A view of Savannah as it stood the 29th of March 1734.
Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. 3 copies; 1 copy missing; 1 copy to P&P?
A survey of the northern neck of Virginia, being the lands belonging t...
Scale ca. 1:875,000. Relief shown pictorially. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Annotated to show roads, plantations, counties and towns. AACR2: 651/1;700/1
An accurate map of the English colonies in North America, bordering on...
Covers from Maine to South Carolina and west to Lake Michigan. Relief shown pictorially. From Universal magazine of knowledge and pleasure, Dec., 1754, v. 15, pg. 241 LC maps of North America, 1750-1789, 707 Av... More
A sceene of sceenes. Elizabeth Cannings dream for ye good of her nativ...
Print shows Elizabeth Canning, transported to America, seated in a room. She looks alarmingly at an old crone pointing to a soldier's uniform. Through the open window can be seen British soldiers marching up a ... More
[Chart of Plymouth Bay. nautical chart
Scale ca. 1:24,000. Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. Hand colored. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 960 Vault AACR2
![[Silhouette of George Washington and bust portrait of Benjamin Franklin]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE3ODgvMDEvMDEvc2lsaG91ZXR0ZS1vZi1nZW9yZ2Utd2FzaGluZ3Rvbi1hbmQtYnVzdC1wb3J0cmFpdC1vZi1iZW5qYW1pbi1mcmFua2xpbi02NDAuanBn/40/26/webp "[Silhouette of George Washington and bust portrait of Benjamin Franklin]")
[Silhouette of George Washington and bust portrait of Benjamin Frankli...
Print shows right profile head-and-shoulders portrait of George Washington in oval facing oval containing left profile bust portrait of Benjamin Franklin. Illus. in: The Columbian magazine, or, Monthly miscell... More
Benjamin Franklin, Head and Shoulders Portrait
Portrait, head and shoulders, facing right. "Engraved by H.B. Hall from the original picture in Passel painted from life by J.A. Duplessis in 1783, and now (1868) in the possession of John Bigelow, Esq." This ... More
![[Thomas Jefferson, 1743, 1826, reading rough draft of Declaration of Independence to Benjamin Franklin]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE4OTcvMDEvMDEvdGhvbWFzLWplZmZlcnNvbi0xNzQzLTE4MjYtcmVhZGluZy1yb3VnaC1kcmFmdC1vZi1kZWNsYXJhdGlvbi1vZi1pbmRlcGVuZGVuY2UtNjQwLmpwZw%3D%3D/40/52/webp "[Thomas Jefferson, 1743, 1826, reading rough draft of Declaration of Independence to Benjamin Franklin]")
[Thomas Jefferson, 1743, 1826, reading rough draft of Declaration of I...
Public domain photograph of office, auditorium, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
SHIVELEY, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. M.C., IND., 1887-1893; U.S.S., 1909-1916
A man in a coat and hat walking down a sidewalk. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
![[Benjamin, Franklin, 1706-1790, "Franklin opening 1st subscription library in Philadelphia."]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE5MTQvMDEvMDEvYmVuamFtaW4tZnJhbmtsaW4tMTcwNi0xNzkwLWZyYW5rbGluLW9wZW5pbmctMXN0LXN1YnNjcmlwdGlvbi1saWJyYXJ5LWluLXBoaWxhLTY0MC5qcGc%3D/40/22/webp "[Benjamin, Franklin, 1706-1790, \"Franklin opening 1st subscription library in Philadelphia.\"]")
[Benjamin, Franklin, 1706-1790, "Franklin opening 1st subscription lib...
Reproduction of painting by Charles E. Mills, copyright by Detroit Photo Co. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.
Monumental ruin of palace of Parthian king at Ctesiphon, near Bagdad
J200039 U.S. Copyright Office Stereo copyrighted by Underwood & Underwood. No. (46)-11671. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Iraq Ctesiphon; Palaces; Ph. Ind.
Gov. General of Indo-China & French Ambassador, Tokyo
Photograph shows Ernest Roume (1858-1941), Governor of French Indochina from 1914 to 1917 (left) and Eugene Regnault (b. 1857), the French Ambassador to Japan from 1914 to 1918. (Source: Flickr Commons project,... More
SHIVELEY, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, M.C., IND., 1887-1893; U.S.S., 1909-1916
A man walking down a sidewalk with a cane. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Statues and sculpture. Benjamin Franklin, Jackson Square statue
Picryl description: Public domain image of a statue, monument, sculpture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
The fall of New Amsterdam / J.L.G. Ferris.
Print shows Peter Stuyvesant, in 1664, standing on shore among residents of New Amsterdam who are pleading with him not to open fire on the British who have arrived in warships waiting in the harbor to claim th... More
Africa. South Africa under British rule. 1930s. Public domain.
Picryl description: Public domain image of a zoo, safari park, wild animals, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Africa. South Africa under British rule. 1930s. Public domain.
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Africa. South Africa under British rule. 1930s. Public domain.
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Orange County before 1810 / - Public domain map drawing
Pictorial history map with drawings of early buildings/settlers/events and with names of early settlers/landowners. Relief shown pictorially. "Buildings marked * are standing in 1935." "Copyright Jan. 1, 1936."... More
Benjamin Franklin High School, Queens, New York. Victory Corps boys ge...
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Benjamin Franklin High School, New York, New York. Boys in the "comman...
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Gloucester, Massachusetts. Inscription on a rock telling of the foundi...
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![[Demonstrators against the war in Vietnam holding signs on the boardwalk during the 1964 Democratic National Convention, Atlantic City, New Jersey; one sign reads "End the war in Vietnam"] / WKL.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMTAvMDMvZGVtb25zdHJhdG9ycy1hZ2FpbnN0LXRoZS13YXItaW4tdmlldG5hbS1ob2xkaW5nLXNpZ25zLW9uLXRoZS1ib2FyZHdhbGstZHVyaW5nLTNmMzIxZC0xMDI0LmpwZw%3D%3D/40/26/webp "[Demonstrators against the war in Vietnam holding signs on the boardwalk during the 1964 Democratic National Convention, Atlantic City, New Jersey; one sign reads \"End the war in Vietnam\"] / WKL.")
[Demonstrators against the war in Vietnam holding signs on the boardwa...
U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sheet available for reference purposes: USN&WR COLL - Job no. 12470-FF, frame 29. Contact sheet folder caption: "Demo Nat'l Conv. Atlantic City,... More
A map of Rariton River, Milstone River, South River ... (1685)
Bibliographic information on back reprinted. Stokes called this "the first known copperplate made in America." (v. 6 plate 84, opp. p. 60). This was disproved by Wroth. Map was engraved in England. Available al... More
Bradford Friends Meeting House, Northbrook Road, West Bradford Townshi...
1997 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: Among the oldest extant Friends meeting houses in the Delaware Valley, erected in 1767, Bradford Meeting House's seemingly unconventional design more closely ... More
Bradford Friends Meeting House, Northbrook Road, West Bradford Townshi...
1997 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: Among the oldest extant Friends meeting houses in the Delaware Valley, erected in 1767, Bradford Meeting House's seemingly unconventional design more closely ... More
Bradford Friends Meeting House, Northbrook Road, West Bradford Townshi...
1997 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: Among the oldest extant Friends meeting houses in the Delaware Valley, erected in 1767, Bradford Meeting House's seemingly unconventional design more closely ... More
Bradford Friends Meeting House, Northbrook Road, West Bradford Townshi...
1997 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: Among the oldest extant Friends meeting houses in the Delaware Valley, erected in 1767, Bradford Meeting House's seemingly unconventional design more closely ... More
Yost Log House, Lewis Lane & Morris Road, Ambler, Montgomery County, P...
Significance: The Yost Log House illustrates the vernacular, early settlement type of residence common in this area of Pennsylvania during the colonial period. Survey number: HABS PA-6016
Yost Log House, Lewis Lane & Morris Road, Ambler, Montgomery County, P...
Significance: The Yost Log House illustrates the vernacular, early settlement type of residence common in this area of Pennsylvania during the colonial period. Survey number: HABS PA-6016
Pompion Hill Chapel, Cooper River, south side, Huger, Berkeley County,...
2016 Charles E. Peterson Prize, First Place Significance: Pompion Hill is one of South Carolina's best-preserved chapels of ease and is known for its unaltered Georgian interior and exterior. It is significant ... More
A map of the British Empire in America with the French and Spanish set...
Public domain image of a vintage map, geography atlas, maritime navigation, age of discovery, 16th-17th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description
A view of the great Cohoes Falls, on the Mohawk River, the fall about ...
Print shows view of the Cohoes Falls on the Mohawk River.
Russian-American Company, Building No. 29, 202-206 Lincoln Street, Sit...
Significance: Building No. 29 is one of only four buildings of Russian construction known to survive in the Western Hemisphere. It was built in the Russian American capitol of New Archangel (now Sitka), the ce... More
Russian-American Company, Building No. 29, 202-206 Lincoln Street, Sit...
Significance: Building No. 29 is one of only four buildings of Russian construction known to survive in the Western Hemisphere. It was built in the Russian American capitol of New Archangel (now Sitka), the ce... More
Noxontown Mill, Noxontown Road (County Road 38), Middletown, New Castl...
Significance: Noxontown Mill was typical of the small grain-milling establishments that predominated in Delaware throughout the colonial period. But it was atypical in the sense that it survived so long. In 1... More
Noxontown Mill, Noxontown Road (County Road 38), Middletown, New Castl...
Significance: Noxontown Mill was typical of the small grain-milling establishments that predominated in Delaware throughout the colonial period. But it was atypical in the sense that it survived so long. In 1... More
Williams-Tucker House, 3601 Avenue P, Galveston, Galveston County, TX
Significance: This building is one of the few structures of the first years of Galveston that stands today. It is important because of its age, but more so because of its owner, Samuel May Williams. He was an i... More
St. Paul's Church, Northwest side Baden-Naylor Road, intersection with...
Significance: St. Paul's at Baden is the oldest church in Prince George's County, and one of only six churches extant from the colonial period. In May of 1692, the Governor's Council and the Maryland Assembly ... More
Charles Gravier, Comte de Vergennes, and Franklin Benjamin, July 29, 1...
"Scheme of a Convention" for Foreign Consuls; in French; with Copy and Printed Translation
Oakley Plantation, House, State Highway 965, Saint Francisville, West ...
1995 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: Oakley Plantation House is, perhaps, the finest surviving historic example of Louisiana's rare Angle Tidewater Creole architecture. ...As one of only four sur... More
Wessel's Root Cellar, State Routes 701 & 692 vicinity, Hallwood, Accom...
Significance: Wessels Root Cellar is a small brick structure built sometime after 1768 by William Wessels. Unusually for Colonial period root cellars, Wessels's was separate from the main house. The house burne... More
A view of Bethlem, the great Moravian settlement in the province of Pe...
Print shows view of community of Bethlehem, a cluster of large and small buildings in a bucolic setting. Another impression in: Scenographia Americana. London : J. Bowles, 1768. Printed for John Bowles at No. ... More
Mission San Francisco de la Espada, Berg's Mill Community, San Antonio...
Significance: First established in 1716, then relocated in 1731 on its present site, the Mission San Francisco de la Espada is one of five extant mission complexes in San Antonio dating from the eighteenth cent... More
Mission San Francisco de la Espada, Berg's Mill Community, San Antonio...
Significance: First established in 1716, then relocated in 1731 on its present site, the Mission San Francisco de la Espada is one of five extant mission complexes in San Antonio dating from the eighteenth cent... More
Mission San Francisco de la Espada, Berg's Mill Community, San Antonio...
Significance: First established in 1716, then relocated in 1731 on its present site, the Mission San Francisco de la Espada is one of five extant mission complexes in San Antonio dating from the eighteenth cent... More
Mission San Francisco de la Espada, Berg's Mill Community, San Antonio...
Significance: First established in 1716, then relocated in 1731 on its present site, the Mission San Francisco de la Espada is one of five extant mission complexes in San Antonio dating from the eighteenth cent... More
Mission San Francisco de la Espada, Berg's Mill Community, San Antonio...
Significance: First established in 1716, then relocated in 1731 on its present site, the Mission San Francisco de la Espada is one of five extant mission complexes in San Antonio dating from the eighteenth cent... More
Mission San Francisco de la Espada, Berg's Mill Community, San Antonio...
Significance: First established in 1716, then relocated in 1731 on its present site, the Mission San Francisco de la Espada is one of five extant mission complexes in San Antonio dating from the eighteenth cent... More
King William County Courthouse & Stable, State Route 619, King William...
Significance: The King William County Courthouse was built in 1725, and expanded in 1840. The courthouse green was enclosed at this time with the construction of a brick wall. The courthouse is still in use and... More
Kiskiack, Naval Mine Depot, State Route 238 vicinity, Yorktown, York C...
Significance: "Kiskiack" or the "Henry Lee House" exists as an eighteenth-century artifact characterized by extravagant brickwork popular in the mid 1720s. Kiskiack's most salient features are its T-shaped chi... More
Kiskiack, Naval Mine Depot, State Route 238 vicinity, Yorktown, York C...
Significance: "Kiskiack" or the "Henry Lee House" exists as an eighteenth-century artifact characterized by extravagant brickwork popular in the mid 1720s. Kiskiack's most salient features are its T-shaped chi... More
Kiskiack, Naval Mine Depot, State Route 238 vicinity, Yorktown, York C...
Significance: "Kiskiack" or the "Henry Lee House" exists as an eighteenth-century artifact characterized by extravagant brickwork popular in the mid 1720s. Kiskiack's most salient features are its T-shaped chi... More
Kiskiack, Naval Mine Depot, State Route 238 vicinity, Yorktown, York C...
Significance: "Kiskiack" or the "Henry Lee House" exists as an eighteenth-century artifact characterized by extravagant brickwork popular in the mid 1720s. Kiskiack's most salient features are its T-shaped chi... More
Kiskiack, Naval Mine Depot, State Route 238 vicinity, Yorktown, York C...
Significance: "Kiskiack" or the "Henry Lee House" exists as an eighteenth-century artifact characterized by extravagant brickwork popular in the mid 1720s. Kiskiack's most salient features are its T-shaped chi... More
Kiskiack, Naval Mine Depot, State Route 238 vicinity, Yorktown, York C...
Significance: "Kiskiack" or the "Henry Lee House" exists as an eighteenth-century artifact characterized by extravagant brickwork popular in the mid 1720s. Kiskiack's most salient features are its T-shaped chi... More
A view in Hudson's River of the entrance of what is called Topan Sea V...
Print shows view of the Hudson River at a point where it broadens to form a lake called Tappan Sea in New York.
Paul Revere House, 19 North Square, Boston, Suffolk County, MA
Significance: Paul Revere silversmith, pioneer, industrialist and a leading Revolutionary activist owned this house in North Square from 1770 to 1800. Constructed c. 1678=1680, the building is the sole survivo... More
Paul Revere House, 19 North Square, Boston, Suffolk County, MA
Significance: Paul Revere silversmith, pioneer, industrialist and a leading Revolutionary activist owned this house in North Square from 1770 to 1800. Constructed c. 1678=1680, the building is the sole survivo... More
Scheetz Farm, House, 7161 Camp Hill Road, Fort Washington, Montgomery ...
Significance: The Scheetz Farm is significant for its architecture and history. The vernacular house on the property demonstrates an additive construction history with portions dating to the eighteenth, ninetee... More
Scheetz Farm, House, 7161 Camp Hill Road, Fort Washington, Montgomery ...
Significance: The Scheetz Farm is significant for its architecture and history. The vernacular house on the property demonstrates an additive construction history with portions dating to the eighteenth, ninetee... More
Scheetz Farm, House, 7161 Camp Hill Road, Fort Washington, Montgomery ...
Significance: The Scheetz Farm is significant for its architecture and history. The vernacular house on the property demonstrates an additive construction history with portions dating to the eighteenth, ninetee... More
Scheetz Farm, House, 7161 Camp Hill Road, Fort Washington, Montgomery ...
Significance: The Scheetz Farm is significant for its architecture and history. The vernacular house on the property demonstrates an additive construction history with portions dating to the eighteenth, ninetee... More
Westtown Friends Meeting House, Westtown School, east side, Westtown, ...
Significance: A rare architect-designed meeting house, the Westtown Friends Meeting House was constructed in 1929. Walter F. Price was the architect in charge; Price later designed the Florida Avenue Meeting Ho... More
Mission San Juan de Capistrano, Berg's Mill-Graf Road, San Antonio, Be...
Significance: First established in 1716, then relocated in 1731 on its present site, the Mission San Juan is one of five extant mission complexes in San Antonio dating from the eighteenth century. These buildin... More
Mission San Juan de Capistrano, Berg's Mill-Graf Road, San Antonio, Be...
Significance: First established in 1716, then relocated in 1731 on its present site, the Mission San Juan is one of five extant mission complexes in San Antonio dating from the eighteenth century. These buildin... More
Mission San Juan de Capistrano, Berg's Mill-Graf Road, San Antonio, Be...
Significance: First established in 1716, then relocated in 1731 on its present site, the Mission San Juan is one of five extant mission complexes in San Antonio dating from the eighteenth century. These buildin... More
Relatio itineris in Marylandiam : declaratio coloniae domini baronis d...
Text and translation on opposite pages, numbered in duplicate. Supplemented by: "Excerpta ex diversis litteris missionariorum. Ab anno 1638, ad annum 1677. Extracts from different letters of missionaries. From ... More
The Calvert papers.
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
The history of Virginia, in four parts. I. The history of the first se...
ESTC N7255 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680;
"The present translation is substantially that of Mr. Henry C. Murphy, as presented in his edition of 1867," under title: Journal of a voyage to New York and a tour in several of the American colonies in 1679-8... More
Zehender Theil Americae darinnen zubefinden: Erstlich, Zwo Schiffarten...
The 1st pt. is based on Vespucci's letters giving an account of his 1st and 2d voyages, in 1497 and 1499. First issue. Cf. Church. Cat. of books relating to ... America, 196. Kraus, H.P. Sir Francis Drake, no. ... More
Zehender Theil Americae darinnen zubefinden: Erstlich, Zwo Schiffarten...
The 1st pt. is based on Vespucci's letters giving an account of his 1st and 2d voyages, in 1497 and 1499. First issue. Cf. Church. Cat. of books relating to ... America, 196. Kraus, H.P. Sir Francis Drake, no. ... More
Zehender Theil Americae darinnen zubefinden: Erstlich, Zwo Schiffarten...
The 1st pt. is based on Vespucci's letters giving an account of his 1st and 2d voyages, in 1497 and 1499. First issue. Cf. Church. Cat. of books relating to ... America, 196. Kraus, H.P. Sir Francis Drake, no. ... More
The generall historie of Virginia, New England & the Summer Isles : to...
Includes index. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Kislak accession no.: 2000.037.01.0012 (v. 1) Kislak accession no.: 2000.037.02.0012 (v. 2)
The generall historie of Virginia, New England & the Summer Isles : to...
Includes index. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Kislak accession no.: 2000.037.01.0012 (v. 1) Kislak accession no.: 2000.037.02.0012 (v. 2)
Martin, Honorable Benjamin Franklin of W.Va.
A black and white photo of a man with a beard. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Benjamin Franklin, Supt. P.N.D.A., Philadelphia. Pennsylvania, 1873-18...
Photograph shows portrait of Pinkerton's National Detective Agency superintendant and former chief of detectives at the Philadelphia Police Department. Forms part of: Visual material from the records of Pinker... More
Statues and sculpture. Benjamin Franklin statue II
Public domain photo of a monument, historic place, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Tobacco Barns of Southern Maryland, Saint Charles, Charles County, MD
Significance: The project to record the tobacco barns of Maryland was undertaken by students from the University of Delaware in an effort to record this important vanishing historic resource. Tobacco production... More
Africa. South Africa under British rule. 1930s. Public domain.
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Africa. South Africa under British rule. 1930s. Public domain.
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Africa. South Africa under British rule. 1930s. Public domain.
Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farming, farmer, agriculture, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
![[Williamsburg, Virginia, ca. 1740], Landscape view print](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn18/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMTAvMTIvd2lsbGlhbXNidXJnLXZpcmdpbmlhLWNhLTE3NDAtOTZiNWZjLTEwMjQuanBn/40/32/webp "[Williamsburg, Virginia, ca. 1740], Landscape view print")
[Williamsburg, Virginia, ca. 1740], Landscape view print
Print shows two rows of buildings, numbered 1-6, at Williamsburg, Virginia, and plant specimens, insects, and two views of Natives, numbered 7-16, and four tools, numbered a-d, used by the Natives. Inscribed i... More
Mission Senora de la Purisima Concepcion, Church, 807 Mission Road, Sa...
Significance: The church is architecturally significant as physical evidence of building practices and techniques used during the Spanish colonial period. It is the least altered of all the Texas mission church... More
Mission Senora de la Purisima Concepcion, Church, 807 Mission Road, Sa...
Significance: The church is architecturally significant as physical evidence of building practices and techniques used during the Spanish colonial period. It is the least altered of all the Texas mission church... More
Mission Senora de la Purisima Concepcion, Church, 807 Mission Road, Sa...
Significance: The church is architecturally significant as physical evidence of building practices and techniques used during the Spanish colonial period. It is the least altered of all the Texas mission church... More
Bradford Friends Meeting House, Northbrook Road, West Bradford Townshi...
1997 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: Among the oldest extant Friends meeting houses in the Delaware Valley, erected in 1767, Bradford Meeting House's seemingly unconventional design more closely ... More
Bradford Friends Meeting House, Northbrook Road, West Bradford Townshi...
1997 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: Among the oldest extant Friends meeting houses in the Delaware Valley, erected in 1767, Bradford Meeting House's seemingly unconventional design more closely ... More
Bradford Friends Meeting House, Northbrook Road, West Bradford Townshi...
1997 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: Among the oldest extant Friends meeting houses in the Delaware Valley, erected in 1767, Bradford Meeting House's seemingly unconventional design more closely ... More
Bradford Friends Meeting House, Northbrook Road, West Bradford Townshi...
1997 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: Among the oldest extant Friends meeting houses in the Delaware Valley, erected in 1767, Bradford Meeting House's seemingly unconventional design more closely ... More
Pompion Hill Chapel, Cooper River, south side, Huger, Berkeley County,...
2016 Charles E. Peterson Prize, First Place Significance: Pompion Hill is one of South Carolina's best-preserved chapels of ease and is known for its unaltered Georgian interior and exterior. It is significant ... More
Noxontown Mill, Noxontown Road (County Road 38), Middletown, New Castl...
Significance: Noxontown Mill was typical of the small grain-milling establishments that predominated in Delaware throughout the colonial period. But it was atypical in the sense that it survived so long. In 1... More
The reception of Benjamin Franklin in France
Print shows Benjamin Franklin standing with a man and a woman outside building next to a river, with boats carrying passengers, and bridges spanning the river in the background. T1847-O U.S. Copyright Office. ... More
The reception of Benjamin Franklin in France
Print shows Benjamin Franklin standing with a man and a woman outside building next to a river, with boats carrying passengers, and bridges spanning the river in the background. T1847-O U.S. Copyright Office. ... More
Oakley Plantation, House, State Highway 965, Saint Francisville, West ...
1995 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: Oakley Plantation House is, perhaps, the finest surviving historic example of Louisiana's rare Angle Tidewater Creole architecture. ...As one of only four sur... More
Wessel's Root Cellar, State Routes 701 & 692 vicinity, Hallwood, Accom...
Significance: Wessels Root Cellar is a small brick structure built sometime after 1768 by William Wessels. Unusually for Colonial period root cellars, Wessels's was separate from the main house. The house burne... More
Thanksgiving scene in ye old Plymouth colony / Ehrhart.
Illustration shows a Thanksgiving Day celebration at Plymouth Colony with a "Hot Dog" vendor in the foreground, a "Pink Firewater" booth on the upper left, where the Natives have congregated, and a large group ... More
Mission San Francisco de la Espada, Berg's Mill Community, San Antonio...
Significance: First established in 1716, then relocated in 1731 on its present site, the Mission San Francisco de la Espada is one of five extant mission complexes in San Antonio dating from the eighteenth cent... More
Eyre Hall, U.S. Route 13 & State Route 636 vicinity, Cheriton, Northam...
Significance: One of the Eastern Shore's most notable 18th century houses, with relatively complete surviving plantation complex, including dairy, smokehouse, overseer's house, graveyard and orangery (ruins). ... More