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Letter, Benedict Arnold to George Washington pleading for mercy for his wife, 25 September 1780

Letter, Benedict Arnold to George Washington pleading for mercy for hi...

Reproduction number: A80 (color slide; page 1); A81 (color slide; page 2) Brig. Gen. Benedict Arnold (1741-1801) of the Continental army had fought gallantly for the American side since the beginning of the Rev... More

Letter, John Adams to Thomas Jefferson describing the cordial greeting he received from King George III as the first American minister to Great Britain, 3 June 1785

Letter, John Adams to Thomas Jefferson describing the cordial greeting...

Reproduction number: A51 (color slide; page 1); A52 (color slide; page 2) In this 3 June 1785 letter, written in his secretary's hand, John Adams (1735-1826), Revolutionary patriot and later president of the Un... More

Letter, Elizabeth Blackwell to Baroness Anne Isabella Milbanke Byron concerning women's rights and the education of women physicians, 4 March 1851

Letter, Elizabeth Blackwell to Baroness Anne Isabella Milbanke Byron c...

Reproduction number: A11 (color slide; pages 1 and 4); A12 (color slide; pages 2 and 3) I do not wish to give [women] a first place, still less a second one--but the most complete freedom, to take their true pl... More

Lee De Forest's schematic diagrams and scientific notes on hotel stationery, ca. 1915

Lee De Forest's schematic diagrams and scientific notes on hotel stati...

Reproduction number: A27 (color slide; page 1); A28 (color slide; page 2) The prolific American inventor Lee De Forest (1873-1961), is one of several contenders for the title "Father of Radio." Having obtained ... More

Letter, Franklin D. Roosevelt to J. Robert Oppenheimer thanking the physicist and his colleagues for their ongoing secret atomic research, 29 June 1943

Letter, Franklin D. Roosevelt to J. Robert Oppenheimer thanking the ph...

Reproduction number: A70 (color slide; pages 1-2) In the midst of World War II when the United States was engaged abroad in a major conflict with Germany and Japan, it was also working furiously at home toward ... More

Felix Frankfurter's draft decree to enforce the Brown v. Board of Education decision, 8 April 1955

Felix Frankfurter's draft decree to enforce the Brown v. Board of Educ...

Reproduction number: A36 (color slide; pages 1 and 2); LC-MSS-47571-3 (B&W negative; page 2) On 17 May 1954 Chief Justice Earl Warren (1891-1974) delivered the Supreme Court's unanimous opinion in Brown v. Boar... More

Notes, William O. Douglas to Earl Warren, 11 May 1954; Harold H. Burton to Warren, 17 May 1954; and Felix Frankfurter to Warren, 17 May 1954, concerning Chief Justice Warren's decision in Brown v. Board of Education

Notes, William O. Douglas to Earl Warren, 11 May 1954; Harold H. Burto...

Reproduction number: A79 (color slide) The justices of the United States Supreme Court communicate with one another about individual cases throughout the judicial process, from the initial decision about accept... More

Plate, punch card, and instructions for Herman Hollerith's Electric Sorting and Tabulating Machine, ca. 1895

Plate, punch card, and instructions for Herman Hollerith's Electric So...

Reproduction number: A55 (color slide; pages 4 and 5 of instructions); A56 (color slide; plate and punch card) Modern data processing began with the inventions of American engineer Herman Hollerith (1860-1929),... More

Manuscript map, probably made by a French voyageur, of Indian lands of Wisconsin, when part of Michigan Territory, annotated by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, ca. 1831

Manuscript map, probably made by a French voyageur, of Indian lands of...

Reproduction number: A120 (color slide); LC-MSS-39115-7 (B&W negative) This map of Wisconsin river valleys, probably made by a French voyageur, was carried by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (1793-1864), the author, eth... More

Letter, Margaret Mead to her grandmother Martha Ramsay Mead discussing her decision to retain her maiden name, 7 December 1923

Letter, Margaret Mead to her grandmother Martha Ramsay Mead discussing...

Reproduction number: A66 (color slide; page 1) Margaret Mead (1901-1978) was a prominent twentieth-century educator, writer, and lecturer. An anthropologist by occupation, she studied the lives of natives of Sa... More

Letter and corrected reprint of Walt Whitman's "O Captain, My Captain" with comments by author, 9 February 1888

Letter and corrected reprint of Walt Whitman's "O Captain, My Captain"...

Reproduction number: A83 (color slide of letter); A84 (color slide of poem reprint); LC-MSS-77909-1 (B&W negative of poem reprint) Inspired by the death of President Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), Walt Whitman (1... More

Drafts of Langston Hughes's poem "Ballad of Booker T.," 30 May-1 June 1941

Drafts of Langston Hughes's poem "Ballad of Booker T.," 30 May-1 June ...

Reproduction number: A57 (color slide; first and second drafts); A58 (color slide; final draft) Langston Hughes (1902-1967), known for his lyric poetry, often wrote insightful commentaries about African-America... More

George Washington's first inaugural address, 30 April 1789

George Washington's first inaugural address, 30 April 1789

Reproduction number: A115 (color slide; page 1) George Washington (1732-1799) delivered his first inaugural address to a joint session of Congress, assembled in Federal Hall, New York City, on 30 April 1789. Th... More

Enclosure, John Hancock to George Washington concerning the reading of the Declaration of Independence to the Revolutionary army, 4 July 1776

Enclosure, John Hancock to George Washington concerning the reading of...

Reproduction number: A121 (color slide; page 1); A122 (color slide; page 2) Among the resolutions passed by the Continental Congress on 4 July 1776 was one which called for the president of the Congress, John H... More

Letter, Wilbur Wright to Octave Chanute concerning the Wright brothers' aviation experiments, 13 May 1900

Letter, Wilbur Wright to Octave Chanute concerning the Wright brothers...

Reproduction number: A21 (color slide; first page); A22 (color slide; last page); LC-MSS-15560-1 (B&W negatives; pages 1-5) Engineer Octave Chanute (1832-1910), a friend and supporter of Wilbur Wright (1867-191... More

Plate, punch card, and instructions for Herman Hollerith's Electric Sorting and Tabulating Machine, ca. 1895

Plate, punch card, and instructions for Herman Hollerith's Electric So...

Reproduction number: A55 (color slide; pages 4 and 5 of instructions); A56 (color slide; plate and punch card) Modern data processing began with the inventions of American engineer Herman Hollerith (1860-1929),... More

John C. Calhoun's speech to the United States Senate against the Compromise of 1850, 4 March 1850

John C. Calhoun's speech to the United States Senate against the Compr...

Reproduction number: A20 (color slide; page 1) The famous South Carolinian John C. Calhoun (1782-1850) made his last Senate speech during the course of the great debate over the Compromise of 1850, a complicate... More

Lee De Forest's schematic diagrams and scientific notes on hotel stationery, ca. 1915

Lee De Forest's schematic diagrams and scientific notes on hotel stati...

Reproduction number: A27 (color slide; page 1); A28 (color slide; page 2) The prolific American inventor Lee De Forest (1873-1961), is one of several contenders for the title "Father of Radio." Having obtained ... More

Plate, punch card, and instructions for Herman Hollerith's Electric Sorting and Tabulating Machine, ca. 1895

Plate, punch card, and instructions for Herman Hollerith's Electric So...

Reproduction number: A55 (color slide; pages 4 and 5 of instructions); A56 (color slide; plate and punch card) Modern data processing began with the inventions of American engineer Herman Hollerith (1860-1929),... More

Letter, Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Banneker expressing his belief that blacks possess talents equal to those of "other colours of men," 30 August 1791

Letter, Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Banneker expressing his belief th...

Reproduction number: A54 (color slide); LC-MSS-27748-21 (B&W negative) While serving as secretary of state, Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), one of Virginia's largest planters and slaveholders, wrote this 30 Augus... More

Alexander Graham Bell's design sketch of the telephone, ca. 1876

Alexander Graham Bell's design sketch of the telephone, ca. 1876

Reproduction number: A8 (color slide; front); A9 (color slide; verso); LC-MSS-51268-6 (B&W negative; front) This sketch made its way from Boston, Massachusetts, to Australia and back to the United States in tim... More

Letter, Franklin D. Roosevelt to J. Robert Oppenheimer thanking the physicist and his colleagues for their ongoing secret atomic research, 29 June 1943

Letter, Franklin D. Roosevelt to J. Robert Oppenheimer thanking the ph...

Reproduction number: A70 (color slide; pages 1-2) In the midst of World War II when the United States was engaged abroad in a major conflict with Germany and Japan, it was also working furiously at home toward ... More

Letter, Andrew Jackson to Martin Van Buren discussing the nullification crisis, 13 January 1833

Letter, Andrew Jackson to Martin Van Buren discussing the nullificatio...

Reproduction number: A89 (color slide; pages 1 and 4); A90 (color slide; pages 2 and 3) The nullification controversy of 1832-33 confronted Andrew Jackson (1767-1845) with the greatest crisis of his presidency-... More

Felix Frankfurter's draft decree to enforce the Brown v. Board of Education decision, 8 April 1955

Felix Frankfurter's draft decree to enforce the Brown v. Board of Educ...

Reproduction number: A36 (color slide; pages 1 and 2); LC-MSS-47571-3 (B&W negative; page 2) On 17 May 1954 Chief Justice Earl Warren (1891-1974) delivered the Supreme Court's unanimous opinion in Brown v. Boar... More

"Autumn," poem by Helen Keller, 27 October 1893

"Autumn," poem by Helen Keller, 27 October 1893

Reproduction number: A10 (color slide) This poem was written by thirteen-year-old Helen Keller (1880-1968) who, only six years before, was "a wild little creature" who lived in the chilling emptiness and confus... More

Illustrated letter, Aubrey Beardsley to G. F. Scotson-Clark concerning James McNeill Whistler's Peacock Room, 1891

Illustrated letter, Aubrey Beardsley to G. F. Scotson-Clark concerning...

Reproduction number: A99 (color slide; pages 1 and 4); A100 (color slide; pages 2 and 3); LC-MSS-35857-2 (B&W negative; sketch) In July 1891 a consumptive nineteen-year-old London clerk, Aubrey Beardsley (1872-... More

Notes, William O. Douglas to Earl Warren, 11 May 1954; Harold H. Burton to Warren, 17 May 1954; and Felix Frankfurter to Warren, 17 May 1954, concerning Chief Justice Warren's decision in Brown v. Board of Education

Notes, William O. Douglas to Earl Warren, 11 May 1954; Harold H. Burto...

Reproduction number: A79 (color slide) The justices of the United States Supreme Court communicate with one another about individual cases throughout the judicial process, from the initial decision about accept... More

Notes, William O. Douglas to Earl Warren, 11 May 1954; Harold H. Burton to Warren, 17 May 1954; and Felix Frankfurter to Warren, 17 May 1954, concerning Chief Justice Warren's decision in Brown v. Board of Education

Notes, William O. Douglas to Earl Warren, 11 May 1954; Harold H. Burto...

Reproduction number: A79 (color slide) The justices of the United States Supreme Court communicate with one another about individual cases throughout the judicial process, from the initial decision about accept... More

Letter, Eleanor Roosevelt to Walter White detailing the First Lady's lobbying efforts for federal action against lynchings, 19 March 1936

Letter, Eleanor Roosevelt to Walter White detailing the First Lady's l...

Reproduction number: A69 (color slide); LC-MSS-34140-41 (B&W negative) Lynching was undoubtedly the most terrible crime perpetrated by white supremacists against African Americans. From the late nineteenth cent... More

Plate, punch card, and instructions for Herman Hollerith's Electric Sorting and Tabulating Machine, ca. 1895

Plate, punch card, and instructions for Herman Hollerith's Electric So...

Reproduction number: A55 (color slide; pages 4 and 5 of instructions); A56 (color slide; plate and punch card) Modern data processing began with the inventions of American engineer Herman Hollerith (1860-1929),... More

Subpoena served on Thomas Jefferson to testify at Aaron Burr's trial for treason, 13 June 1807

Subpoena served on Thomas Jefferson to testify at Aaron Burr's trial f...

Reproduction number: A19 (color slide) Although relationships between presidents and their vice-presidents have often been strained or at best perfunctory, the situation between Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) and... More

George Washington's first inaugural address, 30 April 1789

George Washington's first inaugural address, 30 April 1789

Reproduction number: A115 (color slide; page 1) George Washington (1732-1799) delivered his first inaugural address to a joint session of Congress, assembled in Federal Hall, New York City, on 30 April 1789. Th... More

John Fitch's sketch and description of piston for steamboat propulsion, ca. 1795

John Fitch's sketch and description of piston for steamboat propulsion...

Reproduction number: A35 (color slide); LC-MSS-20990-14 (B&W negative) A pioneer in the application of steam for boat propulsion, John Fitch (1743-1798) constructed four different steamboats between 1785 and 17... More

Gen. Douglas MacArthur's "Old Soldiers Never Die" address to Congress, 19 April 1951

Gen. Douglas MacArthur's "Old Soldiers Never Die" address to Congress,...

Reproduction number: A63 (color slide; first and last pages) Gen. Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964) was one of most prominent United States military figures of the first half of the twentieth century. In World War ... More

George Washington's first inaugural address, 30 April 1789

George Washington's first inaugural address, 30 April 1789

Reproduction number: A115 (color slide; page 1) George Washington (1732-1799) delivered his first inaugural address to a joint session of Congress, assembled in Federal Hall, New York City, on 30 April 1789. Th... More

Letter, Roger Brooke Taney to Caleb Cushing thanking Cushing for his support of Taney's decision in the Dred Scott case, 9 November 1857

Letter, Roger Brooke Taney to Caleb Cushing thanking Cushing for his s...

Reproduction number: A25 (color slide; pages 1 and 2); A26 (color slide; pages 3 and 4) Dred Scott v. Sanford, 19 How. 393, was decided by the United States Supreme Court on 6 March 1857. Scott (1809-1858), a s... More

Letter with illustrated fable, Theodore Roosevelt to Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., 11 July 1890

Letter with illustrated fable, Theodore Roosevelt to Theodore Roosevel...

Reproduction number: A113 (color slide; pages 1-2) Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919), twenty-sixth president of the United States (1901-09), strived for a life that embodied his ideal of assertive masculinity. At ... More

Letter, James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, partially written in cipher with translation by Jefferson, 23 May 1789

Letter, James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, partially written in cipher...

Reproduction number: A64 (color slide; page 1) This letter of 23 May 1789 was written by James Madison (1751-1836), a member of the first Congress and later the fourth president of the United States, to Thomas ... More

Draft of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's The Woman's Bible, ca. 1895

Draft of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's The Woman's Bible, ca. 1895

Reproduction number: A114 (color slide; Chapter II, page 3) Although most often identified as a suffragist, Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) participated in a variety of reform initiatives during her lifetime... More

Plate, punch card, and instructions for Herman Hollerith's Electric Sorting and Tabulating Machine, ca. 1895

Plate, punch card, and instructions for Herman Hollerith's Electric So...

Reproduction number: A55 (color slide; pages 4 and 5 of instructions); A56 (color slide; plate and punch card) Modern data processing began with the inventions of American engineer Herman Hollerith (1860-1929),... More

Draft of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's The Woman's Bible, ca. 1895

Draft of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's The Woman's Bible, ca. 1895

Reproduction number: A114 (color slide; Chapter II, page 3) Although most often identified as a suffragist, Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) participated in a variety of reform initiatives during her lifetime... More

Draft of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's The Woman's Bible, ca. 1895

Draft of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's The Woman's Bible, ca. 1895

Reproduction number: A114 (color slide; Chapter II, page 3) Although most often identified as a suffragist, Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) participated in a variety of reform initiatives during her lifetime... More

Draft of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's The Woman's Bible, ca. 1895

Draft of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's The Woman's Bible, ca. 1895

Reproduction number: A114 (color slide; Chapter II, page 3) Although most often identified as a suffragist, Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) participated in a variety of reform initiatives during her lifetime... More

Draft of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's The Woman's Bible, ca. 1895

Draft of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's The Woman's Bible, ca. 1895

Reproduction number: A114 (color slide; Chapter II, page 3) Although most often identified as a suffragist, Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) participated in a variety of reform initiatives during her lifetime... More

Draft of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's The Woman's Bible, ca. 1895

Draft of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's The Woman's Bible, ca. 1895

Reproduction number: A114 (color slide; Chapter II, page 3) Although most often identified as a suffragist, Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) participated in a variety of reform initiatives during her lifetime... More

Draft of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's The Woman's Bible, ca. 1895

Draft of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's The Woman's Bible, ca. 1895

Reproduction number: A114 (color slide; Chapter II, page 3) Although most often identified as a suffragist, Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) participated in a variety of reform initiatives during her lifetime... More

Draft of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's The Woman's Bible, ca. 1895

Draft of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's The Woman's Bible, ca. 1895

Reproduction number: A114 (color slide; Chapter II, page 3) Although most often identified as a suffragist, Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) participated in a variety of reform initiatives during her lifetime... More

Draft of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's The Woman's Bible, ca. 1895

Draft of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's The Woman's Bible, ca. 1895

Reproduction number: A114 (color slide; Chapter II, page 3) Although most often identified as a suffragist, Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) participated in a variety of reform initiatives during her lifetime... More

Draft of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's The Woman's Bible, ca. 1895

Draft of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's The Woman's Bible, ca. 1895

Reproduction number: A114 (color slide; Chapter II, page 3) Although most often identified as a suffragist, Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) participated in a variety of reform initiatives during her lifetime... More

Draft of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's The Woman's Bible, ca. 1895

Draft of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's The Woman's Bible, ca. 1895

Reproduction number: A114 (color slide; Chapter II, page 3) Although most often identified as a suffragist, Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) participated in a variety of reform initiatives during her lifetime... More

Draft of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's The Woman's Bible, ca. 1895

Draft of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's The Woman's Bible, ca. 1895

Reproduction number: A114 (color slide; Chapter II, page 3) Although most often identified as a suffragist, Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) participated in a variety of reform initiatives during her lifetime... More

Draft of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's The Woman's Bible, ca. 1895

Draft of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's The Woman's Bible, ca. 1895

Reproduction number: A114 (color slide; Chapter II, page 3) Although most often identified as a suffragist, Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) participated in a variety of reform initiatives during her lifetime... More

Draft of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's The Woman's Bible, ca. 1895

Draft of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's The Woman's Bible, ca. 1895

Reproduction number: A114 (color slide; Chapter II, page 3) Although most often identified as a suffragist, Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) participated in a variety of reform initiatives during her lifetime... More

Draft of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's The Woman's Bible, ca. 1895

Draft of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's The Woman's Bible, ca. 1895

Reproduction number: A114 (color slide; Chapter II, page 3) Although most often identified as a suffragist, Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) participated in a variety of reform initiatives during her lifetime... More

Illustrated letter, Frederic Remington to Owen Wister containing a sketch of Remington's bronze Bronco Buster, ca. January 1895

Illustrated letter, Frederic Remington to Owen Wister containing a ske...

Reproduction number: A87 (color slide; page 2); LC-MSS-46177-7 (B&W negative; page 2) Two champions of the old West share their common interest in this illustrated letter, ca. January 1895, from sculptor, illus... More

Letter, Edward R. Murrow to Eric Sevareid offering Sevareid a job with Columbia Broadcasting System's (CBS) European office on the eve of World War II, 16 August 1939

Letter, Edward R. Murrow to Eric Sevareid offering Sevareid a job with...

Reproduction number: A76 (color slide) Over his long career with the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS), first in radio and then television, Eric Sevareid (1912-1992) proved himself to be one of the most talent... More

Letter, James Monroe to Thomas Jefferson seeking foreign policy advice, 17 October 1823

Letter, James Monroe to Thomas Jefferson seeking foreign policy advice...

Reproduction number: A117 (color slide; page 1); A118 (color slide; page 2) Responding to a series of proposals from British Foreign Minister George Canning (1770-1827) for a joint Anglo-American condemnation o... More

Draft of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's The Woman's Bible, ca. 1895

Draft of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's The Woman's Bible, ca. 1895

Reproduction number: A114 (color slide; Chapter II, page 3) Although most often identified as a suffragist, Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) participated in a variety of reform initiatives during her lifetime... More

Letter, Benedict Arnold to George Washington pleading for mercy for his wife, 25 September 1780

Letter, Benedict Arnold to George Washington pleading for mercy for hi...

Reproduction number: A80 (color slide; page 1); A81 (color slide; page 2) Brig. Gen. Benedict Arnold (1741-1801) of the Continental army had fought gallantly for the American side since the beginning of the Rev... More

Letter, John Adams to Thomas Jefferson describing the cordial greeting he received from King George III as the first American minister to Great Britain, 3 June 1785

Letter, John Adams to Thomas Jefferson describing the cordial greeting...

Reproduction number: A51 (color slide; page 1); A52 (color slide; page 2) In this 3 June 1785 letter, written in his secretary's hand, John Adams (1735-1826), Revolutionary patriot and later president of the Un... More

Thomas Jefferson's design for a plow, ca. 1794. Thomas Jefferson Papers

Thomas Jefferson's design for a plow, ca. 1794. Thomas Jefferson Paper...

Reproduction number: A50 (color slide); LC-MSS-27748-64 (B&W negative) President Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), one of Virginia's largest planters, considered agriculture to be "a science of the very first order... More

Letter (pages 13-20), Varina Davis to Montgomery Blair describing the capture of her husband, Jefferson Davis, 6 June 1865

Letter (pages 13-20), Varina Davis to Montgomery Blair describing the ...

Reproduction number: A13 (color slide; page 16); A14 (color slide; page 17) As the Civil War drew to a close, Jefferson Davis (1808-1889), president of the Confederate States of America, fled Richmond with his ... More

Memorandum in Russian from Joseph Stalin about opening a second front in Europe during World War II, with English translation of same, 13 August 1942

Memorandum in Russian from Joseph Stalin about opening a second front ...

Reproduction number: A47 (color slide; pages 1 and 2) In 1941 President Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945) appointed financier and businessman W. Averell Harriman (1891-1986) as his "special representative" to G... More

Draft of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's The Woman's Bible, ca. 1895

Draft of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's The Woman's Bible, ca. 1895

Reproduction number: A114 (color slide; Chapter II, page 3) Although most often identified as a suffragist, Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) participated in a variety of reform initiatives during her lifetime... More

Letter (pages 13-20), Varina Davis to Montgomery Blair describing the capture of her husband, Jefferson Davis, 6 June 1865

Letter (pages 13-20), Varina Davis to Montgomery Blair describing the ...

Reproduction number: A13 (color slide; page 16); A14 (color slide; page 17) As the Civil War drew to a close, Jefferson Davis (1808-1889), president of the Confederate States of America, fled Richmond with his ... More

Letter, Wilbur Wright to Octave Chanute concerning the Wright brothers' aviation experiments, 13 May 1900

Letter, Wilbur Wright to Octave Chanute concerning the Wright brothers...

Reproduction number: A21 (color slide; first page); A22 (color slide; last page); LC-MSS-15560-1 (B&W negatives; pages 1-5) Engineer Octave Chanute (1832-1910), a friend and supporter of Wilbur Wright (1867-191... More

Draft of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's The Woman's Bible, ca. 1895

Draft of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's The Woman's Bible, ca. 1895

Reproduction number: A114 (color slide; Chapter II, page 3) Although most often identified as a suffragist, Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) participated in a variety of reform initiatives during her lifetime... More

Draft of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's The Woman's Bible, ca. 1895

Draft of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's The Woman's Bible, ca. 1895

Reproduction number: A114 (color slide; Chapter II, page 3) Although most often identified as a suffragist, Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) participated in a variety of reform initiatives during her lifetime... More

Draft of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's The Woman's Bible, ca. 1895

Draft of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's The Woman's Bible, ca. 1895

Reproduction number: A114 (color slide; Chapter II, page 3) Although most often identified as a suffragist, Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) participated in a variety of reform initiatives during her lifetime... More

Draft of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's The Woman's Bible, ca. 1895

Draft of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's The Woman's Bible, ca. 1895

Reproduction number: A114 (color slide; Chapter II, page 3) Although most often identified as a suffragist, Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) participated in a variety of reform initiatives during her lifetime... More

Draft of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's The Woman's Bible, ca. 1895

Draft of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's The Woman's Bible, ca. 1895

Reproduction number: A114 (color slide; Chapter II, page 3) Although most often identified as a suffragist, Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) participated in a variety of reform initiatives during her lifetime... More

Draft of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's The Woman's Bible, ca. 1895

Draft of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's The Woman's Bible, ca. 1895

Reproduction number: A114 (color slide; Chapter II, page 3) Although most often identified as a suffragist, Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) participated in a variety of reform initiatives during her lifetime... More

Draft of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's The Woman's Bible, ca. 1895

Draft of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's The Woman's Bible, ca. 1895

Reproduction number: A114 (color slide; Chapter II, page 3) Although most often identified as a suffragist, Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) participated in a variety of reform initiatives during her lifetime... More

Draft of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's The Woman's Bible, ca. 1895

Draft of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's The Woman's Bible, ca. 1895

Reproduction number: A114 (color slide; Chapter II, page 3) Although most often identified as a suffragist, Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) participated in a variety of reform initiatives during her lifetime... More

Draft of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's The Woman's Bible, ca. 1895

Draft of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's The Woman's Bible, ca. 1895

Reproduction number: A114 (color slide; Chapter II, page 3) Although most often identified as a suffragist, Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) participated in a variety of reform initiatives during her lifetime... More

Draft of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's The Woman's Bible, ca. 1895

Draft of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's The Woman's Bible, ca. 1895

Reproduction number: A114 (color slide; Chapter II, page 3) Although most often identified as a suffragist, Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) participated in a variety of reform initiatives during her lifetime... More

Draft of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's The Woman's Bible, ca. 1895

Draft of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's The Woman's Bible, ca. 1895

Reproduction number: A114 (color slide; Chapter II, page 3) Although most often identified as a suffragist, Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) participated in a variety of reform initiatives during her lifetime... More

Draft of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's The Woman's Bible, ca. 1895

Draft of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's The Woman's Bible, ca. 1895

Reproduction number: A114 (color slide; Chapter II, page 3) Although most often identified as a suffragist, Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) participated in a variety of reform initiatives during her lifetime... More

Draft of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's The Woman's Bible, ca. 1895

Draft of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's The Woman's Bible, ca. 1895

Reproduction number: A114 (color slide; Chapter II, page 3) Although most often identified as a suffragist, Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) participated in a variety of reform initiatives during her lifetime... More

Gen. George S. Patton's diary entries for March 1943

Gen. George S. Patton's diary entries for March 1943

Reproduction number: A71 (color slide; 11-12 March 1943) One of the military innovations of World War I was the emergence of the armored tank. George S. Patton, Jr. (1885-1945), was the first American officer a... More

"The Tristram's Saga," vellum fragment in Icelandic, 15th century

"The Tristram's Saga," vellum fragment in Icelandic, 15th century

Reproduction number: A96 (color slide); LC-MSS-21170-1 (B&W negative) During the twelfth century, Norwegian kings sent scribes to France to transcribe Charlemagne tales and other contemporary romances. Among th... More

Gen. George S. Patton's diary entries for March 1943

Gen. George S. Patton's diary entries for March 1943

Reproduction number: A71 (color slide; 11-12 March 1943) One of the military innovations of World War I was the emergence of the armored tank. George S. Patton, Jr. (1885-1945), was the first American officer a... More

Letter, Benedict Arnold to George Washington pleading for mercy for his wife, 25 September 1780

Letter, Benedict Arnold to George Washington pleading for mercy for hi...

Reproduction number: A80 (color slide; page 1); A81 (color slide; page 2) Brig. Gen. Benedict Arnold (1741-1801) of the Continental army had fought gallantly for the American side since the beginning of the Rev... More

George Washington's first inaugural address, 30 April 1789

George Washington's first inaugural address, 30 April 1789

Reproduction number: A115 (color slide; page 1) George Washington (1732-1799) delivered his first inaugural address to a joint session of Congress, assembled in Federal Hall, New York City, on 30 April 1789. Th... More

Letter, James McNeill Whistler to David Croal Thomson containing the artist's famed butterfly signature and discussing his hope that no painting of his remain in England, July 1895

Letter, James McNeill Whistler to David Croal Thomson containing the a...

Reproduction number: A92 (color slide; page 1 and envelope); A93 (color slide; page 2) This letter from one of the nineteenth century's most important painters to the man who functioned almost as a personal age... More

Letter, Andrew Jackson to Martin Van Buren discussing the nullification crisis, 13 January 1833

Letter, Andrew Jackson to Martin Van Buren discussing the nullificatio...

Reproduction number: A89 (color slide; pages 1 and 4); A90 (color slide; pages 2 and 3) The nullification controversy of 1832-33 confronted Andrew Jackson (1767-1845) with the greatest crisis of his presidency-... More

Plate, punch card, and instructions for Herman Hollerith's Electric Sorting and Tabulating Machine, ca. 1895

Plate, punch card, and instructions for Herman Hollerith's Electric So...

Reproduction number: A55 (color slide; pages 4 and 5 of instructions); A56 (color slide; plate and punch card) Modern data processing began with the inventions of American engineer Herman Hollerith (1860-1929),... More

George Washington's first inaugural address, 30 April 1789

George Washington's first inaugural address, 30 April 1789

Reproduction number: A115 (color slide; page 1) George Washington (1732-1799) delivered his first inaugural address to a joint session of Congress, assembled in Federal Hall, New York City, on 30 April 1789. Th... More

Draft of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's The Woman's Bible, ca. 1895

Draft of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's The Woman's Bible, ca. 1895

Reproduction number: A114 (color slide; Chapter II, page 3) Although most often identified as a suffragist, Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) participated in a variety of reform initiatives during her lifetime... More

George Washington's first inaugural address, 30 April 1789

George Washington's first inaugural address, 30 April 1789

Reproduction number: A115 (color slide; page 1) George Washington (1732-1799) delivered his first inaugural address to a joint session of Congress, assembled in Federal Hall, New York City, on 30 April 1789. Th... More

Draft of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's The Woman's Bible, ca. 1895

Draft of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's The Woman's Bible, ca. 1895

Reproduction number: A114 (color slide; Chapter II, page 3) Although most often identified as a suffragist, Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) participated in a variety of reform initiatives during her lifetime... More

Draft of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's The Woman's Bible, ca. 1895

Draft of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's The Woman's Bible, ca. 1895

Reproduction number: A114 (color slide; Chapter II, page 3) Although most often identified as a suffragist, Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) participated in a variety of reform initiatives during her lifetime... More

Draft of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's The Woman's Bible, ca. 1895

Draft of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's The Woman's Bible, ca. 1895

Reproduction number: A114 (color slide; Chapter II, page 3) Although most often identified as a suffragist, Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) participated in a variety of reform initiatives during her lifetime... More

Draft of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's The Woman's Bible, ca. 1895

Draft of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's The Woman's Bible, ca. 1895

Reproduction number: A114 (color slide; Chapter II, page 3) Although most often identified as a suffragist, Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) participated in a variety of reform initiatives during her lifetime... More

Draft of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's The Woman's Bible, ca. 1895

Draft of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's The Woman's Bible, ca. 1895

Reproduction number: A114 (color slide; Chapter II, page 3) Although most often identified as a suffragist, Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) participated in a variety of reform initiatives during her lifetime... More

Draft of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's The Woman's Bible, ca. 1895

Draft of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's The Woman's Bible, ca. 1895

Reproduction number: A114 (color slide; Chapter II, page 3) Although most often identified as a suffragist, Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) participated in a variety of reform initiatives during her lifetime... More

Draft of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's The Woman's Bible, ca. 1895

Draft of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's The Woman's Bible, ca. 1895

Reproduction number: A114 (color slide; Chapter II, page 3) Although most often identified as a suffragist, Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) participated in a variety of reform initiatives during her lifetime... More

Draft of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's The Woman's Bible, ca. 1895

Draft of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's The Woman's Bible, ca. 1895

Reproduction number: A114 (color slide; Chapter II, page 3) Although most often identified as a suffragist, Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) participated in a variety of reform initiatives during her lifetime... More

Draft of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's The Woman's Bible, ca. 1895

Draft of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's The Woman's Bible, ca. 1895

Reproduction number: A114 (color slide; Chapter II, page 3) Although most often identified as a suffragist, Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) participated in a variety of reform initiatives during her lifetime... More

Draft of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's The Woman's Bible, ca. 1895

Draft of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's The Woman's Bible, ca. 1895

Reproduction number: A114 (color slide; Chapter II, page 3) Although most often identified as a suffragist, Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) participated in a variety of reform initiatives during her lifetime... More

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