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Thomas Jefferson Letter Signed Communicating Acts for the First United States Census and Rules for Granting Citizenship to Immigrants

Thomas Jefferson's Brass Parallel Calipers (ca. 1800)

John Quincy Adams Autograph Letter Signed on the Louisiana Purchase: "The great question upon the Louisiana Treaty was decided before I got here"

"If his allegation be true, burn this without answering it" - Abraham Lincoln Seeks to Refute Debate Claims Made by Opponent Stephen Douglas Regarding a Fellow Republican's Stance "against the admission of any more Slave States"

Abraham Lincoln Filled Out and Signed Check (1859) - Lost and Found on the Streets of Washington, D.C., and the Subject of Washington Post Headlines in 1944

Abraham Lincoln Civil War-Dated Autograph Endorsement Signed as President, Calling for the Reappointment of Alexander J. Dallas III

Abolition: 'Engrossed Bill' Draft of the Territorial Slavery Act of 1862, Prohibiting Slavery in All U.S. Territories

William T. Sherman Autograph Letter Signed on His 'March to the Sea' and Women's Service in the Union Army: "Our race cannot bear children and be subject to the alarms & vicissitudes of war"

Theodore Roosevelt (2) Typed Manuscripts Signed as President on the Red Cross Response to the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, with Clara Barton ALS: "The country has gone wild over this disaster and relief"

Franklin D. Roosevelt World War II-Dated Typed Letter Signed to Lord Beaverbrook, Committing to Opening a Second Front Against Nazi Germany

Dwight D. Eisenhower Signed Broadside of Proclamation No. 1, Issued in Occupied Germany during World War II: "We come as conquerors, but not as oppressors...We shall obliterate Nazi-ism"

Dwight D. Eisenhower World War II-Dated Typed Letter Signed on the "defeat of the Nazi hordes in battle" and victory in Europe: "A continent has been liberated"

President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Israel's Secret Atomic Weapons Program - Letter Affirming a U.S.-Israel Accord "for collaboration concerning the peaceful uses of atomic energy"

Winston Churchill and Dwight D. Eisenhower Signed Photograph - Allied Leaders Stress Postwar Unity at the Virginia State House (March 8, 1946)

Winston Churchill Hand-Illuminated Signed Quotation: "This was their finest hour"

Winston Churchill World War II-Dated Signed Photograph, Shown with Cigar and Naval Anti-Aircraft Gun

Battle of Britain: Secret Dispatch Signed by Air Chief Marshal Hugh Dowding (1941), with Hand-Colored Maps and Mimeograph Draft

Hugh Dowding World War II-Dated Autograph Letter Signed to Lord Beaverbrook, on Preparing His "Dispatch on the 'Battle of Britain'"

Erwin Rommel World War II-Dated Typed Letter Signed, Enclosing a Report on His Near-Fatal Wound and Alluding to Patton's Liberation of Paris

Raoul Wallenberg 'Schutzbrief' Document Signed, Saving a Hungarian Jew During World War II, with Jewish Badge Exemption Document and Residency Permit

Wernher von Braun Autograph Letter Signed to Walter Dornberger, Emphasizing the Goals of Operation Paperclip: "To make available to the West our experience gathered over long, painstaking years"

Historic 1953 Bernkasteler Doctor Riesling Bottle of Wine - The Vintage Poured at the AdenaueraEU"Khrushchev Meeting That Freed 10,000 German POWs

King Henry VIII Document Signed to the Keeper of the Wardrobe, Directing "Crimson velvett for a gowne" to Sir Robert Curson

Thomas Cranmer's Heavily Annotated Religious Book - Quatuor conciliorum generalium [The Four General Church Councils] (1524) - Representing His Scholarly Approach to the English Reformation

Marie Antoinette Document Signed, Ordering Payment for Extravagant Royal Household Expenditures Amidst the French Revolution