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[Land deed for future site of Washington, D.C.].

Countersigned by Jacob Welsh. Partly printed document, "Obligation. No. 289," deeds a lot of land in the future city of Washington to John Dewhurst. The exact location of the lot will be determined after the city's design is laid upon the land known...

GLC01527

Emancipation Proclamation

Official State Department printing of the final version, printed by the U.S. Government Printing Office. "...I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States and parts of States are and henceforward shall be free...

GLC01532

[Sample ballot card for the 1912 Republican National Convention]

Printed by Allied Printing. Inscribed "to little Miss Mabel" and signed by Roosevelt. The pro-Roosevelt campaign document explains how William H. Taft's managers "denied you the right to vote your preference for president" and instructs how to...

GLC01487

Acts and Resolutions re: preparing for war [with manuscript note]

Printed folio, stab stitched and signed by Henry Ward as Secretary. Addressed to the Town Clerk of Cumberland, Rhode Island.

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[Carte de visite portrait of Samuel F. B. Morse]

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[Massachusetts Order to recruit aid to fight against the British in New Jersey]

One broadside from Massachusetts calling for recruiters, officers and town selectmen who "are fired with love of Freedom and scorn to be Slaves" to fight against the British army in Morristown, New Jersey. Message printed by John Avery.

GLC01495

to the Treasurers of the Provincial Congress of New Jersey

Certifies payment to Augustine Stevenson for his service as a member of the New Jersey Committee of Safety.

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to the sheriff of Newport County

Informs that King George III has commanded troops be raised in the colonies. Indicates that Major General Jeffrey Amherst calls for 178 men to serve from Rhode Island. Orders the sheriff to give notice to the members of the general assembly in the...

GLC01500

[Document allocating funds for the construction of a naval galley]

Williams, a Lebanon, Connecticut city clerk and Selectman, reports that at a previous meeting, the Governor and Council of Safety of Connecticut voted that the Committee of Pay Tables should collect money to build a galley for use by the colony....

GLC01503

Items pertaining to James Sanks Brisbin. [Decimalized .01-.04 (20 items)]

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