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![[Title page and frontispiece showing slave on top of mountain, with his hands raised to paper labelled "libertas justitia" which appears in sky] / Childs.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn18/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMTEvMjEvdGl0bGUtcGFnZS1hbmQtZnJvbnRpc3BpZWNlLXNob3dpbmctc2xhdmUtb24tdG9wLW9mLW1vdW50YWluLXdpdGgtaGlzLWhhbmRzLTI2ZWRlYi0xMDI0LmpwZw%3D%3D/320/255/jpg "[Title page and frontispiece showing slave on top of mountain, with his hands raised to paper labelled \"libertas justitia\" which appears in sky] / Childs.")
![[Civil War envelope showing Columbia holding sword and American flag, with message "God, our country and liberty!"]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMDkvMjEvY2l2aWwtd2FyLWVudmVsb3BlLXNob3dpbmctY29sdW1iaWEtaG9sZGluZy1zd29yZC1hbmQtYW1lcmljYW4tZmxhZy13aXRoLW1lc3NhZ2UtMTUwNWE4LTY0MC5qcGc%3D/40/22/webp "[Civil War envelope showing Columbia holding sword and American flag, with message \"God, our country and liberty!\"]")
![[Child standing with piece of paper looking at a book held by a seated infant] / EW.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMDkvMjMvY2hpbGQtc3RhbmRpbmctd2l0aC1waWVjZS1vZi1wYXBlci1sb29raW5nLWF0LWEtYm9vay1oZWxkLWJ5LWEtc2VhdGVkLWluZmFudC1kYWE1Y2EtNjQwLmpwZw%3D%3D/40/59/webp "[Child standing with piece of paper looking at a book held by a seated infant] / EW.")
![[Title page of The Poetical Works of John Trumbull, Hartford, 1820, illustrated with man with bow and arrows, woman, with Liberty cap on pole, boy with sword, and sea serpent.]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE4MjAvMDEvMDEvdGl0bGUtcGFnZS1vZi10aGUtcG9ldGljYWwtd29ya3Mtb2Ytam9obi10cnVtYnVsbC1oYXJ0Zm9yZC0xODIwLWlsbHVzdHJhdGVkLTY0MC5qcGc%3D/40/65/webp "[Title page of The Poetical Works of John Trumbull, Hartford, 1820, illustrated with man with bow and arrows, woman, with Liberty cap on pole, boy with sword, and sea serpent.]")
![[Title page showing children reading story]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE4NDUvMDEvMDEvdGl0bGUtcGFnZS1zaG93aW5nLWNoaWxkcmVuLXJlYWRpbmctc3RvcnktNjQwLmpwZw%3D%3D/40/62/webp "[Title page showing children reading story]")
![[Freed slave children with their teachers]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn18/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMTAvMTEvZnJlZWQtc2xhdmUtY2hpbGRyZW4td2l0aC10aGVpci10ZWFjaGVycy1jYTdmZDMtNjQwLmpwZw%3D%3D/40/19/webp "[Freed slave children with their teachers]")
![[Facsimile of Gettysburg address in Lincoln's hand on an envelope.]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMDkvMjUvZmFjc2ltaWxlLW9mLWdldHR5c2J1cmctYWRkcmVzcy1pbi1saW5jb2xucy1oYW5kLW9uLWFuLWVudmVsb3BlLTA1MDU2OS02NDAuanBn/40/84/webp "[Facsimile of Gettysburg address in Lincoln's hand on an envelope.]")
