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1789 Providence, Rhode Island
1789 A SouthWest View of the Baptist meeting House, Providence, R.I.
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1790s Portraits by Mexican-born Louisiana artist Josè Francisco Xavier de...
.1790s Josè Francisco Xavier de Salazar y Mendoza (Mexican-born Louisiana artist, 1750–1802) Clara de la MotteJosè Francisco Xavier de Salazar y Mendoza (1750–1802) was a native of Merida in the...
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Women, Children, & Families attributed to John Brewster Jr. (American...
John Brewster Jr. (American painter, 1766-1854) Mrs Elizabeth Perkins and Charlie 1809John Brewster Jr. (American Painter, 1766-1854) Lucy Knapp Mygatt and Her Son George 1799John Brewster Jr....
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Charleston, South Carolina - Before the Revolution
.1773 Charleston, South Carolina. Library of CongressEarly views of Charleston do not portray the genteel town of our imaginations.Charles-town 1769.Black and white all mix’d together,Inconstant,...
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Abigail Smith Adams (1744-1818) & the Adams' home at Braintree, Massachusetts
Abigail Smith was born on November 11, 1744, in Weymouth, Massachusetts, the 2nd child of Elizabeth Quincy Smith & the Reverend William Smith. Her father was pastor of Weymouth's North Parish...
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1790 Massachusetts Landscape with Militia
Jonathan Welch Edes (American artist, 1750-c 1793-1803) Overmantel, 1790, Massachusetts
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1784 Abigail Adam's Letter about French Women
.Benjamin Blythe Portrait of Abigail Smith Adams 176639 year-old Abigail Adams to 17 year-old Lucy CranchSunday, 5 September 1784 Written fromAuteuil, Paris, Ville de Paris, Île-de-France, France"This...
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1716 The original Boston Lighthouse
Engraving of original Boston Lighthose situate at the Entrance of Boston HarbourAs early at 1675, settlers lit bonfires on a hill overlooking Boston Harbor as an aid to navigation, but it wasn’t until...
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John Adams writes to his wife Abigail on Thomas Paine & the coming revolution
Thomas Paine. Painting by Auguste Millière (1876), based on an engraving by William Sharpe, based on a painting by George Romney, 1792.Common sense : addressed to the inhabitants of America, on the...
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1789 View of Faneuil Hall in Boston, Massachusetts
1789 View of Faneuil-Hall in Boston, Massachusetts. Massachusetts Magazine
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Abigail & John Adams
.Abigail Smith Adams (1744-1818) was a smart, independent woman who said what she believed. Although she had stong feelings about women having an equal voice in the new United States of America, women...
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1790 View of Bridge over Mystic River from Bunker Hill
1790 View of the bridge over Mystic River & the country adjacent from Bunker's Hill / engraved by S. Hill. Print shows bird's-eye view from Bunker Hill of the "Malden Bridge" across the Mystic...
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1798 Some things change, some things don't: Congressmen behaving badly...
"Congressional Pugilists" 1798 published in PhiladelphiaThis cartoon of "Congressional Pugilists" depicts a heated partisan debate in the interior of Congress Hall in 1798. A fight on the floor of...
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1790 Boston
1790 South East Prospect, from an Eminence near the Common, Boston. Massachusetts Magazine
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Women doing laundry in the 1700s
Images of women doing laundry in 18th-century America are rare or non existant. These paintings and prints of women across the Atlantic will have to do.1730 Jean Siméon Chardin (French artist,...
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1789 Boston "Triumphal Arch & Colonnade"
1789 View of the triumphal arch and colonnade, erected in Boston
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Indentured Servant Scottish Schoolmaster tells of life in 1774 Virginia
John Harrower (1733-1777) was a 40 year-old Scottish merchant who set out in 1774, for the American colonies as an indentured servant. Like many of the 40,000 residents of the Scottish Highlands who...
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1764 Revolution Rising - The Sugar Act
.The Revenue Act of 1764, also known as the Sugar Act, was the first tax on the American colonies imposed by the British Parliament. Its purpose was to raise revenue through the colonial customs...
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1764 Revolution Rising - The Currency Act
.On September 1, 1764, Parliament passed the Currency Act, effectively assuming control of the colonial currency system. The act prohibited the issue of any new bills and the reissue of existing...
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.On February 6th, 1765 George Grenville rose in Parliament to offer the fifty-five resolutions of his Stamp Bill. A motion was offered to first read petitions from the Virginia colony and others was...
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