colonial period

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...

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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)

A new mapp of East and West New Jarsey [sic] : being an exact survey /

Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. See Report of the Library of Congress for 1917, p. 56. Vault

Dr. Beniamin [i.e., Benjamin] Franklin gebohrn zu Boston den 17 Janü. ...

Print shows Benjamin Franklin, half-length portrait, facing slightly right, wearing fur hat, holding book, in oval. Illus. in: Geschichte der kriege in und ausser Europa / Christoph Heinrich Korn. Nürnberg : G... More

Benjamin Franklin to Baron Rosencrone, April 15, 1783

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[Cartouche showing a Native woman, representing America, nursing infan...

Illus. in: L'Amérique septentrionale, ou se remarquent les États Unis. / par M. Brion de la Tour, ingénieur-géographe du roi. Paris : Chez Esnauts et Rapilly, 1783. Published in: The American Revolution in dra... More

Mural in town, depicting the chapel of San Elizario, founded in 1789, ...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Mural artist: name not given. The church is an example of late adobe church architecture of the Spanish colonial period and today is ... More

[Studio portrait of models wearing traditional clothing from the provi...

(1): Shepherd from the environs of Diarbèkir (Diyarbakır); (2): Kurde of Djizrè (Cizre); and (3): Kurd from the environs of Mardin.

Carte de l'Indo-Chine orientale / - Public domain map

Relief shown by hachures. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes "Traduction des principaux termes géographiques" in French, Annamites, Cambodian, Siamese and Laotia... More

[Statue of Benjamin Franklin, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]

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Franklin on new penny, Lincoln on new nickel? Washington D.C., Jan. 22...

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Paul Doumer - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photo shows Joseph Athanase Paul Doumer(1857-1932) who was Governor-General of French Indochina from 1897 to 1902. He also served as Minister of Finance of France and President. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2010)

Statues and sculpture. Benjamin Franklin statue I

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Benjamin Franklin University. Exterior of School of Accountancy, Benja...

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Africa. South Africa under British rule. 1930s. Public domain.

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Benjamin Franklin High School, New York, New York. High school boys gr...

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Benjamin Franklin High School, East River Drive, New York City. Gymnas...

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Equestrian statue of George Washington on Eakins Oval before the Phila...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Carol M. Highsmith - Benjamin Franklin Bridge, Philadelphia, Pennsylva...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Sculpture "Benjamin Franklin, former postmaster general," by Gleb W. D...

Date: 1936; dimensions: 2' 10"; material: wood. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title, date and keywords from information provided by the photographer. Credit line... More

Breneman family collection of early American manuscripts, 1755-1825

Correspondence, oath of allegiance, notes, certificates, and other papers pertaining to colonial Pennsylvania, the American Revolution, and the experiences of German immigrants in the mid- to late-eighteenth ce... More

Breneman family collection of early American manuscripts, 1755-1825

Correspondence, oath of allegiance, notes, certificates, and other papers pertaining to colonial Pennsylvania, the American Revolution, and the experiences of German immigrants in the mid- to late-eighteenth ce... More

Breneman family collection of early American manuscripts, 1755-1825

Correspondence, oath of allegiance, notes, certificates, and other papers pertaining to colonial Pennsylvania, the American Revolution, and the experiences of German immigrants in the mid- to late-eighteenth ce... More

A view of the falls on the Passaick, or second river, in the province ...

Print shows view of the waterfalls on the Passaic River in New Jersey.

Somaliland Protectorate, 1:125,000 (approx) /

Benjamin Franklin Birthplace Site, 17 Milk Street, Boston, Suffolk Cou...

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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

Thomas Jefferson, July 31, 1775, Draft of Continental Congress Resolut...

Draft of Continental Congress Resolutions on Lord North's Conciliatory Proposal; with Amendment by Benjamin Franklin

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

Knapp Farm, 417 DeKalb Pike, Montgomeryville, Montgomery County, PA

Significance: The Knapp Farmhouse illustrates how German and English vernacular styles were combined in the construction of homes during the colonial period of American architecture. The property was nominated ... 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[Design drawing for stained glass window with Louis Joliet and Pere Ma...

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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

An Accurate map of the present seat of war between Great-Britain and h...

Scale ca. 1:5,600,000. Hand colored. Prime meridian: London. Relief shown pictorially. Area extends from James Bay to Philadelphia and from the Great Lakes to Penobscot Bay. Available also through the Library o... 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

A relation of the successefull beginnings of the Lord Baltemore's plan...

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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

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

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 ...

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]

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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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Washington, D.C. A street scene, showing a car at the entrance of the ...

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Benjamin Franklin High School, New York, New York. Victory Corps boy l...

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Benjamin Franklin High School, East River Drive, New York City. Gymnas...

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[Crowd of people holding candles, including African Americans, at a ma...

Title devised by Library staff from contact sheet folder caption. Date from contact sheet folder caption. Contact sheet available for reference purposes: USN&WR COLL - Job no. 21653, frame 10A. Photograph taken... More

Aid the victims of U.S. bombing send contributions to Medical Aid for ...

Poster showing nude child surrounded by shape of bomb, with eight other bombs falling. "Fall '72" pencilled on verso. Gift; Gary Yanker; 1975-1983.

Breneman family collection of early American manuscripts, 1755-1825

Correspondence, oath of allegiance, notes, certificates, and other papers pertaining to colonial Pennsylvania, the American Revolution, and the experiences of German immigrants in the mid- to late-eighteenth ce... More

Breneman family collection of early American manuscripts, 1755-1825

Correspondence, oath of allegiance, notes, certificates, and other papers pertaining to colonial Pennsylvania, the American Revolution, and the experiences of German immigrants in the mid- to late-eighteenth ce... More

The treasure ship; a tale of Sir William Phipps, the regicides, and th...

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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

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

Nixon's bombs kill people - Posters Yanker Poster Collection

"IPC, Indochina Peace Campaign, 72" penned on verso. Gift; Gary Yanker; 1975-1983.

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

Knapp Farm, 417 DeKalb Pike, Montgomeryville, Montgomery County, PA

Significance: The Knapp Farmhouse illustrates how German and English vernacular styles were combined in the construction of homes during the colonial period of American architecture. The property was nominated ... More