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Postcard featuring an image of Carpenters' Hall and American flag motifs

<p>Ten million visitors from around the world traveled to Philadelphia in 1926 to visit the Sesquicentennial International Exhibition celebrating 150 years of American <span class="wordDefine" tabIndex="0" data-term="Independence" data-def="Relying on oneself and no longer being affiliated to or controlled by others. Interior Inside. When used in relation to 18th century American geography, interior generally means away from the Atlantic Coast, towards the frontier of the American colonies.">independence</span>. This commemorative postcard features an image of Carpenters' Hall, site of the First Continental Congress in 1774.</p>

This commemorative postcard from the the Sesquicentennial International Exhibition shows Carpenters' Hall, site of the First Continental Congress in 1774.

Postcard from America's Sesquicentennial

An Ongoing Revolution

Visitors of the Museum of the American Revolution in the Liberty Tree gallery which features a Liberty Tree

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Pride and Protest

Inside the Declaration of Independence gallery featuring a copy of the Declaration of Independence

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War and Independence

A high up view of the War at Sea gallery in the Museum of the American Revolution featuring a sloop

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A New Nation

Inside of the Revolutionary Generation gallery in the Museum of the American Revolution featuring photographs of the revolutionary generation

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Timeline of the American Revolution

Postcard from America's Sesquicentennial

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