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An unfinished oil sketch depicting the Treaty of Paris of 1783, by Benjamin West, c. 1783. The American commissioners depicted from left to right are John Jay, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Henry Laurens, and...

A slave trader advertisement in a Charleston, South Carolina newspaper, taken out by Henry Laurens and his partners, published on 26 April 1760. Library of Congress...

Henry Laurens (1724-1792), an American politician during the American Revolution who served as a president of the Continental Congress. Oil on canvas portrait by Lemuel Francis Abbott, c. 1781-84. United States Senate...

Stratford Hall Plantation in Westmoreland County, Virginia. It was a residence of the prominent Lee family of Virginia and the birthplace of two signers of the Declaration of Independence, Richard Henry Lee (1742-1794) and Francis...

A sketch of Richard Henry Lee; on his left hand, he wears a black silk glove to hide the injury he sustained in a hunting accident that cost him four of his fingers. Engraving by Alonzo Chappel, 1861. New York Public...

Portrait of Richard Henry Lee (1732-1794), Virginian statesman during the American Revolution and Founding Father of the United States. Oil on canvas by Charles Willson Peale, c. 1795-1805. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian...

St. Finbarr's Oratory, Gaugane Barra, Ireland. According to Cardinal Timothy Manning, Archbishop of Los Angeles, as posted on the St. Finbarr's Oratory website: This hallowed shrine of St. Finbarr dates...

Flowers of Gaugane Barra National Forest Park, County Cork, Ireland.

View from Slieve Gullion Mountain Pass, Country Armagh, Northern Ireland.

Bishop Street in Derry, Northern Ireland, with its "peace wall" running along the left side of the photograph. Peace walls are erected in Northern Ireland to separate predominantly Catholic and Protestant communities...