Powder Horn Map

[Powder horn inscribed with map
of Hudson and Mohawk river valleys]
Cow or ox horn, polished
and finely engraved, ca. 1757
Geography & Map Division

The Winter Count

Battiste Good (1821-ca. 1907)
[Winter Count, 1230-1907]
Pictograph watercolor on
paper panels, ca. 1907
Manuscript Division

Keeping Memories

Clara Barton
1889 diary page kept during her tenure as president of the American Red Cross and the Johnstown, Pennsylvania flood
Holograph manuscript
Manuscript Division (14A)

The Burning of the City of Washington

G. Thompson
The Taking of the
City of Washington in America.
London: 1814
Wood engraving
Prints & Photographs Division (7.9)

Book Collector

[Matthew Wheelock]
Reflections Moral and Political on Great Britain and Her Colonies.
London: 1770, bound with
[Allan Ramsay]
Thoughts on the Origin and Nature of Government. London: 1769
Rare Book & Special Collections Division

The Order of Books

Thomas Jefferson to George Watterston
(1783-1854)
Polygraph copy,
May 7, 1815
Manuscript Division

A "Blueprint" of Jefferson's Mind

Thomas Jefferson
Manuscript catalog in the hand of Nicholas Trist, [1823]
Bound with Catalogue of the Library of the United States. Washington: 1815 (10.2)
Rare Book & Special Collections Division

Historian of the American
Revolution

Mercy Otis Warren (1728-1814)
History of the Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution.
3 vols. Boston, 1805
Thomas Jefferson Library
Rare Book and Special Collections Division

Jefferson Seeks Madison's Support

Thomas Jefferson to James Madison
(1751-1836)
Polygraph copy,
September 24, 1814
Manuscript Division

Tools of Democracy

Thomas Jefferson to Samuel H. Smith
(1772-1845)
Polygraph copy,
September 21, 1814
Manuscript Division

The Three Greatest Men

Thomas Jefferson to John Trumbull
(1756-1843)
Holograph press copy,
February 15, 1789
Manuscript Division

Jefferson Counts and Measures
His Library

Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
Holograph list of book titles,
1815
Manuscript Division (9.2)

Preserving History

Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
to Hugh P. Taylor
Polygraph copy, October 4, 1823
Manuscript Division
State Department transfer, 1904 (10.6)

"The Favorite Passion of My Soul"

Thomas Jefferson to Giovanni Fabbroni
Holograph letter,
June 8, 1778
Manuscript Division
State Department transfer, 1904 (8.4)

As To The Manner of Payment for Jefferson's Library

Samuel H. Smith to Thomas Jefferson,
February 15, 1815
Manuscript letter
Thomas Jefferson Papers,
Manuscript Division
State Department Transfer, 1904 (8.6)

"Two Pieces of Homespun"

John Adams to Thomas Jefferson,
January 1, 1812
Manuscript letter
Manuscript Division
State Department transfer, 1904 (9.9)

Jefferson Misreads "Homespun"

Thomas Jefferson to John Adams,
January 21, 1812
Manuscript letter
Manuscript Division
State Department transfer, 1904 (9.10)

"Two Pieces of Homespun" Clarified

John Adams to Thomas Jefferson,
February 3, 1812
Manuscript letter
Manuscript Division
State Department transfer, 1904 (9.11)

Lectures on Rhetoric and Oratory

John Quincy Adams
Lectures on Rhetoric and Oratory,
Delivered to the Classes of Senior
and Junior Sophisters in
Harvard University. 2 vols.
Cambridge: Hilliard and Metcalf, 1810
Rare Book & Special Collections Division
Gift of Joseph M. Toner, 1882 (9.12)

A Design for the Capitol

Benjamin Henry Latrobe (1764-1820)
[U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C.; Principal Floor Plan, Vestibule, House of Representatives, Senate Chamber, Library]
Graphite, ink, and watercolor on paper, April 24, 1817
Prints & Photographs Division
Gift of William Morrow Roosevelt, 1975 (139.2)

First Map of American Continent

Sebastian Münster (1489-1552)
Die neuwen Inseln so hinder Hispanien gegen Orient bey dem land India ligen.
[Basel: 1550]
Woodcut print map
Geography & Map Division
Hauslab Collection, transferred from the Air Force, 1975 (21A.4)

Early Image of the Americas

Johann Ruysch (d. 1533)
Geographia
[Rome: Bernardinus de Vitalibus, 1507]
Atlas with hand-colored engravings
Geography & Map Division

Mapping the New Discoveries

Diego Gutiérrez, compiler
(active 1554-1570)
Hieronymous Cock, engraver
(1510-ca.1570)
Americae sive quartae orbis partis
nova et exactissima descriptio.
[Antwerp]: 1562
Geography & Map Division

Map of Manhattan

Johannes Vingboons
Manatus gelegen op de Noot Rivier, 1639
Manuscript map on vellum in pen and ink and watercolor wash)
Geography & Map Division

Exploring the Carolinas

Theodor de Bry after John White
A Briefe and True Report of
the New Found Land of Virginia.
Frankfurt am Main: 1590
Copper-plate engravings
Rare Book & Special Collections Division
Gift of Lessing Rosenwald (21B.1)

News of the Voyages

Mehmet Efendi (ca. 1522-1588)
Tarihi Hindi Garbî,
Istanbul: Müteferrika Press, 1730
African & Middle Eastern Division
Gift, 1903 (21)

Chronicling The New World

Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés
(1478-1557)
La Historia general de las Indias
[N.P]: 1535
Rare Book & Special Collections Division
Acquired, 1867 (17.3)

A Portuguese World View

João Teixeira
Taboas geraes de toda a navegacïo divididas e emendada por Dom Ieronimo de Attayde
Manuscript atlas, 1630
Geography & Map Division (20.6)
Purchased 1922

John Smith's Map of
the Chesapeake Bay

John Smith
(ca. 1580-1631)
Virginia, Discovered and Discribed
by Captayn John Smith,
Sixth state.
[London: William Hole, 1624]
Engraved map
Geography & Map Division (19.2)

History of New Spain

Fray Diego Durán
"De como el Marquis del Valle
Don Hernando Cortes. . . salio
a conquistar las demas Provincias . . ."
[Cortés and Soldiers Confront the Indians]
La Historia antigua de la Nueva España, 1585
Early nineteenth-century facsimile.
Manuscript Division
Purchased from Peter Force, 1867 (17.5)

Reform in the "New World"

Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas
(1484-1566) to King Charles I (1500-1558),
1542
Holograph manuscript
Manuscript Division
Gift of Hans P. Kraus, 1969 (17.6)

Fort Ticonderoga Battle Plan

William Brasier.
Project for the attack of Ticonderoga,
proposed to be put in execution as near as the circumstances and ground will admit, 1759.
Manuscript map.
Geography & Map Division (21B.4)

Early Map of the Dutch Colony
of New Netherland

Nicolaes Visscher (1618-1679)
Novi Belgii Novaeque Angliae
nec non partis Virginae tabula
[Amsterdam, ca. 1685]
Hand-colored engraving
Geography & Map Division (21B.7)

Portolan Chart of the Carribean

Pedro Alcantara Espinosa
Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico, West Indies, Campeche, Mexico, 1765
Five-sided portolan chart on vellum
Geography & Map Division
Acquired, 1919 (19.4)

Early Manuscript Maps of New Netherlands

Joan Vinckeboons
"Pascaert van Nieuw Nederlandt Virginia, ende Nieuw-Engelandt . . ."
[ Digital ID# g3320 lh00817 ]

The French on the Revolutionary War

Michel
Partie Méridionale des Possessions
Angloise en Amérique.
Paris: a l'Hotel de Soubise, 1778
Geography & Map Division
Gift of Harry Gray, 2000 (21C.8)

The Failure to Retake Savannah

Pierre Ozanne (1737-1813)
Siège de Savannah fait par les troupes françoises aux ordres du général d'Estaing vice-amiral de France, 1779
Map, pen-and ink, watercolor and gilt
Geography & Map Division (21A.7)
Digital ID # g3924s ar157700

California as an Island

Johannes Vingboons
[Map of Baja California Shown as an Island], 1639
Manuscript map
Geography & Map Division
Gift of Henry Harisse, 1915 (110.10)

Captain Cook and the Pacific Northwest

S. Smith, after John Webber.
"Sea Otter" in James Cook. A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean . . . Performed under the Direction of Captains Cook, Clerke, and Gore . . .1776, 1777, 1778, 1779, and 1780.
London: W. Strahan, 1780
Engraving
Rare Book & Special Collections Division (16.5)

Havana Harbor and the Island of Cuba

Johannes Vingboons (1665-1670)
Havana Op't Eylant Cuba (Havana Harbor)
Gift of Henry Harrisse, 1915
Geography & Map Division (20.8)
Digital ID: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g4924h.lh000348

America's First Book

The Whole Booke of Psalmes Faithfully Translated into English Metre.
Cambridge, MA: 1640
Rare Book & Special Collections Division

Ephrata Community Songbook

Ephrata Community
Die bittre Gute, oder Das Gesäng
der einsamen Turtel-Taube . . .
Manuscript hymnal, 1746
Music Division

"To Bigotry No Sanction"

Moses Seixas (1744-1809) to George Washington (1732-1799)
Holograph, August 17, 1790
Manuscript Division

Congratulatory Address to
Washington

Manuel Josephson to George
Washington
"Congratulatory Address . . ."
Holograph, December 13, 1790

First Complete Bible Printed in America

The Holy Bible . . .
Cambridge: Samuel Green & Marmaduke Johnson, 1663
Rare Book & Special Collections Division

The Paths to Heaven and Hell

Pennsylvania German
Das neue Jerusalem
Fraktur woodcut with watercolor,
19th century
Prints & Photographs Division
LC-USZ62-58622, LC-USZC4-4570

Jefferson's First Inaugural Address

Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
Manuscript draft of first inaugural address,
1801
Manuscript Division

The Accident in
Lombard Street

Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827)
The Accident in Lombard Street
Philadelphia: 1787
Etching
Prints and Photographs Division

George Washington's
Rules of Civility

George Washington (1732-1799)
Holograph manuscript,
ca. 1753
Manuscript Division
State Department transfer, 1904

Early Engraving of Philadelphia

Thomas Jefferys, after George Heap
and Gerard Vandergucht
An East Prospect of the City of Philadelphia
Engraving
London, 1756
Prints & Photographs Division (22A.5)

An American Farmer

Michel-Guillamaume Jean de Crèvecoeur
[J. Hector St. John] (1735-1813)
Volume 1 of holograph manuscript essay,
ca. 1769-1780
Manuscript Division
Gift of the Cafritz Foundation, 1986

The First Literary Journal
for Women

The Lady's Magazine, and Repository
of Entertaining Knowledge. . . .
Philadelphia: W. Gibbons, 1792-93
Rare Book & Special Collections Division
Transfer, 1880

Indian Map of Ohio
River Country

Chegeree (the Indian)
Map of the country about the Mississippi
[ca. 1755]
Manuscript map
Geography & Map Division
Purchased from Peter Force, 1867 (113.4)

The Likeness of George Washington

Amos Doolittle (1754-1832)
A Display of the United States of America
Engraving on paper (sixth or seventh state), 1794
Prints and Photographs Division
Gift/Purchase Marian S. Carson, 1996 (226.1)

A Portrait of Washington

Charles Balthazar Julien
Fevret de Saint-Mémin (1770-1852)
George Washington
Black and white chalk on paper, ca. 1800
Prints & Photographs Division

A Quaker School

James Bringhurst (1730-1810)
to John Chaloner
Holograph letter, March 22, 1792
Manuscript Division

"Read, and Be Wise"

Ivory Hornbook,
eighteenth century, English.
Gift of Leonard Kebler, 1959
Rare Book & Special
Collections Division (102A)

The Virginia Company

The Virginia Company
"Court Book"
Manuscript volume, 1624
Manuscript Division
Purchase, 1829 (21C.6)

Plan of Savannah

A Plan of the City of Savannah
Manuscript map
Ink and watercolor on paper, ca. 1796
Manuscript Division

Free Quaker Meetinghouse

Timothy Matlack
Free Quakers Meetinghouse,
Philadelphia, elevation of east front
Iron gall ink on laid paper, ca. 1783
Manuscript Division

Supporting American Revolutionaries

Jacob Duche; (1738-1798)
The American Vine, A Sermon . . .
Philadelphia: James Humphreys, 1775
Rare Book & Special Collections Division

German Almanac

Der Hoch-Deutsch
Americanische kalender . . .
Germantown, Pennsylvania:
Christoph Saur, 1749
Rare Book & Special Collections Division
Purchased from
Marian S. Carson, 1996 (221.1)

Land Grant

William Penn Land grant
to Thomas Mintz, William Markham,
Thomas Ellis, and John Goodson
Manuscript on parchment, 1687
Manuscript Division
Purchase/gift of Marian S. Carson, 1997 (231.2)

Plan of Ticonderoga

Michel Capitaine du Chesnoy
Plan of Carillion ou [sic] Ticonderoga:
which was quitted by the Americaines
in the night from the 5th to the 6th
of July 1777
Map, cloth backing
Geography & Map Division
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. H.F. Lenfest (21B.8)

Plan of San Antonio, Texas

Juan Augustan Morfi (d.1783)
[Plan of San Antonio, Texas] from"Memorias para la historia de la provincia Texas"
Bound manuscript with ink and watercolor drawing, 1780-1781
Manuscript Division (22A.6)

The New England Psalm-Singer

Paul Revere
"A Music Party"
Frontispiece engraving and
title page from William Billings,
The New England Psalm-Singer.
Boston, 1770
Music Division (24)

Powerful Polemics

Thomas Paine (1737-1809)
Common Sense: Addresses to the Inhabitants of America . . . Philadelphia: 1776
Rare Book & Special Collections Division
Purchase, 1867 (26.10)

Part of the Delaware River

John Hunter (1738-1821)
Plan of part of the River Delaware from Chester to Philadelphia in which is mark'd the position of His Majesty's ships on the 15th of November 1777
Manuscript map, with ink and watercolor
Geography & Map Division (21C.9)

The Young Republic

John Rubens Smith (1775-1849)
West Front of the United States Capitol
Watercolor on paper, ca. 1830
LC-USZC4-3671
Prints & Photographs Division

Tools of the Trade

Unattributed
[Seamstress]
Sixth-plate daguerreotype,
ca. 1853
Prints & Photographs Division

Compromise of 1850

John C. Calhoun (1782-1850)
Manuscript in the hand of Joseph Scoville
with corrections and emendations
in the hand of Calhoun,
March 4, 1850
Manuscript Division

Women's Work

Unattributed
[Milliner and Daughter]
Springfield, Illinois
Quarter-plate ambrotype,
hand-colored, ca.1854
Prints & Photographs Division
LC-USZC4-6024

Star-Spangled Banner

Francis Scott Key (1779-1843)
"The Star-Spangled Banner."
Baltimore: Thomas Carr, 1814
Printed sheet music
Music Division
Purchase, 1941 (29.1)

B. B. French's Diary

Benjamin Brown French (1800-1870)
Diary entry,
December 25, 1891
Manuscript Division
Gift of the French family, 1922 (32.5)

Sketching the Mid-Atlantic

James Queen (1820 or 1821-1886)
River view with factory
Watercolor on paper, ca. 1857
Prints & Photographs Division
LC-USZC4-5943

American Flag Designs

Samuel Chester Reid (1883-1861)
Design of various flags and the
"National Cockade . . . As Adopted
by Congress in 1818"
Pen and ink and watercolor drawing,
February 17, 1850
Manuscript Division (26.7)

First Hospital for the Mentally Ill

Benjamin Hornor Coates, M.D.
(1797-1881)
List of patients at the
Pennsylvania Hospital
Bound holograph manuscript, 1838
Manuscript Division
Gift/purchase Marian S. Carson, 1997 (27.9)

Encouraging Manufactures for
"Women & Girls"

Samples of Ipswich Lace in linen and silk
Manuscript Division
Transferred from the State
Department, 1904 (32A)

Children's Books

Marmaduke Multiply.
Boston: Munroe and Francis, 1839.
Rare Book & Special Collections Division

A Rare Civics Lesson

John Latrobe (1803-91)
The Juvenile National Calendar . . . .
Baltimore: F. Lucas, Jr.;
Philadelphia: Ash & Mason, [ca. 1825]
Rare Book & Special Collections Division

A Sketch of John Quincy Adams

Sarony & Major
John Quincy Adams sketch'd by Arthur J. Stansbury Esqr. a few hours previous to the death of Mr. Adams. New York: 1848
Hand-colored lithograph
Prints & Photographs Division

A Portrait of the Country

Michael Seymour (1802-1887)
Grand Falls at Niagara from near the observatory, Goat Island, July 22, 1846
Prints & Photographs Division

The War of 1812

Amos A. Evans (1785-1848)
Journal from the USS Constitution, ca. 1813-1814
Page 2
Manuscript Division
Gift of Walter Edwin Rex III, 2005 (22A.8)