Historic Figures

Archive Authority’s Historic Figures collection features authentic documents, letters, signatures, photographs, publications, and ephemera connected to influential individuals who shaped American and world history. The selection may include material associated with presidents, military leaders, inventors, explorers, statesmen, scientists, authors, and other notable figures whose actions left a lasting impact on society. These original artifacts provide tangible connections to the lives and accomplishments of prominent historical personalities, offering valuable context through firsthand correspondence, official records, commemorative items, and period publications. Emphasizing authenticity, historical significance, and research value, the collection appeals to historians, collectors, educators, museums, and anyone interested in preserving and studying the legacy of remarkable individuals from the past.

Historic Figures

Archive Authority’s Historic Figures collection features authentic documents, letters, signatures, photographs, publications, and ephemera connected to influential individuals who shaped American and world history. The selection may include material associated with presidents, military leaders, inventors, explorers, statesmen, scientists, authors, and other notable figures whose actions left a lasting impact on society. These original artifacts provide tangible connections to the lives and accomplishments of prominent historical personalities, offering valuable context through firsthand correspondence, official records, commemorative items, and period publications. Emphasizing authenticity, historical significance, and research value, the collection appeals to historians, collectors, educators, museums, and anyone interested in preserving and studying the legacy of remarkable individuals from the past.

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Add 1784–1787 Revolutionary War Era Merchant Ledger – Colonel Clement Biddle – Valley Forge Commissary – First U.S. Marshal – American Philosophical Society to the cart
Add 1825 Virginia Chancery Appeal Bond – Superior Court of Chancery, Fredericksburg – Henry Lee & Daniel Carmichael – Westmoreland County to the cart
Add 1796 George Madison Signed Kentucky Auditor's Receipt to Nathaniel Massie – Frontier Land Taxes – Future Governor of Kentucky to the cart
Add c1780s Jeremiah Wadsworth Autograph Letter Signed – Revolutionary War Commissary General – Boston to Hartford to the cart
Add 1870 Rear Admiral William Radford Autograph Letter Signed – USS Franklin Flagship Stationery – Civil War Admiral – European Squadron to the cart
Add 1800 Stephen Longfellow Signed Court Writ – Father of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – Early Maine Legal Manuscript to the cart
Add 1709 Queen Anne English Vellum Indenture – Bedfordshire Land Deed – Heath & Reach – James Parratt – Original Wax Seal to the cart
Add Exceptional 1836 Letter & Samuel Colt Signed Payment Order – One Month Before the First Colt Revolver Patent to the cart
Add 1819 New York Militia Commission – Governor DeWitt Clinton – Elisha Waters – 24th Regiment of Infantry – Embossed State Seal to the cart
Add Samuel Colt Autograph Letter Signed – Hartford, Connecticut – August 3, 1861 to the cart
Add 1783–1786 Archive of Three Revolutionary War Manuscripts Relating to Major Benjamin Tallmadge, George Washington's Intelligence Chief to the cart
Add 1777 Letter Signed by Jeremiah Wadsworth to Capt. Nehemiah Hubbard — Boston to Hartford to the cart
Add 1791 New York Land Patent Personally Signed by Governor George Clinton – Revolutionary Era – 400 Acres on the New York Frontier to the cart
Add 1835 Francis B Ogden Signed U.S. Consular Liverpool Embossed Seal Manchester to the cart
Add 1826 Maine Governor Albion K Parris Signed Commission State Seal to the cart
Add 1960 Henry Cabot Lodge Six Page Speech At Republican Convention to the cart
Add 1799 Pennsylvania Thomas Mifflin Land Patent Quaker Meeting York County to the cart
Add 1788-1790 Robert Treat Paine Signed Manuscript Re Luke Day Shay’s Rebellion to the cart
Add 1818 Oliver H Perry ALS To Commodore Bainbridge Way Of 1812 Naval to the cart
Add 1823 Smith Thompson LS Sec. Navy Re Oliver Hazard Perry Battle Of Lake Erie to the cart
Add 1803 William Rawle ALS First Bank Fraud Case , Whiskey Rebellion to the cart
Add “Pre–Civil War political letter by architect of Fugitive Slave Act” to the cart
Add Thomas McKean Autograph Letter Signed circa 1780, Last Signer Of Declaration to the cart
Add Thomas Lee Signed 1743 Document to the cart
Add Thomas Jefferson Signed In Type Report Gazette Of the U.S. Newspaper to the cart
Add My Vernon Plantation Document Involving George Lewis to the cart
Add Jacob Brown Signed Document to the cart
Add Civil War: Field Letter Signed (“G. T. Beauregard”) 1861, Flag Design to the cart
Add c1910 Thomas A Edison Holograph Memorandum Phonograph And Record Sales Promotion to the cart
Add Thomas Edison Signed Storage Battery Co. Board Minutes + Charles Edison to the cart
Add Thomas Edison Signed Edison Botanic Corporation Check. Rubber Research Era. to the cart
Add thomas edison signed check to the cart
Add Thomas Edison Initialed Letter to the cart
Add Thomas A Edison Signed 1919 Edison Primary Corporate Archive to the cart
Add Ship Passport Signed By James Monroe And John Quincy Adams to the cart
Add Sam Adams Sr. Signed Letter to the cart
Add Richard Nixon Appointment Of John Eisenhower As Belgium Ambassador to the cart
Add Rare 1825 Francis Scott Key Washington Indenture to the cart
Add RARE 1802 PRINCETON SUBSCRIPTION DOCUMENT SIGNED BY AARON BURR AND OTHERS to the cart
Add Marquis de Lafayette. ALS 1827 French Manuscript to the cart
Add George Washington De Lafayette ALS to the cart
Add Frederick DeBourg Richards Etching In Brown Ink. Home Where Gen Mercer Died. to the cart
Add Franklin D Roosevelt Signed Letter 1932 Presidential Campaign to the cart
Add Fascinating letter to future president, then Tennessee Governor, ANDREW JOHNSON to the cart
Add Fascinating French Revolutionary–era document Signed By Marquis De Lafayette to the cart
Add Elegant 1875 Pennsylvania Commission Signed By Governor to the cart