A lion and a unicorn playing a board game, from an Egyptian papyrus. A history of caricature & grotesque in literature and art. 1864.
Internet Archive
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The “Disunited states of America” map from Civil war era.
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Vesta Tilley (deceased)
Gender: Female
Sexuality: Lesbian
DOB: 13 May 1864
RIP: 16 September 1952
Ethnicity: White - English
Occupation: Drag artist, singer
Note: One of the best-known male impersonators of her era. By the 1890s, Tilley was England’s highest earning woman. At a Royal Command Performance in 1912, she scandalised Queen Mary because she was wearing trousers.
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Condemnation Decree filed in U.S. v. All the Rights, Titles, of Robert E. Lee (Robert E. Lee Confiscation Case)
Record Group 21: Records of District Courts of the United StatesSeries: Confiscation Case FilesFile Unit: U.S. v. The Right, Title, Interest, and Estate of Robert E. Lee
[printed] At a special term of the District Court of the United States of America for the Eastern District of Virginia, held at the Court Room in the [handwritten] Customs House Building [typed] in the city of [handwritten] Alexandria [printed], on [handwritten] Friday the 15th day of April, [printed] in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred sixty three
[printed] Present, the Honorable John C. Underwood, District Judge.
[handwritten] No. 85
United States
vs.
All the rights titles interests and the Estate of Robert E Lee in and to All that certain piece parcel or lot of land and to the Home and buildings thereon situated lying and being in Alexandria County in the Eastern District of Virginia known as the Arlington House Estate formerly owned by George Washington Parke Custis and lately occupied by the said Robert E Lee Consisting of Eleven Hundred acres more or less Together with all the goods chattels and the personal property of the said Robert E Lee in and upon the said premises [illegible]
[printed] The papers in this cause having been heretofore returned, the usual proclamation having been made, the default of all persons being duly entered, and notwithstanding said default, witnesses having been called and examined by [handwritten] L H Chandler [printed] , Attorney for the United States, and due deliberation being had on the pleadings and proofs, it is thereupon, on motion of the said [handwritten] L H Chandler [printed] , ordered, adjudged, sentenced, and decreed by the Court, that the real and personal property mentioned and described in the libel in this cause, be, and the same accordingly is confiscated and condemned as forfeited to the United States.
[printed] And upon like motion it is further ordered, adjudged, and decreed, that the Clerk of this Court issue a decree of venditioni exponas to the Marshall of the District, returnable upon [handwritten] ascending [illegible word]; [typed] and that the said Marshal, after having given at least [handwritten- Tene?] [printed] days notice of the time, place, and terms of sale [carrot-handwritten in] of the personal property [printed] by publication thereof in [handwritten] the Virginia State District in one or more [illegible word] [printed] published in the city of [handwritten] Alexandriae. [illegible 3 words] dat. Notice of [illegible word] place and [illegible word] of sale of the Real Estate by [persecutions?] thereof in one or more [illegible 2 words] in the City of Alexandria and in one or more [illegible 2 words] in the City of Washington DC [printed] sell the said property at public sale, for cash, to the highest bidder, and execute a deed for the real estate to the purchaser, and bring the proceeds of said sale into this Court for its action thereon.
[handwritten signature] John C. Underwood
Dist Judge
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Revelations of a Lady Detective. Originally published/produced in London, 1864.
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"Supposed form of Extinct Animals and their comparative sizes with that of man" from The foundations of history by Samuel Bradhurst Schieffelin, 1864
https://archive.org/details/foundationsofhis00schi/page/n114/mode/1up
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Map posted by the National Union Executive Committee for Lincoln's reelection campaign showing the stage of the war by 1864 showing Confederate territorial control. The CSA had lost KY, TN and most of AR by then. With each state's respective Confederate state governments being driven out of their st
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