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This volume includes instructions and advice regarding cultivating plants and planting orchards, derived from written sources, word of mouth, and personal experience. Topics include grafting, choosing fruit for cider, gathering and sweating the…

Allegorical cartoon concerning the Pennsylvania Constitution of 1776 ("Zion"). Satirizes current events, fads, and opponents of the controversial constitution, which established a unicameral legislation overseen by an unchecked Council of Censors.…

Mathematics ciphering book by student Grace Hoopes, born 1697. Covers addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, interest calculation, ect. The penmanship is remarkable throughout the book, and includes several script exercises. The book is…

This scathing cartoon was widely popularized in 18th century America, of William Cobbett, who is in fact being protrayed as a porcupine with some rather crude opinions. He is shown receiving support by those that include the Devil and the British…

Includes a pictorial envelope and letterhead containing an illustration depicting a collage of imagery, including a map of America bordered by scrolls of "Tracing Cloth," "Drawing Papers. Mounted and Unmounted," and "Tracing Papers"; a globe;…

Trade card promoting surveyor and insurance agent Fred C. Davis and depicting a racist caricature of an African American man on a horse-drawn plow. Shows the man barely seated, leaning back, and with his legs in the air on the plow. He holds broken…

Selection of 18th and 19th-century prints showing landscape views of towns and locations in Pennsylvania and Virginia.

Selection of 18th and 19th-century prints showing landscape views of towns and locations in New York and Pennsylvania.