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Book/Printed MaterialThe address of the Lords and Commons to his Majesty, on the present state of America, &c. From the London Gazettee, of February 11... Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available Evans 14075. Scanned card stamped as no. 1125. LAC tnb 2020-11-23. LAC tnb 2020-11-23 create (1 card)
- Contributor: Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress) - Great Britain. Parliament
- Date: 1775
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Book/Printed MaterialLately re-printed, and to be sold by Joseph Crukshank, on the North-Side of Market Street, between Second and third Streets, Philadelphia, an account of the life of that ancient servant of Jesus ... Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available Not in Evans. Imprint 3. Scanned card stamped as no. 2411. LAC sba 2021-03-30. LAC sba 2021-03-30 create (1 card)
- Contributor: Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress) - Crukshank, Joseph
- Date: 1784
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Book/Printed MaterialPettie's-Island lottery, for disposing of a great variety of curious pictures, jewellery, &c. &c Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available Caption title. Date of publication from ESTC and Evans. English short title catalogue, W2641 Evans, C. American bibliography, 12521 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website. LC copy: [Postive Phototstat] LAC aam 2021-09-30 create (1 card) LAC ddw 2022-11-07 update (1 card) LC Review of LAC Completed/Approved 2023-07-25
- Contributor: Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1772
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Book/Printed MaterialRegulations to be observed in the delivery and distribution of fuel and straw to the garrisons on the sea coast, and recruiting parties. Given at the War-office of the United States in ... Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available Evans 33097 Scanned card stamped as no. 3901. LAC ael 2021-04-01. LAC ael 2021-04-01 create (1 card)
- Contributor: Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. War Department
- Date: 1797
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Book/Printed MaterialIn Congress, July 4, 1776, a declaration by the representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress assembled
Also known as: Dunlap Declaration of Independence This document is the first printed version of the American Declaration of Independence. On June 7, 1776, Richard Henry Lee of Virginia introduced a resolution urging Congress, meeting in Philadelphia, to declare independence from Great Britain. Four days later, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston were appointed as a committee to draft a declaration of independence. The committee's...- Contributor: United States - Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress) - Ridgely, David - Force, Peter - Dunlap, John
- Date: 1776
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Book/Printed MaterialAn ode for the 4th of July 1788. Attributed to Francis Hopkinson. Cf. Hastings, G.E. The life and works of Francis Hopkinson, 1926, p. 407-408. Place and date of publication from Evans. Printer found at lower right, outside ornamental border. Evans 21151 Evans 21346 Hastings, G.E. Hopkinson, p. 407-408 DLC Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Formerly LCCN tes52-820. qr03 09-06-90
- Contributor: Constitutional Convention Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - Carey, Mathew - Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress) - Hopkinson, Francis
- Date: 1788
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Book/Printed MaterialOrder of procession, in honor of the establishment of the Constitution of the United States : To parade precisely at eight o'clock in the morning, of Friday, the 4th of July, 1788 ... List of participants in four columns. Signed: By order of the Committee of Arrangement, Francis Hopkinson, chairman. Evans 21386 Ford, P.L. Pamphlets, 109 LC copy annotated on verso: Grand Procession July 4th 1788. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
- Contributor: Constitutional Convention Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress) - Hall & Sellers - Hopkinson, Francis
- Date: 1788
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Book/Printed MaterialWe the people of the states of New-Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New-York, New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North-Carolina, South-Carolina, and Georgia, do ordain, declare and establish the following constitution ... "The first draft of the report of the Committee of Five of the Federal Convention. Printed, for the use of members, in an edition of sixty copies, on one side of seven leaves, only"--Evans. Caption title. Imprint supplied by Evans. Evans 20815 Ford, P.L. Pamphlets, 20 Journals of the Continental Congress, 588 LC copy annotated in pencil on leaf [1]: (1787, Aug.) Report of...
- Contributor: United States - Constitutional Convention Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Constitutional Convention
- Date: 1787
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Book/Printed MaterialAn Address of the subscribers members of the late House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to their constituents. Caption title. Signed on p. 3: James M'Calmont ... [and 15 others]. Saturday Sept. 29th, 1787. Imprint supplied by Bristol. Not in Evans. Bristol B6434 Shipton & Mooney 45026 LC copy annotated on p. 3: Published & sold Oct. 2, 1787. The word "distributed" is crossed out and is replaced by the word "sold." Source: Transfer from Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. Also available...
- Contributor: Pennsylvania. General Assembly. House of Representatives - M'calmont, James - Constitutional Convention Broadside Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1787
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Book/Printed MaterialEine Addresse der Endsunterschriebenen, Glieder des letztern Hauses der Representanten der Republik Pennsylvanien, an ihre Constituenten. German translation of: An address of the subscribers members of the late House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to their constituents. Signed at the end: James M'Calmont ... [and 16 others]. Samstag den 29sten Sept. 1787. Imprint supplied by Evans. Text in three columns. Evans 20622 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Pencilled on verso: 2-87-267.4....
- Contributor: Pennsylvania. General Assembly. House of Representatives - M'calmont, James - Constitutional Convention Broadside Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1787
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Book/Printed MaterialThe Address and reasons of dissent of the minority of the convention, of the state of Pennsylvania, to their constituents. Caption title. Signed on p. [3] by Nathaniel Breading and twenty others; followed by the vote of the convention on ratification of the Constitution. Dated: Philadelphia, Dec. 12, 1787. Imprint from colophon. Text in three columns. Evans 20618 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
- Contributor: Constitutional Convention Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - Breading, Nathaniel - Oswald, Eleazer - Pennsylvania. Convention
- Date: 1787
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Book/Printed MaterialFriends, countrymen and fellow-citizens! : The present crisis demands your serious attention. You are now about giving your suffrages for members of the General Assembly ... Signed: A Constitutional mechanic. Imprint from Bristol. Not in Evans. Bristol B6491 Shipton & Mooney 45069 LC copy annotated on verso: 1786 Election Paper. Source: Transfer from Manuscript Department, Library of Congress. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Note on folder: Supp. Independent Chronicle Sept. 22 1787. qr01 09-22-89 Formerly LCCN tes54-326. qr01 09-22-90
- Contributor: Constitutional Convention Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - Constitutional Mechanic
- Date: 1787
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Book/Printed MaterialCentinel, no. II : To the people of Pennsylvania. Friends, countrymen, and fellow-citizens, as long as the liberty of the press continues unviolated ... Attributed to George Bryan. Cf. Konkle, B.A. George Bryan and the Constitution of Pennsylvania, p. 313. Signed on p. 2: Centinel. Originally printed in: Freeman's journal, Oct. 24, 1787. All other Centinel letters were first published in the Independent gazetteer. Variant printing of Evans 20249. Text in two columns. Not in Evans or Bristol. Konkle, B.A. George Bryan and the Constitution of Pennsylvania, p....
- Contributor: Constitutional Convention Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - Bryan, George
- Date: 1787
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Book/Printed MaterialOutlines of a plan for the establishment of a mint, for the United States : humbly submitted to Congress. William Barton's "Letters and thoughts on a mint" dated Aug. 22, 1785, was referred to the Board of Treasury Sept. 6, 1785. Cf. Journals of the Continental Congress, v. 29, p. 682. Caption title. Imprint statement from colophon; date supplied by Bristol. Dated on p. [4]: Philadelphia, August 22, 1785. Not in Evans. Bristol B6136 Shipton & Mooney 44756 LC copy annotated on p....
- Contributor: Barton, William - Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - Cist, Charles
- Date: 1785
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Book/Printed MaterialThe Board of Treasury to whom was referred their letter of the 29th of June last, together with sundry letters from the comptroller of the state of Pennsylvania, to Thomas Smith Esq; ... Signed and dated: Samuel Osgood, Walter Livingston, Arthur Lee. July 19th 1786. Imprint from Evans. Formerly ascribed to the press of John Dunlap in the Journals of the Continental Congress, v. 31, p. 964 (#544); but later volumes reject Dunlap as printer. Cf. JCC, v. 33. p. 753. Evans 20044 Journals of the Continental Congress, 544 LC copy annotated on verso: Report of Board...
- Contributor: Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - Osgood, Samuel - Livingston, Walter - United States. Continental Congress - Lee, Arthur - United States. Board of Treasury
- Date: 1786
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Book/Printed MaterialThe United States in Congress assembled, Friday, September 28, 1787 : ... Congress having received the report of the convention lately assembled in Philadelphia, resolved unanimously, that the said report, with the ... Signed: Charles Thomson, secretary. Evans 20790 Source: Transfer from Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Replaces cancelled LCCN 90-898119 which formerly was LCCN tes52-817. qr03 06-01-90
- Contributor: Thomson, Charles - Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress) - Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - Dunlap, John - Claypoole, David C. - United States. Continental Congress
- Date: 1787
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Book/Printed MaterialIn Congress, December 19, 1777 : Whereas Sir William Howe, commander in chief of His Britannic Majesty's forces, has required, that provisions should be sent in for the subsistence of the American ... Imprint supplied from Evans. Followed by: In Congress, January 21, 1778. The Board of War ... esteem it their duty to state to Congress the following facts relating to the American prisoners, in the power of the enemy ... Signed at the end: Extract from the minutes, Charles Thomson, secretary. Evans 16112 Journals of the Continental Congress, 195 Also available in digital form on...
- Contributor: Thomson, Charles - Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Continental Congress
- Date: 1778
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Book/Printed MaterialIn Congress, February 3, 1778 : Resolved, that every officer who holds or shall hereafter hold a commission or office from Congress, shall take and subscribe the following oath or affirmation ... Four resolutions of the Continental Congress concerning the loyalty oath. Signed: Extract from the minutes, Charles Thomson, secretary. Imprint supplied from Evans. Evans 16113 Journals of the Continental Congress, 197 LC copy annotated on verso: Resolves of Congress directing all Continental officers to take the Oaths of Allegiance &c. Febr. 3d 1778. Also annotated: Oath of Allegiance to the United States. Source: Transfer from...
- Contributor: Thomson, Charles - Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Continental Congress
- Date: 1778
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Book/Printed MaterialI [blank] do acknowledge the United States of America, to be free, independent and sovereign states, and declare that the people thereof owe no allegiance or obedience to George the Third, King ... Form of renunciation of allegiance to Great Britain, which all civil and military officers were required to sign. Publisher and place supplied by Evans, who gives date as 1776; however, "this title ... is the revised oath of allegiance adopted Feb. 3, 1778"--Ford, P.L. Continental Congress, 165. Evans 15183 Journals of the Continental Congress, 196 Ford, P.L. Continental Congress, 165 LC copy described is...
- Contributor: Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - Dunlap, John - United States. Continental Congress
- Date: 1778
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Book/Printed MaterialI [blank] do [blank] that I will faithfully, truly and impartially execute the office of [blank] to which I am appointed ... Oath required by the Continental Congress for all officials of the United States. Imprint supplied by Evans. Evans 16114 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
- Contributor: Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Continental Congress
- Date: 1778
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Book/Printed MaterialIn Congress, February 5, 1778 : Resolved, that the captain or commanding officer of each company in the service of the United States shall, at the end of every month, furnish the ... Imprint from Evans. Followed by resolutions of February 6 and February 9 concerning auditors of accounts and conduct of officers. Signed: Extract from the minutes, Charles Thomson, secretary. Evans 16115 Journals of the Continental Congress, 198 LC copy has annotation in margin next to resolution of Feb. 9: this--already transmitted. Also annotated (in pencil?): Ambrose Madison[?]. Source: Transfer from Manuscript Department, Library of Congress....
- Contributor: Thomson, Charles - Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Continental Congress
- Date: 1778
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Book/Printed MaterialIn Congress, February 6, 1778. For the better regulating the hospitals of the United States of America : resolved, that there be a deputy-director-general for the hospitals between Hudson and Potowmack rivers ... Establishing and regulating the administration of hospitals. Signed: Extract from the minutes, Charles Thomson, secretary. Imprint from Bristol. Not in Evans. Bristol B4815 Shipton & Mooney 43570 LC copy imperfect: small holes in text of 7th and 8th resolutions. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
- Contributor: Thomson, Charles - Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Continental Congress
- Date: 1778
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Book/Printed MaterialIn Congress, March 2, 1778 : Whereas it is essential to the operations of the army during the next campaign, that the most vigorous measures should forthwith be adopted for forming a ... Signed: Extract from the minutes, Charles Thomson, secretary. Imprint from Evans. Followed by: List of necessaries and accoutrements for each horseman. Evans 16116 Journals of the Continental Congress, 201 LC copy annotated on verso: Resolve of Congress of 2d. March 1778. for forming a body of horse. Source: Transfer from Manuscript Division, Library of Congress. Also available in digital form on the Library of...
- Contributor: Thomson, Charles - Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - United States. Continental Congress
- Date: 1778
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Book/Printed MaterialIn Congress, April 23, 1778 : Whereas persuasion and influence, the example of the deluded or wicked, the fear of danger, or the calamities of war, may have induced some of the ... Resolution of the Continental Congress recommending pardons to British sympathizers who freely turn themselves in. Signed: Extract from the minutes, Charles Thomson, secretary. Evans 16119 Journals of the Continental Congress, 203 LC copy annotated on verso: Vote[?] of Congress to receive returning Sinners. Dated in another hand: 23 Apr. 1778. Numbered at head of text: 124. Also available in digital form on the Library...
- Contributor: Thomson, Charles - Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - Hall & Sellers - United States. Continental Congress
- Date: 1778
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Book/Printed MaterialUnited States lottery : the scheme is, that this lottery consist of four classes, of one hundred thousand tickets each. ... Includes two resolutions of the Continental Congress, dated Nov. 27, 1776 and May 2, 1778, and signed: Extract from the minutes, Charles Thomson, secretary. Recorded twice by Evans, among entries for 1776 and 1778. Evans 16149 Evans 15193 Journals of the Continental Congress, 205 LC copy has inscription at head of text: Dirck Ten Broeck. Also available in digital form on the Library of...
- Contributor: Thomson, Charles - Ten Broeck, Dirck - Continental Congress Broadside Collection (Library of Congress) - Dunlap, John - United States. Continental Congress - United States Lottery
- Date: 1778
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