AUTHENTIC AUTOGRAPH RESOURCES
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WEBSTER, DANIEL FLETCHER (1813-62) Union Army Officer; Colonel of the 12th Massachusetts Infantry; Mortally wounded at the Battle of Second Bull Run – August 30, 1862; Son of U.S. Secretary of State Daniel Webster
# websterdanielfletcher
Autograph Letter Signed 1843 07 12 pg1
Autograph Letter Signed 1843 07 12 pg2
Document Signed 1861 06 13
Document Signed 1861 12 11
Signature from a letter
WEBSTER, EDMUND A. (?-?) Secretary of State of Alabama – 1834-36
# websteredmunda
Document Signed 1835 06 01 with Governor John Gayle
WEBSTER, JOSEPH DANA (1811-76) Union Brigadier General; Colonel of the 1st Illinois Light Artillery; Chief-of-Staff to Union Generals Ulysses S. Grant & William Tecumseh Sherman during the American Civil War; Veteran of the Mexican War
# websterjosephdana
Signature & Rank
Signature & Rank
WEBSTER, NOAH (1758-1843) American Lexicographer & Author; Published “An American Dictionary of the English Language” in 1828
# websternoah
Printed facsimile signature on an engraving
WEDDELL, LORD THOMAS PHILLIP (1781-1859) British Tory Statesman; First Lord of the Admiralty – 1834-35
# wedellthomasphillip
Printed facsimile signature on an engraving
WEED, EDWARD THURLOW (1797-1882) American Newspaper Publisher & Politician
# weededwardthurlow
Signature
Engraving unsigned
WEIR, JOHN H. (1809-78) Prominent Physician, Abolitionist, and Philanthropist in Edwardsville, Illinois
# weirjohnh
Printed facsimile signature on an engraving
WEISIGER, DAVID ADDISON (1818-99) Confederate Brigadier General - Virginia
# weisigerdavidaddison
Signature with Rank
WEITZEL, GODFREY (1835-84) Bavarian-born Union Major General
# weitzelgodfrey
Signature & Rank affixed to an engraving
Signature & Rank
WELLES, GIDEON (1802-78) U.S. Secretary of the Navy - 1861-69, during the American Civil War
# wellesgideon
Letter Signed 1861 09 03 with George W Rodgers, CRP Rodgers
Letter Signed 1861 03 09
Signed Album Page 1862 03 10 with President Abraham Lincoln
Signature from a letter
WELLESLEY, ARTHUR, DUKE OF WELLINGTON (1769-1852) British Military Leader – Defeated Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo, 1815; British Prime Minister – 1828-30 & 1834
# wellesleyarthur
Autograph Letter Signed 1813 04 29
Autograph Letter Signed 1816 07 28
Autograph Letter Signed 1828 07 01
Autograph Letter Signed 1829 07 14
Autograph Letter Signed with addressed panel 1849 01 05
Printed facsimile signature on an engraving
WELLESLEY, RICHARD, 1st MARQUESS WELLESLEY (1760-1842) Anglo-Irish Politician & Colonial Administrator; Governor-General of India – 1798-1805; Member of Parliament – 1784-97
# wellesleyrichardmarquis
Printed facsimile signature on an engraving
WELLS, HENRY (1805-78) American Businessman; Co-founder of the American Express Company and Wells Fargo & Company
# wellshenry
Document Signed 1864 11 02 with William G Fargo
Document Signed 1865 10 13 with William G Fargo
Document Signed 1865 10 26 with William G Fargo
WELLS, WILLIAM W., JR. (1837-92) Union Brigadier General; Awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for gallantry at the Battle of Gettysburg
# wellswilliamwjr
Autograph Endorsement Signed with Rank
WELSH, ISRAEL VICTOR (1822-69) Confederate Congressman – Mississippi – 1862-65; Served in the 11th Mississippi Infantry during the American Civil War
# welshisraelvictor
Signature
WELSH, THOMAS (1824-63) Union Brigadier General; Colonel of the 45th Pennsylvania Infantry; Veteran of the Mexican War
# welshthomas
Signature
WENTWORTH, JOHN (1815-88) Mayor of Chicago, Illinois – 1857-58 & 1860-61; U.S. Representative – Illinois – 1843-51, 1853-55, and 1865-67
# wentworthj
Printed facsimile signature on an engraving
Signature as US Congressman
WEST, BENJAMIN (1738-1820) American Painter - Known for The Death of General Wolfe, Benjamin Franklin Drawing Electricity from the Sky, and The Death of Nelson; Second President of the Royal Academy – 1792-1805
# westbenjamin
Autograph Letter Signed 1779 01 02
Autograph Letter Signed 1779 01 02 address panel
Autograph Letter Signed 1798 02 27
Signature from a letter 1815 06 01
Printed facsimile signature on an engraving
WEST, CALEB WALTON (1844-1909) Served in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War; Governor of Utah Territory – 1886-89 & 1893-96
# westcalebwalton
Signed Card as Governor with transmittal envelope
Signed Card as Governor
WEST, JOSEPH RODMAN (1822-98) Union Brigadier General – California; U.S. Senator – Louisiana – 1871-77
# westjosephrodman
Signature with Rank
Signature as US Senator
Signature