ADDITIONAL HISTORIC OPPORTUNITIES Great properties that are available now, or that we have previously sold but hope to access again one day, include:
The Sovereignty, Embargo, and Impressment Collection, featuring John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison. “To have submitted our rightful commerce to prohibitions and tributary exactions from others would have been to surrender our independence. To resist them by arms was war.”
Jackie Robinson rare artifacts, including his specially padded cap, his 1949 signed Brooklyn Dodgers contract, and his Dodgers jacket, his 1952 All-Star game bat, and his glove.
Archibald Willard’s Spirit of ’76, original oil painting upon which the iconic 1876 print was based. Sold.
Jefferson’s letters on the Declaration of Independence and Bill of Rights, one of his most famous letters on slavery, and leaves from his Manual of Parliamentary Practice.
James Naismith Rules of Basketball Archive.
Declaration of Independence Signers - rare complete set of letters and documents, rare July 1776 printings of the Declaration, and more from the Revolutionary War and Founding.
A vibrant Rembrandt Peale painting of Washington, ca. 1819-1822, a precursor to his “Pater Patria” portrait. Abraham Lincoln letters and documents, including scarce printings of the Gettysburg Address and Emancipation Proclamation, and one of three known letters to his soon-to-be ex-fiancée Mary Owens.
George Washington’s First Presidential Thanksgiving Proclamation, requested by Congress on the day they approved the Bill of Rights, expressing gratitude: “for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed; and the means we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge… To render our national government a blessing… by constantly being a Government of wise, just, and Constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt – Missy LeHand Archive, including personal letters, copies he inscribed to her of inaugural addresses, fireside chats, books, etc. And several hundred unpublished photographs and pieces of ephemera. The most important FDR archive left in private hands.
41 WASHINGTON’S MANIFESTO ON GOVERNMENT – DRAFT INAUGURAL ADDRESS COLLECTION