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Title: The Java, as she appeared at 35 Min. past 4 P.M. after having sustained several ranking Broadsides from the Constitution.
Identifier(s): graphics:5193; APSimg3672; Graphics Number: M42-2-16
Creator: Pocock, Nicholas, 1740-1821
Source: Print Collection;
Subject: Early American history ; Naval warfare; Java (Frigate); Constitution (Frigate); United States--History--War of 1812; Prints collection
Date: 1818

Title: Vaughan, Benjamin to John Vaughan, 1816 January 26.
Identifier(s): text:2615; local: APSimg7905
Creator: Vaughan, Benjamin, 1751-1835et al
Subject: Early American history; Vaughan, Benjamin, 1751-1835; Vaughan, John, 1755-1841; Private libraries; Indians of North America
Date: 1816-01-26

Title: Thomas Jefferson to [Thomas Leiper], June 12, 14 1815.
Identifier(s): APSimg8021; APSimg8021
Description: David Library Item Number: 2376; Description from Guide to the Sol Feinstone Collection of the David Library of the American Revolution.
Creator: Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826
Source: The Sol Feinstone Collection of the American Revolution, ca. 1760s-1850s (Mss.B.F327);
Subject: Early American history; Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826; Leiper, Thomas, 1745-1825; Bonaparte, Napoleon, 1769-1821; Louis XVIII, King of France, 1755-1824
Date: 1815 June 12

Title: Portraiture and the Development of African American Identity in the 19th Century
Identifier(s): video:134; 2003_11_007
Description: Dr. Shaw gives a historical overview of Moses Williams' life under enslavement with Charles Wilson Peale.
Subject: History of Art; Early American History; African American art; Silhouettes; Williams, Moses, 1777-ca. 1825,; Peale, Charles Willson, 1741-1827,; Peale, Rembrandt, 1778-1860,; APS Meeting Videos
Date: 2003-11-14

Title: "Destruction of the French Gun Boats, or Little Boney and the Friend Talley in Hight Glee."
Identifier(s): graphics:5202; APSdigobj3199
Description: Gimbel Collection: Paine 75 G41 DE
Creator: Gillray, James, 1756-1815
Source: Print Collection;
Subject: Early American history ; Gimbel Collection; Bonaparte, Napoleon, 1769-1821; Talleyrand-Perigord, Charles Maurice de, prince de Benevent, 1754-1838; Political cartoons; Caricatures
Date: n. d.

Title: Manuscript subscription list put forward by Jefferson to support a proposed scientific expedition under Andre Michaux, 1793.; Subscription list for proposed exploration of the American West.
Identifier(s): graphics:4751; local: APSimg1138; local: 728.001
Description: This stunning document, the body of which is in the hand of Thomas Jefferson, gives instructions to Michaux "to explore the interior country of North America from the Mississippi along the Missouri and Westwardly to the Pacific Ocean . . ." Those subscribing money for this venture have signed below, with their pledges noted. Included are: John Adams, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Robert Morris. This expedition was never undertaken, and it is only one instance of Jefferson's continuing interest in exploring the western territory, culminating in the Lewis and Clark expedition of 1804-1806.; Provenance: Discovered in the vault in Philosophical Hall in 1979; accessioned, 1980; see Committee on Library Report, Year Book (1979): 158-160.
Subject: Early American history; Washington, George, 1732-1799; Adams, John, 1735-1826; Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826; Madison, James, 1751-1836; Michaux, André, 1746-1802.
Date: 1793

Title: "War."
Identifier(s): graphics:5221; APSdigobj3204
Description: Gimbel Collection: Paine 75 G41 W; See also APSdigobj3201
Creator: Gillray, James, 1756-1815
Source: Print Collection;
Subject: Early American history ; Gimbel Collection; Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797; Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806; North, Frederick, Lord, 1732-1792; Political cartoons; Caricatures
Date: 1783

Title: James Madison to James Kirke Paulding, April 1831.
Identifier(s): APSimg7941; APSimg7941
Description: David Library Item Number: 871; Description from Guide to the Sol Feinstone Collection of the David Library of the American Revolution.
Creator: Madison, James, 1751-1836
Source: The Sol Feinstone Collection of the American Revolution, ca. 1760s-1850s (Mss.B.F327);
Subject: Early American history; Madison, James, 1751-1836; Paulding, James Kirke, 1778-1860; Historians; Washington, George, 1732-1799; Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790; Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826
Date: 1831 April

Title: The Work of the Supreme Court
Identifier(s): video:733; 2006_04_027
Description: Justice Breyer and Dr. Blumberg discuss the Supreme Court, the US Constitution, and Liberty
Subject: Early American History; Constitutional law, United States, Interpretation and construction; Law, United States, Interpretation and construction; Judicial process, United States; Constituent power, United States; Liberty; Blumberg, Baruch S., 1925-2011; APS Meeting Videos
Date: 2006-04-29

Title: MacDonough's Victory on Lake Champlain and defeat of the British Army at Plattsburg by General Macomb, September 11, 1814.
Identifier(s): graphics:5199; APSimg3658; Graphics Number: M42-2-12
Source: Print Collection;
Subject: Early American history ; Campaigns & battles; Naval warfare; Lake Champlain, Battle of, N.Y., 1814; Plattsburg, Battle of, Plattsburgh, N.Y., 1814; Macdonough, Thomas, 1783-1825; Macomb, Alexander, 1782-1841; Prints collection
Date: 1816