This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Jefferson’s Draft and War Era Items on Display
The Library of Congress hosts a Bicentennial exhibit in Washington DC featuring Jefferson’s original rough draft of the Declaration of Independence and rare Revolutionary items. Highlights include the Olive Branch Petition, the 1778 France US alliance treaty, Paine’s Common Sense first edition, portraits of George III and Washington, and a powderhorn of Yorktown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Jefferson
Continental Congress
Jefferson
Washington, D.C
Library of Congress
National Geographic Society
Leonard Faber
John Dickinson
Pennsylvania
France
United States
Louis XVI
Count de Vergennes
George Washington
Valley Forge
Washington
Thomas Paine
Paine
Chae Thomson
William Howe
Boston
Massachusetts
Halifax
Nova Scotia
George III
Benjamin Franklin
Marquis de Lafayette
Lord Cornwallis
Cornwallis
Yorktown