THE ENCYCLOPEDIC INDEX CONTAINS More than 25,000 page references to the official utterances executives. A summary history and description of every branch of the An analysis of each administration written by competent con- Definition and summary of the treaties between the United States The growth of the Army and Navy, with the latest official facts History of each State from original territory to present time. A brief description and history of every country in the world, Accounts of the wars engaged in by the United States, together Aboriginal inhabitants, characteristics and early home of each More than a thousand selected biographical sketches of eminent - Assuming that the reader desires to investigate a Assuming that the user is reading a Presidential See the analysis of each Administration under the name of the See the biographies of men famous in American Statecraft, Warfare ILLUSTRATIONS PORTRAITS OF PRESIDENTS FROM OFFICIAL WHITE HOUSE PAINTINGS, PUBLIC BUILDINGS, MONUMENTS, PLACES OF PATRIOTIC INTEREST, HISTORICAL PAINTINGS AND CONTEMPORARY CARTOONS, PRESIDING LADIES OF THE WHITE HOUSE ¶The collection of pictures appearing in the several volumes of this set can safely be said to be the best ever collected for the purpose of illustrating the history and progress of our country from every viewpoint. The pictures themselves almost tell the story of the development of this Nation. They appear in about equal number in each volume, and in direct connection with the text matter, therefore in chronological order. ¶ On the back of each of the historical illustration plates there is found descriptive matter which adds value to the illustrations and important historical data supplementing the messages themselves. In the forepart of each volume will be found a list of the illustrations therein. Adams, John, Coinage Proclamation, 288. Adams, John Quincy, Proclamation of Tonnage Duties (first and last pages), 868. Buchanan's Note to Senate Relating Cleveland's Signature to Proclamation Admitting Utah into Union, 5983. Declaration of Independence (Original Draft of), 4 Declaration of War against Spain, 6421. Declaration of War against Mexico, 2083. Fillmore's Proclamation against Resistance to Federal Authority, 2638. Fillmore's Fugitive Slave Proclamation, 2639. Garfield's Note to the Senate, 4602. Grant's Centennial Proclamation, 4200. Grant's Signature to Centennial Proclamation, 4201. Grant's Proclamation Calling for an Extra Session of the Senate, 4296. Harrison's (Benjamin) Proclamation Admitting Washington to Union, 5477. Harrison's (Benjamin) Signature to Jackson's Proclamation about Public Jefferson's Neutrality Proclamation, 446. Johnson's Thanksgiving Proclamation, 3760. Johnson's Signature to Thanksgiving Proclamation, 3761. Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation (first, last and intermediate pages), 3274. Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, 3401. Lincoln's Letter to Mrs. Bixby, 3479. Lincoln's Signature to Emancipation Proclamation, 3275. Lincoln's Proclamation Admitting West Virginia into the Union, 3257. Lincoln's Signature to Proclamation Admitting West Virginia into Union, 3258. Monroe Doctrine (page from Monroe's Seventh Annual Message), 619. Monroe's Letter to a Friend Explaining National Policy, 747. Pierce's Proclamation against Cuban Filibusters (first page), 2823. Pierce's Proclamation against Cuban Filibusters (second page), 2824. Roosevelt's Proclamation of Special Holiday for Celebration of Centennial of Lincoln's Birth, 6956. Roosevelt's Announcement of Centennial of Lincoln's Birth, Last Page and Signature, 6957. South Carolina's Secession Ordinance, 3103. Taft's Proclamation of the Death of Vice-President Sherman, 7460. Taft's and Secretary Knox's Signature to Announcement of Death of Vice-President Sherman, 7461. Taylor's Signature on a State Document, 2548. Tyler's Signature on the Ratification of the Webster-Ashburton Treaty, 1988. Van Buren's Proclamation Revoking Tonnage Duties, 1553. Washington's First Thanksgiving Proclamation, 224. Webster-Ashburton Treaty, Ratified in Tyler's administration, 1987. Wilson's Engagement Book, Page from, 8092. Wilson's Neutrality Proclamation at the Outbreak of the World War in 1914, 7996. Wilson's Neutrality Proclamation, last page, with Signature of Secretary Bryan, 7997. |