We the People: Commemorating 250 Years of the Declaration of Independence
Title
We the People: Commemorating 250 Years of the Declaration of Independence
Alternative Title
Semicenquintennial exhibit
Description
As we mark 250 years since the signing of the Declaration of Independence, this exhibit considers our region and our nation as a quilt of democracy — consisting of many communities, histories, and identities joined and shaped by many hands.
Contributor
Grosvenor Room of B&ECPL (repository)/Rare Book Room of B&ECPL (repository)
Date Created
2026
Rights
Digital image copyright 2026 by the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library. Images in this collection are not to be used for any commercial purposes without the expressed written permission of the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library. Users of this website are free to utilize material from this collection for non-commercial and educational purposes.
Type
Collection, Dataset, Event, Image, Interactive Resource, Moving Image, Physica l Object, Service, Software, Sound, Still Image, Text
Language
eng
Identifier
Grosvenor Room Collections
Coverage
1757-2026
Collection Items
Diary of a Soldier in the Year 1758-1759
The claim of the colonies to an exemption from internal taxes imposed by authority of Parliament, examined: in a letter from a gentleman in London, to his friend in America
Letter, dated London, 3 August 1772 to Noble Wimberley Jones, Esq., of Georgia
Letter from George Washington to the President of Congress
Leaf from an Index book kept by Aaron Burr.
Dissertation on first-principles of government
The present state of the American rebel army, navy, and finances. Transmitted to the British government in October, 1780
Arnold, Benedict, 1741-1801.
Original transmission 1780, published 1891
Report of the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, on the subject of manufactures. Presented to the House of Representatives, December 5, 1791
Circular to the Collectors of the Customs, June 8, 1792
Message and communication from the President of the United States to the Senate and House of Representatives, 1801
Songs, for the Fourth of July, 1804
Thomas Jefferson Letter, dated Monticello, Virginia, May 14, 1806 to the Rev. Doctr. G.C. Jenner
Letter from Governor Dewitt Clinton to Judge Wilkeson, 1822
Commission of Captain John B. Nicolson, U.S.N. signed by John Quincy Adams
Constitution of the Seneca Nation of Indians
The battle of Bull Run
Guide for soldiers & soldiers' heirs, showing who are entitled to pensions, bounty lands, back pay, $100 bounty, etc. Being a complete guide to persons having money due them by the government of the United States, from the Revolutionary War to the present time
The proclamation of emancipation
[Letter from Abraham Lincoln to the Secretary of the Treasury November 1863 ]
Letter from Ulysses S. Grant to General Wilson dated August 1884Collection Tree
- We the People: Commemorating 250 Years of the Declaration of Independence