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Abraham Lincoln to William Kellogg, rejecting his attempts to secure a cotton permit for former Illinois legislator, Amos Babcock. Lincoln scolded Kellogg for his single-minded pursuit of a permit and observed the corruption already associated with…

Letter from Elihu B. Washburne to Abraham Lincoln taking issue with his decision to revoke Ulysses S. Grant's General Orders No. 11, expelling Jews from his military department.

A letter from William Rathbone V, a wealthy Liverpool merchant and politician, to his son William Rathbone VI, noting distress among the poor in Liverpool.

Sanford, the Union's minister to Belgium, describes a reception he attended held by the French minister of foreign affairs, Edouard Thouvenel, in Paris. Thouvenel stopped Sanford to tell him that he hoped the war would end soon to reopen the free…

Quartermaster Lewis B. Parsons wrote to share his observations of the cotton trade in occupied territory. Considering the widespread speculation in cotton among officers, he recommended that all cotton be declared the property of either the federal…

Chromogenic print, from the series "Sweet Earth: Experimental Utopias in America"

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Attorney General Eliot Spitzer announce agreement to enable construction of affordable housing and preservation of GreenThumb Gardens. September 17, 2002

In this account of the occupation of Memphis by Federal troops, the correspondent emphasized the loyalty of the locals and their eagerness to trade. He described stores of cotton and sugar hidden from the Confederates brought out to be sold in Union…

News article reporting the closing of textile mills in Fall River, MA.

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