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Paintings and Drawings Appearing in Paintings and Drawings appearing in "Opening The Door West" “An Overseer Doing His Duty” by Benjamin Henry Latrobe, The Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore, Maryland “Articles of Association of the Ohio Company 1786”, Marietta College, Dawes Memorial Library, Slack Research Collections “Battle of Fallen Timbers”, Ohio Historical Society “Joseph Barker” portrait, Marietta College, Dawes Memorial Library, Slack Research Collections “Big Bottom Massacre”, Ohio Historical Society “Buckonghela”, Fort Recovery Historical Society “Campus Martius” drawing, Marietta College, Dawes Memorial Library, Slack Research Collections “Campus Martius” by Charles Sullivan, Frank P. Wilton “Colonel John May” by Christian Gullager 1789, American Antiquarian Society "The Declaration of Independence" by John Trumbull, Architect of the Capitol “Departure from Ipswich, MA Dec 1787” by William Mark Young, Marietta City Building “Establishment of Civil Government July 1788” by William Mark Young, Marietta City Building “Farmers Castle” drawing by Dan Augenstein, Belpre Historical Society “Farmers Castle” drawing, Marietta College, Dawes Memorial Library, Slack Research Collections "The First Continental Congress, 1774" by Allyn Cox, Architect of the Capitol “Fort Frye” by Elizabeth Thorniley Owen, Marietta College, Dawes Memorial Library, Slack Research Collections “Fort Harmar” by Sala Bosworth, Frank P. Wilton “Fort Miamis” drawing by Thomas J. Hohl “Fort Putnam” - West Point Museum, US Military Academy, West Point “Gen. Wayne Obtains a Complete Victory over Miami Indians” by Frederick Kemmelmeyer, Courtesy, Winterthur Museum “Harvard College 1726” by Burgis, Courtesy of the Harvard University Archives “How Could Things Get Any Worse” by Robert Griffing, Paramount Press Inc. “The Killing Must Stop” by Robert V. Van Trees “King George III” by Allan Ramsey, Fort Ligonier Association “Landing of the Pioneers” by Sala Bosworth, Ben H. Putnam, Jr. “Little Turtle”, Ohio Historical Society “Manasseh Cutler” drawing, Marietta College, Dawes Memorial Library, Slack Research Collections “Manasseh Cutler” by Bryan Dawes Haynes “Map Ohio Company Purchase” Marietta College, Dawes Memorial Library, Slack Research Collections “Marie Antoinette” copy of portrait by Madame Vigee Lebrun, Private Collection “Marietta City Plat Map” by Rufus Putnam, Marietta College, Dawes Memorial Library, Slack Research Collections “On the Great Trail” by Robert Griffing, Paramount Press Inc. “Picketed Point 1792” by Jeanne Kimmich “Pioneer Industries” by William Mark Young, Marietta City Building “The Point” drawing, Marietta College, Dawes Memorial Library, Slack Research Collections “Procession to Campus Martius Sept 1788 to Convene First Court”, by William Mark Young, Marietta City Building “Rufus Putnam” by James Sharples, Sr., Independence National Historical Park “Rufus Putnam” painting, Marietta College, Dawes Memorial Library, Slack Research Collections “Winthrop Sargent” portrait, Courtesy of Marietta College, Dawes Memorial Library, Slack Research Collections “The Seven Ranges of Townships in Southeastern Ohio” from Carey’s General Atlas Map Division, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations “Soldiers of the Revolution Plan Settlement of Ohio Country”, by William Mark Young, Marietta City Building “Spring Trader” by Robert Griffing, Paramount Press Inc. “Arthur St. Clair” by Charles Willson Peale, Courtesy of Independence National Historical Park “Gen. Arthur St. Clair” by Jean Pierre Henri Elovis, Fort Ligonier Association “St. Clair’s Defeat” by Robert V. Van Trees, Fort Recovery Historical Society “Tecumseh, Guardian of the Ohio” by Robert Griffing, Paramount Press Inc. “Trent and Half King at the Forks” by Robert Griffing, Paramount Press Inc. “James Mitchell Varnum” by Charles Willson Peale, Independence National Historical Park “View of Ft Harmar, Kerr Island, Williamstown, WV” by Wyllys Hall 1790 , Marietta College, Dawes Memorial Library, Slack Research Collections “View of Wolf Creek Near Muskingum River” by Charles Sullivan, Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, West Virginia “Washington’s Inauguration, 1789” by Allyn Cox, Architect of the Capitol “Anthony Wayne” by James Sharples, Sr., Independence National Historical Park “Yale University” by Daniel Bowen, Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library “1788 Map, Rectangular Township Survey System, Eastern Ohio” by Manasseh Cutler, Clements Library, University of Michigan .
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