American Revolution Bicentennial, 1976

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Certificate of recognition for Museum of Our National Heritage from the Bicentennial Administration signed John W. Warner, Administrator

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Includes postcards, first day covers, newspaper clippings, greeting cards, price lists and order forms, stamps, brochures, commemorative booklets, bookmarks, handwritten notes, scrapbook pages and other ephemera collected by Eileen Anderson, all pertaining to the American bicentennial. The notes appear to be written by the collector, with some later additions by unknown hand(s).

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First Day Cover with a color image of Goofy, a cartoon character created by Walt Disney Prodcutions, as Paul Revere on horseback.

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Bicentennial stamps, 1813-2013, for Scottish Rite, Northern Masonic Jurisdiction presented to John William McNaughton upon his visit to the Valley of Madison in 2013

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Two Freemasonry regalia catalogs (duplicates) produced by Ihling Bros. Everard Co. that are the U.S. bicentennial themed.

Scope and Contents Print (photolithograph) of the Concord bridge with British soldiers marching on the morning of April 19, 1775. On this bridge Paul Revere crossed and gave warning of the advancing troops, here the Minute men met the redcoats. This is a print made from a painting by Falter which was part of a series of paintings called From Sea to Shining Sea. Falter was commissioned to do this series as a part of the 1976 Bicentennial and was advised by James Shenton, professor of...

Scope and Contents Broadside announcing the Russell Lodge's Bicentennial program, on June 11, 1975 with a special visitation by "Most Worshipful Stanley F. Maxwell," Grand Master of Masons in Massachusetts, on the occasion of presentation of The Minuteman Plaque. It includes a photograph of President Gerald R. Ford, 33° receiving the Minuteman Plaque from Lexington Town Selectman Allan F. Kenney on its Two Hundred Year Bicentennial on April 19, 1975. Arthur A. Maranian designed the plaque, which was also...