Gillender Building, New York City
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Historic Electric City sign, restored in 2008, shines again. Scranton,...
Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer. Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Gift and purchase ; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-201... more
Detail of a historic car with license plates from the 1940s. San Franc...
Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs... more
Americæ pars, nunc Virginia dicta : primum ab Anglis inuenta, sumtibus...
Scale ca. 1:1,700,000. Has watermark. Oriented with north to the right. Relief shown pictorially and by hachures. Pictorial map. Covers coastal region from Cape Fear to Chesapeake Bay. From Thomas Hariot's A br... more
![[Ironclad vessel with rudder and paddlewheel]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE2NjQvMDEvMDEvaXJvbmNsYWQtdmVzc2VsLXdpdGgtcnVkZGVyLWFuZC1wYWRkbGV3aGVlbC02NDAuanBn/40/23/webp "[Ironclad vessel with rudder and paddlewheel]")
[Ironclad vessel with rudder and paddlewheel]
Illus. in: Gaspar Schott, Technica Curiosa, 1664, pl. 30, opp. p. 388. Reference copy may be in LOT 7007. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Marine engineering; ... more
![At the General Court of their Majesties Colony of the Massachusetts Bay in New-England, sitting in Boston by adjournment, December 10th, 1690 [An order for the granting forth of printed bills for seven thousand pounds] Cambridge: Printed by Samu](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn18/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMTEvMTgvYXQtdGhlLWdlbmVyYWwtY291cnQtb2YtdGhlaXItbWFqZXN0aWVzLWNvbG9ueS1vZi10aGUtbWFzc2FjaHVzZXR0cy1iYXktaW4tODM3MmIxLTEwMjQuanBn/40/52/webp "At the General Court of their Majesties Colony of the Massachusetts Bay in New-England, sitting in Boston by adjournment, December 10th, 1690 [An order for the granting forth of printed bills for seven thousand pounds] Cambridge: Printed by Samu")
At the General Court of their Majesties Colony of the Massachusetts Ba...
Positive Photostat.; This is supposed to be the first emission of paper money in the colonies.; Paper money. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as... more
![At a General Court for their Majesties Colony of the Massachusetts Bay in New-England, sitting at Boston, upon adjournment, December 22th, 1691 [A proclamation relating to various matters] [Cambridge Printed by Bartholomew Green 1691].](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMDkvMTgvYXQtYS1nZW5lcmFsLWNvdXJ0LWZvci10aGVpci1tYWplc3RpZXMtY29sb255LW9mLXRoZS1tYXNzYWNodXNldHRzLWJheS1pbi1uZXctZDkzZGQxLTEwMjQuanBn/40/55/webp "At a General Court for their Majesties Colony of the Massachusetts Bay in New-England, sitting at Boston, upon adjournment, December 22th, 1691 [A proclamation relating to various matters] [Cambridge Printed by Bartholomew Green 1691].")
At a General Court for their Majesties Colony of the Massachusetts Bay...
Incomplete. p. 2 wanting.; Positive Photostat.; Proclamation. 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... more
Benjamin Franklin
Medalist: Jean-Baptiste Nini (Italian, Urbino 1717–1786 Chaumont-sur-Loire)
Benjamin Franklin
Medalist: Jean-Baptiste Nini (Italian, Urbino 1717–1786 Chaumont-sur-Loire)
Benjamin Franklin
Probably François Marie Suzanne (French, active 1751–1802)
Portrait of Benjamin Franklin
After Louis de Carmontelle (French, Paris 1717–1806 Paris)
Benjamin Franklin
Medalist: Jean-Baptiste Nini (Italian, Urbino 1717–1786 Chaumont-sur-Loire)
![Province of the Massachusetts Bay. Jeremiah Allen, Esq; Treasurer and receiver general for His Majesties said Province. To [blank] constable or collector of the Town of [blank] Greetings, &c. … Given under my hand & seal at Boston, the fifth day](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMTAvMDEvcHJvdmluY2Utb2YtdGhlLW1hc3NhY2h1c2V0dHMtYmF5LWplcmVtaWFoLWFsbGVuLWVzcS10cmVhc3VyZXItYW5kLXJlY2VpdmVyLTI5NzM1MS0xMDI0LmpwZw%3D%3D/40/56/webp "Province of the Massachusetts Bay. Jeremiah Allen, Esq; Treasurer and receiver general for His Majesties said Province. To [blank] constable or collector of the Town of [blank] Greetings, &c. … Given under my hand & seal at Boston, the fifth day")
Province of the Massachusetts Bay. Jeremiah Allen, Esq; Treasurer and ...
Tax warrant filled in in mss. for the town of Salem. and signed by Jeremiah Allen.; Ford 540.; Not in Evans. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as... more
[Chart of Plymouth Bay.
Scale ca. 1:24,000. Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. Hand colored. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 960 Vault AACR2
Continental Congress. Proceedings of the Grand American Continental Co...
Printed in three columns.; Not in Evans.; On verso: Gift of Matt. B. Jones, Boston. Received May 15, 1934.; On verso: Ac. 4840. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsim... more
The following extracts from the votes and proceedings of the American ...
Positive Photostat.; Photographic reproduction.; Stamped on verso: Mss Division.; On verso: Ac. 373. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full te... more
A plan of the sea coast from Boston Bay to the light house near Rhode ...
Scale 1:253,440; 4 statute miles to 1 in. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Relief shown by shading. Has watermarks. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC Maps of N... more
Profile Bust of Benjamin Franklin
Attributed to Patience Wright (1725–1786)
A circumstantial account of an attack that happened on the 19th of Apr...
Positive Photostat.; A British account of Battle of Lexington.; Battle of Lexington. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Prin... more
A plan of the bay and harbor of Boston, surveyed agreeably to the orde...
Scale ca. 1:48,000. Relief shown by shading. Depths shown by soundings and color. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Has watermark. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image... more
In Provincial congress. New York, June 7, 1775. Resolved, that whensoe...
Imprint 3.; On verso: S; June 7, 1775. 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 108, Folder 27.
Whereas we the subscribers have broke the association of the late Cont...
Imprint 2. 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 108, Folder 28.
Whereas a report has been industriously propagated in this City, that ...
Evans 14333.; On verso: C; Aug 4, 1775. 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 108, Folder 31a.
To the Hone. Jno. Hancock, Esqre. president of ye Continental Congress...
Scale ca. 1:320,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Indexed for points of interest. Insets with indexes: Plan of Boston and its environs, 1775.--A view of the lines thrown up on Boston Neck; by the min... more
Edmund Pendleton to Virginia Delegates in the Continental Congress, Ju...
Private Addenda to Letter of Same Date; Pennsylvania-Virginia Boundary Dispute; Indian Lands
In the House of representatives. February 10 1776. Whereas the votes a...
Positive Photostat.; Stamped on verso: 504. 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 Collectio... more
Virginia Delegates in Continental Congress to Virginia Convention, Apr...
Appointment of Surgeons; Canadian Campaign; Notation on Coin Production
Continental Congress, August 27, 1776, Draft of Resolution to Recruit ...
Draft of Resolution to Recruit British Officers and Soldiers into Continental Army
Continental Congress, July 1776, Suggestions on Tenure of Delegates
Suggestions on Tenure of Delegates
[Chart of Buzzards Bay and Vineyard Sound.
Scale ca. 1:51,000. Depths shown by soundings. LC copy imperfect: Deteriorated along folds and lower margin. No. "16" in upper left corner. "Note. The soundings and nautical remarks in this chart are laid down ... more
Continental Congress, August 27, 1776, Draft of Resolution to Recruit ...
Draft of Resolution to Recruit British Officers and Soldiers into Continental Army; Incomplete
![In convention of the representatives of the state of New York. To [blank] Greeting. Whereas this Convention, in pursuance of the resolves of the Continental Congress, did on the 9th day of June last, direct and order the raising and embodying,](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMDkvMTQvaW4tY29udmVudGlvbi1vZi10aGUtcmVwcmVzZW50YXRpdmVzLW9mLXRoZS1zdGF0ZS1vZi1uZXcteW9yay10by1ibGFuay1ncmVldGluZy1iMDNkNTYtMTAyNC5qcGc%3D/40/54/webp "In convention of the representatives of the state of New York. To [blank] Greeting. Whereas this Convention, in pursuance of the resolves of the Continental Congress, did on the 9th day of June last, direct and order the raising and embodying,")
In convention of the representatives of the state of New York. To [bla...
Imprint 2.; 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 109, Folder 20.
[A chart of Boston Bay and vicinity.
Scale ca. 1:50,000. Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 951 LC copy imperfect: De... more
Benjamin Franklin
After Jean-Baptiste Greuze (French, Tournus 1725–1805 Paris) Made in France
An abstract from resolves containing the encouragement offered by the ...
Copy 2 formerly numbered as Portfolio 40, Folder 7. This item has been renumbered from Portfolio 40, Folder 7. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and ... more
The hon. John Hancock, Esq. - president of the honourable the Continen...
Print shows left profile bust portrait of John Hancock between text on "The Character of a Patriot." Title from item. Illus. in: Bickerstaff's Boston almanack, ... (Boston, Mass.). Boston : 1777, p. 3. Publishe... more
![Continental Congress Broadside, 1777 : [April 14-15 resolves on Committee of Conference meeting with Pennsylvania officials]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE3NzcvMDEvMDEvY29udGluZW50YWwtY29uZ3Jlc3MtYnJvYWRzaWRlLTE3NzctYXByaWwtMTQtMTUtcmVzb2x2ZXMtb24tY29tbWl0dGVlLW9mLWNvbmZlcmVuY2UtNjQwLmpwZw%3D%3D/40/60/webp "Continental Congress Broadside, 1777 : [April 14-15 resolves on Committee of Conference meeting with Pennsylvania officials]")
Continental Congress Broadside, 1777 : [April 14-15 resolves on Commit...
Broadside (no lillus.), printed by John Dunlap, Baltimore, 1777. Reference copy may be in SSF - Congresses and Conventions 1777. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracing... more
Continental Congress, November 28, 1777, List of Expenses; Budget
List of Expenses; Budget
![Continental Congress Broadside, 1777 : [Resolve of February 15, endorsing New England Conference Report]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE3NzcvMDEvMDEvY29udGluZW50YWwtY29uZ3Jlc3MtYnJvYWRzaWRlLTE3NzctcmVzb2x2ZS1vZi1mZWJydWFyeS0xNS1lbmRvcnNpbmctbmV3LWVuZ2xhbmQtNjQwLmpwZw%3D%3D/40/61/webp "Continental Congress Broadside, 1777 : [Resolve of February 15, endorsing New England Conference Report]")
Portrait of Benjamin Franklin
Augustin de Saint-Aubin (French, Paris 1736–1807 Paris)
Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790), after a Painting by Greuze of 1777
Charles Paul Jérôme de Bréa (French, ca. 1739–1820)
State of Massachusetts Bay In the House of representatives, September ...
Positive Photostat.; Stamped on verso: 595. 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 Collectio... more
Franklin, Benjamin
Radierer: Tardieu, Ambroise Zeichner: Tardieu, Ambroise faktischer Entstehungsort: Paris
![Dr. Beniamin [i.e., Benjamin] Franklin gebohrn zu Boston den 17 Janü. 1706](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE3NzgvMDEvMDEvZHItYmVuaWFtaW4taWUtYmVuamFtaW4tZnJhbmtsaW4tZ2Vib2hybi16dS1ib3N0b24tZGVuLTE3LWphbnUtMTcwNi02NDAuanBn/40/68/webp "Dr. Beniamin [i.e., Benjamin] Franklin gebohrn zu Boston den 17 Janü. 1706")
Dr. Beniamin [i.e., Benjamin] Franklin gebohrn zu Boston den 17 Janü. ...
Print shows Benjamin Franklin, half-length portrait, facing slightly right, wearing fur hat, holding book, in oval. Title from item. Illus. in: Geschichte der kriege in und ausser Europa / Christoph Heinrich Ko... more
Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union between the states of Ne...
Title page, no illustration. See E289.U55 (P&P Ref), p. 37. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Va. W-; Articles of Confederation; US Hist. 1778; RBD; Shelf.
Arthur Lee to Continental Congress Secret Committee, April 2, 1778, Ex...
Expense Account as Commissioner to the Court of France
Franklin, Benjamin
Radierer: Fritzsch, Johann Christian Gottfried
Buzzards Bay and shoals of Nantucket.
Scale ca. 1:100,000. Title on verso: Nantucket Shoals and Buzzards's Bay by Lieutt. Knight, 1778. Soundings shown in fathoms. Manuscript, pen-and-ink, pencil, and watercolor. Watermark: Large fleur-de-lis in a ... more
William Lee to Continental Congress Secret Committee, September 12, 17...
Commercial Treaties with Holland and France; Extract
Continental Congress, September 24, 1779, Memorandum on Gold Medal for...
Memorandum on Gold Medal for Henry Lee for Leadership at Powles Hook
[Penobscot River and Bay, with the operations of the English fleet, un...
Scale ca. 1:46,000. Title from William Faden's Catalogue of a curious and valuable collection of original maps and plans. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Has watermarks. Oriented with north to the right... more
Medallion of Benjamin Franklin
Jean-Baptiste Nini (Italian, Urbino 1717–1786 Chaumont-sur-Loire) Made in France
[Map of Stony and Verplanck Points on the Hudson River as fortified by...
Scale ca. 1:20,400. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Has watermark. Relief shown by hachures. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1198 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster... more
Benjamin Franklin L.L.D. F.R.S. - one of the American plenipotentiarie...
Print shows Benjamin Franklin, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left, without spectacles, wearing fur cap, in oval. Title from item. After a portrait by Cochin. Illus. in: An impartial history of the present... more
Portrait Panel of Benjamin Franklin
Probably made in Germany
State of Massachusetts Bay. In the year of our Lord one thousand seven...
Copy 2 & 3 Photographic reproduction.; Imprint 3. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. 3 duplicate copies Printed Ephemera Col... more
![A new and accurate map of the colony of Massachusets [i.e. Massachusetts] Bay, in North America, from a late survey.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMDkvMzAvYS1uZXctYW5kLWFjY3VyYXRlLW1hcC1vZi10aGUtY29sb255LW9mLW1hc3NhY2h1c2V0cy1pZS1tYXNzYWNodXNldHRzLWJheS1pbi0yYTEzOTktMTAyNC5qcGc%3D/40/33/webp "A new and accurate map of the colony of Massachusets [i.e. Massachusetts] Bay, in North America, from a late survey.")
A new and accurate map of the colony of Massachusets [i.e. Massachuset...
Covers eastern Massachusetts, Rhode Island, eastern Connecticut, and small portions of New Hampshire and Vermont. Relief shown pictorially. From Universal magazine of knowledge and pleasure, vol. 66, Dec. 1780,... more
Samuel Adams, esqr. One of the delegates from the province of Massachu...
Samuel Adams, full-length portrait, seated by window, facing slightly left.
Benjamin Franklin L.L.D. - envoy from the American Congress to the Fre...
Print shows Benjamin Franklin, three-quarter length portrait, seated at desk, facing right with left arm resting on arm of chair. Title from item. Illus. in: An impartial history of the war in America, between ... more
Benjamin Franklin - né à Boston dans la Nouvelle Angleterre, le 17 Jan...
Print shows Benjamin Franklin, head-and-shoulders portrait, wearing fur hat, without spectacles, facing left, in oval tied with a ribbon at top, on base in frame with title plate. Title from item. No. 1515. Ref... more
Benjamin Franklin, né à Boston le 17 janvier 1706 - eripuit cœlo fulme...
Benjamin Franklin, half-length portrait, seated at table, facing front; map and his spectacles are on the table.
Plan du terrein à la rive gauche de la rivière de James vis-à-vis Jame...
Scale ca. 1:16,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Has watermark. Relief shown by hachures. Includes index to points of military interest. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1451 Available also throu... more
His excy. John Hancock, Esqr., late president of the American congress...
Print shows John Hancock, full-length portrait, seated facing right, with pen appears to be signing a document labeled "To the People of Ireland"; other papers on table and floor are "Resolutions of the Contine... more
Franklin, Benjamin
Zeichner: Carmontelle, Louis Verleger: Née, François Denis Verlagsort: Paris
Premiere assemblée du congrès / dessiné par le Barbier Peintre du Roi ...
Print shows session of the First Continental Congress, September 1774, in Carpenter's Hall, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Title from item. Illus. in: Essais historiques et politiques sur les Anglo-Américains, ...... more
Benjamin Franklin / J. Pelicier sculp. 1782.
Print shows Benjamin Franklin, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left, wearing fur collar, in oval draped with foliage on pedestal with books, map, eagles, storm clouds and lightning, and with "VIR" ... more
