photographer. John Brown, cabinet card, ca. 1859. Portrait file, B – No source, n.d.


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Photograph Lydia Maria Child (1802-1880) Autograph letter, signed, to Sarah and Francis Shaw, 3 August 1856. bMS Am 1417 – Gift of Mrs. Pierre Jay, 1942. Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) A proclamation. (Washington,D.C., 1862). p*AB85.L6384.862b2 – Harmond Teplow fund, 2005.

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Photograph Frank Rowell, photographer (Boston, Mass.) John Albion Andrew, carte-de-visite, ca. 1860. bMS Am 1910 - Gift of Mrs. Lloyd K. Garrison, Mrs. Alexander D. Harvey, Frances Jay, and Mrs. Lawrence Fox, 1975. John Oliver. Autograph letter, signed, to Wendell Phillips, 6 July 1866. bMS Am 1953 (942) – Gift of Crawford Blagden, 1978.



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Photograph Yannerson & Jones, photographers (Richmond, Virginia). Photograph of a mutilated young woman. bMS Am 1953 (942) – Gift of Crawford Blagden, 1978.