american revolution

In Congress, July 4, 1776 : the unanimous declaration of the thirteen ...

Cornwallis, Charles Cornwallis - Public domain portrait engraving

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U.S. Capitol paintings. George Washington with British soldiers at Yor...

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USS Constitution fires a 21-gun salute toward Fort Independence on Cas...

BOSTON (Oct. 21, 2010) USS Constitution fires a 21-gun salute toward Fort Independence on Castle Island during an underway to celebrate the 213th launching day anniversary of the ship. Constitution is the world... More

A Sailor is interviewed by WGNO-TV reporter John Huffman during an eve...

CHALMETTE, La. (Apr. 17, 2012) Boatswain's Mate 1st Class Conrad Hunt, assigned to USS Constitution, is interviewed by WGNO-TV reporter John Huffman during an event for New Orleans Navy Week 2012. New Orleans N... More

A south east view of the great town of Boston in New England in Americ...

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Letter, Benedict Arnold to George Washington pleading for mercy for hi...

Reproduction number: A80 (color slide; page 1); A81 (color slide; page 2) Brig. Gen. Benedict Arnold (1741-1801) of the Continental army had fought gallantly for the American side since the beginning of the Rev... More

Letter, John Adams to Thomas Jefferson describing the cordial greeting...

Reproduction number: A51 (color slide; page 1); A52 (color slide; page 2) In this 3 June 1785 letter, written in his secretary's hand, John Adams (1735-1826), Revolutionary patriot and later president of the Un... More

Document, Thomas Addis Emmet collection

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John Langdon, signer of the Constitution of the United States.

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His Most Sacred Majesty George the III. King of Great Britain, &c.

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Founding fathers. The Philadelphia Library.

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Paper Money - Public domain dedication image

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Gen. Sir William Howe - Public domain portrait drawing

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Baron Steuben - Public domain portrait engraving

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Jean Loke - Public domain portrait engraving

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Letter to William Hill Wells, Dagsborough [Del.]

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Letter, Thomas Addis Emmet collection

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Document, Thomas Addis Emmet collection

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Document, Thomas Addis Emmet collection

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Paper Money - Public domain dedication image

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Paper Money, Thomas Addis Emmet collection

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Document, Thomas Addis Emmet collection

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Document, Thomas Addis Emmet collection

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By the United States in Congress assembled. August 17, 1785 : On the r...

Includes an order to transmit this and two previous resolves to the state legislatures. Title taken from caption title and opening lines of text. Imprint from Evans. Ascribed to the press of John Dunlap in the ... More

Description of counterfeit bills, which were done in imitation of the ...

Imprint from Evans, which dates as January 2, 1779. Evans 16562 Journals of the Continental Congress, 237 LC copy signed in ms. by John Gibson, auditor general for the Board of Treasury, and annotated at bottom... More

Tolbert Fanning to Andrew Jackson, May 30, 1845

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William Branch Giles to Andrew Jackson, October 9, 1829

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Andrew Jackson to Mary Eastin, October 24, 1830

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Crispus Attucks - Public domain portrait painting

Memorial portrait, bust, facing left. "The brave soldier of the Revolutionary War, 1770." Half-tone reproduction of painting. Copyright by W.H. Curd, Chicago, Ill. This record contains unverified, old data from... More

Josie's Declaration of Independence (cinema 1914) - actors & actresses

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Letter from John Holt

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George Mason. - Public domain portrait engraving

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Document, Thomas Addis Emmet collection

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Carpenter's Hall. - Public domain dedication image

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Lord Grenville. - Public domain portrait engraving

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Mount Vernon, the seat of the late President Washington.

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Thomas Paine. - Public domain portrait engraving

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George Washington, Esqr. General and Commander in Chief of the Contine...

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Document, Thomas Addis Emmet collection

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Letter to Gen. [Lachlan] McIntosh, Savanna, Ga.

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Col. Henry Lee - Public domain portrait engraving

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John Hancock - Public domain dedication image

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Alexander Hamilton - Public domain portrait engraving

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South West view of Fort George with the city of New York

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Picturesque America - On the French Broad, North Carolina

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General Howe. - Public domain portrait engraving

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[Washington, Steuben, De Kalb, Pulaski, Kosciuszko, Lafayette, Muhlenb...

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Document, Thomas Addis Emmet collection

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Document, Thomas Addis Emmet collection

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Document, Thomas Addis Emmet collection

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Letter from James Lovell

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James Madison correspondence: Letter from Moritz Furst

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Letter to Col. [John] Bradstreet

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Document, Thomas Addis Emmet collection

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Virginia, Boston Committee of Correspondence Records

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Journal, William Smith Jr papers

Willoughby Morgan to Andrew Jackson, December 8, 1816

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Congress, June 2, 1796 - Public domain document scan

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Thomas Beale to Andrew Jackson, March 6, 1815

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Thomas Ramsey to Willoughby Morgan, November 3, 1816

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Nicolas Ponce - [Surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown] - Nicolas Ponce

Wash drawing (reverse of printed versions) shows the surrender of Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown, Virginia. Illus. in: Recueil d'estampes representant les différents événemens de la Guerre qui a procuré l'indépen... More

The ghost of a guinea! or the country banker's surprise!! / Woodward, ...

Print shows a banker astonished by a guinea coin with King George III on it. The banker says, "Surely my eyes do not deceive me--it certainly must be a Guinea!--I declare I have not seen such a thing since I ha... More

John Sevier to James Madison, April 27, 1815

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Andrew Jackson to Amos Kendall, September 5, 1836

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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

John Adams : from a painting by Chappel in the possession of the publi...

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Yorktown Monument, Yorktown, Virginia

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"Boston tea-party." Three cargoes of tea destroyed. Dec. 16, 1773

G6078 U.S. Copyright Office. Reproduction based on engraving by D. Berger, 1784, after D. Chodowiecki. No. 8. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

Paul Revere House in Boston, Massachusetts by Stanley Scott

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Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy (MCPON) Rick West speaks with t...

BOSTON (Aug. 27, 2009) Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy (MCPON) Rick West speaks with the crew of the USS Constitution before attending a heritage training formal dinner, for the chief petty officer selec... More

The U.S. Coast Guard cutter USCGC Eagle passes USS Constitution in Bos...

BOSTON HARBOR (Jul. 04, 2012) The U.S. Coast Guard cutter USCGC Eagle (WIX 327) passes USS Constitution in Boston Harbor during the ship's July 4th turnaround cruise as part of Boston Navy Week. Boston Navy Wee... More

Destruction of the tea in Boston Harbor

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Portsmouth, N.H., about 1760. - Public domain dedication image

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Gilbert Stuart - [George Washington.]

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Abraham Whipple. - Public domain portrait drawing

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Israel Putnam Esqr., Major General of the Connecticut forces, and Comm...

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The Entrance to Westminster-School.

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Charles Lee, Esqr. Major General of the Continental Army in America

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The latest portrait of Napoleon (on board the Bellerophon)

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Letter to Sir John Johnson - Public domain document scan

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Letter to Benjamin Spencer and Amos Marsh, Clariden [Clarendon]

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Revolutionary War re-enactor Christopher Ruff, curator

Revolutionary War re-enactor Christopher Ruff, curator for the National Museum of the U.S. Army Reserve (wearing a replica uniform of the British Army's 7th Fusiliers), leads a group of senior leadership from t... More

Philip Dawe (attributed), The Bostonians Paying the Excise-man, or Tar...

Deutsch: Die Söhne der Freiheit, die einen Steuereintreiber unter dem Freiheitsbaum teeren und federn. English: A depiction of the tarring and feathering of Commissioner of Customs John Malcolm, a Loyalist, by ... More

Map of territorial growth 1775 - Wikimedia Public Domain Atlas

Deutsch: Östliches Nordamerika im Jahre 1775 mit der vom Königreich Großbritannien kontrollierten Provinz Quebec und den dreizehn Kolonien an der Küste sowie dem von diesen durch die Proklamationslinie von 176... More

Abner McCarty to Andrew Jackson, November 9, 1835

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New York Commercial Advertiser, November 21, 1814

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The British surrendering their arms to General Washington after their ...

Print showing British officers on the right, with Cornwallis presenting his sword, and French and American officers, center and left, with George Washington holding his hat in his left hand. Officers identified... More

George Washington notebook as a Virginia colonel

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Correspondence. Paper Money related to American Revolution.

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Minute book Volume 1, Boston Committee of Correspondence

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Correspondence - Public domain document scan

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Josie's Declaration of Independence (cinema 1914) - actors & actresses

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Hoboken in New Jersey, the seat of Mr. John Stevens.

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Letter to Samuel W[hittlesey] Dana, Middletown [Conn.]

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Portrait, portrait, Thomas Addis Emmet collection

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Hopothle Mico, or the Talassee King of the Creeks.

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Paper Money, Thomas Addis Emmet collection

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[Charleston, S.C.?.] - Public domain dedication image

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Washington at Valley Forge - Public domain portrait engraving

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