Message of President Thomas Jefferson laying before the Senate the conventions with France for the cession of the province of Louisiana to the United States
Record Group 46: Records of the U.S. Senate Series: Records Relating to Treaties with Foreign Countries File Unit: Records Relating to Foreign Relations during the 8th Congress
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“N. P. Railway, Tacoma [Wash. Terr.] Shipping first cargo of halibut caught in Puget Sounds by crew of schooner Oscar and Hattie. September 20, 1888.” By N. B. Miller.
Record Group 22: Records of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife ServiceSeries: Albatross Cruises from the West Indies through the Strait of Magellan then North to California and along the West Coast to Alaska
Black and white photograph of men in working clothes standing on a wharf next to a train car. The men are posing around a number of large fish. One man is handing a fish to a man in the train car.
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“Deborah Gannett … maketh oath, that she served as a private soldier, under the name of Robert Shurtliff in the war of the revolution …”
Pension and Bounty Land Application of Deborah (Sampson) Gannett, September 14, 1818.
Record Group 15: Records of the Department of Veterans Affairs
Series: Case Files of Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Applications Based on Revolutionary War Service
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E. M. Sammis’s Lemon-Squeezers, patented September 2, 1873.
Record Group 241: Records of the Patent and Trademark Office
Image description: Two drawings of a lemon squeezer that looks a little like a tiny grand piano with a half-lemon-shaped cavity in it. The cavity has a blade in it, and the lid of the device has a half-lemon-shaped protrusion with a wedge taken out of it.
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Map of Detroit River and Adjacent Country, August 26, 1813.
Record Group 64: Records of the National Archives and Records Administration
Image description: Zoomed-in portion of a map of the Detroit River, showing the tiny grid of streets that indicate the town of Detroit, and the fort just to its west. Across the river on the Canadian side of the river are British Batteries, and the American Redoubt and fortified Camp, evacuated.
Image description: Map of the Detroit River from Lake Erie to Lake St. Clair. The Canadian townships and the Michigan Territory side of the river are bordered in different colors. Military fortifications and rivers are labeled, as is a tiny section of streets labeled “Detroit.” What we now know as Belle Isle is labeled “Hog I.”
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Treaty Between the United States and the Quapaw Indians Signed at St. Louis, August 24, 1818.
Record Group 11: General Records of the United States Government
File Unit: Ratified Indian Treaty 96: Quapaw - St. Louis, August 24, 1818
Image description: Detailed map of the area of Arkansas River and Mississippi River, with boundaries of red and blue; with an eagle on top left carrying olive branch in its beak; a Native American with a peace pipe on the left, presumably of the Quapaw tribe, pointing to the inscription:
Map of the Territorial Limits of the Quapaw cession
Compiled & Laid down by Rene Paul
August. 1818
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W.S. Burroughs’ Calculating Machine, patented on August 21, 1888.
Record Group 241: Records of the Patent and Trademark Office
File Unit: 388116 - Calculating Machine - William S. Burroughs
Image description: Top-down view of a machine with nine columns of keys, with numbers 1 through 9 in each column. The keys lead to levers and gears. It looks a little like a typewriter but with numbers instead of letters.
Image description: Side view of the machine, showing its construction and internal moving parts.
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Map of the Civil War Siege of Vicksburg, Mississippi., August 20, 1863.
Record Group 77: Records of the Office of the Chief of Engineers
Image description: Map of Vicksburg, Mississippi, and surrounding areas, including a loop of the Mississippi River and the terrain around the city. Cross-sections show the Federal and Rebel batteries, and colored lines show the locations of opposing forces.
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Edwin Prescott’s Roller Coaster, patented August 16, 1898.
Record Group 241: Records of the Patent and Trademark Office
Image description: Drawing of a roller coaster, showing a single car at the start of the track, which includes a high hill and a loop-de-loop.
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Ami Clark’s Coffee Mill, patented on August 4, 1833.
Record Group 241: Records of the Patent and Trademark Office
Image description: Several drawings of a hand-powered coffee mill, including views of the hopper, grinder, crank, and spout.
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Fifteen-year-old Lewis was sold for $430 on July 29, 1823. During the Civil War, Lewis would serve in the U.S. Army, for which his enslaver Sanders Townsend requested compensation from the U.S. Government.
Record Group 21: Records of District Courts of the United States
Series: Slave Compensation Records
File Unit: Slave Compensation File for Claimant Sanders Townsend
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Patent for O.T. Jones’ Horse Detacher, July 24, 1883.
Record Group 241: Records of the Patent and Trademark Office
Image description: Two drawings of a roofless horse-drawn carriage with large spoked wheels, possibly a phaeton. A man is sitting on the driver’s seat. In the first drawing, a horse is pulling the carriage quickly. In the second drawing, the horse is running off into the distance with one pair of reins flying behind it. The man is sitting on the stationary phaeton, holding the other pair of reins, which are attached to the end of the traces, and which have triggered a device which released the horse from the carriage.
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“There is a riot in this city, in opposition to the Draft, which threatens to be quite serious… .”
On 7/13/1863 in NYC, white immigrants rioted out of anger at the rich who could avoid the draft, and then turned their violence toward Black people.
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