Contents
- Descriptive Summary
- Scope and Content
- Conditions for Access
- Conditions Governing Use
- Preferred Citation
- Custodial History
- Other Descriptive Data
- Other Descriptive Data
- Related Material
- Indexed Terms
- Citation/Reference
- Citation/Reference
- Exhibits Note
- Meeting Name
- Added Entry–Uniform Title
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Collection Access
Zebina Eastman papers
Descriptive Summary
- Title
- Zebina Eastman papers
- Dates
- 1840-1885
- Creator
- Eastman, Zebina, 1815-1883
- Creator
- Burritt, Elihu, 1810-1879 , Washburne, E. B.(Elihu Benjamin), 1816-1887 , Liberty Party (Ill.)
- Size
- 4 linear ft. (8 boxes, 1 wrapped v.)
- Size
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1 oversize item.
(Lincoln certificate, Aug. 24, 1861).
- Language
- Material is in English unless otherwise noted.
Scope and Content
Incoming letters; account books and volumes listing newspaper subscribers, ca. 1840s-1850s; manuscripts of lectures, articles and a few letters by Zebina Eastman; and later newsclippings and scrapbooks. Materials primarily relate to his activities as editor of the Illinois Liberty Party newspaper Western Citizen (Chicago, Ill.), and the Genius of Liberty (1840s) and as one of several editors of the Free West (1853), and as an organizer of the national Anti-Slavery Reunion, held in Chicago in 1874. Many 1870s letters reminisce about abolitionists, fugitives from slavery, and the evils of slavery. A few items in the collection relate to the international peace movement and Elihu Burritt, and a few items relate to Eastman's service as U.S. consul at Bristol, England, in the 1860s. Topics of later writings by Eastman include the history of Chicago, its first settler Jean Baptiste Pointe de Sable, history of abolitionism in Illinois, and street-railway improvements proposed by Eastman in 1869.
Conditions for Access
Advance appointment with special permission required to consult the original certificate signed by Lincoln.
Conditions Governing Use
Contact the archives for more information on licensing and permissions for use and reproduction.
Preferred Citation
A common citation for archives is as follows: Item, Folder number and/or title, Box number, Collection title, ID number, Repository name, location.
Custodial History
Most materials were the gift of Mrs. L. Sherman Aldrich (M1960.0258) and the Union League Club of Chicago (M1979.0073). Apparently Eastman's son Sidney C. Eastman and James Franklin Aldrich, both of whom were members of the Union League Club, left these materials in storage areas of the Club's building. Other items were donated by Sidney C. Eastman and by Fred A. Hunt and purchased from the Dicke estate (M1975.0019).
Other Descriptive Data
The man known in Chicago as Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable is called "Pointe de Sable, Jean Baptiste" in Library of Congress cataloging.
Other Descriptive Data
Copies of the individual catalog cards for items in this collection are included at the end of the typescript descriptive inventory for the collection in the reading room at Chicago History Museum, Research Center.
Descriptive inventory available online.
Indexed Terms
- Eastman, Zebina, -- 1815-1883
- Burritt, Elihu -- 1810-1879
- Lincoln, Abraham -- 1809-1865 -- Views on slavery
- Washburne, E. B. -- (Elihu Benjamin) -- 1816-1887
- League of Universal Brotherhood
- Liberty Party (Ill.)
- Liberty Party (U.S. : 1840-1848)
- Abolitionists -- Illinois -- Chicago
- Abolitionists -- United States
- Antislavery movements -- United States
- Diplomatic and consular service, American -- Great Britain
- Newspaper editors -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 19th century
- Newspaper publishing -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 19th century
- Peace -- Societies, etc.
- Slavery -- United States
- Street-railroads
- Chicago (Ill.) -- History
- Chicago (Ill.) -- Social conditions -- 19th century
- Illinois -- Politics and government -- To 1865
- Illinois -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865
- Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- United States
- United States -- Foreign relations -- Great Britain
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
- Account books
- Correspondence
- Essays
- Lectures
- Reminiscences
Citation/Reference
NUCMC MS 61-2494.
Citation/Reference
NUCMC MS 93-797444.
Exhibits Note
Exhibited in: "A House Divided, America in the Age of Lincoln," Chicago Historical Society, public exhibition opening Feb. 4, 1990.List of contributors, 1850.
Meeting Name
Anti-Slavery Reunion(1874 :Chicago, Ill.)
Added Entry–Uniform Title
Chicago daily tribune (Chicago, Ill. : 1872)
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Free west (Chicago, Ill.)
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Genius of liberty
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North-Western Baptist.
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Western citizen (Chicago, Ill.)