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)
A prospective view of the town of Boston, the capital of New-England -...
Print shows eight British warships (numbered and identified in bottom margin) in the harbor with Boston in the background. Illus. in: Edes & Gill's North-American almanack, and Massachusetts register for the y... More
![[Proclamation by the State of Pennsylvania offering reward for Daniel Shays and 3 othe rebellion ringleaders. Signed by Benjamin Franklin]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE3ODcvMDEvMDEvcHJvY2xhbWF0aW9uLWJ5LXRoZS1zdGF0ZS1vZi1wZW5uc3lsdmFuaWEtb2ZmZXJpbmctcmV3YXJkLWZvci1kYW5pZWwtc2hheXMtNjQwLmpwZw%3D%3D/40/63/webp "[Proclamation by the State of Pennsylvania offering reward for Daniel Shays and 3 othe rebellion ringleaders. Signed by Benjamin Franklin]")
[Proclamation by the State of Pennsylvania offering reward for Daniel ...
Illus. in: Penna. Journal, May 19, 1787. p. 4. Ref. copy may be in E302.5.U6 (P&P Ref.). This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: BI; Penna. Hist; Shays Rebellion.
The Bostons paying the excise-man or tarring & feathering / copied on ...
Print shows a mob pouring tea into the mouth of a Loyalist who has been tarred and feathered. Behind the group, on the right, is the "Liberty Tree" from which hangs a noose and a sign "Stamp Act" written upside... More
First blow for liberty - Public domain engraving
Print show scene at the Battle of Lexington, 1775. Engraving after a painting by F.O.C. Darley.
Celestial wrath / F. Opper. - A book with a cartoon of a man holding a...
Print shows startled French soldiers in rice paddies confonting an angry blazing sun rimmed with cannon barrels and bayonets, and stating "Population 500,000,000", also signs labeled "Malaria, Disease, [and] Fe... More
Massacre of Conococheague. Book illustration from Library of Congress
Illustration shows Indians attacking a wagon train and killing a man. Illus. in: The romance and tragedy of pioneer life / Augustus Lynch Mason. Cincinnati ; Chicago [etc.] : Jones Brothers and Company, 1884, ... More
Marquette and Joliet Cross (head of drainage canal), Chicago, Ill.
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Benjamin Franklin print shop - Public domain portrait print
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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, 2014)
Benjamin Franklin University. Exterior of School of Accountancy, Benja...
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Benjamin Franklin University. Exterior of School of Accountancy, Benja...
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Benjamin Franklin University. Exterior of School of Accountancy, Benja...
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Benjamin Franklin University. Side entrance of School of Accountancy, ...
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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.
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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.
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Sud country near Bor.. South Africa under British rule. 1930s. Public ...
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Benjamin Franklin High School, New York, New York. Boys in the "comman...
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Benjamin Franklin High School, New York, New York. Boys take one day a...
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Benjamin Franklin High School, New York, New York. High school boys gr...
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Facing the scars of war - Egypt
Photograph shows Indo-Chinese labor groups reclaiming French land from trench warfare by filling in a line of trenches. They work near remaining "chevaux-de-frise". Caption label from exhibit "World War I ...":... 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
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...
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The American magazine, and monthly chronicle for the British colonies ...
Title page illustration for The American magazine showing a Frenchman and an Englishman competing ("grease takes precedence") for the loyalty of a Native man standing between them, leaning on a rifle. Illus. in... 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
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
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
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
![[Benjamin Franklin, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly right, wearing fur collar]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMDkvMTQvYmVuamFtaW4tZnJhbmtsaW4taGVhZC1hbmQtc2hvdWxkZXJzLXBvcnRyYWl0LWZhY2luZy1zbGlnaHRseS1yaWdodC13ZWFyaW5nLTEwNDdkMi0xMDI0LmpwZw%3D%3D/40/49/webp "[Benjamin Franklin, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly right, wearing fur collar]")
[Benjamin Franklin, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly right...
H93461 U.S. Copyright Office. Photograph of painting by Joseph-Siffrède Duplessis. No. 9011[...].
Wilson Mill Bridge, Spanning Deer Creek at MD Route 161, Darlington, H...
Significance: This bridge is part of the Darlington Road, a major north/south artery, dating from the colonial period, that links the northern, agrarian, section of Harford County with the southern, commercial ... More
Brick Store, Route 488, East of Road 489, Smyrna, Kent County, DE
Significance: Brick Store is the only known colonial period agricultural building surviving in southern New Castle County. It was built as a creek side grain warehouse in 1767 and converted into a dwelling befo... More
Benjamin Franklin - born in Boston, Jany. 17th 1706 -- died in Philade...
Print showing Benjamin Franklin, full-length portrait, sitting in chair, facing slightly left, holding compass, with globe at his feet, and electrical storm visible through the window in the background.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia, P...
Survey number: HABS PA-1661 Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
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
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
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
Kingsley Plantation, Barn, 11676 Palmetto Avenue, Jacksonville, Duval ...
Significance: T-shaped in plan, the barn at Kingsley Plantation was erected in two phases. The north wing, constructed of tabby brick, was most likely built ca. 1814-20 early in Zephaniah Kingsley's tenure. The... 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
Unus Americanus ex Virginia. Aetat 23 / W. Hollar ad vivum delin. et f...
Twenty-three-year old Virginia Algonquian man, half-length portrait, wearing necklace and head ornaments, and with facial markings, facing slightly left. Parthey, 2009 Published in: Many nations: A Library of C... 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
A true discourse of the present estate of Virginia, and the successe o...
"Only 200 copies privately printed" (for Charles Gorham Barney, of Richmond, Va., cf. Sabin, Dict.) The discourse is followed by three letters: (1) "To the R. and my most esteemed friend Mr. D.M. at his house a... More
A relation of Maryland : reprinted from the London edition of 1635 /
Edition of 50 copies in quarto, 200 in octavo. The large paper copies are complete in 103 p., containing Memorandum on the Charter of Maryland, by Brantz Mayer, p. 75-78, and The Charter of Maryland [English tr... 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
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
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 official letters of Alexander Spotswood, lieutenant-governor of th...
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
The official letters of Alexander Spotswood, lieutenant-governor of th...
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
The official letters of Alexander Spotswood, lieutenant-governor of th...
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Wunderbarliche, doch warhafftige Erklärung, von der Gelegenheit vnd S...
Illus. 1-23 have title: Wahrhafftige Contrafacturen vnd Gebräuch der Innwohnern der jenigen Landtschafft in America, welche Virginia genennet worden ... Alles auff das allerfleissigst erkündigt, vnd ... abcontr... More
"A discourse of Virginia."
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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)
![[View of Boston] / J. Turner. - An open book with a picture of a town on it](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE3NDUvMDEvMDEvdmlldy1vZi1ib3N0b24tai10dXJuZXItNjQwLmpwZw%3D%3D/40/50/webp "[View of Boston] / J. Turner. - An open book with a picture of a town on it")
[View of Boston] / J. Turner. - An open book with a picture of a town ...
Print shows bird's-eye view of Boston, Massachusetts, with view of Native hunting and a palm tree in the foreground. Illus. in: The American Magazine and Historical Chronicle. Boston : Printed and sold by Roge... More
Benjamin Franklin - né à Boston dans la Nouvelle Angleterre, le 17 Jan...
Print shows Benjamin Franklin, head-and-shoulders portrait, wearing fur hat, without spectacles, facing left, in oval tied with a ribbon at top, on base in frame with title plate. No. 1515. Reference copy in B... More
A New method of Macarony making as practised at Boston / copied on sto...
Print shows two American revolutionaries tarring and feathering the tax collector. In the background, a gallows.
Defeat of General Braddock, in the French and Indian War, in Virginia ...
Illustration shows Indians armed with rifles in a forest; in background British soldiers. Illus. in: Ballou's pictorial, v. 9 ( 1855 July 7), p. 16. Wood engraving after a work by Billings (possibly Hammett Billings).
Hooker walk through the wilderness, 1636 / C.H. Niehaus, 1893.
Cartoon for a lunette shows Reverend Thomas Hooker standing and gesturing towards a valley. A sick woman lies on a stretcher in foreground while other people descend. Hooker led members of his Puritan congregat... More
Benjamin Franklin opening first subscription library in Philadelphia
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![[Benjamin Franklin, editor and writer]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE5MDkvMDEvMDEvYmVuamFtaW4tZnJhbmtsaW4tZWRpdG9yLWFuZC13cml0ZXItMTAyNC5qcGc%3D/40/28/webp "[Benjamin Franklin, editor and writer]")
[Benjamin Franklin, editor and writer]
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Mrs. Anthony Wayne Cook, Pres. D.A.R., speaking at the memorial exerci...
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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.
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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.
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U.S. Capitol paintings. Benjamin Franklin fresco in U.S. Capitol
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