Exploring the Early Americas

The Jay I. Kislak Collection

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Horatio Nelson (133.00.03)

Horatio Nelson
Viscount Horatio Nelson (1758–1805). “An account of the proceedings of Captain Nelson of His Majesty’s ship Boreas, relative to the illegal trade carried on between the Americans and the British West India Islands.” ca. 1787. Jay I. Kislak Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (133.00.03)

French Possessions (130.00.00)

French Possessions
Thomas Jefferys (d. 1771). The natural and civil history of the French dominions in North and South America. London: Thomas Jefferys, 1760. Jay I. Kislak Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (130.00.02)

Jefferson on Independence for South America (134.00.01)

Jefferson on Independence for South America
Thomas Jefferson letter to the Marquis de Lafayette. Monticello, Virginia, November 30, 1813. Jay I. Kislak Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (134.00.00)

George Washington Diary (135.01.03)

George Washington Diary
George Washington, 1732-1799. Diary written in the leaves of the 1762 Virginia Almanack, 1762. Jay I. Kislak Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (135.01.03)

Andrew Jackson, Governor of the Florida Territory (171.00.01)

Andrew Jackson, Governor of the Florida Territory
Letter from Andrew Jackson to Georgia Governor John Clark, April 9, 1821. Holograph manuscript. Jay I. Kislak Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress, (171.00.00)

Joseph Marion Hernández, Florida’s First Delegate to Congress (172.01.00)

Joseph Marion Hernández, Florida’s First Delegate to Congress
Joseph Hernández, First Delegate to Congress from the Territory, and Brigadier General of the Militia of Florida. Photograph. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress. (172.00.00)

The Adams-Onís Treaty (170.00.01)

The Adams-Onís Treaty
Adams-Onís Treaty.  Letter from U.S. Secretary of State John Quincy Adams to Alexander H. Everett, U.S. Chargé d’Affaires at the Hague August 23, 1819. Jay I. Kislak Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (170.00.01)

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