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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…

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.

Railroad map of the central and western U.S. showing rail lines, states, towns, forts, and mountains. Also shows part of Mexico and the Gulf of California. The Union Pacific Railway, later the Kansas Pacific Railway, was chartered in July 1863 as…

Collection of carte-de-visite portraits of the city employees, attired in suits, seated, and one arm resting on a side table. Identified sitters include John H. Dye, surveyor and draughtsman; Jesse Lightfoot, surveyor; Strickland Kneass, chief…

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…

Blank membership certificate for employees of the railroad containing a cabinet card portrait of a young man surrounded by thirteen titled views documenting the activities, benefits, and hazards of life with the railroad. Views include clerks working…