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Title: 4th of July Orations Collection
Dates: 1795-1875
Extent: 4 boxes
Repository:
Claremont Colleges. Library.
1090 Columbia Avenue
Claremont, California 91711
Abstract: The Fourth of July Orations Collection contains 150 speeches, orations, and addresses on American Independence, July 4th
by many individuals from various places from 1795 to 1876. Some of the recurring themes include the birth of the American
institutions and the passing of the Revolutionary generation; strident party factionalism of the Jefferson and Jackson era;
education, religion and temperance; the American Indian; the Gold Rush and westward expansion; slavery, the Civil War Reconstruction.
The orations took place in cities around American such as: Boston, Buffalo, Charlestown, Chambersburg, Penn., Chestel, Vermont,
Columbus, Ohio, Dedham, Mass., Hartford, Conn., Hudson, Wis., Jackson, Tenn., Lyme, New Hampshire, Mansfield, Middlebury,
Morristown, Newark, Newburyport, Norwich, Northampton, New Jersey, New York, Ogdensburgh, Providence, Portland, Maine, Portland,
Oregon, Princeton, Reading, Penn., Richmond, Salem, Mass, Springfield, St. Louis.
Collection Number: d2008.3
Languages: Languages represented in the collection: English
Physical Location: Ella Strong Denison Library, Scripps College, Claremont University Consortium.
This collection is open for research with permission from Ella Strong Denison Library staff.
Property rights reside with Scripps College. For permissions to reproduce or to publish, please contact Ella Strong Denison
Library staff.
[Identification of item] 4th of July Orations. Ella Strong Denison Library, Scripps College, Claremont, California.
Purchased in 2007 from Garrett Scott.
Arranged and Processed by Russell Michalak
No addition to the collection is anticipated.
Scope and Contents of the Collection
The Fourth of July Orations Collection contains 150 speeches, orations, and addresses on American Independence, July 4th by
many individuals from various places from 1795 to 1876. Some of the recurring themes include the birth of the American institutions
and the passing of the Revolutionary generation; strident party factionalism of the Jefferson and Jackson era; education,
religion and temperance; the American Indian; the Gold Rush and westward expansion; slavery, the Civil War Reconstruction.
This collection is arranged alphabetically by author.
Series 1 Authors
Subseries 1.1 A
Subseries 1.2 B
Subseries 1.3 C
Subseries 1.4 D
Subseries 1.5 E
Subseries 1.6 F
Subseries 1.7 G
Subseries 1.8 H
Subseries 1.9 I
Subseries 1.10 J
Subseries 1.11 K
Subseries 1.12 L
Subseries 1.13 M
Subseries 1.14 N
Subseries 1.15 O
Subseries 1.16 P
Subseries 1.17 Q
Subseries 1.18 R
Subseries 1.19 S
Subseries 1.20 T
Subseries 1.21 U
Subseries 1.22 V
Subseries 1.23 W
Subseries 1.24 Y
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection
Boston
Fourth of July
Lyme
(N.H.)
orations