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Rare
Americana on Display
An
exhibition of 'American Originals' in which the first display proudly announces
that, "Original Documents are the raw stuff of history. They are the
physical links with the past." Beside this noble declaration was a
print of the Declaration of Independence "made in 1976 for the nation's
200th anniversary." Despite the appearance of several other
genuine facsimiles of original documents there were many interesting items
including
The
handwritten draft of JFK's inauguration address
George
Washington's 1st inaugural address delivered at the Federal Hall,
NYC in 1789
The
Louisiana Purchase Treaty 1803 in which America bought almost the entire
central area of America from France for 4 cents an acre. The original
intention had been to purchase New Orleans and Florida for $10 million but the
French offered them a third of the present US for $15 million.
Abraham
Lincoln's Promise of Emancipation from 1862
A copy
of the 1st letter from the Soviet government to the US government
in 1917
A copy
of the German military surrender from 1945
From
the exhibition about Charles Dicken's 'A Christmas Carol' published
18 December 1843:
Did
you know that Tiny Tim and Paul Dombey was based on Harry Burnett, son of
Dicken's eldest sister, Fanny Burnett. Harry died in Jan 1849, a few months
after his mother.
