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The Little innocent porcupine hornet’s nest. [Five lines of verse.]
An anti-slavery pamphlet.
General Collection – Views (I)
Selection of 18th and 19th-century prints showing landscape views of towns and locations in Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New York.
General Collection – Views (II)
Selection of 18th and 19th-century prints showing landscape views of towns and locations in New York and Pennsylvania.
General Collection – Views (III)
Selection of 18th and 19th-century prints showing landscape views of towns and locations in Pennsylvania and Virginia.
Fred C. Davis, land surveyor and insurance agent, Felchville, VT., will insure against all kinds of accidents [graphic].
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…
[E. P. Noll & Co., map publishers and manufacturers, 17 North Sixth Street, Philadelphia, Pa. letterhead, illustrated envelope, and insert] [graphic] / Smith Bros. sc. Phila.
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;…
See Porcupine in Colours Just Portray'd political cartoon, 1799
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…
Grace Hoopes ciphering book, 1710
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…