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JEFFERSON'S LIBRARY |
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)
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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
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The Order of Books
Thomas Jefferson to George Watterston
(1783-1854)
Polygraph copy,
May 7, 1815
Manuscript Division
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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
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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
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Jefferson Seeks Madison's Support
Thomas Jefferson to James
Madison
(1751-1836)
Polygraph copy,
September 24, 1814
Manuscript Division
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Tools of Democracy
Thomas Jefferson to Samuel H. Smith
(1772-1845)
Polygraph copy,
September 21, 1814
Manuscript Division
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The Three Greatest Men
Thomas Jefferson to John Trumbull
(1756-1843)
Holograph press copy,
February 15, 1789
Manuscript Division
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Jefferson Counts and Measures
His Library
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
Holograph list of book titles,
1815
Manuscript Division (9.2)
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Preserving History
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
to Hugh P. Taylor
Polygraph copy, October 4, 1823
Manuscript Division
State Department transfer, 1904 (10.6)
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"The Favorite Passion of My Soul"
Thomas Jefferson to Giovanni Fabbroni
Holograph letter,
June 8, 1778
Manuscript Division
State Department transfer, 1904 (8.4)
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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)
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"Two Pieces of Homespun"
John Adams to Thomas Jefferson,
January 1, 1812
Manuscript letter
Manuscript Division
State Department transfer, 1904 (9.9)
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Jefferson Misreads "Homespun"
Thomas Jefferson to John Adams,
January 21, 1812
Manuscript letter
Manuscript Division
State Department transfer, 1904 (9.10)
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"Two Pieces of Homespun" Clarified
John Adams to Thomas Jefferson,
February 3, 1812
Manuscript letter
Manuscript Division
State Department transfer, 1904 (9.11)
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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)
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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)
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A
NEW WORLD |
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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
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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
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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Early Manuscript Maps
of New Netherlands
Joan
Vinckeboons
"Pascaert van Nieuw Nederlandt Virginia, ende
Nieuw-Engelandt . . ."
[ Digital ID# g3320 lh00817 ]
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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)
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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
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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)
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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
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FAITH
AND FREEDOM |
America's First Book
The Whole Booke of Psalmes Faithfully Translated into English Metre.
Cambridge, MA: 1640
Rare Book & Special Collections
Division
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Ephrata Community Songbook
Ephrata Community
Die bittre Gute, oder Das Gesäng
der einsamen Turtel-Taube . . .
Manuscript hymnal, 1746
Music Division
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"To Bigotry No Sanction"
Moses Seixas (1744-1809) to George Washington
(1732-1799)
Holograph, August 17, 1790
Manuscript Division
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Congratulatory Address to
Washington
Manuel Josephson to George
Washington
"Congratulatory Address . . ."
Holograph, December 13, 1790
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First Complete Bible Printed in
America
The Holy Bible . .
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Cambridge: Samuel Green & Marmaduke Johnson, 1663
Rare Book & Special Collections
Division
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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
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Jefferson's First Inaugural Address
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
Manuscript draft of first inaugural address,
1801
Manuscript Division
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COLONIAL
LIFE |
The Accident in
Lombard Street
Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827)
The Accident in Lombard Street
Philadelphia: 1787
Etching
Prints and Photographs Division
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George Washington's
Rules of Civility
George Washington (1732-1799)
Holograph manuscript,
ca. 1753
Manuscript Division
State Department transfer, 1904
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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)
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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
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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
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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)
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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)
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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
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A Quaker School
James Bringhurst (1730-1810)
to John Chaloner
Holograph letter, March 22, 1792
Manuscript Division
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"Read, and Be Wise"
Ivory Hornbook,
eighteenth century, English.
Gift of Leonard Kebler, 1959
Rare Book & Special
Collections Division (102A)
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The Virginia Company
The Virginia Company
"Court Book"
Manuscript volume, 1624
Manuscript Division
Purchase, 1829 (21C.6)
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Plan of Savannah
A Plan of the City of Savannah
Manuscript map
Ink and watercolor on paper, ca. 1796
Manuscript Division
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Free Quaker Meetinghouse
Timothy Matlack
Free Quakers Meetinghouse,
Philadelphia, elevation of east front
Iron gall ink on laid paper, ca. 1783
Manuscript Division
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Supporting American Revolutionaries
Jacob Duche; (1738-1798)
The American Vine, A Sermon . . .
Philadelphia: James Humphreys, 1775
Rare Book & Special Collections
Division
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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Poor Richard Illustrated
Samuel A. Allen and Thomas R. Holland
Poor Richard Illustrated. Lessons for
the Young and Old on Industry, Temperance, Frugality &c by
Benjamin Franklin.
Boston: 1859
Lithograph
Prints & Photographs Division (26A.6) |
The Atlantic Neptune
Joseph Frederick Wallet Des Barres (1722-1824)
[A Chart of the Harbour of Boston], from The Atlantic Neptune.
London: 1775
Engraved map Geography and Map
Division (26.13)
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The Progress
of the Army
Progress of the Army from
Their Landing Till Taking Possession of Philadelphia
Manuscript map with pen and ink and watercolor
Page 2
Geography & Map Division (21A.8)
Digital ID: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3791s.ar106100 |
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DEMOCRACY
IN AMERICA |
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
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Tools of the
Trade
Unattributed
[Seamstress]
Sixth-plate daguerreotype,
ca. 1853
Prints & Photographs Division
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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
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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)
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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)
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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
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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)
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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)
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Encouraging Manufactures
for
"Women & Girls"
Samples of Ipswich Lace in linen and silk
Manuscript Division
Transferred from the State
Department, 1904 (32A)
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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 . . .
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Baltimore: F. Lucas, Jr.;
Philadelphia: Ash & Mason, [ca. 1825]
Rare Book & Special Collections
Division
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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
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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) |
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