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Interview Between Lord Howe & Committee of Congress

One engraving entitled "Interview Between Lord Howe & Committee of Congress" dated 1866. Depicts an interview between Lord Howe and the Committee of Congress, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, and Edward Rutledge. Engraved from the original painting by...

GLC08878.0096

Members of the Federal Convention 1787

One engraving entitled "Members Of The Federal Convention" dated 1787. Portraits of Rufus King, John, Dickinson, Gouverneur Robert Morris, Oliver Ellsworth, John Rutledge. Engraved by J. Rogers.

GLC08878.0109

A Sketch of the operations before Charlestown [Charleston, S.C.]....

The key provides detailed military information. Nebenzahl, Battle Plans of the American Revolution, 136.

GLC03103.13

Intellectual Freedom, Vol. XI, No. 3

One newsletter dated October 1962, edited by Leroy Charles Merritt as part of the Intellectual Freedom Committee of the American Library Association. Mentions censorship and other racial insensitivities. Issues in this volume of the newsletter...

GLC09641.05

Battle at Lexington

One engraving entitled, "Battle at Lexington" circa 1861-1877. Depicts combat between British forces and American minute-men. On the left an unkown man sits in shock holding the lifeless body of his comrade with another fallen American at his feet...

GLC08878.0052

to Rufus King

References many letters he has received from King and others. Pickering writes as Secretary of State to King as American Minister to Britain. Expresses anger at the French Directory over exclusion of American representatives in XYZ affair. Says...

GLC06652

The War with Mexico reviewed

Autographed inscription reads "G.L. Wston Esqr., With the respects of John Ball."

GLC00267.130

to John Adams

Written by Secretary of War Knox to Vice President Adams. Thanks Adams for his hospitality at Bush Hill. Mentions criticism of Adams's travels in the Connecticut and New York newspapers. Comments on the "political heresy [of the] American edition...

GLC02437.04986

[Portraits of John Trumbull, Daniel Boone, Benjamin Rush, John Eager Howard and William Pinkney]

One untitled engraving circa 1861-1877. Portraits of John Trumbull, Daniel Boone, Benjamin Rush, John Eager Howard, and William Pinkney. Engraved by John Rogers.

GLC08878.0095

Writers Take Sides

One edition of "Writers Take Sides" published by the League of the American Writers dated May 1938. Contains 418 authors' perspectives on the Spanish Civil War. Includes excerpts from Ernest Hemingway, Dashiell Hammett, Pearl S. Buck, Earl Browder...

GLC09640.109