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Benjamin Banneker

(Banneker, Benjamin, 1731-1806)

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Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of District of Columbia Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
Gift; George F. Landegger; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:176).
Forms part of the George F. Landegger Collection of District of Columbia Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.
Subjects:

Recorder of Deeds building.--Murals.

United States--District of Columbia--Washington (D.C.)
Format: Digital photographs--Color--2000-2010.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Part Of: Highsmith, Carol M., 1946- Carol M. Highsmith Archive. (DLC) 00650024
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/highsm.09905

Call Number: LC-DIG-highsm- 09905

Benjamin Banneker (November 9, 1731 – October 19, 1806) was an American naturalist, mathematician, astronomer and almanac author. A landowner, he also worked as a surveyor and farmer. (From Wikipedia)

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Associated author:

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826

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Filed under: Banneker, Benjamin, 1731-1806

Copy of a Letter from Benjamin Banneker, to the Secretary of State, With His Answer (Philadelphia: D. Lawrence, 1792), by Benjamin Banneker, contrib. by Thomas Jefferson
- HTML at UMD
- HTML at Evans TCP

4 additional books about Benjamin Banneker in the extended shelves:

Memoir of Benjamin Banneker, read before the Maryland Historical Society ... (Printed by J. D. Toy, 1845), by John H. B. Latrobe (page images at HathiTrust)
Memoir of Benjamin Banneker : read before the Maryland Historical Society, at the monthly meeting, May 1, 1845 (Printed by John D. Toy, 1845), by John H. B. Latrobe (page images at HathiTrust)
Banneker, the Afro-American astronomer ([publisher not identified], 1921), by Will W. Allen, Mildred Nilon, Charles H. Nilon, and Daniel Alexander Payne Murray (page images at HathiTrust)
Copy of a letter from Benjamin Banneker to the secretary of state, with his answer. (Philadelphia: : Printed and sold by Daniel Lawrence, no. 33. North Fourth-Street, near Race., M.DCC.XCII. [1792]), by Benjamin Banneker and Thomas Jefferson (HTML at Evans TCP)

Books by Benjamin Banneker:

Banneker, Benjamin, 1731-1806: Banneker's Almanac (partial serial archives)
Banneker, Benjamin, 1731-1806: Copy of a Letter from Benjamin Banneker, to the Secretary of State, With His Answer (Philadelphia: D. Lawrence, 1792), contrib. by Thomas Jefferson
- HTML at UMD
- HTML at Evans TCP

Additional books by Benjamin Banneker in the extended shelves:

Banneker, Benjamin, 1731-1806: Banneker's almanac. (Rhistoric Publications, between 1000 and 1999) (page images at HathiTrust)
Banneker, Benjamin, 1731-1806: Copy of a letter from Benjamin Banneker to the secretary of state, with his answer. (Philadelphia: : Printed and sold by Daniel Lawrence, no. 33. North Fourth-Street, near Race., M.DCC.XCII. [1792]), also by Thomas Jefferson (HTML at Evans TCP)

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