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MD -- Baltimore -- Maryland Historical Society -- Exhibit: Inventing a Nation:

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Description of Pictures: Inventing a Nation: Maryland in the Revolutionary Era
Through 2015
Inventing a Nation: Maryland in the Revolutionary Era is a collaborative exhibition between the Maryland Historical Society and the Maryland State Archives presenting documents and artifacts from the American Revolutionary War. Iconic life-sized portraits by Charles Willson Peale complement the swords, uniforms and other personal items of America’s Revolutionary heroes. Artifacts belonging to George Washington, the Marquis de Lafayette, Tench Tilghman, and William Paca are on display.

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1. MDHSIN_150830_005.JPG: Inventing a Nation Maryland in the Revolutionary Era
2. MDHSIN_150830_015.JPG: George Washington Unknown artist, attributed to Charles Peale Polk, c 1780
3. MDHSIN_150830_020.JPG: General Washington's Present Tomb Francis Guy, 1804
4. MDHSIN_150830_026.JPG: Washington and his Generals at Yorktown Charles Willson Peale, c 1784
5. MDHSIN_150830_034.JPG: Charles Willson Peale
6. MDHSIN_150830_035.JPG: Horatio Gates at Saratoga James Peale, c 1800
7. MDHSIN_150830_041.JPG: John Hanson John Hesselius, c 1770
8. MDHSIN_150830_045.JPG: The Honorable Thomas Stone Robert Edge Pine, 1785
9. MDHSIN_150830_053.JPG: Charles Carroll of Carrollton Michael Laty, after Robert Field, c 1847
10. MDHSIN_150830_058.JPG: William Paca Charles Willson Peale, 1772
11. MDHSIN_150830_062.JPG: Risking Life and Liberty
12. MDHSIN_150830_065.JPG: Samuel Chase Charles Willson Peale, c 1773
13. MDHSIN_150830_070.JPG: Sword Family history recalls that this sword was surrendered by Colonel Banastre "Bloody" Tarleton, but it is more likely that it was seized from one of the six other British officers who presented their swords to Howard at the Battle of Cowpens. Colonel Tarleton, whose violent "no quarter" battle tactics earned him a butcher's reputation, fled for his life from the Cowpen's field.
14. MDHSIN_150830_076.JPG: Letter from General George Washington ordered General Mordecai Gist's troops to Philadelphia, March 22, 1777
15. MDHSIN_150830_078.JPG: Mordecai Gist Charles Willson Peale, 1774
16. MDHSIN_150830_084.JPG: John Eager Howard Michael Laty, after Charles Willson Peale, c 1846
17. MDHSIN_150830_086.JPG: Prelude to Yorktown
18. MDHSIN_150830_089.JPG: Battle of Cowpens by Don Troiani In the midst of the early morning clash at Cowpens, the Maryland Line appeared to be retreating. The seasoned American troops suddenly turned and fired a withering volley. Led by Col. Howard, they chased the startled redcoats off the field, capturing many with the threat of bayonets.
19. MDHSIN_150830_093.JPG: Veneered Traveling Chest with Drawer Frederic Franck de la Roche was an aide-de-camp to the Marquis de Lafayette during the Revolutionary War. He may have used this traveling cast when he was an officer in the American army. At the time of his death in 1805, he was a member of the Society of the Cincinnati, an order exclusive to Washington's former generals and their descendents. Although his family was French, he became an American citizen after the war.
20. MDHSIN_150830_096.JPG: Uniform of Lt. Colonel Tench Tilghman (19744-1786) with reproduction waist coat
21. MDHSIN_150830_101.JPG: George Washington after Gilbert Stuart, c 1830-1840
22. MDHSIN_150830_105.JPG: Bust of George Washington Antonio Capellano, 1823
23. MDHSIN_150830_113.JPG: From Soldier to Citizen
24. MDHSIN_150830_117.JPG: Impressions from George Washington's Seal These wax impressions with the "G.W." cipher was created by one of Washington's seals and cut from documents now long gone. A virtually identical impression survives in the library at Mount Vernon on the letter from Washington to Elizabeth Powel, dated December 4, 1798.
25. MDHSIN_150830_122.JPG: Pair of Porcelain Urns
26. MDHSIN_150830_128.JPG: Almanac for Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia Benjamin Bannaker, 1795
27. MDHSIN_150830_131.JPG: Astronomical Journal Benjamin Banneker December 18, 1790 - March 29, 1804
28. MDHSIN_150830_136.JPG: Letter from Frederick Douglass to Mrs. Annie Tyson Kirk, regarding Benjamin Banneker's Biography March 4, 1878
29. MDHSIN_150830_140.JPG: General the Maquis de Lafayette Unknown American artist
30. MDHSIN_150830_147.JPG: Goblets On New Year's Day 1825, the Marquis de Lafayette was lavishly feted at Donald Williamson's Washington, DC hotel. As a "thank you" gift, he presented the proprietor with these goblets, engraved "Presented to David Williamson by Gen'l L Fayette 1824," a memento of the Marquis' American tour.
31. MDHSIN_150830_152.JPG: Platter Spoon In addition to the silver goblets, the Marquis de Lafayette also favored David Williamson with the monumental platter spoon, identically engraved, "Presented to David Williamson by Gen'l La Fayette 1824."
32. MDHSIN_150830_155.JPG: Ribbon During Lafayette's time in Baltimore, festivities, dinners, and parades greeted him wherever he appeared and attendees of such fetes were often given souvenir ribbons. This one commemorates "Lafayette Citizen of two Worlds" and shows him holding two documents, one the Declaration of Independence.
33. MDHSIN_150830_160.JPG: Spurs owned by the Marquis de Lafayette
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Description of Subject Matter: The collections include the original copy of Francis Scott Key's writing of the Star-Spangled Banner.
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