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A handwritten receipt from William Bartlett to Benjamin Lovett for quintals of fish, coffee and a week's worth of dockage costing 4 pounds, 1 shilling, 10 pence dated 21 May 1789.

Obersvations of Royal Navy Surgeon Robert Robertson in regards to fever between 1776 and 1789. Includes data collected as surgeon aboard HMS Edgar.

George Washington inaugural button. Dotted script "GW" in center, surrounded by "LONG LIVE THE PRESIDENT". Made in the United States of America .

Oil on canvas painting titled "The Benjamin Stoddert Children," signed "C.W. Peale" and dated 1789. Painting depicts three children, a girl in a white high-waisted dress with blue sash, an infant, and a boy in a beige skeleton suit, in front of a pillar at the proper left and a view from Georgetown over Analostan (now Roosevelt) Island in the proper right background.

This engraving, attributed to Charles Willson Peale, was published in the February 1789 issue of the Columbian Magazine. In addition to the new State House with its recently completed dome, on the far left is the home of John Shaw. To the right of the State House are the Old Council Chamber and Ball Room built in 1718, the octagonal outdoor privy, known as the "temple," constructed in the 1780s and the Treasury Building built in 1729.