Real American Treasure
Image and Resource Table
Image
Description
Graff House where Jefferson drafted
Declaration painting
Photograph
URL
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/jefferson
/jeffdec.html
http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/
graff/index.htm
Harpers Weekly, April 7, 1883.
Reproduction of journal page. Library of
Congress Prints and Photographs
Division.
[http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/jefferson/im
ages/vc43.jpg] (June 2, 2005)
Holograph
Page 1 - Page 2
Jefferson Papers,
Manuscript Division (2)
timeline
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/declara/
declara2.html
Fragment of the earliest known draft
of the Declaration of Independence,
written by Thomas Jefferson in June
1776
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/declara/
declara4.html
Thomas Jefferson's portable writing
desk
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/jefferson
/jeffdec.html
First copy with signatures
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/bdsdcc.021
01
The Declaration Committee
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/jefferson
/jeffdec.html
Signers’ bios
http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/
signers/index.htm
Signers’ pictures
http://usff.com/usff/sacredhonor.html
Benjamin Randolph after a
design by Thomas Jefferson.
Portable writing desk,
Philadelphia, 1776.
Courtesy of the National Museum of
American History, Smithsonian
Institution (30)
Jefferson, Thomas. “Declaration of
Independence.” July 4, 1776. Continential
Congress Broadside Collection (Library
of Congress).
[http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/bdsdcc.02101]
[bd sdcc.02101} (June 2, 2005)
Currier and Ives.
The Declaration Committee,
New York, 1876.
Copyprint of lithograph.
Library of Congress Prints and
Photographs Division (56)
From an article
“The
Americans Who
Risked
Everything” by
Rush
Limbaugh, Jr.
[http://usff.com/usff/sacredhonor.htm
l] (June 2, 2005)
Painting of Independence Hall
Photograph
James Trenchard after a painting by
Charles Willson Peale. A NW View of the
State House in Philadelphia in
Columbian Magazine, 1787. Copyprint
of engraving. Library of Congress Rare
Book & Special Collections Division (44)
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/jefferson
/jeffdec.html
http://memory.loc.gov/cgibin/query/r?ammem/horyd:@field(N
UMBER+@band(thc+5a51125))
Printed Resolution for the Portrait
of Columbus and Distribution of
the Declaration of Independence
http://memory.loc.gov/master/mss/mt
j/mtj1/054/0500/0599.jpg
Letter of June 24, 1826, from
Thomas Jefferson to Roger C.
Weightman, declining to attend
the celebration of the fiftieth
anniversary of the Declaration of
Independence in the District of
Columbia
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/declara/
declara4.html
Iron gall ink
http://www.knaw.nl/ecpa/ink/ink.htm
l
Colonial handwriting sample abc
http://www.onhgs.org/colonialscript.
htm
Fading Away
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/chart
ers/fading.html
Conserving, also what’s really on the
back
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/chart
ers/conservative.html
Damage done to Declaration
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/chart
ers/damage.html
Congress, June 26, 1824. “Providing
a place of Deposit for the Portrait of
Columbus and Directing the
Distribution of certain copies of the
Declaration of Independence, now in
the Department of State.” The
Thomas Jefferson Papers, Series 1.
General Correspondence, 1651-1827.
Image 599. Library of Congress
(June 2, 2005)
Holograph Page 1 - Page 2 Jefferson
Papers, Manuscript Division (1)
Transcript of Jefferson's letter to
Weightman
Saving the National Treasures. Nova
Science Programming on air and online
[http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/charters/f
ading.html] (June 2, 2005)
Saving the National Treasures. Nova
Science Programming on air and online
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/charters/c
onservative.html (June 2, 2005]
Saving the National Treasures. Nova
Science Programming on air and online
[http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/charters/
damage.html] (June 2, 2005]
Case closed
Saving the National
Treasures. Nova Science
Programming on air and online.
[http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/charte
rs/case.html] (June 2, 2005)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/chart
ers/case.html