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This business and social correspondence between John Keating, Philadelphia importer, and Richard Gernon, French merchant, reflects economic, social, and political developments in Europe and America.

This business and social correspondence between John Keating, Philadelphia importer, and Richard Gernon, French merchant, reflects economic, social, and political developments in Europe and America.

This business and social correspondence between John Keating, Philadelphia importer, and Richard Gernon, French merchant, reflects economic, social, and political developments in Europe and America.

Photostat of Vice President George M. Dallas' diary of the last few months of James K. Polk's administration, including an account of Senate politics, tariff controversy, territorial expansion, gold discovery in California.

This collection includes letters and documents of the signers of the Declaration of Independence and of members of Congress, 1758-18ll; of generals and prominent civilians of the Revolutionary period, 1770-1820; of signers of the Constitution,…

The entries in this logbook include discussion of supplies brought on board, where enslaved people -- referred to as "passengers" -- were picked up, trips to the "Negro market," and descriptions of the geographical attributes and inhabitants of…

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.

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

Racist trade card promoting Gately & Britton’s home furnishing store in Reading, Pa. and depicting a caricature of an African American boy sitting against a fence post eating a large slice of watermelon. Shows the boy squatting on his toes and…