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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
Patagonian
and
Esquimaux
for
African,
Asiatic
and
European-
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