RevolutionCrossroads/si_us_revolutionary_era_collections huggingface dataset:
30 Shillings, New Jersey, 1776
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: note
date on object: 1776-03-25
date made: 1776
maker: Collins, Isaac
place made: United States: New Jersey
Physical Description: paper (overall material)
Measurements: overall: 6 cm x 10.3 cm x .01 cm; 2 3/8 in x 4 1/16 in x in
Credit line: Morton Stack
Topics: NNC Colonial Currency
Description (Brief): One (1) 30 shilling note
Colonial America, 1776
Obverse Image: A crest in red ink and half a sun.
Obverse Text: THIRTY SHILLINGS. / NO. 105 / THIS BILL OF THIRTY SHILLINGS PROCLAMATION, IS EMITTED BY A LAW OF THE COLONY OF NEW JERSEY, PAFFED IN THE FOURTEENTH YEAR OF THE REIGN OF HIS MAJEFTY KING GEORGE THE THIRD. / DATED MARCH 25, 1776.
Reverse Image: Line of Zodiac symbols at top, leaf in center, line of swirls along sides, line of crowns beneath leaf, flower on either end of crown row.
Reverse Text: THIRTY SHILLINGS. / 'TIS DEATH TO COUNTERFEIT. / BURLINGTON IN NEW-JERSEY, PRINTED BY ISSAC COLLINS, 1776
license plate
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: license plate
Measurements: overall: 12 in x 6 in x 1/4 in; 30.48 cm x 15.24 cm x .635 cm
pennant
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: pennant
Measurements: overall: 28 in x 9 in x 1/32 in; 71.12 cm x 22.86 cm x .0508 cm
1/6 Dollar, Continental Congress, 1776
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: note
paper currency
Paper Currency, United States, 1/3
date on object: 1776-02-17
date made: 1776
maker: Continental Congress
Hall & Sellers
place made: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Physical Description: paper (overall material)
Measurements: overall: 8 cm x 6.2 cm x .01 cm; 3 5/32 in x 2 7/16 in x in
Credit line: Rowland S. Wilson
Topics: NNC Colonial Currency
NNC Continental Currency
Description (Brief): One (1) 1/6 dollar note
Colonial America, 1776
Obverse Image: Rays shinning on the "All Seeing Eye" at the top of a pyramid.
Obverse Text: DOL / LAR / NO. 491562 / ONE SIXTH OF A DOLLAR, / ACCORDING TO A RESOLUTION OF CON-GRESS, PAS-SED AT PHI-LADELPHIA, FEBRUARY 17, 1776 / ONE SIXTH / MIND YOUR BUSINESS
Reverse Image: Thirteen (13) interlocking rings representing the colonies.
Reverse Text: ONE SIXTH OF A DOLLAR / PRINTED BY HALL & SELLERS, IN PHILADELPHIA. / 1776. / AMERICAN CONGRESS / WE ARE ONE / GEORGIA. / N. HAMPS / MASSACHS. / CONNECT. / R. ISLAND. / N. YORK. / N. JERSEY. / PENNSYLV. / DELAWARE. / MARYLAND. / VIRGINA. / N. CAROLA.
Bust, George III, 1809
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: bust
date made: 1809
depicted (sitter): George III King of Great Britain
Physical Description: plaster (overall material)
black (overall color)
Measurements: overall: 25 in x 29 in x 12 in x 8 in; 63.5 cm x 73.66 cm x 30.48 cm x 20.32 cm
Topics: Government
Social reformers
Royalty & Monarchs
American Revolution (1775-1783)
Politics
Description: George III became king of Great Britain and its colonies in 1760. American colonists saw themselves as his loyal subjects. They celebrated his birthday, drank toasts to his health, and fought in his American wars. This plaster bust of George III was made by L. Gahagan in 1809.
Bell, "REVERE & SON BOSTON 1802".
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: bell
Date made: 1802
Manufacturer: Revere & Son
Manufactured: United States: Massachusetts, Boston
Physical Description: wood, hard pine (overall material)
metal, cast iron (bell material)
Measurements: overall: 51 3/8 in x 47 1/2 in x 60 1/8 in; 130.4925 cm x 120.65 cm x 152.7175 cm
Credit line: American Textile History Museum Collection, gift of J.P. Stevens & Co., Inc.
Instrument Case
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: instrument case
date made: ca 1800
maker: Newell, Andrew
place made: United States: Massachusetts, Boston
Measurements: overall: 4 in x 16 5/8 in x 15 in; 10.16 cm x 42.2275 cm x 38.1 cm
Description: Wooden case for the Andrew Newell octant in the collection.
Embroidered Pocket Book, England, ca. 1780
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: pocketbook
card case, embroidery
pocketbook
pocketbook, embroidery
date made: 1780
Associated Date: 1780
maker: unknown
place made: United Kingdom: England
where made: United Kingdom: England
Physical Description: silk (embroidery material)
linen canvas (overall base material)
silk (overall lining material)
Measurements: overall closed: 6 3/4 in x 4 7/8 in; 17.145 cm x 12.3825 cm
overall open: 6 3/4 in x 12 1/2 in; 17.145 cm x 31.75 cm
Credit line: Mrs. James W. Pinchot
Topics: Embroidery
Silk
Textiles
Description: Embroidered card case made in England circa 1780, using silk queen stitch embroidery in a diamond strawberry pattern on linen canvas. The silk twist embroidery threads are pink, green, blue, red, gold, yellow and orange. The folded case is lined with pink silk.
5 Shillings, Massachusetts, 1775
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: note
date made: 1775
date on object: 1775-08-18
maker: Revere, Paul
place made: United States: Massachusetts
Physical Description: paper (overall material)
Measurements: overall: 9.9 cm x 7.7 cm x .01 cm; 3 29/32 in x 3 1/32 in x in
Credit line: Stack's
Topics: NNC Colonial Currency
Wollstonecraft’s Vindication of the Rights of Women
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: book
date made: 1792
place made: United States: Massachusetts, Boston
Physical Description: paper (overall material)
Measurements: overall: 8 in x 5 in; 20.32 cm x 12.7 cm
Alternative titles: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstoncraft, 1792
Topics: Women
Women's History
Books and reading
Government
Social reformers
In Pursuit of Life, Liberty, and Happiness
Politics
Civil rights
Description: Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797), an Englishwoman who wrote social and political commentary in the “republican” tradition of her day, produced A Vindication of the Rights of Woman in 1792. The pamphlet quickly became a sensation in both Europe and the US. This copy is an early American edition, published in Boston just a few months after the original appeared in London. It was popular reading among a broad public in the early nation, when citizens of the US eagerly followed international debates. The handwriting on the top of the title page suggests someone named “Lettice” may have owned this one.
Wollstonecraft was one of a very few women who tried to make a living as a professional writer in the 1790s. Her first publication, on the topic of female education, drew on her experience as a private governess. Her second, A Vindication of the Rights of Man, defended the French Revolution against those who preferred hierarchy and elite control and lamentcd the new political engagement of ordinary men. Her more famous treatise, on the Rights of Woman, responded to a French Revolutionary proposal that would have the government fund schools for French boys but leave girls to learn domestic skills at home. Wollstonecraft defended females’ capacity for rational thought and denounced social mores that rendered women frivolous and passive. Her work did not claim social equality or political rights, such as voting, for women, but it insisted that educated women could contribute to the sum of the world’s knowledge both as mothers within families and as participants in their broader society.
Widely discussed and debated, Wollstonecraft’s work was received well even by some who disagreed with her radical ideas. Late in the 1790s, however, information about her unconventional personal life discredited her ideas among some. In the early 1800s, a growing backlash against women’s revolutionary gains made Wollstonecraft denounced more often than read. Still, her ideas galvanized supporters of improving women’s education; informed abolitionist women who pressed to speak in public in the 1830s; and, inspired participants in the formal women’s rights movement of the 1840s and beyond. Twentieth- and twenty-first century women also rediscovered her pathbreaking ideas.
Horatio Gates at Saratoga, United States, 1777 (Struck from the original French dies by the U.S. Mint)
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: Medal
Date made: 1777
manufacturer: United States Mint
place made: United States
place of issue: United States
Physical Description: struck (overall production method)
bronze (overall metal)
circular (overall shape)
Measurements: overall: 4.1 mm x 55.7 mm; 5/32 in x 2 3/16 in
Topics: Comitia Americana
Description (Brief): One (1) Horatio Gates at Saratoga medal
United States (France), 1777
Obverse Image: Left facing portrait bust of Gates in military uniform.
Obverse Text: HORATIO / GATES / DUCI / STRENUO / COMITIA / AMERICANA / N / GATTEAUX
Reverse Image: Burgoyne presents his sword to Gates who stands bareheaded on the right, he holds in his left hand his tri-cornered hat; in the background the British army lays down their arms to the American army who stands at attention on the right behind Gates.
Reverse Text: SALUS / REGIONUM / SEPTENTRIONAL / HOSTE / AD / SRATOGAM / IN / DEDITION / ACCEPTO / DIE / XVII / OCT / MDCCLXXVII
General Information: Engraved by Nicolas-Marie Gatteaux, Struck from the original French dies by the U.S. Mint.
Birds Eye View of Washington, D.C.
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: sheet (paper)
print
Etching
date made: ca 1810
ca 1810
ca 1810
ca 1810
ca 1810
ca 1810
ca 1810
graphic artist: Kimmel and Forster
Kimmel and Forster
Kimmel and Forster
Kimmel and Forster
Kimmel and Forster
place made: United States: New York, New York
Physical Description: paper (overall material)
ink (overall material)
Measurements: overall: 13.4 cm x 20.7 cm; 5 9/32 in x 8 5/32 in
The School Mistress 1794 engraving by J. Coles and printed by Thomas Macklin
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: engraving
date made: 1794-03-20
1794
place made: United Kingdom: England, London
Associated Place: United Kingdom: England, London
Physical Description: engraved (printing plate (not present) production method/technique)
printed (overall production method/technique)
ink (overall material)
paper (overall material)
Measurements: print: 17 3/4 in x 21 1/4 in; 45.085 cm x 53.975 cm
image: 13 3/4 in x 17 3/4 in; 34.925 cm x 45.085 cm
Credit line: Dr. Richard Lodish American School Collection
Description: A 1794 stipple engraving of a scene in a Dame school, in which an older woman, frequently a widow, holds class for other people’s young children out of her own house. Dame schools were common in Great Britain and New England during the 18th Century and into the early 19th Century but frequently provided only limited academics.
“The School Mistress” depicts a teacher reading to a girl casually standing next to her, while the rest of the class busies themselves off to the side. It is a domestic scene, with dishes visible in a pantry and a cat seated amid everyone.
The title is printed below the image, along with nine rhyming lines that describe the scene. The engraver is identified as J. Coles (maybe John Coles). The printer is Thomas Macklin (1752/3-1800), a successful, print seller, publisher, and patron of the arts of Fleet Street, London. Both the scene and the verses are from William Shenstone’s 1742 poem, “The School Mistress,” and this probably an example from Macklin's Poet’s Gallery project. The print is a copy of an original painting by English artist, Francis Wheatley (1747-1801).
40 Dollars, Continental Congress, 1778
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: note
date on object: 1778-09-26
date made: 1778
maker: Continental Congress
Hall & Sellers
place made: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Physical Description: paper (overall material)
Measurements: overall: 7.1 cm x 9.2 cm x .01 cm; 2 25/32 in x 3 5/8 in x in
Credit line: B.M. Douglas
Topics: NNC Colonial Currency
NNC Continental Currency
Théâtre des Opérations des Armées, 1776-1777
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: map
date made: 1807
Associated Date: 1776 to 1777
Physical Description: paper (overall material)
Measurements: overall: 19 in x 13 3/4 in; 48.26 cm x 34.925 cm
Topics: Revolution and the New Nation
American Revolution (1775-1783)
Partie Septentrionale du New-Jersey, et Positions des Armess Americane & Britannique Apres le passage de la Riviere du Nord, en 1776
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: map
date made: 1807
associated date: 1776
place made: France: Île-de-France, Paris
Associated Place: United States: New Jersey
Physical Description: paper (overall material)
Measurements: overall: 19 in x 14 in; 48.26 cm x 35.56 cm
Topics: Revolution and the New Nation
American Revolution (1775-1783)
Theatre des Operations les plus importantes de l'armee du Sud, sans le Virginie, dans les deux Carolines, et dans le Georgie
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: map
date made: 1807
place made: France: Île-de-France, Paris
Physical Description: paper (overall material)
Topics: Revolution and the New Nation
American Revolution (1775-1783)
Siege de Charleston
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: map
date made: 1807
place made: France: Île-de-France, Paris
depicted: United States: South Carolina, Charleston
Physical Description: paper (overall material)
Topics: Revolution and the New Nation
American Revolution (1775-1783)
Investissementet et Attaque d'York dans la Virginie
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: map
date made: 1807
place made: France: Île-de-France, Paris
Physical Description: paper (overall material)
Topics: Revolution and the New Nation
American Revolution (1775-1783)
Chest
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: Chest
date made: 1779
906.57 Dollar Check, George Washington, United States, 1799
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: check
date made: 1799-11-26
Associated Name: Washington, George
place made: United States: Virginia, Mount Vernon
Physical Description: paper (overall material)
Measurements: overall: 6.7 cm x 17.6 cm; 2 5/8 in x 6 15/16 in
Credit line: Chase Manhattan Bank
Description: One (1) check for 906.57 dollars signed by George Washington
United States, 1799
Obverse Image: Decorative border at top and left edge.
Obverse Text: TO THE BANK OF ALEXANDRIA. / NO. 63 / MOUNT VERNON, NOVEMBER 26TH 1799 / PAY TO WILLIAM THORNTON ESQ OR BEARER, NINE HUND RED AND SIX DOLLARS, FIFTY SEVEN CENTS. / 906 57/100 DOLLARS. G WASHINGTON
Reverse Image: N/A
Reverse Text: WILLIAM THORNTON
[None None]
STABLER Incused Punch, United States, ca 1800s
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: Die, Coin.1
punch
die
date made: ca 1800s
user: Stabler, Edward
place made: United States
Physical Description: steel (overall material)
Measurements: overall: 5.1 cm x .6 cm x .6 cm; 2 in x 1/4 in x 1/4 in
Credit line: Mrs. Lofton S. Wesley
Letter E Incused Punch, United States, ca 1800s
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: punch
Die, Coin.1
die
date made: ca 1800s
user: Stabler, Edward
place made: United States
Physical Description: steel (overall material)
Measurements: overall: 4.8 cm x .6 cm x .58 cm; 1 7/8 in x 1/4 in x 7/32 in
Credit line: Mrs. Lofton S. Wesley
Letter P Incused, United States, ca 1800s
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: punch
Die, Coin.1
die
date made: ca 1800s
user: Stabler, Edward
place made: United States
Physical Description: steel (overall material)
Measurements: overall: 4.8 cm x .5 cm x .5 cm; 1 7/8 in x 3/16 in x 3/16 in
Credit line: Mrs. Lofton S. Wesley
Letter P Incused Punch, United States, ca 1800s
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: punch
Die, Coin.1
date made: ca 1800s
user: Stabler, Edward
place made: United States
Physical Description: steel (overall material)
Measurements: overall: 4.8 cm x .6 cm x .58 cm; 1 7/8 in x 1/4 in x 7/32 in
Credit line: Mrs. Lofton S. Wesley
Letter S Incused Punch, United States, ca 1800s
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: punch
date made: ca 1800s
user: Stabler, Edward
place made: United States
Physical Description: steel (overall material)
Measurements: overall: 4.58 cm x .4 cm x .35 cm; 1 13/16 in x 5/32 in x 1/8 in
Credit line: Mrs. Lofton S. Wesley
Number 6 Incused Punch, United States, ca 1800s
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: punch
date made: ca 1800s
user: Stabler, Edward
place made: United States
Physical Description: steel (overall material)
Measurements: overall: 5.74 cm x .6 cm x .7 cm; 2 1/4 in x 1/4 in x 9/32 in
Credit line: Mrs. Lofton S. Wesley
Oakleaf Incused Punch, United States, ca 1800s
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: punch
Die, Coin.1
die
date made: ca 1800s
user: Stabler, Edward
place made: United States
Physical Description: steel (overall material)
Measurements: overall: 5.57 cm x .6 cm x .6 cm; 2 3/16 in x 1/4 in x 1/4 in
Credit line: Mrs. Lofton S. Wesley
Animal Head Incused Punch, United States, ca 1800s
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: punch
Die, Coin.1
die
date made: ca 1800s
user: Stabler, Edward
place made: United States
Physical Description: steel (overall material)
Measurements: overall: 5.88 cm x .58 cm x .58 cm; 2 5/16 in x 7/32 in x 7/32 in
Credit line: Mrs. Lofton S. Wesley
painting
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: Painting
painting
vessel, with lid
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: vessel, with lid
date made: 18th century
place made: Germany
Physical Description: copper (overall material)
Measurements: overall: 7 1/2 in x 9 in; 19.05 cm x 22.86 cm
129 Pound and 12 Shilling Check, Aaron Burr, United States, 1788
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: note
check
date made: 1788
date on object: 1788-07-30
place made: United States
Physical Description: paper (overall material)
Measurements: overall: 6.8 cm x 15.8 cm x .01 cm; 2 11/16 in x 6 7/32 in x in
Credit line: Chase Manhattan Bank
200 Pound Check, Aaron Burr, United States, 1790
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: check
date made: 1790
date on object: 1790-02-27
place made: United States
Physical Description: paper (overall material)
Measurements: overall: 7.15 cm x 16.15 cm x .01 cm; 2 13/16 in x 6 11/32 in x in
Credit line: Chase Manhattan Bank
Description (Brief): One (1) 200 pound check, Aaron Burr
United States, 1790
Obverse Image: Designs on the left hand side of note.
Obverse Text: CASHIER OF THE BANK, PAY TO [NEEDS TRANSLATION] OR BEARER, TWO HUNDRED POUNDS PAPER. / NEW-YORK, THE 27TH DAY OF FEBY 1790 / 200 / AARON BURR
Reverse Image: N/A
Reverse Text: N/A
Liste des Cartes et Planches
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: book
date made: 1807
Associated Date: 1807
place made: France: Île-de-France, Paris
Topics: Revolution and the New Nation
American Revolution (1775-1783)
check, cashier's
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: check, cashier's
date made: 1808
associated date: 1808 11 10
Associated Place: United States: New York, Albany
Measurements: overall: 4 in x 6 in; 10.16 cm x 15.24 cm
Alert Notice
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: document
Notice
date made: 1780
Date made: 1780-01-31
associated date: 1780 01 31
distributor: New York City Militia
recipient: Taylor, Joseph
maker: New York City Militia
place made: United States: New York, New York City
Physical Description: paper (overall material)
ink (overall material)
Measurements: overall: 6 in x 7 1/4 in; 15.24 cm x 18.415 cm
Topics: Revolution and the New Nation
American Revolution (1775-1783)
Military
The Plan of the Entrenchments, Saratoga, 1777
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: map
date made: 1777
Associated Place: United States: New York, Stillwater
Topics: Revolution and the New Nation
American Revolution (1775-1783)
Battle of Saratoga, 1777
War Office, Philadelphia, September 15, 1778
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: letter
date made: 1778
Associated Date: 1778
place made: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Credit line: Captain James M. MIller
Topics: American Revolution (1775-1783)
Military
Lt. Col. Tarleton, 1782
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: engraving
date made: 1782
Associated Date: 1782 10 11
engraver: Smith, John Raphael
place made: United Kingdom: England, London
Physical Description: paper (overall material)
ink (overall material)
Measurements: overall: 26 1/2 in x 17 1/4 in; 67.31 cm x 43.815 cm
Topics: Revolution and the New Nation
American Revolution (1775-1783)
Portraits
Letter from General Washington to Major Benjamin Tallmadge, August 13, 1780
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: letter
date made: 1780
associated date: 1780 08 13
Associated Name: Washington, George
Tallmadge, Jr., Benjamin
Physical Description: paper (overall material)
ink (overall material)
Measurements: overall: 13 1/2 in x 8 1/4 in; 34.29 cm x 20.955 cm
Topics: Revolution and the New Nation
American Revolution (1775-1783)
Letter from Peter Gansevoort to Catherine Gansevoort, June 23, 1778
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: letter
associated date: 1778 06 23
Physical Description: paper (overall material)
ink (overall material)
Measurements: overall: 10 in x 8 in; 25.4 cm x 20.32 cm
Topics: Revolution and the New Nation
Letters
American Revolution (1775-1783)
The North American Almanack, and Gentleman's and Lady's Diary, 1776
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: almanac
date made: 1776
Associated Date: 1776
place made: United States: Massachusetts, Worcester
Associated Place: United States: Massachusetts
Measurements: overall: 7 1/16 in x 4 5/8 in; 17.93875 cm x 11.7475 cm
Topics: Revolution and the New Nation
2/3 Dollar, Continental Congress, 1776
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: note
date made: 1776
date on object: 1776-02-17
maker: Hall & Sellers
Continental Congress
place made: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Physical Description: paper (overall material)
Measurements: overall: 8.1 cm x 6.2 cm x .01 cm; 3 3/16 in x 2 7/16 in x in
Credit line: Stack's
Topics: NNC Colonial Currency
NNC Continental Currency
Marvel Hancock's 1799 geography assignment, Wrentham School
Collection: National Museum of American History
Object type: geography assignment
date made: 1799
place made: United States: Massachusetts, Wrentham
Physical Description: paper (overall material)
ink (overall material)
handwritten (overall production method/technique)
Measurements: overall, framed: 14 3/4 in x 18 in x 1 in; 37.465 cm x 45.72 cm x 2.54 cm
assignment paper: 12 1/2 in x 15 1/4 in; 31.75 cm x 38.735 cm
Credit line: Gift of Dr. Richard Lodish American School Collection
Description: A ink and paper handwritten geography assignment made on February 13, 1799 by Marvel Hancock of the Wrentham School in Wrentham, Massachusetts. The assignment consists of text about the size of the United States surrounded by circles containing the names of the 16 states in the Union-the original thirteen colonies plus Vermont, Kentucky, and Tennessee- as of the time of the assignment. The text demonstrates uncertainty about the actual size of the country at the time, which is likely because of having laid claims to unexplored or uncharted land. The states listed starting at the top and going clockwise around the center text are: North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania/ New York, New Jersey, Connecticut/ Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Tennessee, Kentucky/ Vermont, Georgia, South Carolina
Marvel Hancock was the son of Keziah and Phillip Hancock. He was born December 4, 1772 in Wrentham and died January 25, 1838 in Wrentham. He would have been 26 when the georgraphy assignment was done, so he probably was the schoolmaster. He appears to have never married and left his estate to his brother Samuel and his numerous nieces and nephews.