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Other Presidents and Elections Offerings

• Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms Speech – Inscribed and Signed by FDR – in the “Missy” LeHand Archive
• George Washington’s “Justice and Public Good” Letter, Written Just Before Becoming the First President of the United States
• Very Rare William Henry Harrison Four-Language Sea Letter Signed as President

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• Abraham Lincoln Signed Check to “William Johnson (Colored)”—Who Accompanied the President to Antietam and Gettysburg
• Jefferson-Signed Patent Act of 1793
• FDR’s First Inaugural Address in the Midst of the Great Depression
• Very Early State Department Printing of Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation and William Seward’s Cover Letter, Sent to American Minister in Argentina
• Abraham Lincoln Introduces Ulysses S. Grant’s Superintendent of Freed Slaves to the American Freedmen’s Inquiry Commission
• President Harry S. Truman Signs Potsdam Declaration Demanding Japanese Surrender for Himself, Winston Churchill, and Chiang Kai-shek
• President Kennedy Sends a Martin Luther King, Jr. Tribute to Civil Rights Leader A. Philip Randolph
• Declaration of Independence Signer Samuel Huntington’s Copy of an Act of Congress Signed by Thomas Jefferson
• Former President and Future Confederate Supporter John Tyler Forcefully Defends the Fugitive Slave Act and the “Southern Cause,” Attacks the NY Press, and Plays up His Own Service in the War of 1812
• President Woodrow Wilson Asks Congress for a Declaration of War
• President Adams Writes to an Old Friend, Reflecting on the Vicissitudes of High Office
• President Wilson Urges Americans to Support the “Stricken Jewish People” of Europe During World War I
• John Quincy Adams Scathing Anti-Masonic Letter After the Murder of a Prominent Anti-Mason Who Threatened to Reveal their Secrets
• Lyndon B. Johnson Signing Pen for Voting Rights Act of 1965
• Thomas Jefferson Signed Act of Congress for Compensating Court Officers, Jurors, and Witnesses
• Rare Abraham Lincoln 1860 Campaign Sash for Rally at Boston’s Faneuil Hall
• Theodore Roosevelt, Furious with Cuba's "Pointless" 1906 Revolution
• Harry S. Truman on His 1948 Proclamation Recognizing Israel
• A Week After Cuban Missile Crisis, JFK Asks Treasury Secretary Dillon About the Possibility of a Run on Gold if the Crisis Had Lasted Longer or Involved a Total Blockade
• Free Soil Rally Broadside, Dorchester Massachusetts, 1848. 23 x 29 Inches
• Great Report on the Hunt for Lincoln’s Assassin and Claim for Reward by Irish War Hero
• Governor and Presidential Candidate Franklin D. Roosevelt Begins Effective Use of Radio
• FDR’s Personal Copy of 1934 Textile Industry Crisis Board Report Countersigned by Secretary of Labor Francis Perkins, the First Woman Presidential Cabinet Member
• Anti-Jackson Broadside in Highly Contested
  1828 Presidential Election
• President Grant Preliminary Order Seeking to End Ku Klux Klan Violence in South Carolina
• President John Quincy Adams’ Remarks & Toast Commemorating William Penn’s Landing
• Franklin Delano Roosevelt Criticizes Thomas Paine on Opposing George Washington
• Unique Printing of William Henry Harrison’s Deadly Inaugural Address on Silk
• President Jefferson Sends, Rather than Delivers, His First State of the Union
• Robert Kennedy Discourages a Write-In Campaign in 1964
• Whig Presidential Nominee William Henry Harrison to Daniel Webster
• Broadside Printing of William Henry Harrison’s Deadly Inaugural Address
• Herbert Hoover Drafts Note, and Fredtjof Nansen Sends Letter to Vladimir Lenin, Trying to Get Lenin to Accept Food Aid for Starving Russians During the Russian Civil War
• President Franklin D. Roosevelt Appoints Woodring as Secretary of War
• Bound Volume of the Daily National Intelligencer
  for the Year 1823
• Campaign Document Uses Civil War’s Costs Against President Johnson
• Edwin Stanton ALS Prelude to Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
• Pierce Urges His Young Nephew Studying at Princeton:
  “Do Not for a Day Relax Your Labor”
• [George Washington] Rare Broadside Instructing Ships’ Captains re Impressment of American Seamen
• Claims that First Republican Presidential Candidate is Foreign Born & Ineligible
• First Edition of FDR’s Committee for Civil Service Improvement Report, Signed by Three Supreme Court Justices
• Newspaper Belonging to John Quincy Adams Reports Transfer of the Floridas to the U.S.
• President Theodore Roosevelt Questions Coal Monopolies and Contradictions in Report from Interstate Commerce Chairman
• “Poverty or Prosperity?” McKinley & Hobart 1896 Presidential Campaign Rare Huge Jugate Poster
• Frederick A. Aiken Urging Frémont to Run Against Lincoln
• Andrew Jackson’s Proclamation Responding to Nullification
• JFK Photographs and Ephemera Collection
• Monroe Expands on his Doctrine in Last Annual Message
• Harding’s Return to Normalcy – and Isolationism – after World War I
• Margaret Truman’s Wedding Waltz
• Racist, Anti Roosevelt Drawing and Note
• Herbert Hoover - Rare Signed Inaugural Address
• Madison’s Optimistic First Message to Congress: A Prelude to the War of 1812
• Bronze Bas Relief Portrait of Theodore Roosevelt: “Aggressive fighting for the right is the greatest sport the world affords”
• Excluding Chinese Immigration: President Chester Arthur Orders Seal Affixed to His Angell Treaty Proclamation
• FDR Signed Engraving of White House Bound in The Democratic Book 1936
• Harry Hines Woodring Political Archives and Related Material
• Harry Truman Presidential Appointment to UN Agency for Palestinian Relief
• In His State of the Union Address, Thomas Jefferson Commends Lewis and Clark for Their Successful Explorations
• Dewey Attacks FDR’s Running Mate Harry Truman for Alleged Ku Klux Klan Ties
• John Tyler Addresses Special Session of Congress soon after William Henry Harrison’s Death
• Eleanor Roosevelt Asks Pennsylvania Educator to Serve as Chair of Local Women’s Crusade
• Former President Truman Praises Kennedy’s Far Reaching 1960 Democratic Platform on the Rights of Man and the Need for Security; Immigration; Health Care; Minimum Wage; Equal Work for Equal Pay; Civil Rights and Voting Rights
• Artwork for FDR’s 1936 Reelection Campaign proposed by Artist Franz Felix
• Alexander Hamilton’s Son Thanks U.S. Senator for Report that Leads to President Johnson’s Impeachment
• Calvin Coolidge Appoints Trustee of the National Training School for Girls
• Continuing Controversy Over Contested 1824 Election, Maryland Governor Accuses North Carolina Congressman of Lying To Hide His Vote for J.Q Adams over Andrew Jackson
• Front-Page Printing of William Henry Harrison’s Deadly Inaugural Address
• Andrew Jackson Dockets a Report from His Nephew on the Hermitage and Middle Tennessee Roads
• Counting the Vote in 1876 – Florida’s First Election Fiasco
• Franklin Roosevelt Orders Books on Naval Battles, New York, and Ladies
• President Franklin D. Roosevelt Thanks for a “Heartening” Telegram Received September 27, While FDR was Trying to Prevent Hitler from Starting War
• Receipt for Jewelry for Rachel Jackson
• Gerald Ford Defends His Early Commitment to Civil Rights
• Andrew Jackson Involved in Lawsuit over Tennessee Property in the Estate of His Deceased Brother-in-Law, Involved in the Major North Carolina and Tennessee Land Fraud that Jackson Revealed
• James Madison’s Second Inaugural Address,
  in a Rare New York Irish Newspaper
• Jefferson’s Attempted Seduction
  of His Friend’s Wife - the Alleged Affair
• Discontent with Gilded Age Presidential Politics
  and the Influence of “the negro vote”
• Franklin Roosevelt Thanks Alabama Friend for Compliments on “Forgotten Man” Speech
• Henry Clay ALS, Responding to St. Nicholas Society Speech, Takes a Jab at Martin Van Buren
• James Monroe’s State of the Union Address
• James Monroe & Congress Support the Independence Movements of Spain’s American Colonies
• Washington Attorney and Inventor Writes to Arms Manufacturer about Andrew Johnson’s Impeachment
• James Madison’s First Inaugural Address, Asserting Neutral Rights in Prelude to the War of 1812
• Andrew Jackson’s Farewell Address, Reflecting on His Long Public Service, and Martin Van Buren’s First Inaugural Address
• Buchanan Supporters Attack Presidential Candidate Frémont as a “Black Republican” Abolitionist
• “The Excursion of the Bought Nominations”
  Showing Balloon “Union League”
• A New York Soldier’s Affidavit Allowing
  a Proxy to Vote in the 1864 Election
• Andrew Jackson’s First Inaugural Address in Maryland Newspaper
• AN EXTRAORDINARY RARITY!
  Leaves From George Washington’s Own Draft of His First Inaugural Address
• Anti-Catholic “Test Oath” Signed by George Washington – as Required to Validate his Military Commission as Lieutenant Colonel at the Outset of the French and Indian War

Other Great Gifts Offerings

• Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms Speech – Inscribed and Signed by FDR – in the “Missy” LeHand Archive
• Thomas Jefferson Signed Act of Congress Authorizing Copper Coinage (the First Legal Tender Produced by U.S. Government)
• The Building Blocks of Albert Einstein’s Creative Mind

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• Abraham Lincoln Signed Check to “William Johnson (Colored)”—Who Accompanied the President to Antietam and Gettysburg
• FDR’s First Inaugural Address in the Midst of the Great Depression
• Albert Einstein by Marc Mellon
• President Harry S. Truman Signs Potsdam Declaration Demanding Japanese Surrender for Himself, Winston Churchill, and Chiang Kai-shek
• Alexander Hamilton’s Initial Steps to Create a National Banking System
• Earliest Known Printing of “Tikvatenu” [Our Hope – the origin of “Hatikvah”] Inscribed by Author Naftali Herz Imber to Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, the “revivalist of the Hebrew language”
• Winston Churchill by Marc Mellon
• George F. Root’s Autograph Sheet Music for “The Battle-Cry of Freedom!”
• President Kennedy Sends a Martin Luther King, Jr. Tribute to Civil Rights Leader A. Philip Randolph
• Continental Congress Declares Independence – on July 2, 1776
• For Washington, Hamilton Confirms Receipt of Hessian Troop Movement Intelligence
• Thomas Jefferson Transmits the First Patent Act to Governor of New York George Clinton, Who Later Replaced Aaron Burr as Jefferson’s Vice President
• The Only Known Document in Hamilton’s Hand on a Legal Case Involving James Reynolds
• Rare Important Declaration of Independence Linen Handkerchief
• Unique Inscribed Set of John Marshall’s Life of George Washington, With Joseph Story Letter to the Daughter of the Late Associate Justice Henry Brockholst Livingston, Conveying Marshall’s Thanks and Noting That He Will Be Sending to Her These Very Books
• President Woodrow Wilson Asks Congress for a Declaration of War
• President Wilson Urges Americans to Support the “Stricken Jewish People” of Europe During World War I
• Alexander Hamilton Writes to His Beloved Wife, Eliza, About the Deteriorating Health of Her Younger Sister, Peggy
• Civil War “The Union Forever” Flag Made by Philadelphia Sailmaker, ca. 1861
• Hamilton LS to Bank of New York Advising That Collectors Will No Longer Receive Its Notes
• Alexander Hamilton Signed Registration for Schooner Robert of Baltimore
• Hamilton Serves as Surety for Loan to Fellow Attorney and Second in His Duel with Burr
• Lyndon B. Johnson Signing Pen for Voting Rights Act of 1965
• Early Printing of the U.S. Constitution, in American Museum—One of the First Two Magazine Printings of the Constitution
• George Washington’s Famous Letter to American Roman Catholics: A Message of Thankfulness, Patriotism, and Inclusiveness
• Thomas Jefferson Pays Import Duty on Famous Louis Chantrot Obelisk Clock
• George Washington: Rare 1777 Revolutionary War Hand Colored Engraving
• Major General Alexander Hamilton Message to Father of American Viticulture During Quasi-War with France
• Theodore Roosevelt, Furious with Cuba's "Pointless" 1906 Revolution
• Harry S. Truman on His 1948 Proclamation Recognizing Israel
• A Week After Cuban Missile Crisis, JFK Asks Treasury Secretary Dillon About the Possibility of a Run on Gold if the Crisis Had Lasted Longer or Involved a Total Blockade
• Two months Before Declaring Israel’s Independence, Ben-Gurion Counters American Backpedaling and Pushes to Start the Temporary Government
• Amelia Earhart and Richard E. Byrd—Aviation Pioneers in Signed Group Photo
• Aviation Pioneer Amelia Earhart Returns from European Tour with Publisher Husband
• Masonic Documents: James P. Kimball archive of master Mason, geologist, and Director of the United States Mint - with superb engravings
• Brown University Holds First Commencement in 1769 - as Rhode Island College
• FDR’s Personal Copy of 1934 Textile Industry Crisis Board Report Countersigned by Secretary of Labor Francis Perkins, the First Woman Presidential Cabinet Member
• J.E.B. Stuart Writes to Legendary Confederate Spy Laura Ratcliffe
• David Ben-Gurion ALS—Preventing a War between the Religious and the Secular in Early Israel
• Debating the Bill of Rights Amendments in 1789
• The Gettysburg Address – New York Semi-Weekly Tribune First Day of Printing
• The Second Naturalization Act - Establishing Laws for Citizenship
• President John Quincy Adams’ Remarks & Toast Commemorating William Penn’s Landing
• Connecticut Governor’s Proclamation Calling for a Day of Thanksgiving to Commemorate the Defeat of the French in Canada, and the Taking of Quebec
• Vibrant Print of Fifteenth Amendment Celebrations
• President Jefferson Sends, Rather than Delivers, His First State of the Union
• 1915 Women’s Suffrage Poster
• Jackie Robinson says a talk radio host “needs to do a lot of soul searching.”
• Whig Presidential Nominee William Henry Harrison to Daniel Webster
• “George Washington” - Keith Carter Photograph
• 1778 Muster List, Including Rejected African American Recruit
• Nine Months of a Hawaiian Missionary Newspaper, With the First Report of King Kamehameha III’s Death and Perry’s Mission to Japan
• Ben-Gurion to Moshe Sharett on Sharett’s Resignation as Foreign Minister
• Acquittal of Printer John Peter Zenger in Colonial New York Establishes Foundation for American Freedom of the Press
• Prang & Co. Broadside with Maps of Early Civil War Hotspots
• President Theodore Roosevelt Questions Coal Monopolies and Contradictions in Report from Interstate Commerce Chairman
• Rare 1870 Yale University Summer Boat Races Broadside
• Susan B. Anthony Plaster Relief Medallion Copyrighted by Her Sister
• Arthur Ashe’s United Negro College Fund Benefit Silver Bowl Trophy
• Golda Meir Stresses the Need to Settle New Immigrants
• “John Bull and the Baltimoreans” Lampooning British Defeat at Fort McHenry in Baltimore Following their Earlier Success at Alexandria
• President Washington Approves Establishment of Mint and Issues First Veto
• Ben-Gurion Attempts to Convince the Israeli Government to Attack Jordan, After Jordan Violated the Cease-fire Ending the Six Day War
• Boston Newspaper Publishes Former Governor Hutchinson’s Letters
• Inventor Thomas A. Edison Responds to His Son’s Note About a Speaking Request
• Golda Meir Invites an American Semiconductor Pioneer to an Israeli Economic Conference
• Madison’s Optimistic First Message to Congress: A Prelude to the War of 1812
• Adams Defends U.S. Constitution, First French Edition
• Bronze Bas Relief Portrait of Theodore Roosevelt: “Aggressive fighting for the right is the greatest sport the world affords”
• Early Printing of a Bill to Establish the Treasury Department
• FDR Signed Engraving of White House Bound in The Democratic Book 1936
• Harry Hines Woodring Political Archives and Related Material
• Congressmen Who Signed Thirteenth Amendment Abolishing Slavery
• Anticipating Prohibition Repeal
• Theodore Roosevelt Rough Rider Doll
• Eleanor Roosevelt Asks Pennsylvania Educator to Serve as Chair of Local Women’s Crusade
• Ben-Gurion Calls for a Jerusalem Home for the Bible Society: “every spiritual idea, for it to exist and exert influence, needs a physical structure, too, a central home…”
• Lucy Stone Thanks Suffragist Who Later Led Effort for Women’s Suffrage in Hawaii for Donation
• A Ruff-Necked Hummingbird by Audubon
• Masonic Apron, Neck Sash & Medal of U.S. Mint - California Gold Refiner James Booth, with a Lithograph of Him
• Calvin Coolidge Appoints Trustee of the National Training School for Girls
• Harvard’s 1791 Graduating Students and Theses, Dedicated to Governor John Hancock and Lieutenant Governor Samuel Adams
• Honoring Washington and Quoting His Farewell Address (Drafted by Hamilton)
• Pennsylvania Deputy Governor Urges General Assembly to Resist French Expansion in North America in Early Stages of the French and Indian War
• Lucy Stone Promotes Bazaar to Suffragist Who Later Led Effort for Women’s Suffrage in Hawaii
• New York Times Carriers’ Address Reviews the Year 1863 in Bad Verse, Including Freeing of Russia’s Serfs, and the Battle of Gettysburg
• Eleanor Roosevelt Thanks Former State Senator for Article to Assist Women in Monitoring Polling Places
• Hillary Clinton Thanks Doctor for Policy Change to Allow Fathers to Be in Delivery Room for Caesarean Sections
• John Marshall’s “Life of George Washington”
  and Companion Atlas with Hand-colored Maps
• President Franklin D. Roosevelt Thanks for a “Heartening” Telegram Received September 27, While FDR was Trying to Prevent Hitler from Starting War
• Rich 1845 Letter on the State of American Art to Hudson River Artist Jasper Cropsey
• Senator Sprague of Rhode Island Writes About Fascinating Debates in Congress Involving Freedom for the Families of African American Recruits and the Limits of Free Speech in the Senate
• Gerald Ford Defends His Early Commitment to Civil Rights
• Picasso Anti-War Image Used to Promote Vietnam War Protest
• 16 x 20 Inch Photograph of St. Augustine, Florida, African American Cart Driver
• Future Supreme Court Justice Benjamin Cardozo: “I am alone in the world now.”
• Anthony C. McAuliffe Writes Amidst Tests of Atomic Bombs at Bikini Atoll in 1946
• Hoover Tells a Key Aide that Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping Occupies FBI in New York
• Mercury Astronaut Gordon Cooper’s Signed “Bioscience Data Plan” for Conducting Vital Biomedical Research on the Impact of Space Flight on the Human Body
• Ohio Reformers Use Rhode Island’s Dorr Rebellion
  to Justify Their Own Behavior
• 1790 Massachusetts Newspaper Discussing Nantucket Whalers
• Elmer W. Henderson – Who Defeated Railroad Dining Car Segregation – Congratulates African American Inventor for American Institute of Chemists Award
• Mark Hopkins, Famed Educator and the Longest Serving President of Williams College, Preparing to Lecture at the Smithsonian Institute
• Future Hero of Little Round Top Advises a Friend on Getting a Leave of Absence
• A Harlequin Duck by Audubon
• Alex Haley Signed Check
• New England Factory Life
• Rebel Deserters Coming within the Union Lines
• Advertisement for Temperance Restaurant in New York City
• Seesaw - Gloucester, MA - Drawn by Winslow Homer
• The Statue of Liberty
• Christmas Presents
• Edwin M. Stanton Portrait, Based on a Photograph by Matthew Brady
• The Army of the Potomac Arriving at Yorktown from Williamsburg
• (On Hold) The U.S. Constitution – Very Rare Printing on the Second Day of Publication

Other Thomas Jefferson Offerings

• Thomas Jefferson Signed Act of Congress Authorizing Copper Coinage (the First Legal Tender Produced by U.S. Government)
• Jefferson-Signed Patent Act of 1793
• Thomas Jefferson Signed Judiciary Act of 1793

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• Jefferson’s Excessively Rare Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom
• To Avoid Abuse from “bigots in religion...politics, or...medicine,” Thomas Jefferson Declines to Publish Benjamin Rush’s Private Correspondence
• One of the Earliest Announcements of Independence
• Jefferson’s Autograph Notes Explaining Napier’s Rule on Spherical Triangles, a Branch of Geometry Crucial to Astronomy, Geodesy, Navigation, & Architecture
• Thomas Jefferson Transmits the First Patent Act to Governor of New York George Clinton, Who Later Replaced Aaron Burr as Jefferson’s Vice President
• Declaration of Independence Signer Samuel Huntington’s Copy of an Act of Congress Signed by Thomas Jefferson
• Rare Important Declaration of Independence Linen Handkerchief
• George Washington’s Second Thanksgiving Proclamation, Sent to American Consuls
• Thomas Jefferson Signed Act of Congress for Compensating Court Officers, Jurors, and Witnesses
• Thomas Jefferson Pays Import Duty on Famous Louis Chantrot Obelisk Clock
• Continental Congress July 1775 Message Asserting American Sovereignty & Rejecting Parliament’s Appeal for Peace. Drafted by Thomas Jefferson, Printed at Harvard. With Reports from London on Battles of Lexington and Concord
• President Jefferson Sends, Rather than Delivers, His First State of the Union
• Draft of Thomas Jefferson Circular, Addressing Duties of Consuls & Vice-Consuls
• In His State of the Union Address, Thomas Jefferson Commends Lewis and Clark for Their Successful Explorations
• Jefferson’s Attempted Seduction
  of His Friend’s Wife - the Alleged Affair
• Jefferson’s Response to the New Haven Merchants’ Remonstrance, and his First Inaugural Address
• Jefferson’s Proclamation on the State of Affairs with England (1807)
• The Alexander Hamilton Collection: The Story of the Revolution and Founding

Other Early Republic (1784 - c.1830) Offerings

• Charles Thomson’s Secret Journal of the Confederation Congress, Including Detailed Description of the Great Seal and Negotiations for the Treaty of Paris to End the Revolutionary War
• George Washington’s “Justice and Public Good” Letter, Written Just Before Becoming the First President of the United States
• Thomas Jefferson Signed Act of Congress Authorizing Copper Coinage (the First Legal Tender Produced by U.S. Government)

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• Jefferson-Signed Patent Act of 1793
• Thomas Jefferson Signed Judiciary Act of 1793
• Jefferson’s Excessively Rare Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom
• To Avoid Abuse from “bigots in religion...politics, or...medicine,” Thomas Jefferson Declines to Publish Benjamin Rush’s Private Correspondence
• Alexander Hamilton’s Initial Steps to Create a National Banking System
• Thomas Paine: “Contentment”
• Congress Begs the States for the Power to Regulate Trade and Negotiate Treaties
• Constitutional Convention, Pennsylvania Ratification Debates, More, in 1787 Newspaper Run
• Charles Thomson (One of Only Two Men to Sign the Declaration of Independence on July 4) Sends Treaty of Paris Proclamation Officially Ending the Revolutionary War
• Jefferson’s Autograph Notes Explaining Napier’s Rule on Spherical Triangles, a Branch of Geometry Crucial to Astronomy, Geodesy, Navigation, & Architecture
• Thomas Jefferson Transmits the First Patent Act to Governor of New York George Clinton, Who Later Replaced Aaron Burr as Jefferson’s Vice President
• Declaration of Independence Signer Samuel Huntington’s Copy of an Act of Congress Signed by Thomas Jefferson
• Former President and Future Confederate Supporter John Tyler Forcefully Defends the Fugitive Slave Act and the “Southern Cause,” Attacks the NY Press, and Plays up His Own Service in the War of 1812
• President Adams Writes to an Old Friend, Reflecting on the Vicissitudes of High Office
• Alexander Hamilton Writes to His Beloved Wife, Eliza, About the Deteriorating Health of Her Younger Sister, Peggy
• Early Printing of the Original Twelve Articles of the Bill of Rights
• Hamilton’s Advice to Holland Land Company on a New Law Relating to New York State’s Prohibition Against Foreigners Owning Land
• George Washington’s Second Thanksgiving Proclamation, Sent to American Consuls
• Georgia Constitution of 1798 Prohibits Both the Importation of Slaves and Emancipation by Legislation
• Hamilton LS to Bank of New York Advising That Collectors Will No Longer Receive Its Notes
• John Quincy Adams’ Copy of a Scarce South Carolina Printing of the Monroe Doctrine
• Alexander Hamilton Signed Registration for Schooner Robert of Baltimore
• Hamilton Serves as Surety for Loan to Fellow Attorney and Second in His Duel with Burr
• Newport, Rhode Island Land Deed to Oliver Hazard Perry, Signed by the Wife, Six Daughters and Two Sons-in-law of Moses Mendes Seixas, Who Inspired George Washington’s Famous “to bigotry no sanction” Letter
• Rare document of Newport Jewish leader Moses Seixas – who wrote address that elicited George Washington’s most famous statement on religious freedom and citizenship
• The Justice Department’s First Publication: Attorney General Edmund Randolph’s Suggestions to Improve the New Federal Judiciary, Including Supreme Court Fixes
• Steamboat Inventor Robert Fulton and Six Other Commissioners Ask the Governor of Georgia to Support Federal Funding of the Erie Canal
• Thomas Jefferson Signed Act of Congress for Compensating Court Officers, Jurors, and Witnesses
• Mexican Revolution Hero José María Morelos taunts Spanish viceroy he met in military school: any bad news is fake news, he alone resisted, and his troops “attack and “don’t leave the action until they are victorious...”
• George Washington’s Famous Letter to American Roman Catholics: A Message of Thankfulness, Patriotism, and Inclusiveness
• Thomas Jefferson Pays Import Duty on Famous Louis Chantrot Obelisk Clock
• Major General Alexander Hamilton Message to Father of American Viticulture During Quasi-War with France
• Richard Varick’s Appointment as Mayor of New York City
• Bill of Rights: First House of Representatives Draft, Rare July 31, 1789 Newspaper Printing
• Hamilton LS on Declaration-Signer Philip Livingston's Estate, Ten Years After His Death
• James Monroe Defends his Actions in Futile Defense of Washington in War of 1812
• Manuscript Eulogy to George Washington Penned by R.I. Senator Foster During Senate Session
• Very Early 1790s Naturalization Certificate for Famous French Physician – One the First Persons to Become an American Citizen Under the First Naturalization Act
• Daniel Webster Details a Duel Challenge by Congressman John Randolph
• Significant Collection of the Worcester Magazine, Publisher Isaiah Thomas’ Protest against Advertising Tax. Filled with News of Shays’ Rebellion, and Federalist and Anti-Federalist Essays
• New Hampshire Acts Organizing the Election of 1792 -Washington’s re-Election
• Rare “Address to the People of the State of Connecticut,” the Report of Delegates from 97 Towns Who Met to Call for a Democratic Non-Theocratic State Constitution
• The Second Naturalization Act - Establishing Laws for Citizenship
• President John Quincy Adams’ Remarks & Toast Commemorating William Penn’s Landing
• Confederation Congress sends proposed Constitution to the states for ratification
• Secretary of State Pickering certifies five Acts of Congress relating to the Whiskey Rebellion, debtor’s prison, the estate of General Nathanael Greene, etc.
• President Jefferson Sends, Rather than Delivers, His First State of the Union
• The News in 1815: 104 Issues of the Boston Patriot
• [Thomas Jefferson]. 1807 Acts of Congress, Including Law Abolishing Slave Trade, the Insurrection Act, and Lewis & Clark Content. First Edition.
• Connecticut Prepares for New Federal Constitution, Establishes Plan to Elect Senators and Representatives
• George Washington’s Address to the Roman Catholics in America
• Relieving Persons in Debtors Prison
• [George Washington] Rare Broadside Instructing Ships’ Captains re Impressment of American Seamen
• Iconic Pillars Illustration -- Celebrating Massachusetts’ Ratification and the Process of Erecting the “great federal superstructure”
• Charter of the Marine Society of the City of New York, Printed in 1788 with Franklin’s Passy Type
• Accusing Recently Retired Hamilton of Financial Malfeasance
• Draft of Thomas Jefferson Circular, Addressing Duties of Consuls & Vice-Consuls
• Justice William Paterson Hold State Law Unconstitutional in Charge to Jury
• Newspaper Belonging to John Quincy Adams Reports Transfer of the Floridas to the U.S.
• U.S. Constitution – Contemporary List of States with Ratification Dates and Votes
• “John Bull and the Baltimoreans” Lampooning British Defeat at Fort McHenry in Baltimore Following their Earlier Success at Alexandria
• Congress Authorizes a Mint, and President Washington Proclaims the Location of the Permanent Seat of Government
• President Washington Approves Establishment of Mint and Issues First Veto
• A Fatal Duel Set Up by N.C. Congressman & Later Republic of Texas’s Secretary of State
• “An Act to Incorporate the Subscribers to the Bank of the United States”
• Madison’s Optimistic First Message to Congress: A Prelude to the War of 1812
• War of 1812 Hero, Early New Mexico Explorer, and the “First American Buried in California Soil”
• Adams Defends U.S. Constitution, First French Edition
• British Lieutenant Inventories Ammunition and Ordnance Taken from Americans in Burning of Washington
• Early Printing of a Bill to Establish the Treasury Department
• Harvard’s 1786 Graduating Class and Their Theses, Dedicated to Gov. James Bowdoin
• John Marshall’s Supreme Court Decides Osborn et al. v. The Bank of the United States, landmark 11^th Amendment Case
• Opposing the African Slave Trade - 1790 New Haven Sermon
• Eighteenth-Century Archive from Hartford Free Grammar School, the Second Oldest Secondary School in America
• Caleb Cushing, U.S. Congressman,
  Calls for Annexation of Canada
• Secretary of War Orders Payment for Georgia State Militia Called Out to Prepare for War With the Creeks
• September 1789 Printing of the Act Establishing the Treasury Department, Along With Important Congressional Debates on Organizing the Federal Judiciary
• The New U.S. Senate Considers Bill to Organize the Federal Judiciary: Full Text of the Senate Bill to Establish the Supreme Court, Federal Judicial Districts and Circuit Courts, as Well as the Position of Attorney General
• Continuing Controversy Over Contested 1824 Election, Maryland Governor Accuses North Carolina Congressman of Lying To Hide His Vote for J.Q Adams over Andrew Jackson
• Harvard’s 1791 Graduating Students and Theses, Dedicated to Governor John Hancock and Lieutenant Governor Samuel Adams
• William Pinkney, Ripped Off by the Government
  for His Work on Jay’s Treaty, Declares
  “I Do Not Owe The Government One Farthing”
• Elisha Boudinot: Vermont Voters Disgraced Themselves by Reelecting a Congressman Who Was Jailed for Violating the Sedition Act
• Receipt for Jewelry for Rachel Jackson
• Jonathan Williams - First Superintendent of West Point and First Head of the Army Corps of Engineers - Assesses New York Harbor Defenses
• Director of Ordnance on Loan of Gunpowder to DuPont and Private Individuals; forwards Copy of Prior Letter Informing Secretary of War John Calhoun of his Objection
• First Army Chief of Ordnance Rails against Military Waste in a Very Modern Essay
• James Madison’s Second Inaugural Address,
  in a Rare New York Irish Newspaper
• Henry Clay ALS, Responding to St. Nicholas Society Speech, Takes a Jab at Martin Van Buren
• Maryland Ratifies the Constitution, Suggests Amendments; and Pennsylvanians Speak Out Against the Slave Trade
• Jefferson’s Response to the New Haven Merchants’ Remonstrance, and his First Inaugural Address
• James Monroe & Congress Support the Independence Movements of Spain’s American Colonies
• James Madison’s First Inaugural Address, Asserting Neutral Rights in Prelude to the War of 1812
• Franklin on Revealed Religion, and South Carolina on Freedom of Religion
• N.J. Congressman Praises Andrew Jackson After His 1824 Presidential Election Loss in the House of Representatives
• Reporting the Infamous XYZ Affair
• Ohio Reformers Use Rhode Island’s Dorr Rebellion
  to Justify Their Own Behavior
• 1790 Massachusetts Newspaper Discussing Nantucket Whalers
• An Act to Incorporate the Ohio Insurance Company
• John Hancock Addresses Massachusetts Legislature
• The U.S.S. Chesapeake Prepares for the Mediterranean, and the Senate Debates Judiciary Establishments
• During Peninsular War in Europe and Rebellions in Latin America Transmitting Order of Spanish Colonial Cuban Government Restricting American Imports to Cuba
• Jefferson’s Proclamation on the State of Affairs with England (1807)
• A History of Harvard University; North Carolina Debates Ratifying the Constitution; and a List of Newly-Minted U.S. Senators
• Andrew Jackson’s First Inaugural Address in Maryland Newspaper
• (On Hold) The U.S. Constitution – Very Rare Printing on the Second Day of Publication
• The Alexander Hamilton Collection: The Story of the Revolution and Founding

Other Prints Offerings

• Rare Important Declaration of Independence Linen Handkerchief
• George Washington: Rare 1777 Revolutionary War Hand Colored Engraving
• Miscegenation, or the Millennium of Abolitionism – Stirring Fear of Interracial Marriage Before 1864 Presidential Election

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• Vibrant Print of Fifteenth Amendment Celebrations
• Currier & Ives Cartoon Mocks Stephen Douglas for Campaigning in 1860
• Rare 1870 Yale University Summer Boat Races Broadside
• “Poverty or Prosperity?” McKinley & Hobart 1896 Presidential Campaign Rare Huge Jugate Poster
• “John Bull and the Baltimoreans” Lampooning British Defeat at Fort McHenry in Baltimore Following their Earlier Success at Alexandria
• “Copperheads Vigorously Prosecuting Peace: Is it the Peace YOU Want?”
• Abraham Lincoln: Large 1861 Inauguration Chromolithograph
• Illustrator Frank Leslie Publishes Fanciful Grand Reception of Civil War Notables as a Subscription Premium
• Congressmen Who Signed Thirteenth Amendment Abolishing Slavery
• Uncle Tom’s Cabin Advertised by Local Maine Drama Club
• A Ruff-Necked Hummingbird by Audubon
• Picasso Anti-War Image Used to Promote Vietnam War Protest
• A Harlequin Duck by Audubon
• New England Factory Life
• The Statue of Liberty
• Christmas Presents