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| Date: | 1790 |
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| Description: | Fort Washington, built in 1789, where Cincinnati now stands. |
| Date: | 1786 |
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| Description: | Portrait engraving of Thomas Jefferson, from the painting by M. Brown. |
| Date: | 1772 |
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| Description: | Scale: about 180 miles to 1 in. |
| Date: | 1783 |
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| Description: | Letter from Thomas Jefferson to George Rogers Clark suggesting a transcontinental expedition. |
| Date: | 1719 |
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| Description: | Photograph of a framed Scottish Historical Armorial Flag. |
| Date: | 09 19 1787 |
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| Description: | The first printing of the United States Constitution found in the "Pennsylvania Packet," and "Daily Advertiser." |
| Date: | 09 19 1787 |
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| Description: | The first printing of the United States Constitution found in the "Pennsylvania Packet," and "Daily Advertiser." |
| Date: | 02 24 1779 |
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| Description: | A letter from Governor Henry Hamilton to Colonel Clark proposing a truce. |
| Date: | 1712 |
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| Description: | Engraved double-hemispherical world map by Moll, included in his atlas The world described, or, A new and correct sett of maps: shewing the kingdoms and st... |
| Date: | 1740 |
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| Description: | Engraved and hand-colored map of the Iberian peninsula as a theater of war during the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714). The map is dedicated to Ki... |
| Date: | 1715 |
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| Description: | A map of the countries and islands surrounding the Gulf of Mexico. The hand-colored borders separate the territories of England, France, Spain, and Holland... |
| Date: | 1739 |
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| Description: | This map shows the territorial claims of the western hemisphere by the European powers, as well as the names of major cities, geographical features, and pa... |
| Date: | 1746 |
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| Description: | A map of the western hemisphere, including parts of western Europe and Africa, showing the division of the Americas by the European powers. Weapons and fol... |
| Date: | 1720 |
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| Description: | One of Herman Moll's most famous maps, often referred to as The Beaver Map for its elaborate engraved inset depicting and describing beavers building a dam... |
| Date: | 1715 |
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| Description: | One of Herman Moll's most famous maps, often referred to as The Codfish Map, it shows rivers and portages, cities, Indian villages, wind directions, routes... |
| Date: | 1720 |
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| Description: | This map of North America shows cities, rivers, lakes, and a few topographical features, complete with numerous descriptive blocks of text about expedition... |
| Date: | 1746 |
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| Description: | Map of North America from the southern portion of James Bay to Florida. It shows the colonies, cities, Native American land, and topological and geographic... |
| Date: | 1758 |
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| Description: | This map of the north-west hemisphere shows the cities, lakes, rivers, mountains, and political borders. In the upper left corner sits a decorative cartouc... |
| Date: | 1755 |
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| Description: | This map shows forts, missions, villages and cities, rivers and portages, and boundaries of the Spanish, English, and French territories, marking the large... |
| Date: | 1757 |
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| Description: | This map shows the cities, plantations, lakes, rivers, mountains, Native American territories and colonial borders of the Eastern half of North America, pl... |
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