Our catch-all category for all things about how we came to become Americans, what our fore-fathers did when they got here, and the lives lived by future generations of Americans.
![[American Revolutionary War Content and Presentation Copy] A Sermon Preached at Plymouth, December 22, 1775. Being the Anniversary Thanksgiving, in commemoration of the first landing of the Fathers of New-England, there; anno domini, 1620. Samuel Baldwin, 1731–1784.](/pictures/thumb/3727266_1.jpg?v=1537547098)
Presentation copy to a woman of an American Revolutionary War sermon published in Boston in 1776. The patriotic sermon dually evokes the Pilgrims’ struggle for... Read More
![[1842–1917 Combination Bound Volume of Masonic, Musical, and Theatrical Programs and Scrapbook kept by Musician Albert Ritter of Reading, Pennsylvania]. Albert Ritter, c.1838–1915.](/pictures/thumb/3727221_1.jpg?v=1534362500)
For Christmas 1873, musician Albert Ritter of Reading, Pennsylvania was given a scrapbook. He immediately began to fill it with ephemera from the various fraternal... Read More
![Our Martyred President…Memorial Life of William McKinley… [Salesman’s Sample Book]. Col. G. W. Townsend.](/images/noimage-req.png)
Salesman’s sample book, dummy, or canvassing book heavily illustrated with 64 halftones for a memorial biography of assassinated U.S. President William McKinley: Our Martyred President…Memorial... Read More
Appealing assembly of three salesman’s sample, dummy, or canvassing books all focusing on San Francisco’s disastrous 1906 earthquake and fire. The three titles—The San Francisco... Read More
Field: ““This treatise, written by the celebrated advocate of the abolition of slavery, is a glowing arraignment of the government of the United States for... Read More
[Title continues:] From the Notes of Major Long, Mr. T. Say, and other Gentlemen of the Expedition Party Compiled by Edwin James, Botanist and Geologist... Read More
![Hamilton’s Itinerarium. Being a Narrative of a Journey from Annapolis, Maryland, Through Delaware, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts & New Hampshire, from May to September, 1744. [S. Weir Mitchell’s Copy]. Dr. Alexander Hamilton, Albert B. Hart.](/pictures/thumb/3727225_1.jpg?v=1537471784)
A handsome edition of Hamilton’s 1744 journey narrative, and with scenes from his travels, illustrated in facsimile with leaves from his journal. DAB: “His report... Read More
“In his newest book, Delaware’s Forgotten River, C. A. Weslager lauds the little streams of America, which he claims exerted a greater influence than better... Read More
![The English on the Delaware 1610–1682. [Signed by the Author]. C. A. Weslager.](/pictures/thumb/3727134_1.jpg?v=1534362477)
“This volume brings into full perspective the sequence of historic events in the Delaware Valley, and shows how King James’s buffer zone had far-reaching influence... Read More
![The Nanticoke Indians Past and Present. [Signed by the Author]. C. A. Weslager.](/pictures/thumb/3727131_1.jpg?v=1534362476)
The history of the Nanticoke Indians from the 19th century to modern times with scholarly insight into their interactions with non-indigenous populations throughout the centuries... Read More
From the publisher: “For nine decades a steady stream of vehicles flowed out the doors of a small factory on the north edge of St... Read More
The beginnings of Delaware penology; the establishment of penal institutions, agitation for prison reform, the evolution of jails, methods of punishment and more. A granular... Read More
![Aloha Hawaii. [Hawaii Postal Envelope with Panoramic and Other Views from Photographs]. Hawaii Promotion Committee.](/pictures/thumb/3726760_1.jpg?v=1534362465)
A tourist item, functioning as both a means to communicate, and mail a brief message from Hawaii (in this case in 1909), and as a.... Read More
OCLC records a fair amount of material from this historical preservationist society, but this modest item appears unlisted. The text, in small type, lists the... Read More
![[WWII Submarine Album: “Photographic History of the 5th War Patrol of the SS241.”]. Ciro Parisi.](/pictures/thumb/3726740_1.jpg?v=1534362453)
World War II photograph album documenting the fifth war patrol of the Gato-class submarine U.S.S. Dace. The vessel sailed out of San Francisco on April... Read More
![Gen. U.S. Grant and Family at Mt. McGregor, [Saratoga Springs] N.Y. June 19, 1885 [Cabinet Photograph]. Ulysses S. Grant.](/pictures/thumb/3726739_1.jpg?v=1534362453)
Taken less then a month before Grant’s death, this cabinet card shows former president Ulysses S. Grant, seated on porch at center. he is surrounded... Read More
The Boston & Worcester Rail Road Line was the first passenger train in New England, offering full service in 1835. Here, in 1859, on this... Read More
![[Abraham Lincoln] “A Crime Without a Name.” April 14, 1865. Eugene Munday.](/pictures/thumb/3726712_1.jpg?v=1534362447)
Undoubtedly composed and printed within days of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, this sorrowful tribute takes its name from the April 15, 1865 newspaper headline... Read More
In 1865, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts exhibited American expatriate painter Benjamin West’s monumental oil on canvas Christ Rejected (1814).¹ Taking advantage of its... Read More
![[C. 1890s American Sporting Camp Photograph of Young Men and Women and Their African American Cook]. Unk.](/pictures/thumb/3726686_1.jpg?v=1534994968)
Interesting photograph of an American camping party of young men and women posing with sporting equipment and hunting and fishing gear. Joining them, but on... Read More
On July 27, 1862, during the American Civil War and enroute to Panama, passengers slumbered aboard the Pacific Pacific mail steamship S.S. “Golden Gate” when... Read More
A re-imagination of an 1854 maritime disaster by lithographer N. Currier of New York: The paddle steamer SS Arctic, owned by the Collins Line of... Read More
![[C.1880s Albumen Photograph of Cadets at Cayuga Lake Military Academy, Aurora, New York]. Cayuga Lake Military Academy, Walter Douglas Young; 1870–?](/pictures/thumb/3726652_1.jpg?v=1534362434)
Photograph of a group of military cadets in uniform at Cayuga Lake Military Academy in Aurora, New York. A drum head or shield in the... Read More
![[Photograph of Native American and Osage Chief Bacon Rind, i.e, Wah-she-hah or “Star-That-Travels”.]. Wah-she-hah Bacon Rind; c.1860–1932, “Star-That-Travels”.](/pictures/thumb/3726634_1.jpg?v=1534362431)
Snapshot photograph of Native American Bacon Rind (c.1860–1932), Osage tribal leader and keeper of traditional customs and costume. The photo depicts Bacon Rind in native... Read More
![[Three Real Photo Postcards of Lewistown, Pennsylvania, ca. 1910s.]. Nolte Photographer.](/pictures/thumb/3726632_1.jpg?v=1534362431)
Three images, all lettered in the negative: An image of a civic celebration in downtown Lewistown, Pennsylvania. A large Welcome banner can be seen. Lettered... Read More
