Creating the Declaration of Independence

Revolution of the Mind

• Map of the British and French Dominions in North America, with the Roads, Distances, Limits, and Extent of the Settlements, by Jno. Mitchell d.f. with Improvements. Amsterdam: I. Covens and C. Mortier, 1755–1761. Hand-colored map. Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress (001.05.00) [Digital ID# ar004401]
• Carington Bowles (1724–1793). New Map of North America and the West Indies, Exhibiting the British Empire . . . . London: Carington Bowles, 1783. Hand‑colored engraved map. Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress (1.03.00) [Digital ID# ar010000]
• Benjamin Franklin. Plan of Proposed Union (Albany Plan), 1754. Manuscript. Hazard Papers in the Peter Force Collection, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (2.00.02) [Digital ID# us0002_2, us0002–us0002_2]
• John Locke. Two Treatises of Government. . . .The Latter is an Essay Concerning the True, Original Extent, and the End of Civil Government. London: Awnsham Churchill, 1690. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (003.00.04) [Digital ID#us0003p4]
• Henry Home, Lord Kames. Essays on the Principles of Morality and Natural Religion, in Two Parts. Edinburgh, 1751. Thomas Jefferson Library Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (4) [Digital ID# us0004]
• Algernon Sidney. Discourses Concerning Government by Algernon Sidney with His Letters, Trial, Apology, and Some Memories of His Life.  London: A. Millar, 1763. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (4.01.02) [Digital ID# us0004_01p1]
• Benjamin Smith. His Most Gracious Majesty King George the Third. Engraving from the original painting by Sr. Wm. Beechey, R.A. London: J and J Boydell, ca. 1804. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (005.01.00) [Digital ID# pga.03325]
• Letter from London merchants to John Hancock, March 18, 1766. Manuscript. Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (007.01.00) [Digital ID#us0007_01]
• Letter from John Brainerd to P.V.B. Livingston, November 20, 1752. Manuscript. Marian S. Carson Collection, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (7.03.00) [Digital ID# us0007_03]
• An Act for Repeal [of] the Stamp Act, March 18, 1766, At the Parliament Begun and Holden at Westminster.… London: Mark Baskett, Printer to the King, 1766. Marian S. Carson Collection, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (8) [Digital ID# us0008_1]
• The Repeal, or the Funeral of Miss Ame-Stamp, [1766]. Engraving. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (009.00.00) [Digital ID# ppmsca-15709]
• “An Attempt to Land a Bishop in America.” Cartoon in the British Political Register, 1768. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (010.00.00) [Digital ID# ppmsca-13637]
• William Samuel Johnson. “Declaration of Rights and Grievance,” October 19, 1765. Manuscript. Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (10.01.00) [Digital ID# us0010_01]
• Thomas Jefferson. A Summary View of the Rights of British America. Williamsburg: Clementina Rind, 1774. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (17.00.04) [Digital ID# us0017_2]
• Petition of the Continental Congress to King George III, October 26, 1774. Manuscript document in the hand of Timothy Matlack. Benjamin Franklin Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (018.00.03, 018.00.04) [Digital ID# us0018p3, us0018p4]
• Thomas Jefferson. “Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms,” 1775. Manuscript. Thomas Jefferson Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (19.00.02) [Digital ID# us0019_01p1]
• [Britannia toe] Amer[eye]ca. [London: Mary Darly, May 6, 1778.] Hand-colored etching. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (20.1) [Digital ID# ppmsca-17533]
• [America toe] her [miss]taken [moth]er. [London: Mary Darly, May 11, 1778]. Hand-colored etching. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (020.02.00) [Digital ID# ppmsca-19160]
• John Lodge (d. 1798). View of the Attack on Bunker’s Hill, with the burning of Charles Town, June 17, 1775. Engraved from a drawing by Mr. Millar. Etching. London: 1783. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (20.03.00) [Digital ID# ppmsca-15709]
• Benjamin Franklin. Woodcut from the Pennsylvania Gazette. Philadelphia: May 9, 1754. Serial and Government Publications Division, Library of Congress (002.02.00) [Digital ID# bf0002p2]
• An Act for Granting Certain Stamp Duties. London: 1765. Peter Force Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (007.04.00) [Digital ID# us0007_04]
• Letter from Benjamin Franklin to Charles Thomson, July 11, 1765. Manuscript. Charles Thomson Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (008.03.00) [Digital ID# us0008_03p1]
• Letter from Benjamin Franklin to Charles Thomson, September 27, 1766. Manuscript. Charles Thomson Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (008.02.00) [Digital ID# us0008_02]
• Thomas Jefferys, after George Heap. An East Prospect of the City of Philadelphia. Etching. London: Thomas Jefferys, ca. 1768. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (002.03.00) [Digital ID# pga.01698]
• Paul Revere. A View of the Obelisk Erected under Liberty-tree in Boston on the Rejoicings for the Repeal of the Stamp Act 1766. Etching with watercolor. Boston: 1766, restrike printed after 1836. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (009.02.00) [Digital ID# ppmsca.05479]
• Glorious News. Boston, Friday 11 O’Clock, 16th May 1766. This instant arrived here the Brig Harrison, belonging to John Hancock. Boston: 1766. Broadside. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (007.05.00) Digital ID# us0007_05
• The Horse America Throwing His Master. Westminster: Wm. White, August 1779. Etching. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (005.03.00) [Digital ID# cph 3g05286]

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Battle Joined

• James Otis. The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved. Boston: Edes and Gill, 1764. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (006.00.04) [Digital ID# us0006_04]
• Paul Revere. The Bloody Massacre Perpetrated in King Street, Boston on March 5th 1770 by a Party of the 29th Regiment. Engraving. Boston: Paul Revere, after 1770. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (11.02.00) [Digital ID# ppmsca-19159]
• Carl Gottlieb Guttenberg. The Tea Tax Tempest, or the Anglo-American Revolution. Germany, 1778. Engraving. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (11.03.00) [Digital ID# cph.3g04601]
• Reports of Cases Determined in the General Court of Virginia. . . . Charlottesville, Virginia: F. Carr, 1829. Law Library, Library of Congress (12) [Digital ID# us00012–us0012_1]
• “Americans Throwing the Cargoes of the Tea ships into the River, at Boston.” Engraving from W.D. Rev. Mr. Cooper. The History of North America. London: E. Newbery, 1789. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (12.01.00) [Digital ID# us0012_01]
• Letter from Elizabeth Smith to John Adams, October 14, 1774. Manuscript. Shaw Family Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (12.02.00) [Digital ID# us0012_02p1]
• Letter from Benjamin Franklin to Anthony Benezet, August 22, 1772. Manuscript. Benjamin Franklin Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (13) [Digital ID# us0013]
• Anthony Benezet. Observations on the Inslaving, Importing and Purchasing of Negroes with Some Advice Thereon. . . . Germantown, Pennsylvania: Christopher Sower, 1759. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (13.01.01) [Digital ID# us0013_02p1]
• Benjamin Rush. Address to the Inhabitants of the British Settlement in America upon Slave-keeping. Philadelphia: John Dunlap, 1773. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (14) [Digital ID# us0014]
• George Mason. Fairfax County Resolves, July 18, 1774. Manuscript. George Washington Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (14.01.03) [Digital ID# us0014_01p4]
• Mercy Otis Warren. The Adulateur. A Tragedy. . . . Boston: New Printing Office, 1773. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (15.00.03) [Digital ID# us0015p3]
• Letter from James Madison to James Madison, Sr., September 8, 1783. Manuscript. James Madison Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (16.01.00) [Digital ID# us0016_01]
• Attributed to Philip Dawe. The Bostonians in Distress. Mezzotint. London: R. Sayer and J. Bennett, 1774. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (16.03.00) [Digital ID# cph.3a13536]
• Letter from Thomas Jefferson to Jean Nicolas Démeunier, January 24, 1786. Manuscript. Thomas Jefferson Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (16) [Digital ID# us0016]
• George Mason and Thomas Ludwell Lee. Virginia Declaration of Rights, 1776. Manuscript. George Mason Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (33.00.00) [Digital ID#s us0033tt_1, us0033tt_2]
• James Madison. Notes of the Virginia Convention, May–June, 1776. Manuscript. James Madison Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (33.02.00, 33.02.01) [Digital ID#s us0033_02, us0033_02p01]
• Charles Willson Peale, painter and engraver. His Excel: G. Washington Esq. L.L.D., Late commander in chief of the armies of the U.S. of America and President of the Convention of 1787. Mezzotint engraving, 1787. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (021.01.00) [Digital ID# ppmsca-17515]
• The Honble. John Hancock of Boston in New-England, President of the American Congress—done from an original picture painted by Littleford. London: C. Shepherd, 1775. Mezzotint from a portrait by R. Purcell, alias C. Corbutt, alias  Littleford. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (24) [Digital ID# ppmsca-17519]
• Letter from Richard Henry Lee to Thomas Jefferson, July 21, 1776. Manuscript. Thomas Jefferson Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (24.01.00) [Digital ID# us0024_01]
• Thomas Jefferson. Rough Draft of the Declaration of Independence, June–July 1776. Manuscript. Thomas Jefferson Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (34) [Digital ID#s us0034tt_1–us0034tt_4]
• Thomas Jefferson. Fragment of Rough Draft of the Declaration of Independence, June 1776. Manuscript. Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (34.01.00) [Digital ID# frag1.jpg]
• Declaration of Independence, Philadelphia: John Dunlap, July 4, 1776. Broadside. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (36.01.00) [Digital ID# us0036_1]
• Declaration of Independence. [Kingston, New York: Samuel Loudon, July 9, 1776] Printed broadside. Marian S. Carson Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (36.02.00) [Digital ID# us0036_02]
• Maryland Journal and Baltimore Advertiser. Baltimore: Mary Katherine Goddard, July 10, 1776. Serial and Government Publications Division, Library of Congress (038.01.00) [Digital ID# us0038_01]
• Letter from John Hancock to George Washington, July 6, 1776. Manuscript letter in the hand of Jacob Rush and signed by John Hancock. George Washington Papers, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (35.00.01) [Digital ID#s us0035 _1, us0035]
• La Destruction de la statue royale a Nouvelle Yorck, Die zerstorung der konglichen bild saule zu Neu Yorck. Hand-colored etching. Paris: Chez Basset, ca. 1776. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (37) [Digital ID# ppmsca-17521]
• André Basset. Representation du feu terrible a Nouvelle Yorck (Representation of the terrible fire of New York). Paris: Basset, ca. 1778. Hand-colored etching. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (37.02.00) [Digital ID# ppmsca-19163]
• John McRae. Pulling Down the Statue of George III by the “Sons of Freedom” at the Bowling Green, City of New York, July 1776. Engraving from the painting by Johannes A. Oertel. New York: Joseph Laing, [ca. 1875]. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (37.03.00) [Digital ID# cph.3a06137]
• Will Faden. Plan of the City and Environs of Philadelphia, Survey’d by Nicholas Scull and George Heap. Engraving. London: W. Faden, 1777. Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress (38.00.00) [Digital ID# ct000185]
• Edward Savage. General George Washington, ca. 1790. Stipple engraving. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (127.00.00) [Digital ID# ppmsca-19171]
• Letter from William Whipple to Joshua Brackett, July 8, 1776. Manuscript. J.P. Morgan Signers of the Declaration of Independence Collection, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (024.02.00) [Digital ID# us0024_02p00]
• Letter from George Washington to Philip Schuyler, August 20, 1775. Letter book copy. George Washington Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (016.04.00) [Digital ID# us0016_04]
• Letter from George Washington to John Hancock, December 31, 1775. Letter book. George Washington Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (012.03.00) [Digital ID# us0012_03]
• Return of the Negroes in the Army, August 24, 1778. Manuscript. George Washington Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (016.05.00) [Digital ID# us0016_05]
• Captain Michel du Chesnoy. Carte de l’affaire de Monmouth: ou le G’al Washington commandon l’armée américaine et le g’l Clinton l’armée angloise le 28 juin 1778. Manuscript map, [June 1778]. Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress (021.03.00) [Digital ID# ar300500]
• Richard Smith. Diary, open to March 25, 1776. Manuscript diary. Richard Smith Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (039.00.00) [Digital ID# us0039]
• Letter from Benjamin Franklin to Lord Howe, July 20, 1776. Manuscript. Benjamin Franklin Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (029.01.00) [Digital ID# us0029_01]
• John McRae. Raising the Liberty Pole. New York: 1875. Engraving. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (037.04.00) [Digital ID# pga.02159]
• William J. Stone, Declaration of Independence. Washington, D.C.: 1823. Facsimile on vellum. Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (036.03.00) [Digital ID# us0036_03]
• John Hancock. Extract from Journals of Congress, July 4–5, 1776. Manuscript. George Washington Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (035.01.00) [Digital ID# us0035_01]
• Declaration of Independence, Pennsylvania Evening Post. Philadelphia: Benjamin Towne, July 6, 1776. Newspaper. Serial and Government Publications Division, Library of Congress (038.02.00, 038.03.00) [Digital ID#s us0038_02, us0038_02p1]
• Noel Le Mire (1724–1801). Le Général Washington, Ne Quid Detrimenti Capitat Res publica. Paris: ca.1785. Engraving. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (021.02.00) [Digital ID# cph 3c02494]
• Commission of George Washington as Commander in Chief, June 19, 1775. Manuscript document. George Washington Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (011.04.00) [Digital ID# us0011_04]
• Philip Dawe. The Alternative of Williams-burg. London: Printed for R. Sayer and J. Bennett, February 16, 1775. Mezzotint. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (013.02.00) [Digital ID# cph-3g05280]
• Certifications of the Oath or Affirmation of Allegiance and Fidelity. Printed and signed oaths, 1777–1782. Marian S. Carson Collection, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (135.01.00–135.04.00) [Digital ID#s us0135_01–us0135_04]
• The Rebels of “76—Or the First Announcement of the Great Declaration. Philadelphia: S. Ashton, ca. 1860. Hand-colored engraving. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (037.05.00) [Digital ID# pga.03091]
• The Curious Zebra–Alive from America! Walk in Gem’men and Ladies, Walk in. London: G. Johnson, 1778. Hand-colored etching. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (024.03.00) [Digital ID# ppmsca.10751]
• Artist Unknown. The Plan, or a Scene in the French Cabinet. [London: September 1779] Etching. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (127.01.00) [Digital ID# ppmsca.10081]
• Franz Xaver Habermann. L’Entré triumphe de troupes royales a Nouvelle Yorck. Augsbourg: ca. 1778. Hand-colored engraving. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (013.03.00) [Digital ID# ppmsca.24332]
• [Francis Hopkinson]. “The Toast,” 1778. Manuscript songbook. Music Division, Library of Congress (011.05.00) [Digital ID# us0011_05]
• Letter from Henry Laurens to George Washington, July 7, 1778. Manuscript. George Washington Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (039.01.00) [Digital ID# us0039_01]
• Letter from George Washington to John Hancock, December 20, 1776. Manuscript. George Washington Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (029.00.00) [Digital ID# us0029]
• Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Debates in the Continental Congress, June 7-August 1, 1776. [ante 1781]. Manuscripts. James Madison Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (034.02.03, 34.02.04) [Digital ID#s us0034_02p3, us0034_02p4]

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Founded on a Set of Beliefs

• Thomas Hutchins. A General Map of the Country of the Ohio and Muskingum, Showing the Situation of the Indian-Towns . . . in William Smith. An Historical Account of the Expedition against the Ohio Indians, In the Year 1764. . . .  Philadelphia: W. Bradford, 1765. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (7) [Digital ID#s  us0007, us0007_1]
• A. Newsam. Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the United States. P.S. Duval, lithographer. Lithograph. Philadelphia: C.S. Williams, ca. 1846. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (22.03.00) [Digital ID# ppmsca.19880]
• John Adams, Second President of the United States of America. Boston: Pendleton Lithography, ca. 1828. Lithograph after painting by Gilbert Stuart. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (023.05.00) [Digital ID# ppmsca.19162]
• Thomas McKenney and James Hall. “Thayendanega, The Great Captain of the Six Nations.” Lithograph from History of the Indian Tribes of North America. Philadelphia: E.C. Biddle [etc.], 1836–1844. Rare Book and Special Collections, Library of Congress (25.01.00) [Digital ID# us0025_01]
• Letter from George Washington to James Duane, September 7, 1783. Manuscript. George Washington Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (25.02.02) [Digital ID# us0025_02p1]
• Major General John Sullivan, a Distinguish’d Officer in the Continental Army. [London]: Thos. Hart, 1776. Mezzotint engraving. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (26.00.00) [Digital ID# ppmsca-15710]
• John Almon. The Allies—Par nobile Fratrum! [London]: I. Almon, Piccadilly, 1780. Etching. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (26.01.00) [Digital ID# cph.3a35345]
• Letter from Thomas Jefferson to the Marquis de Chastellux, June 7, 1785. Manuscript. Thomas Jefferson Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (27) [Digital ID# us0027]
• “Minutes of a Conference of the St. John’s and Micmac Indians,” July 10–17, 1776. Manuscript. Peter Force Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (027.01.03) [Digital ID# us0027_01p3b]
• Benjamin Hawkins. Journal, 1795–1799. Manuscript. Peter Force Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (028.00.04) [Digital ID# us0028_4]
• [Thomas Paine]. Common Sense: Address to the Common Inhabitants of America . . . . Philadelphia: R. Bell, 1776. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (030.00.04) [Digital ID# us0030_5]
• John Adams. Thoughts on Government: Applicable to the Present State of the American Colonies. . . . Philadelphia: John Dunlap, 1776. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (031.00.04) [Digital ID# us0031_04]
• Thomas Jefferson. Draft Virginia Constitution, [May 1776]. Manuscript. Thomas Jefferson Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (032.00.05) [Digital ID# us0032p5]
• A Map of the Lands Ceded by the Cherokee Indians to the State of South Carolina at a Congress Held in May, A.D. 1777 [ca. 1777]. Hand-colored manuscript map. Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress (126.00.00) [Digital ID# ar152200]
• A New and Accurate Map of the Province of Georgia in North America. [London: ca. 1779]. Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress (126.01.00) [Digital ID# ar156900]
• A Plan of the City and Environs of Philadelphia, survey’d by Nicholas Scull and George Heap. Engraved by Will Faden. London: W. Faden, 1777. Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress (38) [Digital ID# ct000185]
• Lewis Evans. A General Map of the Middle British Colonies in America. [London]: T. Jefferys, 1758. Hand-colored map. Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress (026.03.00) [Digital ID# ar071200]
• [Plan of part of a western front], ca.1778. Manuscript map. Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress (026.02.00) [Digital ID# ar105100]
• Thomas McKenney and James Hall. “Major Ridge, a Cherokee Chief.” Lithograph from History of the Indian Tribes of North America. Philadelphia: E.C. Biddle [etc.], 1836–1844. Hand-colored lithograph. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (126.03.00) [Digital ID# ppmsca.24339]
• Thomas Phillibrown. Incident in Cherry Valley, Fate of Jane Wells. New York: Martin, Johnson & Co., c. 1856. Engraving. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (126.04.00) [Digital ID# cph-3c11117]
• [James Chalmers]. Plain Truth; Addressed to the Inhabitants of America, Containing Remarks on a Late Pamphlet, Entitled Common Sense . . .Written by Candidus. Philadelphia: R. Bell, 1776. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (018.01.01) [Digital ID# us0018_01p1]
• William Sharp. Thomas Paine, after a portrait by George Romney. London: E. Truelove, [1794]. Engraving. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (022.05.00) [Digital ID# ppmsca.24327]

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Peace

• Sebastian Bauman. Plan de l’investissement de York et de Glocester, October 22–28, 1781. Philadelphia, 1782. Hand-colored printed map. Rochambeau Collection, Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress (40) [Digital ID# ar147100]
• Jean Nicolas Desandroüins. Armée de Rochambeau, 1782. Carte des environs de Williamsburg en Virginie où les armées françoise et américaine ont campés en Septembre 1781. Ithaca, N.Y.: Historic Urban Plans, 1775 [1782]. Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress (40.03.00) [Digital ID# ar146100]
• Balthasar Friedrich Leizelt. Combat memorable entre le Pearson et Paul Jones. Hand-colored etching after a painting by Richard Paton. Augsbourg: ca.1779. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (40.04.00) [Digital ID# cph.3b49755]
• York Town. [London, 1781]. Etching. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (41) [Digital ID# ppmsca-15706]
• John Paul Jones. “Memoire of the American Revolution.” Manuscript. John Paul Jones Papers in the Peter Force Collection, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (041.01.00) [Digital ID# us0041_01]
• George Washington. Diary entry for October 17, 1781. Manuscript. George Washington Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (42) [Digital ID# us0042]
• George Washington. Diary entry for October 16, 1781. Manuscript. George Washington Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (42.00.02) [Digital ID# us0042_02]
• Preliminary Articles of Peace, November 30, 1782. Manuscript. George Washington Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (043.00.04) [Digital ID# us0043p6]
• George Washington. Address to Congress, December 23, 1783. Manuscript document. George Washington Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (44) [Digital ID#s us0044, us0044_1]
• Letter from George Washington to the States, June 8, 1783. Manuscript. George Washington Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (044.01.02) [Digital ID#s us0044_01p3]
• Letter from George Washington to the Ministers of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church at Kingston, New York, November 16, 1782. Manuscript. George Washington Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (45) [Digital ID# us0045]
• “America Triumphant and Britannia in Distress” in Weatherwise’s Town and Country Almanack. [Boston: 1782]. Etching. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (041.03.00) [Digital ID# ppmsca.24328]
• The American Rattlesnake Presenting Monsieur His Ally a Dish of Frogs. [London]: J. Barrow, November 8, 1782. Etching. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (041.02.00) [Digital ID# cph 3a05327]
• The Hour of Insolence—We’ll Bring Them at Our Feet! [1782]. Ink drawing. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (045.03.00) [Digital ID# ppmsca.24334]
• The Hour of Humilitation—How Shall We Repass the Rubicon? [1782]. Ink drawing. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (045.02.00) [Digital ID# ppmsca.24333]
• Tanner, Vallance, Kearny & Co. The British Surrendering Their Arms to Gen. Washington After Their Defeat at York Town in Virginia October 1781. Philadelphia: Tanner, Vallance, Kearny & Co., January 28, 1819. Engraving. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (045.01.00) [Digital ID# pga-03352]

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Declaration Legacy

• Marquis de Lafayette. Declaration of the Rights of Man, Ante July, 1789. Manuscript document with emendations by Thomas Jefferson. Thomas Jefferson Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (109.00.02) [Digital ID# us0109p2]
• Texas Republic Declaration of Independence made at Washington on the second of March 1836, and the Constitution of the Republic of Texas, adopted by the Convention March 17, 1836. Houston: Printed at the Office of the Telegram, 1838. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (109.01.00) [Digital ID# us0109_01p0]
• Declaration of Rights of the Women of the United States, July 4, 1876. Elizabeth Cady Stanton Collection. Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (111.00.01) [Digital ID#s us0111_1, us0111_0]
• “Declaration of Sentiments” from Report of the Woman’s Rights Convention, Held at Seneca Falls, New York July 19 and 20, 1848. Rochester: North Star Office, 1848. Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (111.01.01) [Digital ID# us0111_01a]
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Scrapbook, 1848. Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (111.01.02) [Digital ID# us0111_01b]
• Paul Stahr. “1776—Retouching an Old Masterpiece—1915.” Cover illustration from Life, July 1915. General Collections, Library of Congress (112) [Digital ID# us0112]
• Did I Save My Country for This!, ca. 1915. Postcard. National American Woman Suffrage Association Records, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (112.01.00) [Digital ID# us0112_01]
• John T. McCutcheon. Wouldn’t the Founders of the Nation be Surprised if They Could See How It Has Grown! 1915. Pen and ink drawing. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (112.03.00) [Digital ID# cai.2a13864]
• Frederick Douglass. Men of color, to arms! A call. Broadside. Rochester, New York: 1863. Rare Books and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (112.02.00) [Digital ID# us0112_02]
• Joseph Pennell. “Lest Liberty Perish from the Face of the Earth, Buy Bonds.” Watercolor sketch for poster, 1918. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (114.01.00) [Digital ID# LC-DIG-ppmsca-18334]
• Martin Luther King. Speech during the March on Washington, August 28, 1963. Typescript filed for Copyright registration. Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (110.00.03)
• National Urban League. “We Shall Overcome: March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom,” 1963. Portfolio cover by Louis Lo Monaco. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (113) [Digital ID# ppmsca-08060_0001u]
• Danny Lyon. [The March on Washington, August 28, 1963]. Gelatin silver print, printed 1994. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (113.01.00) [Digital ID# ppmsca-19167]
• Associated Press. [A white youth matched strides with a negro student picketing the F. W. Woolworth store in Greensboro, N.C.] April 20, 1960. Photograph. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (113.02.00) [Digital ID# cph.3c35508]
• James H. Karales. Civil rights march [March 1965], published in Look Magazine, May 18, 1965. Gelatin silver print, printed later. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (113.03.00) [Digital ID# cph.3g04914]
• Joseph Pennell. “That Liberty Shall Not Perish from the Face of the Earth-Buy Liberty Bonds.” New York: Heywood Strasser and Voigt, [1918]. Lithograph. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (114.03.00) [Digital ID# ppmsca-18343]
• Thomas Moore. Independence Declared 1776. The Union Must be Preserved. [Boston: Joseph A. Arnold, ca. 1839]. Lithograph. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (114.05.00) [Digital ID# pga.02221]
• H. Schile. 1776, Centennial International Exhibition, 1876–History of the United States, 1875. Color lithograph poster. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (114.06.00) [Digital ID# pga.02653]
• Danny Lyon. [Civil Rights activists occupying a lunchroom counter during a sit-in, 1962–1964]. Gelatin silver print, printed later. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (113.04.00) [Digital ID# ppmsca.24330]
• Frederick Douglass. Oration in Corinthian Hall. Rochester, New York: 1852. Susan B. Anthony Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (109.02.00) [Digital ID# us0109_02]
• Martin Luther King Jr. Letter from the Birmingham City Jail, 1963. NAACP Records, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (111.02.01) [Digital ID# us0111_02a, us0111_02b]
• Think American Institute. “ The History of Liberty is a History of the Limitation of Governmental Power, not the Increase of It–Woodrow Wilson.” Rochester, New York: Kelly-Read & Co. Inc., 1941. Offset lithograph. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (114.04.00) [Digital ID# ppmsca.19869]

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Creating the United States Constitution

Road to the Constitution

• Benjamin Franklin. Plan for a Confederation, July 21, 1775. Printed document annotated by Thomas Jefferson. Thomas Jefferson Papers, Manuscript Division. Library of Congress (46.01.01) [Digital ID#s us0046a_2, us0046a, us0046a_2]
• Thomas Jefferson. Notes on Debates in the Continental Congress, June 7–August 1, 1776 [ante 1781]. James Madison Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (046.05.01) [Digital ID# us0046_05p1]
• Thomas Rodney. Diary entry, March 1, 1781. Rodney Family Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (48.00.00) [Digital ID#s us0048–us0048_4]
• Letter from Charles Thomson to George Washington, November 5, 1781. Manuscript. George Washington Papers, Library of Congress (48.01.00) [Digital ID# us0048_01]
• Letter from Thomas Jefferson to Robert Pleasants, [August 27, 1796]. Manuscript. Thomas Jefferson Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (048.03.00) [Digital ID# us0048_03]
• Committee of Congress. Draft Report of Northwest Ordinance, March 1784. Broadside with emendations by Thomas Jefferson. Thomas Jefferson Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (49.00.00) [Digital ID# us0049]
• Thomas Jefferson. Plan for Boundaries in Western Territory, [1784]. Manuscript document. Thomas Jefferson Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (49.01.00) [Digital ID# us0049_01]
• Printed draft of the Northwest Ordinance of 1784. Virginia Gazette, May 15, 1784. Serial and Government Publications Division, Library of Congress (049.02.00) [Digital ID# us0049_02p1]
• Letter from John Jay to George Washington, March 16, 1786. Manuscript. George Washington Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (50.00.00) [Digital ID# us0050]
• Letter from Henry Knox to George Washington, December 17, 1786. Manuscript. George Washington Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (50.01.00) [Digital ID#s us0050_01p1–us0050_01p3]
• Letter from Abigail Adams to Thomas Jefferson, January 29, 1787. Manuscript. Thomas Jefferson Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (050.02.01) [Digital ID# us0050_02p1]
• Letter from James Madison to George Washington, December 9, 1785. Manuscript. George Washington Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (51.00.00) [Digital ID#s us0051–us0051_3]
• Letter from James Madison to James Monroe, September 11, 1786. Manuscript. James Madison Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress   (51.01.00) [Digital ID# us0051_01]
• Letter from James Monroe to James Madison, September 12, 1786. Manuscript. James Madison Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (051.02.00) [Digital ID#us0051_02p1]
• Letter from James Madison to George Washington, April 16, 1787. Manuscript. George Washington Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (52.00.02) [Digital ID#s us0052_2, us0052–us0052_5]
• John Rubens Smith. Sketch of the State House In Philadelphia, [1829]. Pencil drawing. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (53.01.00) [Digital ID# LC-USZ62-113780]
• William Birch & Son. Plates from The City of Philadelphia in the State of Pennsylvania, North America, As it Appeared in the Year 1800. . . . Hand-colored engraving. Springland, Pennsylvania: William Birch and Son, 1800. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (54.00.02) [Digital ID#s us0054_04, us0054]
• United States Continental Congress. Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union Between the States. . . . Lancaster: Francis Bailey, 1777. Pamphlet. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (048.05.00) [Digital ID# us0048_05]
• United States Continental Congress. Ordinance for the Government of the Territory of the U.S. Northwest of the Ohio. New York, 1787. Broadside. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (049.04.00) [Digital ID# us0049_04]
• United States Continental Congress. An Ordinance for the Government of the Territory of the U.S. Northwest of the Ohio. New York: 1787. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (049.03.00) [Digital ID# us0049_03]
• Matthäus Albrect Lotter. A Plan of the City and Environs of Philadelphia. [Augsburg: M.A. Lotter, 1777]. Hand-colored engraved map. Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress (053.03.00) [Digital ID# ar132200]
• Letter from James Madison to Edmund Randolph, April 15, 1787. Manuscript. James Madison Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (052.02.00) [Digital ID# us0052_02]
• Letter from John Dawson to James Madison, April 15, 1787. Manuscript. James Madison Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (052.03.00) [Digital ID# us0052_03]
• United States Continental Congress. Paper currency, 1775–1777. Printed by Hall and Sellers; Rhode Island. Paper Currency, 1786. Printed by Southwick and Barber. Marian Carson Collection, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (136.00.00–136.05.00) [Digital ID#s us0136–us0136_05]
• Letter from Rufus King to Nathan Dane, September 17, 1785. Manuscript. Nathan Dane Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (051.03.00) [Digital ID# us0051_03p2]
• Letter from George Washington to John Jay, May 18, 1786. Letter book. George Washington Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (050.03.00) [Digital ID# us0050_03]

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Convention and Ratification

• “The Virginia Plan of Government” in James Madison. Notes of Debates in the Federal Constitutional Convention, May 29, 1787. Manuscript. James Madison Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (056.01.02) [Digital ID# us0056_01]
• The New Jersey Plan of Government in James Madison’s notes of the Constitutional Convention, June 15, 1787. Manuscript. James Madison Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (057.01.02)
• Benjamin Franklin. Draft speech, [June 11, 1787]. Manuscript. Benjamin Franklin Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (058.01.00) [Digital ID# us0058_01p1]
• James Madison’s notes on the Constitutional Convention, July 16, 1787. Manuscript. James Madison Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (59) [Digital ID#s us0059tt_1–us0059tt_3]
• William Paterson. Notes for Speeches in Convention, June 16, 1787. Manuscript. William Paterson Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (59.01.00) [Digital ID# us0059_01p1]
• Draft United States Constitution: Report of the Committee of Detail, ca. August 6, 1787. Facsimile of printed document with annotations by Convention Secretary William Jackson. William Johnson Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (061.03.00) [Digital ID# us0061_03]
• Draft United States Constitution: Reports of the Committee of Style, September 8–15, 1787. Printed document with annotations by Charles Cotesworth Pinckney. Charles Cotesworth Pinckney Family Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (062.04.01–062.04.04) [Digital ID#s us0062_04–us0062_04p3]
• George Washington diary entry, September 17, 1787. Manuscript. George Washington Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (063.01.00) [Digital ID# us0063_01]
• James McHenry. Diary, September 18, 1787. Manuscript. James McHenry Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (63.02.00) [Digital ID# us0063_02p1]
• George Mason. “Objections to the Constitution of Government Formed by the Convention,” ca. September 17, 1787.  Manuscript document. George Washington Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (64.00.01) [Digital ID#s us0064_1, us0064]
• Publius (pseudonym for James Madison). The Federalist. No. X in the New York Daily Advertiser, November 22, 1787. Serial and Government Publications Division (68.03.00) [Digital ID# vc6.7a]
• The Federalist: A Collection of Essays, Written in Favour of the New Constitution. 2 vols. New York: J. and A. McLean, 1788. Thomas Jefferson Library, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (66.00.01) [Digital ID#s us0066–us0066_4]
• Letter from Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, November 13, 1787. Manuscript. Thomas Jefferson Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (67) [Digital ID# us0067]
• Letter from Samuel Powel to George Washington, November 13, 1787. Manuscript. George Washington Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (67.01.00) [Digital ID# us0067_01p1]
• Amos Doolittle. The Looking Glass for 1787. [New Haven]: 1787. Engraving with watercolor. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (68) [Digital ID# ppmsca-17522]
• Order of procession, in honor of the Constitution of the United States . . . by order of the Committee of Arrangements, Richard Platt, chairman,  July 23 [1788]. New York: 1788.  Printed broadside. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (68.01.00)  [Digital ID# us0068_02]
• [Alexander Hamilton]. Number LXVIII. The Federalist: A Collection of Essays, Written in Favour of the New Constitution. 2 vols. New York: J. and A. McLean, 1788. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (66.01.00) [Digital ID# us0066_01]
• Benjamin Franklin. Draft of a speech, June 28, 1787. Manuscript. Benjamin Franklin Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (058.01.02) [Digital ID# us0058_01p2]
• “Ratification of the New Constitution by the Convention of Virginia” in Supplement to the Independent Journal, July 2, 1778. New York: J. and A. McLean. Broadside. Constitutional Convention Broadside Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (071.03.00) [Digital ID# us0071_03]
• [James Madison]. Number XIV. The Federalist: A Collection of Essays, Written in Favour of the New Constitution. 2 vols. New York: J. and A. McLean, 1788. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (066.02.00) [Digital ID# us0066_02]
• James Madison. Notes of Debates in the Federal Constitutional Convention, June 16, 1787. Manuscript. James Madison Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (059.00.02) [Digital ID# us0059p3]
• William Birch & Son. “Back of the State House, Philadelphia,” from The City of Philadelphia in the State of Pennsylvania, North America, As it Appeared in the Year 1800. . . . Etching. Philadelphia: 1800, restrike printed in 1840. Marian S. Carson Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (055.02.00) [Digital ID# ppmsca-24335]
• A Map of Philadelphia and Parts Adjacent with a Perspective View of the State House. Philadelphia: N[icholas] Scull and G[eorge] Heap; L[awrence] Hebert sculpt., 1752. Hand colored engraved map. Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress (055.01.00) [Digital ID# ct000294]

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Constitution Legacy

• De Constitutie. Gedrukt by Order de Federal Committee in de Stad van Albany. Albany, New York: Charles Webster, 1788. Law Library, Library of Congress (117.00.01) [Digital ID#s us0117_01, us0117_02]
• Constitution Fédérale Pour La Confédération Suisse, September 12, 1848. Printed pamphlet. Berne?: ca. 1848. General Collections, Library of Congress (117.02.00) [Digital ID# us0117_02p2]
• Cherokee Phoenix, New Echota, Georgia, March 6, 1828. Newspaper. Serial and Government Publications Division, Library of Congress (117.03.00) [Digital ID# us0117_03]
• Letter from Thomas Jefferson to Spencer Roane, September 6, 1819. Manuscript. Thomas Jefferson Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (116.00.01) [Digital ID#s us0116_1, us0116_0–us0116_3]
• Letter from James Madison to Thomas McKenney, February 10, 1826. Manuscript. James Madison Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (116.02.00) [Digital ID# us0116_02p1]
• Warren K. Leffler. [Demonstrators opposed to the ERA in front of the White House], February 4, 1977. Photograph. U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (116.03.00) [Digital ID# ppmsca-01952]
• Elizabeth Smith Miller. Scrapbook, 1910–1911. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (119.00.07) [Digital ID#s us0119a, us0119b]
• Smith Thompson. Dissenting Opinion in Cherokee Nation vs. The State of Georgia, [1831]. Manuscript. Smith Thompson Collection, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (118.01.00) [Digital ID# us0118_01]
• “Passed unanimously at 1:15 o’clock, p.m., December 20, 1860. An ordinance to dissolve the Union. . . .” Charleston Mercury Extra, December 20, 1860. Broadside. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress. Gift of Alfred Whital Stern, 1953 (120.01.00) [Digital ID# us0120]
• Think American Institute. “Your Right to Vote is Your Opportunity to Protect, Over Here the Freedoms for which American Fight Over There.” Rochester, New York: Kelly Read, ca.1943. Offset lithograph. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (120.02.00) [Digital ID# ppmsca-19168]
• The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. At the Ballot Box, Everyone is Equal: Register and Vote: Join the NAACP, [1970-1980]. Poster. Gary Yanker Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (120.03.00) [Digital ID# LC-DIG-ppmsca-19870]
• Gib Crockett. “Be Sure to Read the Large Print,” published in the Evening Star (Washington, D.C.), June 2, 1963. Drawing. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (120.04.00) [Digital ID# acd-2a07727]
• You Are the People. It is Time to Give the Nation Back to Its Citizens. Join Common Cause. [between 1968 and 1980]. Offset lithograph. Yanker Poster Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (115.00.00) [Digital ID# LC-DIG-ppmsca-18338]
• Think American Institute. “We’re Fighting to Prevent This.” Rochester, New York: Kelly Read, 1943. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (115.01) [Digital ID# ppmsca-18339]
• Speech of Daniel Webster in Reply to Mr. Hayne of South Carolina: The Resolution of Mr. Foot of Connecticut, Relative to the Public Lands, Being under Consideration, Delivered in the Senate January 26, 1830. Washington: Printed by Gales and Seaton, 1830. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (115.03.00) [Digital ID# us0115_03]
• Woman Suffrage Headquarters in Upper Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio, 1912. Photograph. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (131.02.00) [Digital ID# LC-USZ62-30776]
• Thurgood Marshall. Speech Concerning the Bicentennial of the United States Constitution, April 2, 1987. Draft typescript. Thurgood Marshall Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (118.02.00) [Digital ID# us0188_02]
• Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Bainbridge Island, Washington, Evacuation. Gelatin silver print, March 30, 1942. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (116.04.00) [Digital ID# ppmsca.24331]
• Tessaku (Barbed Wire). No. 6. Tule Lake, California: Tessakusha, (1945). Asian Division, Library of Congress (117.04.00) [Digital ID# us0117_05]
• Harry E. Homan. Test for Astigmatism, 1935. Ink and crayon drawing. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (120.05.00) [Digital ID# acd.2a08959]

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Creating the Bill of Rights

Forging a Federal Government

• [Mercy Otis Warren]. Observations on the New Constitution, and on the Federal and State Conventions, by a Columbian Patriot. Boston, 1788. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (69.00.04) [Digital ID# us0069_03]
• The Federal Edifice. Massachusetts Centinel, August 2, 1788. Woodcut. Serial and Government Publications Division, Library of Congress (70.00.00) [Digital ID# us0070]
• Order of procession, in honor of the Constitution of the United States . . . by order of the Committee of Arrangements, Richard Platt, chairman, July 23 [1788]. New York: 1788. Broadside. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (70.02.00) [Digital ID# us0070_02]
• Letter from John Langdon to George Washington, April 6, 1789. Manuscript. George Washington Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (71.00.00) [Digital ID# us0071]
• Charles Thomson. Address to President Washington, April 14, 1789. Letter book. George Washington Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (71.02.01) [Digital ID#s us0071_02p1, us0071_02p2 ]
• George Washington. First Inaugural Address, April 30, 1789. Manuscript. George Washington Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (72.00.04) [Digital ID# us0072_6]
• A View of the Federal Hall of the City of New York, As It Appeared in the Year 1797. New York: George Holland and H.R. Robinson, [1847]. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (73.00.00) [Digital ID# ppmsca-19164]
• Federal Hall, New York City. Lithograph after an engraving by Cornelius Tiebout, 1789. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (073.00.00) [Digital ID# ppmsca-15703]
• Federal Hall, Wall Street and Trinity Church in New York in 1789. Lithograph. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (73.03.00) [Digital ID# cph.3a06239]
• Thomas Jefferson. Map of the Capital District, 1791. Manuscript map. Thomas Jefferson Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (74) [Digital ID# us0074]
• J. Good. Plan of the City of Washington. [London]: J. Good, 1793. From the Literary Magazine and British Review, January 1793. Hand-colored engraved map. Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress (74.01.00) [Digital ID# ct000511]
• Declaration of Rights in Anno Regni Gulielmi et Mari Regis & Regin Angli, Scotia, Franci & Hiberni, Primo. London: Charles Bill and Thomas Newcomb, 1689. Law Library, Library of Congress (108.00.01) [Digital ID#s us0108_01, us0108]
• Order of Procession in Honor of the Constitution of the United States. Philadelphia: Hall and Sellers, July 4, 1788. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (070.03.00) [Digital ID# us0070_03]
• [Francis Hopkinson]. An Ode for the 4th of July 1788. [Philadelphia]: Printed by M[atthew]. Carey, [1788]. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (070.04.00) [Digital ID# us0070_04]
• The Committee of Both Houses of Congress Appointed to Take Order for Conducting the Ceremonial of the Formal Receptions of the President of the United States on Thursday Next. New York: April 29, 1789. Broadside. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (139.00.00) [Digital ID# us0139]
• Letter from James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, December 8, 1788. Manuscript, partly in cipher. James Madison Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (078.04.00) [Digital ID# us0078_04]
• Letter from George Washington to Henry Lee, Jr., September 22, 1788. Letter book. George Washington Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (076.03.00) [Digital ID# us0076_03]
• John McComb. Plan of the City of New York. [New York], 1789. Hand-colored map. Peter Force Map Collection, Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress (074.03.00) [Digital ID# ar111300]
• Letter from George Washington to John Langdon, April 14, 1789. Letter book copy, in the hand of Tobias Lear. George Washington Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (079.04.00) [Digital ID# us0079_03]
• Letter from John Jay to George Washington, April 17, 1789. Manuscript. George Washington Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (085.02.00) [Digital ID# us0085_02]
• State of North Carolina, In Convention, August 1, 1788. . . . [Hillsborough: Printed by Robert Ferguson, 1788]. Broadside. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (107.03.00) [Digital ID# us0107_03]
• “The Tenth Pillar Ratification of the Constitution by Virginia,” Pennsylvania Packet and Daily Advertiser. (Philadelphia) July 1, 1788. Serial and Government Publications Division, Library of Congress (075.03.00) [Digital ID# us0073_03]
• Washington’s Reception by the Ladies, on Passing the Bridge at Trenton, New Jersey, April 1789. [New York]: John Jacob Hipp, ca. 1889. Color lithograph. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (073.05.00) [Digital ID# ppmsca.24336]

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Demand for a Bill of Rights

• Virginia Declaration of Rights, annotated by James Madison [ca. May 29–June 12, 1776]. Printed broadside annotated by James Madison. James Madison Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (75.00.00) [Digital ID#s us0075, us0075_1]
• Richmond, State of Virginia in Convention, Wednesday the 25th of June, 1788. Richmond: 1788. Broadside. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (75.01.00) [Digital ID# us0075_01p1]
• [James Madison]. “Memorial and Remonstrance to the Virginia Assembly,” [ca. June 20, 1785]. Manuscript document. James Madison Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (76.00.01) [Digital ID# us0076_01]
• Letter from Thomas Jefferson to Anne Willing Bingham, May 11, 1788. Manuscript. Thomas Jefferson Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (76.01.00) [Digital ID# us0076_01p1]
• James Madison. Notes of Debates in the Federal Convention, September 17, 1787. Manuscript. James Madison Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (77.00.01) [Digital ID# us0077_01p1]
• James Madison. Notes of Debates in the Constitutional Convention, September 12, 1787. Manuscript copy. James Madison Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (77.01.00) [Digital ID# us0077_01]
• James Madison. Notes of Debates in the Constitutional Convention, September 17, 1787. Manuscript copy in the hand of John C. Payne. James Madison Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (077.00.03) [Digital ID# us0077_01p2]
• Jonathan Swift. A Tale of a Tub. London: Charles Bathurst, 1739. Frontispiece engraving by J. Mynde. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (78.00.00) [Digital ID# us0078]
• Aedanus Burke. Speech in The Congressional Register; or, History of the Proceedings and Debates of the First House of Representatives of the United States of America. New York: Harrisson and Purdy, 1789–1790. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (78.01.00) [Digital ID# us0078_01]
• Letter from James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, October 17, 1788. Manuscript. James Madison Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (78.02.01) [Digital ID# us0078_02p3]
• Letter from Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, December 20, 1787. Manuscript. Thomas Jefferson Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (79.00.00) [Digital ID# us0079 – us0079_3]
• Letter from Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, March 15, 1789. Manuscript. James Madison Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (79.01.01 ) [Digital ID#s us0079_01p01, us0079_01p1–us0079_01p5]
• Proposed Amendments to the Federal Constitution (Bill of Rights), September 1789. Manuscript engrossed and signed by John James Beckley. Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (84) [Digital ID# raadf010]
• Proposed Articles of Amendment to the Federal Constitution, September 14, 1789. Broadside. New York: Thomas Greenleaf. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (84.01.00) [Digital ID#s us0084_01p1, us0084_01p2]
• Amendments Proposed to be Added to the Federal Constitution by the Congress of the United States of America.Boston: Thomas Adams, 1790. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (84.02.01) [Digital ID#s us0084_02–us0084_02p3]
• James Madison. Memorandum on a African Colony for Freed Slaves, ca. October 20, 1789. Manuscript. William Thornton Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (85.00.00) [Digital ID#s us0085, us0085_1]
• Thomas Jefferson. “Tabulation of State Votes on Amendments to the Constitution,” 1789–1791. Manuscript document. Thomas Jefferson Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (85.02.00) [Digital ID# us0085_01]
• Temple of Liberty. New York: Jared Bell, 1834. Woodcut. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (86) [Digital ID# ppmsca-17520]
• James Madison, 4th President of the United States. New York: H.R. Robinson. Color lithograph, [between 1836 and 1842]. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (107.04.00) [Digital ID# ppmsca.24329]
• Declaration of Rights in Anno Regni Gulielmi et Mariæ Regis & Reginæ Angliæ, Scotia, Franciæ & Hiberniæ, Primo. London: Charles Bill and Thomas Newcomb, 1689. Law Library, Library of Congress (108.00.02) [Digital ID# us0108_04]
• Edward Savage. Liberty in the Form of the Goddess of Youth, Giving Support to the Bald Eagle. Philadelphia: Edward Savage, June 11, 1796. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (131.00.00) [Digital ID# ppmsca-13641]
• Acts Passed at a Congress of the United States of America, Begun and Held at the City of New York . . . . New York: Francis Childs and John Swaine, 1789. Law Library, Library of Congress (084.03.00) [Digital ID 0084_03]
• Sidney L. Smith. Federal Hall, after Amos Doolittle, 1899. Engraving. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (073.04.00) [Digital ID# ppmsca-23665]
• Letter from Thomas Jefferson to David Humphreys, March 18, 1789. Manuscript. Thomas Jefferson Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (079.02.00) [Digital ID# us0079_02]
• Letter from James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, August 20, 1785. Manuscript, partly in cipher. James Madison Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (076.02.00) [Digital ID# us0076_02]
• Edward Savage. The Washington Family, George Washington, His Lady and Her Two Grandchildren by the Name of Custis. Hand colored engraving. Philadelphia: E. Savage and Robert Wilkinson. London: 1798. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (074.02.00) [Digital ID# pga-02650]

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Formation of Political Parties

• Charles Bathazar Julien Fevret de Saint-Mémin. George Washington. Charcoal on tinted paper, ca. 1800. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (021.01.00) [Digital ID# LC-DIG-ppmsca-11597]
• William Birch & Son. Bank of the United States with a View of Third St. Philadelphia, from The City of Philadelphia in the State of Pennsylvania, North America, As it Appeared in the Year 1800. . . . Hand-colored engraving. Springland, Pennsylvania: William Birch and Son, 1800. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (54.00.04) [Digital ID# us0054_06]
• Roger Sherman. Draft Report of a Special Committee of Congress, ca. July 21, 1789. Manuscript. James Madison Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (81.00.01) [Digital ID#s us0081_1, us0081]
• Letter from Samuel Johnston to James Madison, July 8, 1789. Manuscript. James Madison Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (81.01.00) [Digital ID# us0081_01p1]
• Congress of the United States, in the House of Representatives, . . . [Report] from the Committee of Eleven. New York: Thomas Greenleaf, 1789. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (82.00.01) [Digital ID#s us0082_1, us0082]
• Letter from Richard Peters to James Madison, July 5, 1789. Manuscript. James Madison Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (82.01.00) [Digital ID# us0082_01p1]
• William Maclay. Journal, August 25, 1789. Manuscript. Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (83.00.00) [Digital ID#s us0083, us0083_5]
• James Madison, Speech in Congress, June 8, 1789, in New York Daily Advertiser, June 12, 1789. Serial and Government Publications Division, Library of Congress (83.01.00) [Digital ID# us_int0001]
• Ulster County Gazette, January 4, 1800. Kingston, New York: Samuel S. Freer & Son. Newspaper. Serial and Government Publications Division, Library of Congress (83.02.00) [Digital ID# us0083_02p1]
• Alexander Hamilton. Draft of George Washington’s Farewell Address, 1796. Manuscript. Alexander Hamilton Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (087.00.04) [Digital ID# us0087p4]
• Letter from James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, December 8, 1788. Manuscript. Thomas Jefferson Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (88.00.00) [Digital ID# us0088]
• Letter from Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, September 21, 1795. Manuscript. James Madison Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (88.01.00) [Digital ID#s us0088_01p1, us0088_01p2]
• Alexander Hamilton. Draft Report on the Constitutionality of a National Bank, February 23, 1791. Manuscript. Alexander Hamilton Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (089.01.02) [Digital ID# us0089_01p3]
• [James Madison]. A Candid State of Politics. National Gazette (Philadelphia), September 22, 1792. Serial and Government Publications Division, Library of Congress (90.00.00) [Digital ID# us0090]
• Con-g-ss Embark'd on board the Ship Constitution of America Bound to Conogocheque by way of Philadelphia. [New York, 1790] Etching. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (90.01.00) [Digital ID# ppmsca-19165]
• To the Senate and Representatives of the United States, in Congress Assembled. Poughkeepsie, New York: Nicholas Power, 1798. Broadside. Rare Book and Special Collections Division. Library of Congress (90.03.00) [Digital ID# us0090_03p1]
• To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States. We whose names are hereunto subscribed being citizens of the county of Albemarle in the state of Virginia. Albemarle County, Virginia: 1798. Broadside. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (090.04.00) [Digital ID# us0090_04]
• James Thackera and John Vallance. Liberty. Frontispiece in The Ladys Magazine, and Repository of Entertaining Knowledge. Philadelphia: W. Gibbons, 17921793. Marian S. Carson Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (92.01.00) [Digital ID# us0092_01]
• Thomas Jefferson. Draft of Kentucky Resolutions, November 16, 1798. Manuscript. Thomas Jefferson Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (93.00.03) [Digital ID# us0093p2]
• Thomas Cooper. An Account of the Trial of Thomas Cooper of Northumberland: on a Charge of Libel against the President of the United States. . . . Philadelphia: John Bios, April 1800. Rare Book and Special Collections Division. Library of Congress (94.00.00) [Digital ID# us0094]
• Letter from John Dawson to his Constituents, Philadelphia, July 19, 1798. Printed broadside. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (94.01.00) [Digital ID# us0094_01]
• The Awful Crisis which has arrived Must be felt by us all. . . . [Richmond]: T. Nicholson, 1799. Pamphlet. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (94.02.00) [Digital ID# us0094_02]
• R. Packard. The First Great Western Empire; or, the United States of America. Albany, New York, 1812. Wood engraving. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (95.00.00) [Digital ID# us0095]
• Letter from Abigail Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody, July 19, 1799. Manuscript. Shaw Family Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (95.01.00) [Digital ID#s s0095_01p1, us0095_01p2]
• Letter from Abigail Adams to Elizabeth Smith Shaw Peabody, February 10, 1797. Manuscript. The Shaw Family Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (95.02.01) [Digital ID# us0095_02p2]
• William G. Jackman. Alexander Hamilton. Engraving after a painting by L.W. Gibbs. New York: D. Appleton, 1857. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (100.02.00) [Digital ID# cph.3b03321]
• Letter from James Monroe to Thomas Jefferson, September 15, 1800. Manuscript. Thomas Jefferson Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (101.00.00) [Digital ID# us0101]
• Charles Willson Peale. James Madison, 1783. Miniature portrait on ivory. Rare Books and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (107.00.00) [Digital ID# us0107]
• A. Adams. Engraving, after a painting by Gilbert Stuart. New York: Johnson, Wilson & Co. , [between 1830 and 1860]. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (128.01.00) [Digital ID# cph.3a12454]
• William Maclay. Diary, 1789–1790. Manuscript. William Maclay Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (081.02.00) [Digital ID# us0081_02]
• Congressional Pugilists. Congress Hall, in Philadelphia, February 15, 1798. [Philadelphia], 1798. Etching. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (098.04.00) [Digital ID# ppmsca.19356]
• George Isham Parkyns. (ca.1750–ca.1820) View of the Suburbs of the City of Washington, [ca. 1795]. Aquatint. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (098.03.00) [Digital ID# ppmsca-23666]
• Letter from Pierce Butler to James Madison, June 26, 1795. Manuscript. James Madison Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (091.06.00) [Digital ID# us0091_06]
• “His Excellency John Jay, President of Congress & Minister Plenipotentiary from Congress at Madrid” in Portraits of Generals, Ministers, Magistrates, Members of Congress and Others, Who Have Rendered Themselves Illustrious in the Revolution of the United States of North America. London: R. Wilkinson and J. Debret, May 1783. Engraving after drawing by Pierre E. DuSimitièrre. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (092.02.00) [Digital ID# us0092_02]
• “Stop the Wheels of Government,” illustration in [William Cobbett] Peter Porcupine’s Political Censor or Monthly Review of the Most Interesting Political Occurrences Relative to the United States of America. Philadelphia: William Cobbett, April 1796. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (090.05.00) [Digital ID# us0090_05]
• Letter from George Washington to Marquis de La Luzerne, August 10, 1790. Letter book. George Washington Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (088.04.00) [Digital ID# us0088_04]
• William Birch & Son. “Preparation of War to Defend Commerce” from The City of Philadelphia in the State of Pennsylvania, North America, As it Appeared in the Year 1800. . . . Hand-colored engraving. Springland, Pennsylvania: William Birch and Son, 1800. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (54.00.05) [Digital ID# us0054p5]
• Letter from Abigail Adams to William Shaw, December 23, 1798. Manuscript. Shaw Family Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (092.03.00) [Digital ID# us0092_03p1]
• Andrew Ellicott. Plan of the City of Washington in the Territory of Columbia: Ceded by the States of Virginia and Maryland to the United States of America, and by Them Established as the seat of their Government, after the Year MDCC. Boston: Sam’l Hill, [1792]. Engraved map. Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress (134.00.00) [Digital ID# ct002488]
• Virginia to Wit. In the House of Delegates Friday, December 21st, 1798. Resolved that the General Assembly of Virginia doth unequivocally express a firm resolution . . . . Richmond, 1798. Leaflet. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (091.07.00) [Digital ID# us0091_07]
• Letter from George Washington to Alexander Hamilton, August 26, 1792. Manuscript. George Washington Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (095.03.00) [Digital ID# us0095_03]
• Letter from George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, August 23, 1792. Manuscript.Thomas Jefferson Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (088.03.00) [Digital ID# us0088_03a]
• James Gillray. The Life of William Cobbett, Written by Himself. No. 8. London: Published by Hannah Humphrey, 27 ST. James’s Street, September 29, 1809. Hand-colored engraved print. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (094.04.00) [Digital ID# ppmsca.24337]

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Election of 1800

• James Madison. Notes of Debates in the Constitutional Convention, September 6, 1787. Manuscript. James Madison Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (96.00.04) [Digital ID# us0096_01p4]
• Letter from Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, March 4, 1800. Manuscript. James Madison Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (97) [Digital ID#s us0097, us0097_1]
• Letter from Charles Carroll to Alexander Hamilton, August 27, 1800. Manuscript. Alexander Hamilton Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (097.01.00) [Digital ID#s us0097_01p1, us0097_01p2]
• Letter from Thomas Jefferson to Elbridge Gerry, January 26, 1799. Manuscript. Thomas Jefferson Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (97.02.00) [Digital ID# us0097_02]
• Amos Doolittle. A New Display of the United States. New Haven: 1799. Woodcut on wove paper. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (98.00.00) [Digital ID# ppmsca-15716]
• T. Cartwright after George Beck. George Town and Federal City, City of Washington. Hand-colored aquatint. London and Philadelphia: Atkins and Nightingale, 1801. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (098.01.00) [Digital ID# LC-DIG-ppmsca-15714]
• George Isham Parkyns (ca. 1750–ca.1820). Washington. New York: James Harrison, 1795. Aquatint. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (098.02.00) [Digital ID # ppmsca-23666]
• Letter from Alexander Hamilton to Theodore Sedgwick, May 4, 1800. Manuscript. Alexander Hamilton Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (99) [Digital ID# us0099]
• Letter from Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Lomax, March 12, 1799. Manuscript. Thomas Jefferson Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (099.02.00) [Digital ID# us0099_02]
• John Wallis. The United States of America Laid Down from the Best Authorities, Agreeable to the Peace of 1783. London: 1783. Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress (105) [Digital ID# ct000080]
• Letter from Matthew Clay to James Monroe, January 21, 1801. Manuscript. James Monroe Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (132.00.00) [Digital ID# us0132]
• Letter from John Adams to Thomas Boylston Adams, January 15, 1801. Manuscript. Adams Family Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (101.03.00) [Digital ID# us0101_03]
• [Alexander Hamilton]. Letter from Alexander Hamilton, Concerning the Public Conduct and Character of John Adams, Esq. President of the United States. New York: Printed for John Lang by George F. Hopkins, 1800. Pamphlet. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (099.04.00) [Digital ID# us0099_03p2]
• [Alexander Hamilton]. Letter from Alexander Hamilton, Concerning the Public Conduct and Character of John Adams, Esq. President of the United States. New York: John Lang, 1800. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (99.03.00) [Digital ID# us0099_03]
• Circular letter from Philip Norborne Nicholas, January 30, 1800. Broadside. James Madison Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (097.03.00) [Digital ID# us0097_03]
• “Plan of the City of Washington” from Universal Magazine. London: William Bent, July 1793. Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress (128.02.00) [Digital ID# ct000510]
• Extract from the Election Law of Pennsylvania, 1799. [Philadelphia: 1799]. Broadside. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (097.04.00) [Digital ID# us0097_04]
• Benjamin Henry Latrobe. The President’s House, Washington, D.C. Site Plan and Principal Story Plan. Watercolor and ink on paper, 1807. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (100.03.00) [Digital ID# ppmsca.23759]
• Letter from Abigail Adams to Anne (Nancy) Greenleaf Cranch (1772–1843), April 17, 1800. Manuscript. William Cranch Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (132.02.00) [Digital ID# us0132_02]
• Republican ticket for presidential electors. Richmond: August 9, 1800. Broadside. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (132.01.00) [Digital ID# us0132_01]

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Peaceful Transition

• John F. Renault. Triumph of Liberty. Dedicated to Its Defenders in America. New York: September 1795. Engraved by Peter C. Verger, 1796. Prints and Photographs Division (91) [Digital ID# ppmsca-13643]
• Benjamin Henry Latrobe. [Revised design for the Capitol], perspective from the east and north front, 1806. Graphite, ink and watercolor on paper. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (91.02.00) [Digital ID# LC-DIG-ppmsca-09501]
• Charles A. Busby. The Capitol at Washington. Elevation of the Principal Front. Etching, 1819. London: Charles A. Busby, 1823. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (91.04.00) [Digital ID# cph.3b51696]
• Letter from James Monroe to Thomas Jefferson, September 22, 1800. Manuscript. Thomas Jefferson Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (101.01.00) [Digital ID# us0101_01]
• Letter from James Monroe to Thomas Jefferson, January 27, 1801. Manuscript. Thomas Jefferson Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (102) [Digital ID# us0102]
• Letter from James Monroe to Thomas Jefferson, January 6, 1801. Manuscript. Thomas Jefferson Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (102.01.00) [Digital ID#s us0102_01p1, us0102_01p2]
• Letter from Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, February 15, 1801. Manuscript. James Monroe Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (103) [Digital ID# us0103]
• Letter from Hugh Brackenridge to Thomas Jefferson, January 19, 1801. Manuscript. Thomas Jefferson Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (103.02.01) [Digital ID# us0103_02p2]
• Letter from James Bayard to Alexander Hamilton, March 8, 1801. Manuscript. Alexander Hamilton Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (104) [Digital ID# us0104 us0104_1]
• Letter from Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Adams, March 29, 1801. Manuscript. Thomas Jefferson Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (104.01.00) [Digital ID# us0104_01]
• Letter from James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, February 28, 1801. Manuscript. James Madison Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (104.02.00) [Digital ID# us0104_02p2]
• Thomas Jefferson. First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1801. Manuscript. Thomas Jefferson Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (106.00.01) [Digital ID# us0106_01p1]
• [John Dawson]. Mr. Dawson’s Motion, Amended, [after October 17, 1803]. Broadside. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (102.03.00) [Digital ID# us0102_03]
• National Intelligencer and Washington Advertiser. Washington, D.C.: February 23, 1801. Serial and Government Publications Division, Library of Congress (102.02.00) [Digital ID# us0102_02]
• Letter from Thomas Jefferson to John Marshall, March 2, 1801. Manuscript. Thomas Jefferson Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (104.04.00) [Digital ID# us0104_04]
• Letter from John Marshall to Thomas Jefferson, March 2, 1801. Manuscript. Thomas Jefferson Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (104.03.00) [Digital ID# us0104_03]
• Letter from James Monroe to Thomas Jefferson, March 18, 1801. Manuscript. Thomas Jefferson Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (140.00.00) [Digital ID# us0140]
• George Lehman. President’s House, ca. 1830s. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (105.04.00) [Digital ID# cph-3a10214]
• John L. Frederick. “A Front View of the President’s House” from the Analectic Magazine. Philadelphia: Moses Thomas, [ca. 1820s]. Engraving. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (105.05.00) [Digital ID# ppmsca.24326]
• Letter from Benjamin Rush to Thomas Jefferson, March 12, 1801. Manuscript. Thomas Jefferson Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (103.03.00) [Digital ID# us0103_03]

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Bill of Rights Legacy

• Letter from Thomas Jefferson to Nehemiah Dodge, Ephraim Robbins, and Stephen S. Nelson, January 1, 1802. Manuscript. Thomas Jefferson Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (121) [Digital ID# us0121]
• Letter from Moses Seixas to George Washington, August 17, 1790. Manuscript. George Washington Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (121.02.00) [Digital ID# us0121_02]
• Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Walter White, March 19, 1936. Manuscript. NAACP Records, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (121.04.00) [Digital ID# us0121_04]
• Ralph Ellison. The Novel in America, 1958. Typescript with emendations in Ellisons hand. Ralph Ellison Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (122.00.01) Digital ID#s us0122_01p1, us0122_01p2, us0122] Estate of Fanny McConnell Ellison
• Letter from Thomas Jefferson to Reverend Samuel Miller, January 23, 1808. Manuscript. Thomas Jefferson Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (122.01.01) [Digital ID# us0122_01p4]
• Franklin Delano Roosevelt with Howard Chandler Christy poster, [1942]. Lithographic poster. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (123.01) [Digital ID# ppmsca-18340]
• Peter Green. [Benjamin Franklin under arrest, ca. 1970–1977]. Ink and graphite drawing with printed overlay. Caroline and Erwin Swann Collection of Caricature and Cartoon, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (123.02.00) [Digital ID# cph.3b31134]
• Abe Fortas. Opinion of the Court in Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, February 24, 1969. Printed document. Earl Warren Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (124) [Digital ID# us0124]
• Earl Warren. Notes concerning the Miranda Decision. Miranda v. Arizona. 1966. Manuscript. Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (124.01.02) [Digital ID# us0124_01p2]
• Herbert Block. Open Administration, March 19, 1970. Graphite, ink brush, and opaque white over graphite underdrawing, with overlay. Herbert Block Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress. Gift of the Herblock Foundation (125.01) [Digital ID# ppmsca-18341] A 1970 Herblock Cartoon, Copyright by The Herblock Foundation
• Herbert Block. Every Schoolchild Should be Made to Pray Against Government Interference with Private Lives. June 2, 1964. Graphite, ink, and opaque white over graphite underdrawing. Herbert Block Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress. Gift of the Herblock Foundation (125.02.00) [Digital ID# ppmsca-19170] A 1964 Herblock Cartoon, Copyright by The Herblock Foundation
• Herbert Block. First the ballot box and next the jury box. It just ain't fair , February 13, 1966. Graphite, ink, and opaque white over graphite underdrawing. Herbert Block Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress. Gift of the Herblock Foundation (125.03.00) [Digital ID# LC-DIG-ppmsca-19871]
• Francis Scott Key. Star-Spangled Banner, October 21, 1840. Manuscript. Music Division, Library of Congress (129.00.00) [Digital ID# //www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/images/vc05112x.jpg]
• Clifford K. Berryman. “Taxation without Representation is Just as Objectionable Today as It Was in 1773,” published in the Evening Star (Washington, D.C.), December 16, 1929. Pen and ink drawing. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (129.01.00) [Digital ID# acd-2a06257]
• Garry B. Trudeau. “Ever read the Bill of Rights, Zonker?” in Doonesbury. Published August 13, 1989. Drawing on lined paper, ink, Whiteout, and pencil. Garry B. Trudeau Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress. Copyright 1989, Universal Press Syndicate and G.B. Trudeau. (123.03.00)
• Herblock (Herbert Block). The New Security, ca. 1971. Ink drawing. Herbert L. Block Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (129.02.00) [Digital ID# ppmsca.24341]
• James Madison. Detached memorandum, ca. 1823. Manuscript. James Madison Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (133.01.00) [Digital ID# us0133_01]
• Thomas Jefferson, Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1805. Manuscript. Thomas Jefferson Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (122.02.00) [Digital ID# us0122_02]

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