A.M.E. West Street Church, West Street, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, circa 1890, detail

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Cumberland County Historical Society
Notes
Sized, cropped, and adjusted for use here by John Osborne, Dickinson College, March 22, 2011.
Image type
photograph
Use in Day View?
Yes
Courtesy of
Cumberland County Historical Society, Carlisle, PA
Permission to use?
Yes
Source citation
Photograph Collection, Cumberland County Historical Society
Source note
The original of this image is held in the Cumberland County Historical Society in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.  Please include this in your citation. Should higher resolution copies be required for any reason, please contact the Photograph Curator directly at the Cumberland County Historical Society or visit their archives.  The House Divided Project at Dickinson College is grateful for the partnership and assistance of the Society. 

A.M.E. West Street Church, West Street, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, circa 1890

Scanned by
Cumberland County Historical Society
Notes
Sized, cropped, and adjusted for use here by John Osborne, Dickinson College, March 22, 2011.
Image type
photograph
Use in Day View?
Yes
Courtesy of
Cumberland County Historical Society, Carlisle, PA
Permission to use?
Yes
Source citation
Photograph Collection, Cumberland County Historical Society
Source note
The original of this image is held in the Cumberland County Historical Society in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.  Please include this in your citation. Should higher resolution copies be required for any reason, please contact the Photograph Curator directly at the Cumberland County Historical Society or visit their archives.  The House Divided Project at Dickinson College is grateful for the partnership and assistance of the Society. 

John Davis (Congressional Biographical Directory)

Reference
“Davis, John,” Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 to Present, http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=D000117.
DAVIS, John, (father of Horace Davis, great-great grandfather of Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.), a Representative and a Senator from Massachusetts; born in Northboro, Mass., January 13, 1787; attended Leicester Academy, and graduated from Yale College in 1812; studied law; admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Worcester, Mass., in 1815; elected to the Nineteenth and to the four succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1825, to January 14, 1834, when he resigned, having been elected Governor; Governor of Massachusetts 1834-1835; elected as an Anti-Jacksonian (later
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 to Present

John Davis, Mexican War (American National Biography)

Scholarship
Kinley Brauer, "Davis, John," American National Biography Online, February 2000, http://www.anb.org/articles/03/03-00129.html.
Davis was one of the two senators (along with John M. Clayton of Del.) who voted against the declaration of war against Mexico on 12 May 1846. On 12 August 1846 he spoke at such length in favor of the Wilmot Proviso, an amendment to a military appropriations bill that stipulated that no territory acquired from Mexico would be open to slavery, that the Senate had no time to vote. The bill had already passed the House. Davis later explained that he had intended to speak long enough to leave time only for a vote, which he thought would be positive.
American National Biography Online

John Davis, Brady image, circa 1852, detail

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Library of Congress
Notes
Sized, cropped, and adjusted for use by John Osborne, Dickinson College, March 27, 2011.
Image type
photograph
Use in Day View?
Yes
Courtesy of
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Permission to use?
Public
Original caption
John Davis, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left
Source citation
Daguerreotype Collection, Library of Congress
Source note
 Photographer: Mathew Brady

John Davis, Brady image, circa 1852

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Library of Congress
Notes
Sized, cropped, and adjusted for use by John Osborne, Dickinson College, March 27, 2011.
Image type
photograph
Use in Day View?
Yes
Courtesy of
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Permission to use?
Public
Original caption
John Davis, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left
Source citation
Daguerreotype Collection, Library of Congress
Source note
 Photographer: Mathew Brady

Emancipation Memorial, Lincoln Park, Washington, D.C., 2010

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Library of Congress
Notes
Sized, cropped, and adjusted for use by John Osborne, Dickinson College, March 27, 2011.
Image type
photograph
Use in Day View?
Yes
Courtesy of
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Permission to use?
Public
Original caption
Statue of Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln Park, Washington, D.C.
Source citation
Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress
Source note
 Photographer: Carol M. Highsmith
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