Signers of the Declaration

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GIFT

OF

Vlda

Redinaton

Volkhard

t.

Lena Redlnston

Carlto


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PRICE,

50

GTS.

THE

CENTENNIAL

1776

1876

Of

THE

S

OF

THE

DECLARATION OF

HBlPllBlNlft

WITH

AUTOGRAPHS,

ILLUSTRATIONS,

PORTRAITS,

ETC.,

ETC.

BY

WM.

BROTHERHEAD.

PHILADELPHIA:

J.

M.

STODDART

&

CO.


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COUNTRY

LIBRARIES,

Book

Clubs

and

Societies

of all

Kinds,

In

our

sparsely populated

country

the

means

for

obtaining knowledge

are

often

very

few,

-aris

ing

from

various

causes.

The

first,

and most

important,

is

the

great

cost

secondly,

the

knowledge

required

in

the selection

;

and,

thirdly,

the

proper

time for

some

one who

may

have the

knowledge

to

go

a

long

distance and

select

them.

My

method

will

obviate,

to

a

great

extent,

all these difficulties.

I

propose

to

supply

Country

Libraries

and

Book Clubs

from

a

selection of

over

30,000

volumes

of

the

best books

in

the

language.

As

to

my

success

in

this business I

may

refer to five libraries

I

have

established

one

at

Pottsville,

West

Chester,

Wilkesbarre,

New

York,

and

the

one

in

this

city,

by

far

the

largest

in

the

United

States.

I not

only

purchase

every

book

of

value

published

here,

but also

import

more

English

books

than

any

librarian

in

the

country.

My

selection of

novels

is

by

far the

most

numerous

and

the

most

choice

of

any library

on

this

continent.

BOOK CLUBS

are

designed

for

the

purpose

of

spreading

knowledge

;

and as it

is

impossible

for

one

person,

however

able,

to

purchase

every

new

book,

this

object

will in

a

great

measure

be

accomplished

for

a

very

small

sum

of

money.

Over

30,000

volumes

of

books,

comprising every department

of Liter

ature,

including

over

5,000

volumes in

French,

are

ready

and

in

active

use

for

any

Club or

Library

of

five

or

more

persons

to

select

from.

Five

in

one

Club,

$5

each

15

books

allowed

at

one

time.

A

club

of

ten,

30

books,

and

so

on,

adding

three

books to

every

subscriber.

Clubs

must

pay

all

express

charges,

which

will

not

be

more

for

a

club

than

if

sent

to one

person.

One

week

or

one

month will

be

allowed

for

the

exchange

of

books.

Catalogues

can

be had

at

50

cents

each.

If

NEW

BOOKS

are

required,

they

must

in

ALL

cases

be

returned

in

TWO

WEEKS.

Books

are

considered

old

six

months

after

publication.

Clubs

must in

all

cases

send

their

money

in

advance,

and

select

from

Catalogue

the books

required.

Always

send

by

mail,

in

ADVANCE

of

parcel,

say

twenty

or

thirty

numbers

of books

more

than

wanted,

so

as

to

secure all

they

may

require.

Address

(inclosing

stamp)

W.

BROTHEBHEAD,

205

South.

13th,

St.,

Philadelphia.

P.

S.

Persons

from

the

city

during

the

summer

months

can

make

arrangements

for a

shorter

period

than

one

year.


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THE

CENTENNIAL

OF

THE

SIGNERS

BEINC.

FAC-SIMILE

LETTERS

OF

EACH

SIGNER

OF THE

DECLARATION

OF INDEPENDENCE.

Illustrated

with

One

Hundred

Engravings

oy

PORTRAITS,

VIEWS,

ETC.,

INCLUDING

THIRTEEN

ORIGINAL

DESIGNS,

COLORED

KY

HAND:

A

HISTORICAL

MONOGRAPH

AND

A HISTORY

OF

THE

CENTENNIAL

EXHIBITION.

BY

W.

BROTHERHEAD,

n

LIBRARIAN,

AUTHOR

OF THE

"BOOK OF

THK

SIGNERS,"

ETC.,

ETC.

PHILADELPHIA

i

J.

M.

STODDART

& CO.


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?

Entered

according

to

Act

of

Congress

in

WM.

BROTHERHEAD

;

In

the

Office

of

the

Librarian

of

Congress

at

Washington.

,

Stcr(

i?

t

yPs,

so

far

as

they

are

executed,

meet

the

approval

of

all

who

have

seen

them.

The

greatness

of

the

design,

and

the

masterly

execution

of

the

work,

interest

equally

the man

of

capacious

mind,

and the

approving

eye

of

the

connoisseur." Yale

College

purchased

a

very

large

number

of

duplicate

paintings

which

he

had

made

and

they published

a

catalogue

of

them

many years

ago.

This

catalogue

is

published

in the

appendix

to

Trumbull s

autobiography,

page

408.

It

is

stated

&

All

saw the

correctness

of

the

portraits

(Declaration

of

Independ

ence).

Many

knew

the

accuracy

of

the

countenances

recorded."

During

the

investigation

relative

to

this

subject,

we

have found

but

one record

of

one

of

the

portraits

that

of

B.

Harrison,

of

Virginia

where

there

can

be

any

doubt.

In

page

367

of

his

autobiography,

in

a

letter

written

to

General

Harrison,

New

York,

February

i8th,

1818,

he

states: "Dear

Sir:

Since

I

wrote

to

you

last,

I-

have

inquired

of

Mr.

Peale,

and

have

received

for

answer

that he

pos

sesses

no

portrait

of

your

father

in

his

museum.

My

sole

reliance

must,


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VI

11

PORTRAITS

OF

THE SIGNERS.

therefore,

be

on such

description

as

you

and

his

friend,

Colonel

Meade,

of

Kentucky,

can

furnish

me."

Trumbull

seems to

have

been a

man of

system

;

and

as this

mention of B. Harrison

s

portrait

is

the

only

one

among

the

forty-

six

he

included

in

his

picture,

it

is

but fair

and

logical

to assume

that he

did

not

meet

with

any

material

obstacle

in

the

collection of

the

rest of

the

portraits,

or

certainly,

as

in

the

preceding

case,

records of such

obstacles would be

found.

It

may

be

just

to

assume, that,

had

he chosen

to take

the too

common

license

indulged

in

by

some

artists,

he

would have

omitted

altogether

the

items

concerning

Harrison

s

portrait.

The

portrait

of

Harrison

being

in

the

&

Declaration of

Independence,"

it

is

assumed

that

a

personal descrip

tion of

him had

been obtained from

General Harrison

and

Colonel

Meade;

that a

drawing

based

upon

such

description

was

submitted

to

them,

and

by

them

approved.

In

the case

of

the

death

of a

person,

we know

that this

unsatisfactory

method

has

been

adopted frequently

;

and

is

it

not

better

that

we

should have

a

portrait

of Harrison

under

these

conditions

than

have

none at all? In

court,

the

evidence

adduced

that

Trumbull

s

portraits

of

the

Signers

were

trustworthy

would

be

not

only

fully

admitted,

but

would

prove

that,

with

the

exception

of

Harrison

s,

they

were

either

from

life

by

himself,

or

copied

from

reliable

portraits;

and

had

he

designed

to

palm

off

fictitious

or

ideal

ones,

he

would not

have

written

the

record

which

he

did,

relative

to the

portrait

specially

referred

to.

The

absence of

contemporary

evidence

that

any

allegations

ever

existed

against

their

genuineness

would

have

great

weight

in

any

court.

This

statement

will,

we

trust,

be

the means

of

placing

an

unqualified

proof

as

to the

honesty

of

Trumbull,

and

the

genuineness

of

the

portraits

in

the

"Declaration of

Independence."


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CENTENNIAL

BOOK

OF

THE

SIGNERS.


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HISTORY

OF

THE

CENTENNIAL

EXHIBITION.

Under

the

auspices

of

Prince

Albert,

in

England,

in

1851,

it

may

fairly

be

asserted

that

the era

of

great

national

exhibitions was

inaugurated.

Such world s fairs

are

the

expression

of a

modern

civilization

which,

embracing

in

its

arms

all

mankind,

furthers

incalculably

the

progress

of that

wide

humanity

which

has but one

word

for

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and

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