Creating the United States

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Creating the Declaration of Independence  |  Declaration Legacy

Recalling the Spirit of '76 for Women’s Rights (112)

Recalling the Spirit of ‘76 for Women’s Rights
Did I Save My Country for This!, ca. 1915. Postcard. National American Woman Suffrage Association Records, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (112.01.00)
[Digital ID#us0112_01]

"Wouldn't the Founders of the Nation be Surprised" (112.02.00)

“Wouldn’t the Founders of the Nation be Surprised”
John T. McCutcheon. Wouldn’t the Founders of the Nation be Surprised if They Could See How It Has Grown! 1915. Pen and ink drawing. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (112.02.00)
[Digital ID # http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cai.2a13864]

A Call to Arms for African Americans (112.02.00)

A Call to Arms for African Americans
Frederick Douglass. Men of color, to arms! A call. Broadside. Rochester, New York: 1863. Rare Books and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (112.02.00)
[Digital ID# us0112_02]

Spirit of the Declaration Invoked to Sell War Bonds (114)

Spirit of the Declaration Invoked to Sell War Bonds
Joseph Pennell. “Lest Liberty Perish from the Face of the Earth, Buy Bonds.” Watercolor sketch for poster, 1918. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (114.01.00)
[Digital ID#LC-DIG-ppmsca-18334]

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King Calls Founding Documents “Promissory Note”
Martin Luther King. Speech during the March on Washington, August 28, 1963. Typescript filed for Copyright registration. Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (110.00.03)

Demanding Equality for African Americans (113)

Demanding Equality for African Americans
National Urban League. “We Shall Overcome: March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom,” 1963. Portfolio cover by Louis Lo Monaco. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (113)
[Digital ID# ppmsca-08060_0001u]

The March on Washington (113)

The March on Washington
Danny Lyon. [The March on Washington, August 28, 1963]. Gelatin silver print, printed 1994. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (113.01.00)
[Digital ID#ppmsca-19167]

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“Give Us American Rights”
Associated Press. [A white youth matched strides with a negro student picketing the F. W. Woolworth store in Greensboro, N.C.] April 20, 1960. Photograph. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (113.02.00)
[Digital ID#http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c35508]

Marching on Montgomery, Alabama, for Civil Rights (113.03.00)

Marching on Montgomery, Alabama, for Civil Rights
James H. Karales. Civil rights march [March 1965], published in Look Magazine, May 18, 1965. Gelatin silver print, printed later. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (113.03.00)
[Digital ID # http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3g04914]

Spirit of Declaration Invoked to Sell War Bonds (114.03)

Spirit of the Declaration Invoked to Sell War Bonds
Joseph Pennell. "That Liberty Shall Not Perish from the Face of the Earth-Buy Liberty Bonds." New York: Heywood Strasser and Voigt, [1918]. Lithograph. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (114.03.00)
[Digital ID# ppmsca-18343]

Independence and the Union Celebrated (114.05.00)

Independence and the Union Celebrated
Thomas Moore. Independence Declared 1776. The Union Must be Preserved. [Boston: Joseph A. Arnold, ca. 1839]. Lithograph. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (114.05.00)
[Digital ID# http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pga.02221]

Centennial Celebration in Philadelphia, 1776–1876 (114.06.00)

Centennial Celebration in Philadelphia, 1776–1876
H. Schile. 1776, Centennial International Exhibition, 1876—History of the United States, 1875. Color lithograph poster. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (114.06.00)
[Digital ID # pga.02653]

Civil Rights Activists Occupy a Lunch Counter in Atlanta (113.04.00)

Civil Rights Activists Occupy a Lunch Counter in Atlanta
Danny Lyon. [Civil Rights activists occupying a lunchroom counter during a sit-in, 1962–1964]. Gelatin silver print, printed later. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (113.04.00)
[Digital ID # ppmsca.24330]

Frederick Douglass and the Declaration of Independence (109.02.00)

Frederick Douglass and the Declaration of Independence
Frederick Douglass. Oration in Corinthian Hall. Rochester, New York: 1852. Susan B. Anthony Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (109.02.00)
[Digital ID # us0109_02]

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Fulfilling the Declaration’s Assertion “that all men are created equal”
Martin Luther King Jr. Letter from the Birmingham City Jail, 1963. NAACP Records, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (111.02.01)
[Digital ID # us0111_02a, us0111_02b]

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Seeking to Limit the Power of Government
Think American Institute. “ The History of Liberty is a History of the Limitation of Governmental Power, not the Increase of It—Woodrow Wilson.” Rochester, New York: Kelly-Read & Co. Inc., 1941. Offset lithograph. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (114.04.00)
[Digital ID# http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.19869

Creating the United States Constitution  |  Road to the Constitution

Benjamin Franklin’s proposed plan of confederation，1775 (46.03)

Benjamin Franklin’s Proposed Plan of Confederation, 1775
Benjamin Franklin. Plan for a Confederation, July 21, 1775. Printed document annotated by Thomas Jefferson. Thomas Jefferson Papers, Manuscript Division. Library of Congress (46.01.01) [Digital ID# us0046a_2: other pages: us0046a – us0046a_2]

Writing the Articles of Confederation (046.05.01)

Writing the Articles of Confederation
Thomas Jefferson. Notes on Debates in the Continental Congress, June 7–August 1, 1776 [ante 1781]. James Madison Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (046.05.01)
[Digital ID # us0046_05p1]

Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union (048.04.00)

Articles of Confederation Ratified
Thomas Rodney. Diary entry, March 1, 1781. Rodney Family Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (48.00.00)
[Digital ID# us0048 — us0048_4]

Confederation Congress Elects Its First President

Confederation Congress Elects Its First President
Letter from Charles Thomson to George Washington, November 5, 1781. Manuscript. George Washington Papers, Library of Congress (48.01.00)
[Digital ID# us0048_01]

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