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Winthrop Sargent was governor of the Mississippi Territory. Surveys, maps, and drawings of land in the Northwest Territory, and some miscellaneous manuscripts of Winthrop Sargent.

Membership certificate for a mutual aid society for sailing ship pilots established in Philadelphia in 1788. A large central oval contains a scene on the Delaware Bay showing sailing ships and the lighthouse at Cape Henlopen. To the right of the…

Poems, 1814-1817 including a long narrative entitled "The Lay of the Cumberland" and 13 other poems. Also contains a letter to the editor of the "Analectic Magazine," dated Bedford, October 1814 and a page of "Indian names." The author is identified…

This is the travel diary of an anonymous man who might have been a surveyor or land developer. He described the land he saw during his travels and meticulously recorded acreage and locations of trees. He also repeatedly mentioned "Huntsman's…

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

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

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

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…