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Other Revolution and Founding Fathers (1765 - 1784) Offerings

• George Washington’s “Justice and Public Good” Letter, Written Just Before Becoming the First President of the United States
• New York Society for Promoting the Manumission of Slaves – 1794 Land Deed from John Jay’s Brother for First African Free School in New York City
• General Washington Orders Declaration of Independence Read to Army in New York

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• Charles Thomson (One of Only Two Men to Sign the Declaration of Independence on July 4) Sends Treaty of Paris Proclamation Officially Ending the Revolutionary War
• Continental Congress Address to Inhabitants of the Colonies Urging Unity Against British Tyranny, also prints Letter to Inhabitants of Quebec
• Eyewitness Account of the Battle of Bunker Hill from a Loyalist Perspective
• General Hugh Mercer’s Will—Noting the Plantation he Purchased from George Washington (Ferry Farm, Washington’s Boyhood Home), and Instructions to Executors to “hire negroes” to Work the Plantation for the Benefit of his Wife and Children
• The Psalms of David, Carried in a Rhode Island Revolutionary War Unit in 1776
• After Yorktown Victory, Samuel Huntington Congratulates French Foreign Minister
• An Early Olive Branch Petition - Continental Congress Implores King George III for Relief
• Connecticut Governor’s Proclamation Calling for a Day of Thanksgiving to Commemorate the Defeat of the French in Canada, and the Taking of Quebec
• Continental Congress July 1775 Message Asserting American Sovereignty & Rejecting Parliament’s Appeal for Peace. Drafted by Thomas Jefferson, Printed at Harvard. With Reports from London on Battles of Lexington and Concord
• 1778 Muster List, Including Rejected African American Recruit
• Dutchess County Militia Members Receive Their Pay in December 1776
• Acquittal of Printer John Peter Zenger in Colonial New York Establishes Foundation for American Freedom of the Press
• The King’s Attorney Bills Connecticut – including cost of putting down a church riot (over tithing and ecclesiastical conflict between MA. & CT.) – and Suing Stamp Tax Collectors
• Defending Georgia Against the Spanish in War of Jenkins’ Ear. Scarce Example of the Oldest Regularly Published Newspaper in America
• Documenting Declaration of Independence Signer
  Robert Morris’s Financial Troubles
• Robert Morris Promissory Note,
  Used As Evidence In His Bankruptcy Trial
• Return for Lt. John Hicks’s Company at West Point
• Boston Newspaper Publishes Former Governor Hutchinson’s Letters
• An Intrastate Merchant Dispute on the Eve of the American Revolutionary War
• N.Y. “Sons of Freedom” Pull Down Statue of King George III
• “Cato” (William Smith, first Provost of College of Philadelphia) Opposes Common Sense, and “Cassandra” (Penn’s Professor of Mathematics) Answers
• Honoring Washington and Quoting His Farewell Address (Drafted by Hamilton)
• Masonic Constitution Dedicated to George Washington, with frontispiece Masonic Coats of Arms by Future Chief Engraver of the US Mint
• Congress Responds to King George III’s Proclamation that the Colonies are in Rebellion
• Declaration Signer George Ross Gets Promissory Note for First Treason Trial in Pennsylvania
• John Marshall’s “Life of George Washington”
  and Companion Atlas with Hand-colored Maps
• A Revolutionary War Doctor Defends His Reputation, Pennsylvania War News, and Congress Takes a Huge Loan
• Depreciation, Inflation and Taxation
• An Annapolis Report of the Continental Congress Deciding Legislative Terms Under the Articles of Confederation
• John Hancock Addresses Massachusetts Legislature
• Anti-Catholic “Test Oath” Signed by George Washington – as Required to Validate his Military Commission as Lieutenant Colonel at the Outset of the French and Indian War
• The Alexander Hamilton Collection: The Story of the Revolution and Founding

Other Great Gifts Offerings

• Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms Speech – Inscribed and Signed by FDR – in the “Missy” LeHand Archive
• Thomas Jefferson Signed Act of Congress Authorizing Copper Coinage (the First Legal Tender Produced by U.S. Government)
• Martin Luther King Jr. Inscribes Stride Toward Freedom to Pioneer Civil Rights Leader A. Philip Randolph

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• Abraham Lincoln Signed Check to “William Johnson (Colored)”—Who Accompanied the President to Antietam and Gettysburg
• The Building Blocks of Albert Einstein’s Creative Mind
• FDR’s First Inaugural Address in the Midst of the Great Depression
• Albert Einstein by Marc Mellon
• Alexander Hamilton’s Initial Steps to Create a National Banking System
• Earliest Known Printing of “Tikvatenu” [Our Hope – the origin of “Hatikvah”] Inscribed by Author Naftali Herz Imber to Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, the “revivalist of the Hebrew language”
• George Washington Signed Military Commission, Preparing for a Decisive Victory Against Native Americans and the British in the Midwest
• Winston Churchill by Marc Mellon
• George Washington’s First Presidential Thanksgiving Proclamation
• George F. Root’s Autograph Sheet Music for “The Battle-Cry of Freedom!”
• Rare Important Declaration of Independence Linen Handkerchief
• Same-Day Broadside Extra Printing of Abraham Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address
• Continental Congress Declares Independence – on July 2, 1776
• For Washington, Hamilton Confirms Receipt of Hessian Troop Movement Intelligence
• Georgia O’Keeffe’s Folding Safari Chair (or “Bunch of Sticks” She Used for Painting in the Desert) and Archive of 18 Autograph and Typed Letters Signed by O’Keeffe to Artist Marilyn Thuma
• President Kennedy Sends a Martin Luther King, Jr. Tribute to Civil Rights Leader A. Philip Randolph
• The Only Known Document in Hamilton’s Hand on a Legal Case Involving James Reynolds
• Thomas Jefferson Transmits the First Patent Act to Governor of New York George Clinton, Who Later Replaced Aaron Burr as Jefferson’s Vice President
• Unique Inscribed Set of John Marshall’s Life of George Washington, With Joseph Story Letter to the Daughter of the Late Associate Justice Henry Brockholst Livingston, Conveying Marshall’s Thanks and Noting That He Will Be Sending to Her These Very Books
• President Wilson Urges Americans to Support the “Stricken Jewish People” of Europe During World War I
• “Black Sam” Fraunces as Steward of George Washington’s Presidential Household
• Alexander Hamilton Writes to His Beloved Wife, Eliza, About the Deteriorating Health of Her Younger Sister, Peggy
• Lyndon B. Johnson Signing Pen for Voting Rights Act of 1965
• Civil War “The Union Forever” Flag Made by Philadelphia Sailmaker, ca. 1861
• Hamilton LS to Bank of New York Advising That Collectors Will No Longer Receive Its Notes
• Alexander Hamilton Signed Registration for Schooner Robert of Baltimore
• Hamilton Serves as Surety for Loan to Fellow Attorney and Second in His Duel with Burr
• George Washington’s Famous Letter to American Roman Catholics: A Message of Thankfulness, Patriotism, and Inclusiveness
• Thomas Jefferson Pays Import Duty on Famous Louis Chantrot Obelisk Clock
• George Washington: Rare 1777 Revolutionary War Hand Colored Engraving
• Major General Alexander Hamilton Message to Father of American Viticulture During Quasi-War with France
• Theodore Roosevelt, Furious with Cuba's "Pointless" 1906 Revolution
• Emma Lazarus, Author of the Statue of Liberty Welcoming Poem “The New Colossus,” Writes About Publication of Her Poems
• Harry S. Truman on His 1948 Proclamation Recognizing Israel
• Two months Before Declaring Israel’s Independence, Ben-Gurion Counters American Backpedaling and Pushes to Start the Temporary Government
• Amelia Earhart and Richard E. Byrd—Aviation Pioneers in Signed Group Photo
• Aviation Pioneer Amelia Earhart Returns from European Tour with Publisher Husband
• Masonic Documents: James P. Kimball archive of master Mason, geologist, and Director of the United States Mint - with superb engravings
• Brown University Holds First Commencement in 1769 - as Rhode Island College
• FDR’s Personal Copy of 1934 Textile Industry Crisis Board Report Countersigned by Secretary of Labor Francis Perkins, the First Woman Presidential Cabinet Member
• J.E.B. Stuart Writes to Legendary Confederate Spy Laura Ratcliffe
• Brooklyn Ferry in 1666 - British Royal Governor Confirms Dutch Owners Land Grant for the Brooklyn End of the Ferry
• David Ben-Gurion ALS—Preventing a War between the Religious and the Secular in Early Israel
• Debating the Bill of Rights Amendments in 1789
• The Gettysburg Address – New York Semi-Weekly Tribune First Day of Printing
• The Second Naturalization Act - Establishing Laws for Citizenship
• President John Quincy Adams’ Remarks & Toast Commemorating William Penn’s Landing
• Connecticut Governor’s Proclamation Calling for a Day of Thanksgiving to Commemorate the Defeat of the French in Canada, and the Taking of Quebec
• President Jefferson Sends, Rather than Delivers, His First State of the Union
• 1915 Women’s Suffrage Poster
• Israel’s Declaration of Independence—May 1948
• Jackie Robinson says a talk radio host “needs to do a lot of soul searching.”
• Whig Presidential Nominee William Henry Harrison to Daniel Webster
• “George Washington” - Keith Carter Photograph
• 1778 Muster List, Including Rejected African American Recruit
• Large 1801 Folio Engraving of Thomas Jefferson as New President
• Turtle Bay Lease for Use by the Royal Navy, 1741
• Nine Months of a Hawaiian Missionary Newspaper, With the First Report of King Kamehameha III’s Death and Perry’s Mission to Japan
• Ben-Gurion to Moshe Sharett on Sharett’s Resignation as Foreign Minister
• Acquittal of Printer John Peter Zenger in Colonial New York Establishes Foundation for American Freedom of the Press
• Prang & Co. Broadside with Maps of Early Civil War Hotspots
• President Theodore Roosevelt Questions Coal Monopolies and Contradictions in Report from Interstate Commerce Chairman
• Rare 1870 Yale University Summer Boat Races Broadside
• Susan B. Anthony Plaster Relief Medallion Copyrighted by Her Sister
• Arthur Ashe’s United Negro College Fund Benefit Silver Bowl Trophy
• Golda Meir Stresses the Need to Settle New Immigrants
• “John Bull and the Baltimoreans” Lampooning British Defeat at Fort McHenry in Baltimore Following their Earlier Success at Alexandria
• President Washington Approves Establishment of Mint and Issues First Veto
• Boston Newspaper Publishes Former Governor Hutchinson’s Letters
• Bronze Bas Relief Portrait of Theodore Roosevelt: “Aggressive fighting for the right is the greatest sport the world affords”
• Inventor Thomas A. Edison Responds to His Son’s Note About a Speaking Request
• Golda Meir Invites an American Semiconductor Pioneer to an Israeli Economic Conference
• Madison’s Optimistic First Message to Congress: A Prelude to the War of 1812
• Early Printing of a Bill to Establish the Treasury Department
• Harry Hines Woodring Political Archives and Related Material
• Kennedy v. Nixon First Televised Presidential Debate Poster
• Congressmen Who Signed Thirteenth Amendment Abolishing Slavery
• Anticipating Prohibition Repeal
• Theodore Roosevelt Rough Rider Doll
• Eleanor Roosevelt Asks Pennsylvania Educator to Serve as Chair of Local Women’s Crusade
• Ben-Gurion Calls for a Jerusalem Home for the Bible Society: “every spiritual idea, for it to exist and exert influence, needs a physical structure, too, a central home…”
• Lincoln Portrait by Currier & Ives
• Lucy Stone Thanks Suffragist Who Later Led Effort for Women’s Suffrage in Hawaii for Donation
• A Ruff-Necked Hummingbird by Audubon
• Masonic Apron, Neck Sash & Medal of U.S. Mint - California Gold Refiner James Booth, with a Lithograph of Him
• N.Y. “Sons of Freedom” Pull Down Statue of King George III
• Calvin Coolidge Appoints Trustee of the National Training School for Girls
• Harvard’s 1791 Graduating Students and Theses, Dedicated to Governor John Hancock and Lieutenant Governor Samuel Adams
• Honoring Washington and Quoting His Farewell Address (Drafted by Hamilton)
• Pennsylvania Deputy Governor Urges General Assembly to Resist French Expansion in North America in Early Stages of the French and Indian War
• Lucy Stone Promotes Bazaar to Suffragist Who Later Led Effort for Women’s Suffrage in Hawaii
• New York Times Carriers’ Address Reviews the Year 1863 in Bad Verse, Including Freeing of Russia’s Serfs, and the Battle of Gettysburg
• Eleanor Roosevelt Thanks Former State Senator for Article to Assist Women in Monitoring Polling Places
• Hillary Clinton Thanks Doctor for Policy Change to Allow Fathers to Be in Delivery Room for Caesarean Sections
• John Marshall’s “Life of George Washington”
  and Companion Atlas with Hand-colored Maps
• Oval Salt Print of Famed Abolitionist John Brown
• President Franklin D. Roosevelt Thanks for a “Heartening” Telegram Received September 27, While FDR was Trying to Prevent Hitler from Starting War
• Rich 1845 Letter on the State of American Art to Hudson River Artist Jasper Cropsey
• Senator Sprague of Rhode Island Writes About Fascinating Debates in Congress Involving Freedom for the Families of African American Recruits and the Limits of Free Speech in the Senate
• Gerald Ford Defends His Early Commitment to Civil Rights
• Picasso Anti-War Image Used to Promote Vietnam War Protest
• 16 x 20 Inch Photograph of St. Augustine, Florida, African American Cart Driver
• Future Supreme Court Justice Benjamin Cardozo: “I am alone in the world now.”
• Anthony C. McAuliffe Writes Amidst Tests of Atomic Bombs at Bikini Atoll in 1946
• Hoover Tells a Key Aide that Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping Occupies FBI in New York
• Mercury Astronaut Gordon Cooper’s Signed “Bioscience Data Plan” for Conducting Vital Biomedical Research on the Impact of Space Flight on the Human Body
• Ohio Reformers Use Rhode Island’s Dorr Rebellion
  to Justify Their Own Behavior
• 1790 Massachusetts Newspaper Discussing Nantucket Whalers
• Elmer W. Henderson – Who Defeated Railroad Dining Car Segregation – Congratulates African American Inventor for American Institute of Chemists Award
• Mark Hopkins, Famed Educator and the Longest Serving President of Williams College, Preparing to Lecture at the Smithsonian Institute
• Future Hero of Little Round Top Advises a Friend on Getting a Leave of Absence
• A Harlequin Duck by Audubon
• Alex Haley Signed Check
• New England Factory Life
• Rebel Deserters Coming within the Union Lines
• Advertisement for Temperance Restaurant in New York City
• Seesaw - Gloucester, MA - Drawn by Winslow Homer
• The Statue of Liberty
• Christmas Presents
• Edwin M. Stanton Portrait, Based on a Photograph by Matthew Brady
• The Army of the Potomac Arriving at Yorktown from Williamsburg
• (On Hold) The U.S. Constitution – Very Rare Printing on the Second Day of Publication

Other Declaration of Independence Offerings

• July 8, 1776 – The First Book Printing of the Declaration of Independence, and One of the First Printings
• General Washington Orders Declaration of Independence Read to Army in New York
• One of the Earliest Announcements of Independence

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• Rare Important Declaration of Independence Linen Handkerchief
• Continental Congress Declares Independence – on July 2, 1776
• Hamilton LS on Declaration-Signer Philip Livingston's Estate, Ten Years After His Death
• Robert Morris Promissory Note,
  Used As Evidence In His Bankruptcy Trial
• Declaration Signer George Ross Gets Promissory Note for First Treason Trial in Pennsylvania
• July 4, 1810 Oration by Democratic-Republican Declaration Printer John Binns

Other Constitution and Bill of Rights Offerings

• Constitutional Convention, Pennsylvania Ratification Debates, More, in 1787 Newspaper Run
• Connecticut Broadsheet Reports Ratification of U.S. Constitution by Rhode Island, Hamilton’s Funding and Assumption Plans, and Other Debates
• Early Printing of the Original Twelve Articles of the Bill of Rights

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• Bill of Rights: First House of Representatives Draft, Rare July 31, 1789 Newspaper Printing
• Debating the Bill of Rights Amendments in 1789
• Rare “Address to the People of the State of Connecticut,” the Report of Delegates from 97 Towns Who Met to Call for a Democratic Non-Theocratic State Constitution
• Confederation Congress sends proposed Constitution to the states for ratification
• Connecticut Prepares for New Federal Constitution, Establishes Plan to Elect Senators and Representatives
• Iconic Pillars Illustration -- Celebrating Massachusetts’ Ratification and the Process of Erecting the “great federal superstructure”
• U.S. Constitution – Contemporary List of States with Ratification Dates and Votes
• The New U.S. Senate Considers Bill to Organize the Federal Judiciary: Full Text of the Senate Bill to Establish the Supreme Court, Federal Judicial Districts and Circuit Courts, as Well as the Position of Attorney General
• Maryland Ratifies the Constitution, Suggests Amendments; and Pennsylvanians Speak Out Against the Slave Trade
• A History of Harvard University; North Carolina Debates Ratifying the Constitution; and a List of Newly-Minted U.S. Senators
• (On Hold) The U.S. Constitution – Very Rare Printing on the Second Day of Publication
• Virginia’s Ratification of the U.S. Constitution and Proposals for the Bill of Rights

Other Gilded Age (1876 - c.1900) Offerings

• Susan B. Anthony Plaster Relief Medallion Copyrighted by Her Sister
• A Huge Print of the Great Abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison
• Excluding Chinese Immigration: President Chester Arthur Orders Seal Affixed to His Angell Treaty Proclamation

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• Theodore Roosevelt Rough Rider Doll
• Uncle Tom’s Cabin Advertised by Local Maine Drama Club
• A Ruff-Necked Hummingbird by Audubon
• Rear Admiral Schley on his Recent Victory over
  the Spanish Fleet in the Battle of Santiago Bay
• A Map of the Baruch College Area of New York City
• Fantastic Spanish-American War Predictions by Navy Admiral from 1896
• 16 x 20 Inch Photograph of St. Augustine, Florida, African American Cart Driver
• Benjamin Butler Signed Stock Certificate
• “Let Us Have Faith that Right Makes Might…”
• Civil War Hero David Dixon Porter
  Expresses Support for the Chinese in a Time of Hostility
• Discontent with Gilded Age Presidential Politics
  and the Influence of “the negro vote”
• Henry Du Pont Signed Stock Certificate
• Secretary of State Evarts Accepts Invitation to Protestant Episcopal Convention: “The Bishops I think should be au gratin and the laymen chilled”
• Civil War Veteran School Board Chair Cautions Teacher to Discipline Carefully
• Carrie Chapman Catt Signed 1899 Receipt to Fellow Suffragette Harriet Taylor Upton
• A Harlequin Duck by Audubon
• Advertisement for Temperance Restaurant in New York City
• Seesaw - Gloucester, MA - Drawn by Winslow Homer