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Portledge bill for the Ship Neptune while at port in Portsmouth (New Hampshire) in 1706. Signed by Thomas Holland, commander of the ship, on June 1, 1709. Lists crew, wages, and length of service.

Photograph of American composer John Philip Sousa and American inventor Thomas Alva Edison. This image was published in the October 1923 issue of the magazine Etude entitled "A Momentous Musical Meeting."

Signed photograph of President Gerald R. Ford, addressed to the Caldwell Consistory, Valley of Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite. Signed by President Ford below photograph, on mat.

Photograph is the first official…

A portion of Ben B. Lipset's Buzz Aldrin Ephemera Collection. Includes Lipset's poem "Mission Accomplished," a photograph of Buzz Aldrin fraternally inscribed to Lipset, and a letter of appreciation from A. H. Lavender, the public affairs officer at…

An advertisement for a lecture by Rob Morris, the Masonic author, poet, and lecturer. Includes poetry by Morris and is dated 1880.

An undated Masonic Civil War ode by Rob Morris entitled, "We Swear to be True to a Brother." Intended to be sung. At head of title: "Air - The Flag of Our Union."Published in a slightly different form as "Cherish the Pledge," in Rob Morris's book…

A blank and undated Order of the Eastern Star card. At bottom: "Folder No. 1565."

We fight for our country Civil War envelope. Dated between 1861 and 1865. This Civil War envelope depicts the state seal of Massachusetts adorned by the American Eagle, two American Flags, and the phrase, "We Fight for Our Country." Below the seal…

Remember Fort Sumter! Dated between 1861 and 1865. This Civil War envelope depicts the bombardment and destruction of Fort Sumter as an untouched American flag waves above the fort.

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John Bull's sympathy. Dated between 1861 and 1865. This Civil War envelope depicts England, represented by John Bull, sitting on a Confederate cotton bale with his back turned to an African-American slave about to be whipped.

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