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The Woman's Lawyer
Attributed to Sir John
Dodderidge (1555-1625)
The Lawes Resolutions of
Women's Rights: Or,
The Lawe's Provisions for Woemen.
London: John More, Esq., 1632
Rare Book & Special
Collections Division
Purchase, 1815 (90.9)
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A Georgia Courthouse
Stephen Shore (b. 1947)
[Interior of Green County Courthouse, Greensboro,
Georgia]
Dye coupler color photograph,
ca. 1975
Prints & Photographs
Division
Gift of the Seagram Company, 1980 (88A)
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A South Carolina Courthouse
Jim Dow, photographer
Kershaw County Court House,
Camden, South Carolina
Dye coupler color photograph, ca. 1975
Prints & Photographs
Division
Seagram County Court House Archives,
© Jim Dow
Gift of the Seagram Company, 1980 (88.8)
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A Wife's Chronicle
Malvina Shanklin Harlan (1839-1916)
"Some Memories of A Long Life"
Typescript memoir, 1915 [published in the Journal of Supreme
Court History, 2001]
Manuscript Division (102.2)
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The "General Fundamentals"
of the Plymouth Colony
The Book of the General Laws
of the Inhabitants of the Jurisdiction
of New-Plimouth.
Boston: Samuel Green, 1685
Law Library
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A Quaker Book of Discipline
A Collection of Christian & Brotherly Advices Given forth
from time to time By the Yearly-Meetings of Friends For Pennsylvania & New-Jersey,
Held alternately at Burlington & Philadelphia Alphabetically digested
under Proper Heads
Manuscript volume, ca. 1763
Manuscript Division
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The Murder of Crispus Attucks
The Trial of William Wemms ...
for the Murder of Crispus Attucks . . .
Boston: J. Fleeming, 1770
Law Library
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Acts Passed at a Congress
Acts Passed at a Congress of the
United States of America, Begun and
Held at the City of New-York . . . .
New York: F. Childs and J. Swaine, printers to the United States,
1789
Law Library (92.3)
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The Fifteenth Amendment
Thomas Kelly
after James C. Beard
The 15th Amendment.
Celebrated May 19th 1870.
New York: 1870
Lithograph with watercolor
Prints & Photographs Division
Copyright deposit, 1870 (89.1)
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Roosevelt's Inauguration,
March 4, 1905
[Roosevelt in carriage on
Pennsylvania Avenue
going to the Capitol],
March 4, 1905
Copyprint
Prints & Photographs
Division (92A.4) |
McKinley's Inaugurations,
1897 and 1901
Collier's.
Vol. 26, no. 24.
New York: March 16, 1901
Prints & Photographs
Division (90.8)
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Harrison's Inauguration
Presidential Inauguration of
Wm. H. Harrison in Washington, D.C.,
March 4, 1841
Lithograph
Prints & Photographs
Division (85A)
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Buchanan's Inauguration
Inauguration of James Buchanan,
President of the United States,
at the east front of the U. S. Capitol
Albumen print, March 4, 1857
Manuscript Division (88A)
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A White House Mob
President's Levee, or all Creation going to the White House,
Washington,
[March 4, 1829]
Illustrated in The Playfair Papers,
London: Saunders and Otley, 1841
Frontispiece
Rare Book & Special
Collections Division (84.4)
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Jackson's First Inauguration
Arrangements for the Inauguration,
February 2, 1829
Holograph letter with printed emendations
Manuscript Division (83.6)
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Grant's Inauguration
U.S. Congress. Senate Gallery,
Washington, D.C.: Philip & Solomons,
Printed ticket, 1869
Rare Book & Special
Collections Division (88.6)
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Polk's Inauguration
James K. Polk (1795-1849)
Inaugural address, March 4, 1845
Holograph manuscript
Manuscript Division (87.4)
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The Gerrymander
"The Gerrymander. A New
Species of Monster"
Boston Gazette, March 26, 1812
Newspaper
Serial & Government
Publications Division (90.6)
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Laws of South Carolina
The Laws of the Province of
South-Carolina, in Two Parts. . . .
Charleston: Lewis Timothy, 1736
Law Division (92.1)
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Laws of Virginia
Acts Passed at a General Assembly begun and
held at the Capitol, in the City of Williamsburg, on Monday the
third day of May, 1779
Williamsburg: John Dixon and
Thomas Nicolson, 1779
Law Division (92.6)
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The Pinkerton Agency
Allan Pinkerton (1819-1884)
Pinkerton National Detective Agency
Wanted advertisement in Spanish
Manuscript Division (233,
233.1a,b)
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Thank-you from a Condemned
Murderer
Bruce Callins to Harry A. Blackmun, [1994]
Holograph letter
Manuscript Division
Gift of Harry Blackmun, 1997 (232.2)
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Roe v. Wade
Memorandum from Justice Harry Blackmun to
Justice Warren Burger [Jan. 16, 1973]
Typewritten memorandum, with emendations
Manuscript Division
Gift of Harry A. Blackmun, 1997 (235.2a,b)
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EDUCATION |
Standardizing
the English Language
Noah Webster (1785-1843).
A Grammatical Institute of the
English Language . . .Part I.
Hartford, Conn.: Hudson & Goodwin,
for the author [1783]
Rare Book & Special
Collections Division
Gift of John D. Batchelder, 1936 (102B)
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Public Schools for Young Americans
Albert Ruger (1829-1899)
Young America, Warren County, Illinois.
Madison, Wisconsin: Ruger and Stone, 1869
Color lithographic print
Geography & Map Division
Copyright deposit (104A.2)
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Common American Language
Noah Webster (1758-1843)
The Elementary Spelling Book.
New York: G.F. Cooledge: [1829]
Rare Book & Special
Collections Division (102C)
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Education
through Reading
Samuel Kirkham
English Grammar in Familiar Lectures.
Cincinnati: N. & G. Guilford, 1828
Rare Book & Special
Collections Division
Gift of Jane Hamand, 1932 (107.8)
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The Federal
Art Project
George Vander Sluis
Children's Drawings Art museum - classes
Color silkscreen, 1939
Prints & Photographs
Division (108.6a)
LC-USZC2-918
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A Pilgrim's Progress Illustrated
John Bunyan
The Pilgrims Progress From This World
to That Which is to Come. (Part
II)
Worchester: Issiah Thomas, 1790
Rare Book & Special
Collection Division (102A.2)
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Strict Moral
Instruction for Children
James Janeway
A Token for Children.
Boston: 1728
Rare Book & Special
Collection Division (102.4)
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Teaching Life's Lessons
Samuel Willard (1775-1859)
The Franklin Primer, Containing a New
and Useful Selection of Moral Lessons. . .
Boston: John M Dunham, 1803
Rare Book & Special
Collection Division (102B.6)
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A More Playful Tone
John Latrobe (1803-1891)
The Juvenile National Calendar.
Baltimore: F. Lucas Jr. and Philadelphia: Ash & Mason [1825]
Rare Book & Special
Collection Division (136B.5)
Purchase, 1997
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Poster and Game
Board
The Office Boy.
Salem, Massachussets, 1889
Color lithograph game board
Rare Book & Special
Collection Division (108.9)
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Early Board Game
Anne Abbot.
Mansion of Happiness: An Instructive Moral
and Entertaining Amusement.
Salem, Massachusetts: W. & S.B. Ives, 1843
Rare Book & Special
Collections Division (107D.2)
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A More Playful Tone
In the Forest.
Boston: L. Prang, ca. 1865
Rare Book & Special
Collections Division
Gift/purchase from Marian S. Carson, 1997
(136C.12)
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ABOLITION & SUFFRAGE |
A Narrative of Uncommon Sufferings
A Narrative of the Uncommon Sufferings.
Boston: Green & Russell, 1760
Rare Book & Special Collections
Division
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Susan B. Anthony, Defendant
An Account of the Proceedings on
the Trial of Susan B. Anthony. . . .
Rochester: 1874
Rare Book & Special Collections
Division
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Adams Defends the Mutineers
John Quincy Adams (1767-1848)
Brief in the Amistad Case
Autograph notes,
[February 24 and March 1, 1841]
Manuscript Division
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The American Colonization Society
Robert K. Griffin
The Liberian Senate
Watercolor and graphite
on paper, ca. 1856
Prints & Photographs Division
LC-USZC4-4908
LC-USZ62-117300
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Death Before Slavery
[James or Isaac Sheffield]
Joseph Cinquez,
The brave Congolese Chief. . .
New York: Moses Y. Beach
Lithograph, 1839
Prints & Photographs Division
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The Seneca Falls Convention
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902),
Our roll of honor, signatures to the "Declaration
of Sentiments" Set Forth by the First Woman's Rights Convention
held at Seneca Falls, New York July 19-20, 1848.
with emendations by her daughter Harriot Stanton Blatch (1856-1940)
Manuscript Division
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"O Let My People Go"
Thomas Baker (active 1853-1862), arranger
The Song of the Contrabands:
"O Let My People Go"
New York: Horace Waters, 1861
Music Division
Copyright deposit, 1861
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Women's Suffrage Music
C. W. Custer
"Wifey is a Real Suffragette"
Chicago: Delmar Music Company, 1919
Music Division
Copyright deposit
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The North Star
The North Star
(Rochester, New York)
April 7, 1849
Newspaper
Serial & Government
Publications Division (99.2)
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Abolition of Slavery
Resolution, 38th Congress of the
U.S.
submitted to the Legislatures of the Several States a proposition
to amend the Constitution, signed Feb. 1, 1865 by Abraham Lincoln,
signed in the Senate, April 8, 1864, signed in the House of Representatives,
January 31, 1865
Holograph document, February 1, 1865
Manuscript Division
Gift of Robert Todd Lincoln, 1923 (100)
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Lucretia Mott
A Group of Philadelphia Abolitionists
with Lucretia Mott
[seated second from the right].
Philadelphia: F. Gutekunst
Offset lithograph, ca. 1840s
Manuscript Division
Gift of National American Woman Suffrage Association, 1938
(97A.8)
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The Woman's Bible
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902)
"The Woman's Bible,"
commentary on Genesis 2: 21-25
Draft holograph manuscript
Manuscript Division
Gift of Harriot Stanton Blatch, 1927 (97A.9)
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Suffrage Scrapbook
Elizabeth Smith Miller (1882-1911)
Scrapbook, 1910-11
Rare Book & Special
Collections Division
Gift of the National American Woman
Suffrage Association, 1938 (97D.9, 97D.10)
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A Colored Woman in a
White World
Mary Church Terrell (1863-1954)
Draft pages for
A Colored Woman in the White World
Typescript pages
Manuscript Division
Gift of Mary Church Terrell (96.3a,b)
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A 1791 Anti-Slavery Sermon
Jonathan Edwards, D.D. (1745-1801)
The Injustice and Impolicy of the Slave
Trade and of the Slavery of Africans . . . A Sermon.
New Haven, Connecticut:
Thomas and Samuel Green, 1791
Rare Book & Special
Collections Division (96A)
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Fugitive Slave Anthony Burns
Anthony Burns.
Boston: R. M. Edwards, 1855
Wood engraving with letterpress
Prints & Photographs Division
Copyright deposit, 1855 (100A)
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Satirizing
Anti-Suffragists
Ralph Barton (1891-1931)
"Making the Polls Attractive to Anti-Suffragists" in Puck.
(New York: February 20, 1915)
Prints & Photographs
Division
Copyright deposit, 1915 (97A.11)
LC-USZC2-1208
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The Child's Anti-Slavery
Book
The Child's Anti-Slavery Book:
Containing a Few Words about
American Slave Children. . . .
New York: Carlton and Porter, 1859
Rare Book & Special
Collections Division (98A)
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The
Anti-Slavery Convention
Declaration of the
Anti-Slavery Convention
Philadelphia: December 4, 1833
Broadside
Rare Book & Special
Collections Division (99.3)
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A Degree in Medicine
Anonymous
"Some Famous Women"
[essay on Elizabeth Blackwell]
Ink on paper, n.d.
Manuscript Division
Gift of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, 1960-1961
(104A.1)
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Selling Suffrage West
to East
Congressional Union
for Woman Suffrage. First National Convention,
Washington, D. C., December 6-13 [1915]
Page 2 - Page
3 - Page 4
Welcome to Envoys of Women Voters, December 6 [1915]
Mass Meeting, Belasco Theatre, December 12 [1915]
Rare Book & Special
Collections Division (52.9a)
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CIVIL
RIGHTS |
"With All Deliberate Speed"
Felix Frankfurter (1882-1965)
Annotated draft decree regarding
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka,
April 8, 1955
Manuscript Division
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Civil Rights
Danny Lyon (b. 1942)
Drinking Fountains in the Dougherty
County Courthouse, Albany, Georgia, ca. 1963
in Memories of the Southern Civil Rights Movement portfolio,
1994
Gelatin silver prints
Prints & Photographs Division
Gift of Emory E. Clark, 1996 (84.1 a,b)
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The Scottsboro Nine
New York Times (July
25, 1937)
Front page
Serial & Government
Publications Division (107.3)
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Freedom Riders
Background Map: 1961 Freedom Rides
[New York]: Associated Press News feature
Printed map and text, ca. 1962
Geography & Map Division (84.6)
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Cherokee
Newspaper
Cherokee Phoenix
New Echota, Georgia,
June 18, 1828
Serial & Government
Publications Division (92A.6)
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"I Wish I Knew How It Would
Feel to be Free."
Billy Taylor
(musicians not credited)
Gelatin silver print,
ca. 1950-54
Music Division
Gift, 19 (107A,B,C)
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Cartoonist
Bill Mauldin
Bill Mauldin (1921-2003)
"By th'way, what's that big word?," 1962
Ink, crayon, and opaque white over graphite under-drawing on layered
paper
Published in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, May 15, 1962
Prints & Photographs Division
Gift of the artist (82.6b)
Shown online with permission of the artist's estate
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THE
SUPREME COURT |
A Matter of Conscience
Billy (William H.) Gobitas (1925-1989)
to School Directors, Minersville,
Pennsylvania
Handwritten letter, November 5, 1935
Manuscript Division
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A Pillar of Justice
Paul Conrad (b. 1924)
Thurgood Marshall (1908-1993)
© Los Angeles Times
Ink on paper, 1993
Prints & Photographs Division
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Miranda Rights
Earl Warren
Warren's handwritten notes
concerning the Miranda decision
Miranda v. Arizona
Preliminary notes, 1966
Manuscript Division
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Cherokee Nation Denied
Foreign Nation Status
Smith Thompson (1768-1843)
Holograph manuscript, 1831
Manuscript Division
Acquired by gift and purchase, 1913
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First Justices of The Court
George Washington (1732-1799)
to the U.S. Senate
Letterbook copy in a clerical hand, September 24, 1789
Manuscript Division
State Department transfer, 1909 (108.2)
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