Correspondence and Printed Material on Gettysburg, Pa., National Cemetery
Held by Special Collections, Linderman Library
Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 18015
Call No.: SC MS 047
1 box, .2 linear feet
Contains printed material, clippings and correspondence on the development
of the Gettysburg, Pa. National Cemetery. Correspon- dence is mainly between
John R. Bartlett, the Government represen- tative and David Wills, President
of the Cemetery Commission.
Box 1: (All)
- Folder 1.01 Order of Procession and Program for Consecration and Inauguration of the cemetery Nov. 1863
- Folder 1.02 Minutes of first Commission meeting Dec. 1863
- Folder 1.03 Act of Incorporation (2 copies) Mar. 1864
- Folder 1.04 Subscription announcement and Battlefield Memorial Association announcement
- Folder 1.05 Proposals for Headstones and Specifications for Moving of Bodies
- Folder 1.06 Description of Monument and Order of Procession for Laying of Cornerstone 1865
- Folder 1.07 Certificate and Recommendation for John R. Bartlett
- Folder 1.08 Correspondence to Bartlett 1963-1865
- Folder 1.09 Correspondence to Bartlett from Wills 1864-1867
- Folder 1.10 Packet of letters to Bartlett 1874
- Folder 1.11 Two other letters
- Folder 1.12 Rail Road passes for Bartlett 1864-1865
- Folder 1.13 Eight newspaper clippings re the cemetery (including a map of the cemetery) 1860s
- Folder 1.14 Sketches of proposed buildings in the cemetery
- Folder 1.15 Correspondence re microfilming of the material 1965.
- Folder 1.16 Proceedings & Annual Reports (No. 1-7) 1864-1871
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