Through Sept. 12: 'Early Delaware Documents'
Library exhibition featuring documents of Queen Christina, John Dickinson reopens
7:46 a.m., Sept. 2, 2014--The University of Delaware Library has announced the re-installation of the exhibition “Queen Christina and John Dickinson Two Early Delaware Documents,” which is on display in the Information Room on the first floor of the Morris Library through Friday, Sept. 12.
The exhibition was previously on display in the spring and was temporarily taken down for construction work in the Information Room.
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The exhibition displays two recent acquisitions made possible by the generous support of the University of Delaware Library Associates.
On view is a Swedish broadside printing of a decree by Queen Christina issued on Oct. 25, 1649, withdrawing the exclusive right to import tobacco into Sweden formerly granted to the Swedish South Company, which in 1641 had been granted the exclusive right to import tobacco from the New World.
Also on view is a printed proclamation issued by John Dickinson, a member of the Continental Congress from Pennsylvania and Delaware whose writings earned him the title of “the Penman of the Revolution.”
The proclamation was printed in Philadelphia by Francis Bailey in 1782. At the time the document was issued, Dickinson held the office of president and supreme executive council of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania. In the proclamation Dickinson decrees that all citizens of Pennsylvania must observe the Sabbath.
The curator of the exhibition is Timothy Murray, head of the Special Collections Department.