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The doctor indulged with his favorite scene, British Cartoon Print

The doctor indulged with his favorite scene, British Cartoon Print

Cartoon shows cleric Dr. Richard Price, kneeling on a crown with a demon on his back, peering through a peep-hole into the royal bedroom at Versailles, watching ruffians destroy the Queen's bed and bedroom in s... More

Perth-Amboy church lottery. No. The possessor of this ticket shall be entitled to such prize as shall be drawn against its number, if demanded with six months after the drawing is finished - subject to a deduction of fifteen per cent. [Perth Amb

Perth-Amboy church lottery. No. The possessor of this ticket shall be ...

Not in Evans.; On verso: 1790. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 100, Folder 76.

[Title page ornament] / C.W. Peale delt. ; Thackara & Vallance sculpt.

[Title page ornament] / C.W. Peale delt. ; Thackara & Vallance sculpt.

Print of ornament on the title page of the Universal Asylum and Columbian Magazine shows a female figure representing America sitting amid abundance while enjoying the prosperity of peace. Illus. in: The unive... More

Franc̦ois Pilatre de Rozier, né à Metz le 30. mars 1756, mort près de Boulogne sur Mer le 15. juin 1785

Franc̦ois Pilatre de Rozier, né à Metz le 30. mars 1756, mort près de ...

Oval head-and-shoulders profile portrait of French balloonist Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier.

AMH-4516-NA Profiles of the fort at Trinconomale

AMH-4516-NA Profiles of the fort at Trinconomale

Nederlands: Titel catalogus Leupe (NA): Profils en coupes, behoorende tot het project ter versterking van Trinconomale; van verschillende afmetingen. Aantekening catalogus Leupe: Behoort bij de rapporten van de... More

Atlas général de la Chine, de la Tartarie chinoise, et du Tibet : pour servir aux différentes descriptions et histoires de cet empire /

Atlas général de la Chine, de la Tartarie chinoise, et du Tibet : pour...

Relief shown pictorially. Text in French. Place names in French and romanized Chinese. "Avec privilège du Roi." Rev. ed. of: Nouvel atlas de la Chine, de la Tartarie chinoise et du Thibet. 1737. Revised ed. con... More

Thomas Jefferson, July 4, 1790, Notes and Figures on Weights and Measures
Benjamin Rush to James Madison, February 27, 1790.

Benjamin Rush to James Madison, February 27, 1790.

Transcripts, guides, and tools to help you use this collection may be found at loc.gov James Madison Papers.

L'aristocratic écrasée. Book illustration from Library of Congress

L'aristocratic écrasée. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Print shows a bust portrait of Louis XVI atop a pedestal with engraved text "A Louis XVI Pere des Français et Roi d'un peuple libre." A reclining female figure, aided by Father Time, is engraving text on plaque... More

William Short to Thomas Jefferson, December 23, 1790

William Short to Thomas Jefferson, December 23, 1790

Public domain scan of Thomas Jefferson correspondence, American history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

The knight of the woeful countenance going to extirpate the National Assembly, British Cartoon Print

The knight of the woeful countenance going to extirpate the National A...

Print shows Edmund Burke as Don Quixote, wearing armor, carrying lance and shield labeled "Shield of Aristocracy and Despotism," riding a donkey, emerging from the doorway to the "Dodsley Bookseller" the publis... More

Philadelphie - la ville capitale de Pensylvanie province Nord-Americaine William Penn, à qui Charles II Roi d'Angleterre donna cette province entiére la planta en 1682 ...

Philadelphie - la ville capitale de Pensylvanie province Nord-Americai...

Print shows men in boats and ships along the waterfront in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Caption continues: entre deux fleuves navigables et l'apella Philadelphie, parceque les habitans y vivoient dans une harmo... More

Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow.

Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow.

Epigraph on t.p.: "Chudishche oblo, ozorno, ogromno, stozi︠e︡vno i lai︠a︡ĭ" -- Tilemakhida, tom ii, kn. xviii, sti: 514. Signatures: pi² Cyrillic A-ʹ[mi︠a︡khkiĭ znak]⁸. In each signature only first and fifth ... More

Decret de l'assemblee national qui supprime les ordres religieux et religieuses

Decret de l'assemblee national qui supprime les ordres religieux et re...

Print shows monks and nuns enjoying their new found liberty, some are loading possessions onto horses and wagons, some embrace, one couple kisses while another rides off together on horseback. Caption continue... More

[L'homme aux assignats] - A group of men standing next to each other

[L'homme aux assignats] - A group of men standing next to each other

Print shows a man, possibly Armand-Gaston Camus, wearing a garment fashioned entirely from "assignats" (French paper money before the livre), several men (identified by number in the caption) are standing aroun... More

Charles aux Thuilleries [i.e., Tuileries] le 1e decembre 1783 / P.G. Tavenard, sculp.

Charles aux Thuilleries [i.e., Tuileries] le 1e decembre 1783 / P.G. T...

Head-and-shoulders profile portrait of French balloonist J.A.C. Charles, who made the first flight in a hydrogen balloon, Dec. 1, 1783. Includes banner with caption "Jusq'alors san égal, le monarque des airs, y... More

Smelling out a rat; or the atheistical-revolutionist disturbed in his midnight "calculations", British Cartoon Print

Smelling out a rat; or the atheistical-revolutionist disturbed in his ...

Print shows Richard Price seated at a desk, he turns to look over his right shoulder at a vision of an enormous Edmund Burke, his spectacles, nose, and hands emerge from the haze, a crown in one hand and a cros... More

List of persons returned as members of the Legislative council [13 names] List of persons returned as members of the General Assembly. [37 names] [Probably before 1800].

List of persons returned as members of the Legislative council [13 nam...

11 60021 4 F 44.; Rec. R. B. May 1940.; On verso: 1160C21 4F44. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collect... More

[Ouverture et airs du ballet de Telemaque]

[Ouverture et airs du ballet de Telemaque]

Ballet choreographed by Pierre Gardel. Originally for orchestra; arranged for piano. Title from another copy of the work. LC copy trimmed to 31 cm and lacking title page and plate number; possibly one of two pu... More

[Ouverture et airs du ballet de Telemaque]

[Ouverture et airs du ballet de Telemaque]

Ballet choreographed by Pierre Gardel. Originally for orchestra; arranged for piano. Title from another copy of the work. LC copy trimmed to 31 cm and lacking title page and plate number; possibly one of two pu... More

An act supplemental to the act for establishing the salaries of the executive officers of government with their assistants and clerks. [Philadelphia] Printed by John Fenno [1790].

An act supplemental to the act for establishing the salaries of the ex...

Imprint 3.; Not in Evans. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 214, Folder 9.

James Currie to Thomas Jefferson, September 13, 1790

James Currie to Thomas Jefferson, September 13, 1790

Public domain scan of Thomas Jefferson correspondence, American history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, books, and other writings, to the authors and proprietors ofmsuch copies, during the times therein mentioned ... [New York] Printed by John Fenno [1790].

An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of ma...

Imprint 3.; Not in Evans. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. 2 duplicate copies Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 213, ... More

Thomas Jefferson to Ferdinand Grand, April 4, 1790, with Copy
Thomas Jefferson to House of Representatives, July 4, 1790, Report on Plan for Establishing a Uniform Currency, with Draft Copy

Thomas Jefferson to House of Representatives, July 4, 1790, Report on ...

Report on Plan for Establishing a Uniform Currency, with Draft Copy

Can love be controul'd by advice?  Will Cupid our mothers obey?

Can love be controul'd by advice? Will Cupid our mothers obey?

A distraught woman wearing a polka dot dress kneels, with handkerchief in hand, before a woman in a bonnet and apron, pointing her finger in a scolding gesture. No copyright information found with item. Title i... More

Richard Peters to James Madison, March 31, 1790.

Richard Peters to James Madison, March 31, 1790.

Transcripts, guides, and tools to help you use this collection may be found at loc.gov James Madison Papers.

Treasury Department, March 1, 1790. Pursuant to the Act for establishing the Treasury department, the Secretary of the Treasury respectfully reports to the House of representatives, that in addition to the estimate for the service of the current

Treasury Department, March 1, 1790. Pursuant to the Act for establishi...

Evans 23002.; Imprint 3. Page Order: Multipage Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 213... More

City election race for the court plate, British Cartoon Print

City election race for the court plate, British Cartoon Print

Print shows on the left P--t [Pitt], labeled "Bank Directorship", banging his head on the Temple Bar before even getting started, the center is filled with N--n [?], labeled "Motion for paying the Prince's Debt... More

Philadelphie - la ville capitale de Pensylvanie province Nord-Americaine William Penn, à qui Charles II Roi d'Angleterre donna cette province entiére la planta en 1682 ...

Philadelphie - la ville capitale de Pensylvanie province Nord-Americai...

Print shows men in boats and ships along the waterfront in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Caption continues: entre deux fleuves navigables et l'apella Philadelphie, parceque les habitans y vivoient dans une harmo... More

William Short to Thomas Jefferson, September 26, 1790

William Short to Thomas Jefferson, September 26, 1790

Public domain scan of Thomas Jefferson correspondence, American history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

15e.[-30e.] recueil des contre-danses et walzes

15e.[-30e.] recueil des contre-danses et walzes

Public domain scan of dance manual, 18th-century France, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Eh bien, J-- F--, dira-tu encore vive la noblesse?

Eh bien, J-- F--, dira-tu encore vive la noblesse?

Print shows a man, possibly Joseph-François Foullon, on his hands and knees with a woman of the Third Estate, a sword at her side, riding on his back. de Vinck, 2950 Blum, 206 Forms part of: French Political C... More

Giuseppe Girolamo Lalande / Demarchi, dis. ; Bonini, inc.

Giuseppe Girolamo Lalande / Demarchi, dis. ; Bonini, inc.

Full-length portrait of French astronomer Joseph Jérôme Lalande. Tissandier collection.

Le tems donnant les cendres à la noblesse et au clergé

Le tems donnant les cendres à la noblesse et au clergé

Print shows Father Time flying past an altar on which the privileges of the nobility and the clergy are being burned; he is annointing the forehead of one priest with the ashes of the consummed documents as ano... More

[Land ownership map of the William Bingham estate in Potter County, Pennsylvania /

[Land ownership map of the William Bingham estate in Potter County, Pe...

Shows lots, boundaries, numbers, and dimensions. From the William Bingham estate maps. Sectional title label affixed on verso of each sheet. Pen-and-ink, pencil, and watercolor. Some sheets include note and ins... More

Washington. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Washington. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Print shows George Washington, possibly at the time of inauguration, stepping on a flag with the crest of England on it.

Michael Lesley, team captain for Team 1790, holds up

Michael Lesley, team captain for Team 1790, holds up

Michael Lesley, team captain for Team 1790, holds up a recognition plaque during a team awards ceremony in Las Vegas after the Baker to Vegas relay race March 20, 2016. Team 1790 completed the 120-mile relay r... More

Taste a-la-mode, 1745 ; Taste a-la-mode, 1790, British Cartoon Print

Taste a-la-mode, 1745 ; Taste a-la-mode, 1790, British Cartoon Print

Print shows two designs on one plate both showing men and women in different styles of dress in 1745 and 1790 at St. James' Park in front of Buckingham House. Design on left is variant of print published in 17... More

A list of balances due from the several counties for taxes, from the year 1782 to the year 1790, inclusive. [Richmond: Printed by John Dixon, 1790].

A list of balances due from the several counties for taxes, from the y...

Evans 23020.; Imprint 3. Page Order: Multipage Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 180... More

State Department, March 26, 1790, Establishment of Ministers and Other Officials Abroad

State Department, March 26, 1790, Establishment of Ministers and Other...

Establishment of Ministers and Other Officials Abroad

Benjamin Rush to James Madison, July 17, 1790.

Benjamin Rush to James Madison, July 17, 1790.

Transcripts, guides, and tools to help you use this collection may be found at loc.gov James Madison Papers.

November 23, 1790, Hampshire, Members of Protestant Episcopal Church, opposing sale of glebe in Hampshire Parish and planned subsequent purchase of two other glebes.

November 23, 1790, Hampshire, Members of Protestant Episcopal Church, ...

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Thomas Jefferson, July 4, 1790, Notes and Figures on Weights and Measures
[Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier, French balloonist, head-and-shoulders portrait, blowing hydrogen gas into a flame]

[Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier, French balloonist, head-and-shoulder...

Tissandier collection. Public domain scan of portrait print from Library of Congress, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The man of the poeple [sic] attempting another coalition, to creep in for Westminster The modern Judas. Addressed to the free electors of Westminster., British Cartoon Print

The man of the poeple [sic] attempting another coalition, to creep in ...

A British satire in which Charles James Fox, depicted with two faces, seeks the support of a former enemy, Sir Samuel Hood, while repudiating a former friend, Lord John Townshend. A scene in the background show... More

Giuochi, trattenimenti e feste annue che si costumano in Toscana e specialmente in Firenze

Giuochi, trattenimenti e feste annue che si costumano in Toscana e spe...

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Wholy engraved with watercolor. Plates 22 and 23 signed by Carlo Lasinio, but all generally attributed to him. Plates 2 and 4 signed "G. Piattoli, inv."

... An act making provision for the reduction of the public debt. [New York:Printed by Francis Childs and John Swaine, 1790.].

... An act making provision for the reduction of the public debt. [New...

Caption title: at head of title: Congress of the United States: at the second session, begun and held at the City of New-York, on Monday the fourth of January, one thousand seven hundred and ninety.; Signed: Fr... More

... An act to regulate trade and intercourse with the Indian tribes. [New York: Printed by Francis Childs and John Swaine, 1790].

... An act to regulate trade and intercourse with the Indian tribes. [...

Caption title: at head of title: Congress of the United States: at the second session, begun and held at the City of New York, on Monday, the fourth of January, one thousand seven hondred and ninety.; Signed: F... More

Thomas Jefferson to Duchess D'Enville, April 2, 1790
Quartetto 5. in Es - Public domain music sheet scan

Quartetto 5. in Es - Public domain music sheet scan

di me Giuseppe Haydn. (statement of responsibility) Holograph, in ink. In the Gertrude Clarke Whittall Foundation Collection of the Library of Congress. http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.natlib.ihas.2001530... More

James Robertson to Robert Hays, February 27, 1790

James Robertson to Robert Hays, February 27, 1790

Public domain scan of Andrew Jackson's correspondence, American history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Thomas Jefferson to Angelica Schuyler Church, June 23, 1790, with Copy

Thomas Jefferson to Angelica Schuyler Church, June 23, 1790, with Copy

with Copy Public domain scan of Thomas Jefferson correspondence, American history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Housekeeper's valuable present, or, Lady's closet companion ...

Housekeeper's valuable present, or, Lady's closet companion ...

Picryl description: Public domain book on housekeeping, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow.

Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow.

Epigraph on t.p.: "Chudishche oblo, ozorno, ogromno, stozi︠e︡vno i lai︠a︡ĭ" -- Tilemakhida, tom ii, kn. xviii, sti: 514. Signatures: pi² Cyrillic A-ʹ[mi︠a︡khkiĭ znak]⁸. In each signature only first and fifth ... More

Verzeichniss des musikalischen nachlasses des verstorbenen capellmeisters
Sublime and beautiful reflections on the French revolution, or the man in the moon at large, British Cartoon Print

Sublime and beautiful reflections on the French revolution, or the man...

Print shows Edmund Burke sitting at a desk on a crescent moon, holding a quill pen, an open "pamphlet" and an inkwell are on the desk, broken chains hang from his wrists; a scene on the front of the desk, label... More

Assemblée des Capucins l'Assemblée des aristocrates, ou l'harmonica des aristocruches.

Assemblée des Capucins l'Assemblée des aristocrates, ou l'harmonica de...

Print shows a Capucin monk standing on a platform covered with money bags, ringing a bell, with a bird perched on his head, amid a collection of various jugs, jars, vases, pots (aristocratic dolts or blockheads... More

The plot of Carroll'sburgh : [part of Washington D.C.].

The plot of Carroll'sburgh : [part of Washington D.C.].

Cadastral survey map showing lot numbers. Pen-and-ink. Oriented with north toward the upper right. Torn and fold-lined. Accompanied by index of lots: List of the original proprietors of the lots in Carrollsburg... More

Monsr. Garnerin, the intrepid aeronaut, engraving, Library of Congress

Monsr. Garnerin, the intrepid aeronaut, engraving, Library of Congress

Oval head-and-shoulders profile portrait of French balloonist and parchutist A.J. Garnerin. Tissandier collection.

Katsukawa Shunchō - Yanagi no niwa - Ukiyo e print

Katsukawa Shunchō - Yanagi no niwa - Ukiyo e print

Print shows three women and a child, standing next to and sitting on a bench beneath a willow tree at the edge of a pond. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print spec... More

Shichirigahama zu - Public domain  drawing

Shichirigahama zu - Public domain drawing

Print shows a seacoast village and mountain, with view of Mount Fuji in the background. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. Format: Koga... More

Thomas Paine / Romney pinxt. ; Wright sculpt.

Thomas Paine / Romney pinxt. ; Wright sculpt.

Print shows author and philosopher Thomas Paine, half-length portrait, facing left. Engraving of a 1792 painting by George Romney. Exhibited in: "Creating the United States" at the Library of Congress, Washing... More

Con-g-ss embark'd on board the ship Constitution of America bound to Conogocheque by way of Philadelphia

Con-g-ss embark'd on board the ship Constitution of America bound to C...

In July 1790 Congress decided to move the seat of the federal government from its original site in New York to Washington, with Philadelphia as an interim capital. The unidentified satirist gives a cynical view... More

Les frères Montgolfier / Pigeot, del. et sculp.

Les frères Montgolfier / Pigeot, del. et sculp.

Bust-length double profile portrait of the Montgolfier brothers, French ballonists. After the gold medal designed by Houdon. "Aux frères Tissandier" inscribed below portrait. Tissandier collection.

Thomas Jefferson to Nicholas Lewis, July 4, 1790

Thomas Jefferson to Nicholas Lewis, July 4, 1790

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William Temple Franklin to Thomas Jefferson, October 13, 1790

William Temple Franklin to Thomas Jefferson, October 13, 1790

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[Geometrical diagrams relating to perspective methods by various authors; one-point perspective sketch of interior]

[Geometrical diagrams relating to perspective methods by various autho...

Four diagrams showing Miller, Kirby, Priestley, and Jesuit & French methods of perspective; sketch of interior to left. Note at center: "Artist's repository". Perspective sketch of structure with pedimented win... More

Henry Remsen, Jr. to Thomas Jefferson, October 14, 1790

Henry Remsen, Jr. to Thomas Jefferson, October 14, 1790

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City election race for the court plate, British Cartoon Print

City election race for the court plate, British Cartoon Print

Print shows on the left P--t [Pitt], labeled "Bank Directorship", banging his head on the Temple Bar before even getting started, the center is filled with N--n [?], labeled "Motion for paying the Prince's Debt... More

L'aristocratic écrasée - Public domain scan / engraving

L'aristocratic écrasée - Public domain scan / engraving

Print shows a bust portrait of Louis XVI atop a pedestal with engraved text "A Louis XVI Pere des Français et Roi d'un peuple libre." A reclining female figure, aided by Father Time, is engraving text on plaque... More

Benjamin Franklin - né a Boston, le 17 Janvier 1706 / dessiné par Desrais ; gravé par la Cite. Montaland.

Benjamin Franklin - né a Boston, le 17 Janvier 1706 / dessiné par Desr...

Print shows Benjamin Franklin, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left, in oval. Caption continues: Imprimeur; fondateur de la République des Etats unis de l'Amerique Septentrionale - mort à Philadel... More

The Providence Gazette and Country Journal Saturday, August 21, 1790. No. 30 of Vol. XXVII. Published by John Carter, at the Post-Office, near the State-House. [1936].

The Providence Gazette and Country Journal Saturday, August 21, 1790. ...

Facsimile distributed as souvenir at meeting of American Historical Association at John Carter Brown Library Dec. 30, 1936. Page Order: Leaflet Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two for... More

The knight of the woeful countenance going to extirpate the National Assembly, British Cartoon Print

The knight of the woeful countenance going to extirpate the National A...

Print shows Edmund Burke as Don Quixote, wearing armor, carrying lance and shield labeled "Shield of Aristocracy and Despotism," riding a donkey, emerging from the doorway to the "Dodsley Bookseller" the publis... More

A short account of the establishment of the new See of Baltimore in Maryland : and of consecrating the Right Rev. Dr. John Carroll first bishop thereof on the feast of the assumption, 1790 : with a discourse delivered on that occasion, and the authority for consecrating the bishop, and erecting and administering the said see : to which are added extracts from the different bills of right and Constitution of the United States.
A short account of the establishment of the new See of Baltimore in Maryland : and of consecrating the Right Rev. Dr. John Carroll first bishop thereof on the feast of the assumption, 1790 : with a discourse delivered on that occasion, and the authority for consecrating the bishop, and erecting and administering the said see : to which are added extracts from the different bills of right and Constitution of the United States.
Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow.

Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow.

Epigraph on t.p.: "Chudishche oblo, ozorno, ogromno, stozi︠e︡vno i lai︠a︡ĭ" -- Tilemakhida, tom ii, kn. xviii, sti: 514. Signatures: pi² Cyrillic A-ʹ[mi︠a︡khkiĭ znak]⁸. In each signature only first and fifth ... More

15e.[-30e.] recueil des contre-danses et walzes

15e.[-30e.] recueil des contre-danses et walzes

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15e.[-30e.] recueil des contre-danses et walzes

15e.[-30e.] recueil des contre-danses et walzes

Public domain scan of dance manual, 18th-century France, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Verzeichniss des musikalischen nachlasses des verstorbenen capellmeisters
Anecdote arrivée á Louis XVI, quelques jours aprés sa residence á Paris

Anecdote arrivée á Louis XVI, quelques jours aprés sa residence á Pari...

Scene in Paris plaza between King Louis XVI and a boy begging for money. The boy calls the king Monsieur le Chevalier but is directed to call him "l'aine de la famille" [family elder] by another man in the stre... More

[Double profile portrait of the Montgolfier brothers, French balloonists, with view of their birthplace, Annonay, and two other scenes from "France pittoresque"]

[Double profile portrait of the Montgolfier brothers, French balloonis...

Tissandier collection. Public domain scan of portrait print from Library of Congress, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

An act to authorize a grant of lands to the French inhabitants of Galliopolis, and for other purposes therein mentioned ... [179-].

An act to authorize a grant of lands to the French inhabitants of Gall...

Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 223, Folder 27.

Charles aux Thuilleries [i.e. Tuileries] le 1er decembre 1783

Charles aux Thuilleries [i.e. Tuileries] le 1er decembre 1783

Head-and-shoulders profile portrait of French balloonist J.A.C. Charles, who made the first flight in a hydrogen balloon, Dec. 1, 1783. "Jusq'alors san égal, le monarque des airs, y suivit son rival" printed b... More

The Author of The Wealth of nations / Kay, fecit., British Cartoon Print

The Author of The Wealth of nations / Kay, fecit., British Cartoon Pri...

Full-length standing profile portrait of Adam Smith pointing at book on small table. Forms part of : British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congress)

Liste de tous les prêtres trouvés en flagrant délit, 1790-Frontispice

Liste de tous les prêtres trouvés en flagrant délit, 1790-Frontispice

Français : Frontispice pour la liste de tous les prêtres trouvé en flagrant délit chez les filles publiques

Gullah s carolina 1790 - A painting of a group of people in front of a building

Gullah s carolina 1790 - A painting of a group of people in front of a...

"The Old Plantation," South Carolina, about 1790. This famous painting shows Gullah slaves dancing and playing musical instruments derived from Africa. Scholars unaware of the Sierra Leone slave trade connectio... More

Globo terrestre / Historic map, Library of Congress

Globo terrestre / Historic map, Library of Congress

Relief shown pictorially. Gores for a 34 cm. globe. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Gift; Summit Enterprise, Inc.; May 2003. All sheets folded horizontally, with paper... More

Giuseppe Michele Montgolfier / Pinelli, inc.

Giuseppe Michele Montgolfier / Pinelli, inc.

Tissandier collection. Public domain scan of portrait print from Library of Congress, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The man of the poeple [sic] attempting another coalition, to creep in for Westminster The modern Judas. Addressed to the free electors of Westminster., British Cartoon Print

The man of the poeple [sic] attempting another coalition, to creep in ...

A British satire in which Charles James Fox, depicted with two faces, seeks the support of a former enemy, Sir Samuel Hood, while repudiating a former friend, Lord John Townshend. A scene in the background show... More

George Skene Keith, 1790, Synopsis of a British System of Equalization of Weights and Measures

George Skene Keith, 1790, Synopsis of a British System of Equalization...

Synopsis of a British System of Equalization of Weights and Measures

Edmund Randolph. Notes, Common Law. 1790. James Madison Papers.

Edmund Randolph. Notes, Common Law. 1790. James Madison Papers.

Transcripts, guides, and tools to help you use this collection may be found at loc.gov James Madison Papers.

October 30, 1790, Richmond County, For sale of glebes.

October 30, 1790, Richmond County, For sale of glebes.

Picryl description: Public domain copy of a historic document - petition, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

November 4, 1790, Amelia, Opposed to sale of glebe lands.

November 4, 1790, Amelia, Opposed to sale of glebe lands.

Picryl description: Public domain copy of a historic document - petition, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Delamotte to Thomas Jefferson, October 28, 1790, in French

Delamotte to Thomas Jefferson, October 28, 1790, in French

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State of Rhode-Island and Providence plantations. In General assembly, September session, A. D. 1790. It is voted and resolved, that a representative, qualified agreeably to the Constitution of the United States, to represent this state in the C

State of Rhode-Island and Providence plantations. In General assembly,...

Positive Photostat.; 0687 F2 22 0 46.; Rec. 11-25-46.; $15.00.; On verso, copy 2: {stamp} Copied from the orginial in The Rhode Island Historical Society; Ac. 5689; On verso, copy 3: {stamp} Gift Herbert Putn... More

15e.[-30e.] recueil des contre-danses et walzes

15e.[-30e.] recueil des contre-danses et walzes

Public domain scan of dance manual, 18th-century France, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Verzeichniss des musikalischen nachlasses des verstorbenen capellmeisters
Rembrandt van Rijn - Samson threatening his father-in-law

Rembrandt van Rijn - Samson threatening his father-in-law

Restrike from unidentified artist of Rembrandt's original work. In portfolio: Recueil de quatre-vingt-cinq estampes originales, têtes, paysages et différences sujets, dessinés et gravées de Rembrandt ... Paris ... More

Louis Bernard Guyton-Morveau, né à Dijon le 4 janvier 1737 / Dess. et gravé au physionotrace par Quenedey, rue Croix des Petits Champs, no. 10,à Paris.

Louis Bernard Guyton-Morveau, né à Dijon le 4 janvier 1737 / Dess. et ...

Head-and-shoulders profile portrait of French scientist Louis Bernard Guyton-Morveau. Tissandier collection.

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