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Photo, Print, DrawingThe Radical Convention in Philadelphia, September 3d, 1866 Geary the candidate for Governor was in the procession. Every radical candidate for United States Senator took part. White men & women are you ... A racist poster attacking Republican gubernatorial candidate John White Geary for his support of black suffrage. (See also "The Constitutional Amendment!," no. 1866-5.) The artist purports to show the convention of Radical Republicans held in Philadelphia in September 1866. On a dais in the background left, black men cheer as a procession of white men arm-in-arm with blacks enter from the right. The legend...
- Contributor: Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress) - Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress) Dlc
- Date: 1866
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Photo, Print, DrawingThe constitutional amendment! One of a number of highly racist posters issued as part of a smear campaign against Pennsylvania Republican gubernatorial nominee John White Geary by supporters of Democratic candidate Hiester Clymer. (See also nos. 1866-6, 1866-7, and 1866-8.) Indicative of Clymer's white-supremacy platform, the posters attack postwar Republican efforts to pass a constitutional amendment enfranchising blacks. In "The Constitutional Amendment" a group of black men...
- Contributor: Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress) - Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress) Dlc
- Date: 1866
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Photo, Print, DrawingThe two platforms Another in a series of racist posters attacking Radical Republican exponents of black suffrage, issued during the 1866 Pennsylvania gubernatorial race. (See "The Constitutional Amendment," no. 1866-5.) The poster specifically characterizes Democratic candidate Hiester Clymer's platform as "for the White Man," represented here by the idealized head of a young man. (Clymer ran on a white-supremacy platform.) In contrast a stereotyped black head represents...
- Contributor: Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress) - Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress) Dlc
- Date: 1866
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Book/Printed MaterialSeasonable motives to our duty and allegiance Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available Attributed to Nathanael Byfield. Cf. ESTC. English short title catalogue, W2998 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website. Positive photostat. LAC nsk 2021-04-19 create (1 card) LAC ddw 2022-10-03 update (1 card) LC Review of LAC Completed/Approved 2023-06-27
- Contributor: Byfield, Nathanael - Bradford, William - Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 19??
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Photo, Print, DrawingThe Freedman's Bureau! An agency to keep the Negro in idleness at the expense of the white man. Twice vetoed by the President, and made a lawy by Congress. Support Congress & ... One in a series of racist posters attacking Radical Republicans on the issue of black suffrage, issued during the Pennsylvania gubernatorial election of 1866. (See also "The Constitutional Amendment!," no. 1866-5.) The series advocates the election of Hiester Clymer, who ran for governor on a white-supremacy platform, supporting President Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction policies. In this poster a black man lounges idly in the foreground...
- Contributor: Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress) - Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress) Dlc
- Date: 1866
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Book/Printed MaterialThe old Ephrata printing press on which the declaration of independence was printed, and the original house No. 702 Market Street in which it was actually written by Thomas Jefferson. Picture of press and house. History of the press and list of some of the books printed on the press. On the verso is printed the Declaration of independence. This broadside was made at the Centennial exhibition, Philadelphia, 1876. Online record has call number as Broadside portfolio 160 no. 6. LAC sba 2021-08-26. LAC sba 2021-08-26 create (1 card) Purchase May 1944.
- Contributor: Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress) - Old Ephrata Printing Press
- Date: 1876
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Book/Printed MaterialThe Pennsylvania hermit : Just published an interesting narrative of the life of Amos Wilson Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available Prospectus. Caption title. Woodcut illustration below title and additional woodcut illustration within text. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website. LAC aam 2021-09-27 create (1 card) LAC ecr 2021-09-28 review LC Review of LAC Completed/Approved 2021-10-04 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: 1821
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Book/Printed MaterialTo the Senate and House of Representatives, of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in General Assembly met : The petition of the subscribers, citizens of the said Commonwealth respectfully sheweth that your petitioners ... Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available Caption title. Regarding the formation of the Farmer's and Mechanics' bank incorporated in 1809. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website. LAC nsk 2021-03-29 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) - Pennsylvania. General Assembly
- Date: 1809
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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 MaterialThe agents of the Farmers' and Mechanics' Bank offer the following proposals, to the Legislature; either of which the Company will agree to accept Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available Caption title. Regarding the formation of the Farmer's and Mechanics' bank incorporated in 1809. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website. LAC ael 2020-03-02 create (1 card) LAC aam 2021-10-15 update (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) - Pennsylvania. General Assembly
- Date: 1809
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Book/Printed MaterialGrand national inauguration ball, March Fourth, 1857 : [invitation].
national inauguration ball, March Fourth, 1857 Printed invitation to James Buchanan's inaugural ball held at at Washington, D.C.'s Judiciary Square in a special building erected for the event to accomodate 6,000 people. The invitation lists the "managers" of the inaugural ball, including members of Congress, officers of the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps, and citizens. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LAC ecr 2021-11-02...- Contributor: Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1857
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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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