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Page 217 from Thomas Jefferson's copy of The Federalist (1788) – Historic Reproduction

Page 217 from Thomas Jefferson's copy of The Federalist (1788), 1788 — historic print
Page 217 from Thomas Jefferson's copy of The Federalist (1788), 1788. Historic print from the Presidents collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Few images capture their era like this historic print of Page 217 from Thomas Jefferson's copy of The Federalist (1788). An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Page 217 from Thomas Jefferson's copy of The Federalist (1788)

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Rather than a portrait or a building, this item is a single page, number 217, from Thomas Jefferson's copy of *The Federalist* (1788). The essays were written under the name Publius by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay to argue for ratifying the new Constitution, and they were gathered into a bound edition that year. Jefferson was serving as American minister in Paris at the time, so the volume reached him far from the debates at home. The record is thin and its details are unverified, so check the page's content and origin against the Library's catalog before relying on them.

Created / published1788
Medium1 print.
NotesIllus. in: The Federalist, 1788, p. 217. Reference copy may be in Pres. File. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Pres. Ind.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan948 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-141555

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