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Title: Samuel Adams to Richard Henry Lee
Identifier(s): APSimg6765; APSimg6765
Creator: Adams, Samuel
Source: Richard Henry Lee Papers (Mss.B.L51);
Subject: Early American history; Adams, Samuel, 1722-1803; Lee, Richard Henry, 1732-1794
Date: 1787 December 3

Title: Thomas Jefferson to [Robert] Patterson, December 19, 1809.
Identifier(s): local: APSimg7901
Creator: Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826
Subject: Early American history; Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826; Patterson, Robert, 1743-1824; American Philosophical Society
Date: 1809 December 19

Title: William Allen to Edward Shippen, July 31, 1755.
Identifier(s): APSimg7928; APSimg7928
Creator: Allen, William, 1704-1780
Source: Edward Shippen letters and papers, 1727-1781 (Mss.B.Sh62);
Subject: Early American history; Allen, William, 1704-1780; Shippen, Edward, ca. 1703-1781
Date: 1755 July 31

Title: Franklin and Slavery: The Peculiar Connection
Identifier(s): video:694; 2006_04_018
Description: Gary Nash focuses the enslaved people in Franklin's household.
Subject: Early American History; Social history, 18th century; Slavery, History, 18th century; Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790, Slavery; APS Meeting Videos
Date: 2006-04-28

Title: Thomas Jefferson to Robert Patterson, August 9, 1812.
Identifier(s): APSimg7910; APSimg7910
Creator: Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826
Source: Thomas Jefferson Papers (Mss.B.J35);
Subject: Early American history; Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826; Patterson, Robert, 1743-1824; Lambert, William, 1772-1824; American Philosophical Society
Date: 1812 August 9

Title: The Java totally dimasted endeavouring to Wear by assistance to a Fury Staysail hoisted to the Stump of the Foremast and Bowspirit.
Identifier(s): graphics:5229; APSimg3673; Graphics Number: M42-2-17
Creator: Pocock, Nicholas, 1740-1821
Source: Print Collection;
Subject: Early American history ; Naval warfare; United States--History--War of 1812; Java (Frigate); Constitution (Frigate); Prints collection
Date: 1818

Title: William Lambert to Thomas Jefferson, July 16, 1812.
Identifier(s): APSimg7913; APSimg7913
Creator: Lambert, William, 1772-1824
Source: American Philosophical Society Archives (APS.Archives);
Subject: Early American history; Lambert, William, 1772-1824; Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826; American Philosophical Society; Astronomy; Astronomical observatories
Date: 1812 July 16

Title: SYMPOSIUM: Exploration and Discovery in the American Imagination. Part III: Picturing the Nineteenth-Century West.
Identifier(s): video:370; 2004_11_003
Description: In Honor of Edward C. Carter II, 1928 - 2002; Sandweiss critiques Jefferson for not engaging an artist to go with Lewis and Clark. The talk spans the 19th century and how visual imagery helped form the American notion of The West.
Subject: Early American History; Photography, United States, 19th century; Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804-1806); APS Meeting Videos
Date: 2004-11-12

Title: SYMPOSIUM: Exploration and Discovery in the American Imagination. Part II: Legacies of Lewis and Clark: The Immediate Response of the American Fur Trade
Identifier(s): video:366; 2004_11_002
Description: In Honor of Edward C. Carter II, 1928 - 2002; John Logan Allen could not be present. Barbara Oberg reads his talk on William Clark's master map and his legacy on the fur trade
Subject: Early American History; Fur trade; Cartography; Allen, John Logan, 1941-, writer; Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804-1806); APS Meeting Videos
Date: 2004-11-12

Title: Perry's Victory on Lake Erie, September the 10th 1813.
Identifier(s): graphics:5198; APSimg3659; Graphics Number: M42-2-13
Creator: Barralet, John James, ca. 1747-1815
Source: Print Collection;
Subject: Early American history ; Campaigns & battles; Naval warfare; Perry, Oliver Hazard, 1785-1819; United States--History--War of 1812; Prints collection
Date: n. d.

Title: Rubens Peale museum solicitation.
Identifier(s): graphics:6224; local: APSimg8026
Subject: Early American history; Peale, Elizabeth; Peale family; Galleries & museums; Peale’s Museum (Philadelphia, Pa.); Peale, Rubens, 1784-1865
Date: 1805 March 17

Title: Re-Reading William Penn’s 1681 Letter to the Kings of the Indians
Identifier(s): video:777; 2007_04_009
Description: Richter discusses Penn's 1681 letter to "the Indian kings."; HSP digital object: http://digitalhistory.hsp.org/pafrm/doc/william-penn-kings-indians-pennsylvania-october-18-1681
Subject: Early American History; Sovereignty, History, 17th century; Friendship, History, 17th century; Penn, William, 1644-1718, Correspondence; APS Meeting Videos
Date: 2007-04-27

Title: Robert Y. Hayne, Petition to Congress.
Identifier(s): APSimg7929; APSimg7929
Description: David Library Item Number: 528; Description from Guide to the Sol Feinstone Collection of the David Library of the American Revolution.
Source: The Sol Feinstone Collection of the American Revolution, ca. 1760s-1850s (Mss.B.F327);
Subject: Early American history; Hayne, Robert Young, 1791-1839; Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826; Randolph, Thomas Jefferson, 1792-1875
Date: 1827 January 30

Title: Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Smith Barton, April 13, 1813.
Identifier(s): APSimg7906; APSimg7906
Creator: Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826
Source: Violetta Delafield-Benjamin Smith Barton Collection (Mss.B.B284.d);
Subject: Early American history; Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826; Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815; Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804-1806)
Date: 1813 April 13

Title: SYMPOSIUM: Exploration and Discovery in the American Imagination. Part I: "To Acquire What Knolege Your Can": Thomas Jefferson Defines Western Exploration.
Identifier(s): video:354; 2004_11_001
Description: In Honor of Edward C. Carter II, 1928 - 2002; Ronda begins by describing the effect that Joseph Banks had on Thomas Jefferson and how Jefferson's inscructions to Lewis and Clark were exemplary of Enlightment.
Subject: Early American History; Discoveries in geography; Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826, Influence; Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804-1806); APS Meeting Videos
Date: 2004-11-12

Title: Situation of his Majesty's Frigate Java, Captain Lambert, a 5 past 3 P.M. after an hours close & severe Action and the American Frigate Constitution.
Identifier(s): graphics:5185; APSimg3661; Graphics Number: M42-2-15
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: The Java in Sinking state, set to fire, & Blowing up. The Constitution at a distance a head.
Identifier(s): graphics:5188; APSimg3674; Graphics Number: M42-2-18
Source: Print Collection;
Subject: Early American history ; Naval warfare; United States--History--War of 1812; Java (Frigate); Constitution (Frigate); Prints collection
Date: 1818

Title: Thomas Jefferson to [Richard Rush], August 14, 1821.
Identifier(s): APSimg8020; APSimg8020
Description: David Library Item Number: 1938; 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; Rush, Richard, 1780-1859; University of Virginia; Missouri compromise; Private libraries
Date: 1821 August 21

Title: "Neither War nor Peace."
Identifier(s): graphics:5181; APSdigobj3201
Description: Gimbel Collection: Paine 75 G41 N
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
Date: 1783

Title: Perry's Victory on Lake Erie.
Identifier(s): graphics:5237; APSimg3660; Graphics Number: M42-2-14
Creator: Birch, Thomas, 1779-1851
Source: Print Collection;
Subject: Early American history ; Naval warfare; United States--History--War of 1812; Perry, Oliver Hazard, 1785-1819; Prints collection
Date: n. d.