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December 2002

Benjamin Franklin Tries to Electrocute a Turkey

Manuscript copy of Franklin's letter written by James Bowdoin.

November 2002

John Hancock

Portrait, oil on canvas by John Singleton Copley, circa 1770-1772

October 2002

John Singleton Copley

Portrait, oil on canvas by John Singleton Copley, circa 1763

September 2002

New England Maps

Woodcut. [Boston: printed by John Foster, 1677]. Originally published in William Hubbard's The Present State of New-England. "Wine Hills" version.

August 2002

Schoolgirl Needlework

Silk thread and watercolor on silk by Lydia Young Little James, circa 1803-1804

July 2002

Declaration of Independence

Manuscript

June 2002

Women and War

Poster image by Haskell Coffin. [United States] : United States Treasury Dept., [between 1914 and 1918].

May 2002

Order of the Rising Sun

Gold with enamel, black lacquer box; medal 56 mm; box 13.2 x 9.5 x 4 cm

April 2002

Paul Revere's Ride

Letter from Paul Revere to Jeremy Belknap, circa 1798

March 2002

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Letter from Harriet Beecher Stowe to Horace Mann, 2 March 1852

February 2002

Anthony Burns Checks

Issued by City Bank, Boston, 22 February 1855

January 2002

New Year's Address

Broadside, [Boston] : Palladium-Office, 1807

December 2001

Santa Claus Bank Note

Issued by the Howard Banking Company, Boston, Mass., on 23 August 1857

November 2001

The Parkman Murder

Broadside, 26 November 1849

October 2001

Native American Ledger Art

Ink, watercolor, colored pencil on wove lined paper by Making Medicine (Cheyenne). Pages 18-19, Book of sketches made at Fort Marion, St. Augustine, Florida, 1877

September 2001

Phillis Wheatley

Frontispiece and title page. London: printed for A. Bell, 1773

August 2001

The Sons of Liberty

Col. William Palfrey, 14 August 1769