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1. Button, Commemorative - 2009.194.103

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2. Electoral ticket

   Electoral Ticket for Martin Van Buren for President and Richard M. Johnson for Vice President, includes the candidates for 23 districts in Virginia.

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3. Martin Van Buren

   Martin Van Buren engraved by H.B. Hall Jr., New York, D. Appleton & Co. with a facsimile signature 22 x 15 cm.

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4. Papers (Barry, William Taylor, 1784-1835) - Barry, William Taylor, 1784-1835

   Photocopies of two letters by Barry while serving as Postmaster General under President Andrew Jackson. Letter 27 November 1832 to James K. Polk relates to mail service in Tennessee. Letter 7 February 1833 to Martin Van Buren concerns national politics. The bulk of the collection is research material, including other correspondence, that was typed or hand copied by J.F. Kany for the master's thesis he wrote on Barry in 1934.

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5. Papers (Clay, Henry, 1777-1852) - Clay, Henry, 1777-1852

   Letter, 5 September 1840, written by Henry Clay, Lexington, Kentucky, to Henry Henion, Rushville, New York. Clay responds to a letter received from the Rushville Tippecanoe Club asking his opinion of the prospects of Martin Van Buren and William Henry Harrison in the upcoming presidential election.

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6. Papers (Green Family)

   Correspondence of the Green family, Falls of Rough, Kentucky, including business papers and account books, and correspondence of several generations of the Robert Wilmot Scott family, originally of Frankfort, Kentucky.

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7. Papers (Harrison, William Henry, 1773-1841) - Harrison, William Henry, 1773-1841

   Harrison campaign ribbon badge used for advertising during the 1840 presidential campaign, often referred to as the "log cabin and hard cider" campaign.

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8. Papers (Menefee, Richard Hickman, 1809-1841) - Menefee, Richard Hickman, 1809-1841

   Letter, 16 December 1837, of Congressman Richard Hickman Menefee to attorney W. Rochester Beatty, Greenupsburg, Kentucky. Writing from Washington, D.C., Menefee asks Beatty to assume conduct of a lawsuit for a client in Salvisa, Kentucky. Referring perhaps to the Rebellions of 1837 in Upper and Lower Canada, he also declares the administration of President Martin Van Buren to be "astounded by the events of last month" and predicts its presentat...

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9. Papers (Pond, Noah Sherman, 1815-1892) - Pond, Noah Sherman, 1815-1892

   Four letters, 1836-1837, of Noah S. Pond to his sister and brother-in-law in Washington, Connecticut. Writing from New Design, Trigg County, Kentucky, where he is working as a peddler, Pond describes many aspects of life in frontier Kentucky: changeable weather, agricultural practices and prices, lay preaching, voting, and the lives of slaves, who he believes are well treated and better off than the poor in the North. He describes selling to...

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10. Papers (Robinson, H. R.) - Robinson, H. R.

    Cartoon, printed and published by H. R. Robinson, New York. The cartoon is captioned "A peep into futurity, or a picture of 1841." It depicts Henry Clay revealing a portrait of what appears to be the 1840 contenders for the U.S. presidential election in exile or retirement.

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11. Papers (Rowan Family)

    Correspondence, business and legal papers, clippings, etc., of John Rowan, Sr., 1773-1843, lawyer, judge, U.S. Representative and Senator, and owner of Federal Hill, Bardstown, Kentucky; and of John Rowan, Jr., 1807-1855, master of Federal Hill and U.S. charge d'affaires to the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, 1848-1850.

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12. Papers (Scott, William Kennedy, 1788-1879) - Scott, William Kennedy, 1788-1879

    Letter from Dr. William Kennedy Scott, Buffalo, New York, to his uncle Samuel Younglove, Hopkinsville, Kentucky. He discusses the completion and printing of family memoirs and comments on current presidential election issues. Includes Samuel Younglove's letter to his cousin Timothy Younglove, written and forwarded on the same paper, with proposals on how to complete the memoirs project.

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13. Papers (Shreve, Royal Ornan) - Shreve, Royal Ornan

    Typescript copy of "Volume II: Their Superfluous Highnesses," by Royal Ornan Shreve. This document is from Chapter IX, titled "Richard M. Johnson," Detailing the Life, Political and Military, of a Former United States Vice-President.

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14. Papers (Underwood, Joseph Rogers, 1791-1876) - Underwood, Joseph Rogers, 1791-1876

    Typescript of a diary kept by Joseph Rogers Underwood, 1834-1850, in which he records everyday occurrences at home in Bowling Green, Kentucky and in Washington, D.C., where he served in the U.S. House of Representatives,1835-1843, and the U.S. Senate, 1847-1853. Interspersed throughout are comments by his second wife, Elizabeth (Cox) Underwood. Also includes a document containing information about Thomas Rogers and an "Account of the Escape of ...

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15. Papers (Ward Family)

    Letter written to Jonathan Ward, Plymouth, New Hampshire, by his brother, Daniel Ward, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1840, which concerns family affairs and politics, and a letter written to Ralph Ward by his mother, Mrs. Catherine Ward, Talbottom, Georgia 1861, which concerns her experience of traveling on a railway car with Jefferson Davis and southern pre-Civil War sentiments.

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16. Presidents of the United States of America [activity book]

    Presidents of the United States of America from Washington to Eisenhower activity book created by Joseph R. Fisher. The cover includes the wording "MR. PEANUT PRESENTS A HISTORICAL AND EDUCATIONAL PAINT BOOK.' made for the Planters Nut and Chocolate Company of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania; Suffolk, VA; San Francisco, California; and Toronto, Canada. Copyrighted by Planters Nut and Chocolate Company in 1953. Printed in the U. S. A. Planters P...

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17. Records - Bishop, Levi, Jr.

    Copy of a land grant, 1839 May 1, by which Martin Van Buren, President of the United States of America, granted to Levi Bishop, Jr. 137 72/100 acres in Eaton County, Michigan.

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18. Records - Hough, Benjamin

    Copy of a land grant, 1837 May 12, by which Martin Van Buren, President of the United States of America, granted to the heirs and legal representatives of Benjamin Hough, assignee of George W. Freeman and Ann Gholson Freeman, heir of William Gates, 85 acres in the Military Grant on Indian Creek in Ohio.

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19. Records - Pennington, William

    Original land grant, 1837 August 10, by which Martin Van Buren, President of the United States of America, granted to William Pennington 53 15/100 acres in Harrison County, Indiana.

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20. Records (Record, Thomas) - Record, Thomas

    Original land grant, 7 November 1837, by which Martin Van Buren, President of the United States of America, granted Thomas Record of Dearborn County, Indiana, 40.56 acres.

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