The Barco Law Library Gallery houses a collection of legal instruments, correspondences, and other prints displayed in the library. Gallery items have been digitized and further contextualized, offering deeper insights into their historical significance.
$400 Reward for the Arrest of Fred Clancy, Suspected of the Murder of Oscar Olson, Near Fernwood, Benewah County, Idaho. Saint Maries, ID, 1916. Signed in type by C.W. Leaf, Sherriff of Benewah County. "I will pay the sum of Two Hundred Dollars to any party apprehending and delivering the said Fred Clancy to me. The relatives of the said Oscar Olson also offer and will pay an addition reward of Two Hundred Dollars for the apprehension and delivery of the said Fred Clancy.
11-3/4" x 5-3/4" broadside. Light browning, annotation and faint inkstamp at head of text.
Original painting completed by Hogarth in 1754, housed at the Fitzwilliam Museum at the University of Cambridge
Facsimile print by the London Printing and Publishing Company.
William Hogarth, etching and engraving
Facsimile print by the London Printing and Publishing Company
William Hogarth, etching and engraving
Facsimile print by the London Printing and Publishing Company
Thomas Cook, approximately 1744-1818, engraver
William Hogarth, 1697-1764, artist
Facsimile print by the London Printing and Publishing Company
Designed and etched by Thomas Rowlandson (British, London 1757–1827 London)
Designed and etched by Auguste Charles Pugin (British (born France), Paris 1768/69–1832 London)
Aquatint by John Hill (American (born England), London 1770–1850 Clarksville, New York)
Published in The Microcosm of London, or, London in miniature by Rudolph Ackermann in 1808
Print published in London by J.F.E. Grundy
Based on 1755 oil painting by Sir Joshua Renyolds, held by the National Portrait Gallery in London
Courts of Probate. State of Maine: York, SS-At a Court of Probate, Held at North-Berwick, On the Fourth Day of December, In the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Forty-Eight: Ordered, That from and After the Day Aforesaid, The Courts of Probate, Within and for the County of York, Be Held on the First Monday of Every Month, At the Following Places...[York County, ME, 1871]. This broadside is divided into two sections. The upper section of this broadside outlines the court schedule and locations (Alfred, Limerick, Saco, Kennebunk, North Berwick and York). The lower section is a list of 16 court rules, most of them procedural. Early signature (of a town clerk?) to verso.
15-1/2" x 11" broadside, text within typographical border. Light browning, two vertical and one horizontal fold lines, some dampspotting to margins
Receipt for Legal Services, Signed. Schenectady County, NY, September 5, 1783. An accounting of legal fees owed to Jeremiah Lansing by Peter Van Bergen and Hermanus Cuyler, administrators of the estate of Martin G. Van Bergen, for such services as "drawing the draft of a penal bill for the printers to strike after" and "drawing two judgement bonds." Van Bergen, Cuyler and Lansing were prominent citizens of Schenectady County, New York.
12-3/2" x 7-3/4" leaf. Moderate toning and a few light spots, horizontal fold lines, minor edgewear, short clean tear along one fold line, text in neat hand, docketed on verso
