Harris Collection on the Civil War and Slavery, Ephemera Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 007-04-01
Dates
- 1820-1881, bulk 1861-1865
Creator
- Harris, Caleb Fiske, 1818-1881 (Collector, Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Materials are open to research.
Conditions Governing Use
PPL believes this collection is in the public domain. Users of this item are responsible for determining copyright restrictions.
Extent
14 Linear Feet (4 boxes, 11 oversized folders)
Language of Materials
English
German
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Original material purchased from the estate of C. Fiske Harris in 1884; Grand Army of the Potomac lithograph was a gift of Miss Alicia Appleton; Photostat copy of R.I. Camp near Washington, DC from the collection of Greg Shepley; Fort Pulaski flag originally loaned by Professor C. W. Brown 29 August, 1921; Confederate money donated by U.S. Treasury Department in 1913 and the Rhode Island Historical Society in 1924.
Creator
- Harris, Caleb Fiske, 1818-1881 (Collector, Person)
- Poe, O. M. (Orlando Metcalfe), 1832-1895 (Person)
- Train, George Francis, 1829-1904 (Person)
- Stephens, Alexander H. (Alexander Hamilton), 1812-1883 (Person)
- Stoneman, George, 1822-1894 (Person)
- Pope, John, 1822-1892 (Person)
- Rockwell, Cleveland, 1837-1907 (Person)
- Seward, William H. (William Henry), 1801-1872 (Person)
- Sheridan, Philip Henry, 1831-1888 (Person)
- Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh), 1820-1891 (Person)
- Pickens, F. W. (Francis Wilkinson), 1805-1869 (Person)
- Wallace, Lew, 1827-1905 (Person)
- Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896 (Person)
- Stroud, George M. (George McDowell), 1795-1875 (Person)
- Train, George Francis, 1829-1904 (Person)
- Stephens, Alexander H. (Alexander Hamilton), 1812-1883 (Person)
- Victor, Metta Victoria Fuller, 1831-1885 (Person)
- Yancey, William Lowndes, 1814-1863 (Person)
- Woodward, George W. (George Washington), 1809-1875 (Person)
- Wallace, William Hervy Lamme, 1821-1862 (Person)
- Curtis, Samuel Ryan, 1805-1866 (Person)
- Cox, Jacob D. (Jacob Dolson), 1828-1900 (Person)
- Goldsborough, Louis Malesherbes, 1805-1877 (Person)
- Foote, Andrew H. (Andrew Hull), 1806-1863 (Person)
- Ellsworth, E. E. (Elmer Ephraim), 1837-1861 (Person)
- Doubleday, Abner, 1819-1893 (Person)
- Davis, Jefferson Columbus, 1828-1879 (Person)
- Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889 (Person)
- Johnson, Andrew, 1808-1875 (Person)
- Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885 (Person)
- Metcalf, Edwin S. (Edwin Styles), 1823-1894 (Person)
- Mallory, Stephen R. (Stephen Russell), 1813-1873 (Person)
- Lyon, Nathaniel, 1818-1861 (Person)
- Lincoln, Mary Todd, 1818-1882 (Person)
- Mitchel, O. M. (Ormsby MacKnight), 1809-1862 (Person)
- Brown, Joseph E. (Joseph Emerson), 1821-1894 (Person)
- Anderson, Robert, 1805-1871 (Person)
- Brownlow, William Gannaway, 1805-1877 (Person)
- Butler, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1818-1893 (Person)
- Chase, Salmon P. (Salmon Portland), 1808-1873 (Person)
- Carr, Joseph Bradford, 1828-1895 (Person)
- Butterfield, Daniel, 1831-1901 (Person)
- Berdan, Hiram, approximately 1823-1893 (Person)
- Clay, Cassius Marcellus, 1810-1903 (Person)
- Title
- Harris Collection on the Civil War and Slavery, Ephemera Collection
- Author
- The collection was processed by Robin Alario in 2011. The finding aid was revised by Kate Wells in 2018.
- Date
- 2018
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Providence Public Library Repository
Contact:
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Providence RI 02903 United States of America
401-455-8021
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150 Empire Street
Providence RI 02903 United States of America
401-455-8021
special_collections@provlib.org