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Carte des Etats-Unis de l'Amerique, Suivant de Traite de Paix de 1783 (reproduction). 0.1 Cubic Feet 25 x 33 in. Includes a booklet

RR Donnelly & Sons Company
Map encompasses the eastern half of the United States, focusing on the national boundaries set in the 1783 Treaty of Paris. Map contains an engraving of a large-masted ship, with a seal of the United States affixed to the foremast. Additional details include Bermuda, an inset of southern Florida, and a listing of individual states and their capitals. Reproduction includes a booklet by Lester J. Cappon, explaining the context of the map and the reproduction process.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Historical Document Facsimiles 0 Linear Feet Summary: 1 folder

Originals and facsimiles of sixteen documents, newspapers, magazines, letters, and similar materials. Included are photostats of letters from George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, and Abraham Lincoln, a reprint of a Lincoln speech, photostat of Albert Einstein's original manuscript on relativity, as well as various issues of newspapers describing important events in American history. Content dates from 1508-1954.
  1. West Virginia and Regional History Center

Historic manuscript collection approx. 60 Linear Feet

This collection of historic manuscripts dates from 1607-1933, with the bulk of materials dating from 1738-1868. The correspondence, journals and diaries, legal and financial records, estate documents, and printed ephemera in the collection primarily relate to the Washington and Custis families, the Revolutionary War, and society life in antebellum Washington D.C. and Virginia.

  1. The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon

Lester J. Cappon Papers 14 Cubic Feet

Cappon, Lester Jesse (1900-1981)

Materials relating to the career of Lester Jesse Cappon (September 18, 1900-August 24, 1981), historian and formerly the Archivist for the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Williamsburg, Virginia, Director of the Institute of Early American History and Culture, and Senior Research Fellow at the Newberry Library, Chicago, Illinois.

  1. College of William and Mary

Oscar Doane Lambert, Historian, Papers regarding Historical Research 0.25 Linear Feet 3 in. (1 small flat storage box)

Lambert, Oscar Doane, 1888-1959

Contains photograph copies of land plat signed by George Washington for 400 acres of land in Frederick County, Virginia; Photostat copy of a letter written by Benjamin Franklin from France; Photostat copies of map of northern neck of West Virginians; newspaper clippings on West Virginia University and state politics. Contains copies of maps and photographs relating to land in the Northern Neck of Virginia, Joist Hite, Jesse Hughes, Henry G. Davis, Alexander L. Wade, and Lord Fairfax.

  1. West Virginia and Regional History Center

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