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Title
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We the People: Commemorating 250 Years of the Declaration of Independence
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Semicenquintennial exhibit
Description
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<p>As we mark 250 years since the signing of the <em>Declaration of Independence</em>, this exhibit considers our region and our nation as a <em>quilt of democracy </em>— consisting of many communities, histories, and identities joined and shaped by many hands.</p>
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Grosvenor Room of B&ECPL (repository)/Rare Book Room of B&ECPL (repository)
Date Created
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2026
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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
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Collection, Dataset, Event, Image, Interactive Resource, Moving Image, Physica l Object, Service, Software, Sound, Still Image, Text
Language
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eng
Coverage
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1757-2026
Identifier
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Grosvenor Room Collections
Text
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RBR AM.1 J4 1801
Title
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Message and communication from the President of the United States to the Senate and House of Representatives, 1801
Creator
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Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826.
Description
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President Jefferson's first State of the Union address, printed and read before congress in December 1801 by his personal secretary Merriweather Lewis. Jefferson believed that transmitting via printed text gave argued that written communication gave legislators time to consider proposals without the pressure of an immediate response. This tradition continued for almost 100 years.
Date
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1801
Subject
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Presidents--United States--Messages
United States. President (1801-1809 : Jefferson)
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Samuel Harrison Smith
Type
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Text
Language
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eng
Contributor
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Grosvenor Room of B&ECPL (repository)/Rare Book Room of B&ECPL (repository)
Rights
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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.
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image/jpg