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BOOKS

Adam, Robert and Adam, James. Works in Architecture. London, 1773.

Adams, John. The Works of John Adams. Boston, 1851. Edited by Charles Francis Adams.

Blondel, Francois. Cours d'Architecture. Paris, 1698, Seconde Partie.

Cigrand, B. J. Story of the Great Seal. Chicago, 1903.

Clarke, Rev. Edward D. A Tour through the South of England, Wales, and part of Ireland made during the summer of 1791. London, 1793

The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789). Washington, 1834. Compiled by Joseph Gales.

Franklin, Benjamin. The Complete Works of Benjamin Franklin. New York, 1888. Edited by John Bigelow.

Gottesman, Rita (compiler). The Arts and Crafts in New York 1777-1799. New York, 1954.

______. The Arts and Crafts in New York 1726-1776. New York, 1970.

Gummere, Richard M. The American Colonial Mind and the Classical Tradition. Cambridge, Mass., 1963.

Harris, Neil. The Artist in American Society. New York, 1966.

Hunt, Gaillard. The History of the Seal of the United States. Washington, 1909.

Isaacson, Philip M. The American Eagle. Boston, 1975.

Jacobs, Bertram. Axminster Carpets. Leigh-on-Sea, England, 1970.

Jefferson, Thomas. Writings of Thomas Jefferson. New York, 1892. Edited by P. L. Ford.

______. The Life and Selected Writings of Thomas Jefferson. New York, 1944. Edited and with an introduction by Adrienne Koch and William H. Peden.

______. Papers. Princeton, 1950. Edited by Julian P. Boyd.

Maclay, William. Journal of William Maclay, United States Senator from Pennsylvania, 1789-1791. New York, 1890. Edited by Edgar S. Maclay.

Madison, James. The Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787. New York, 1920. International Edition, edited by Gaillard Hunt and James B. Scott.

______. The Federalist. Cambridge, 1961. Edited by Benjamin F. Wright.

Montgomery, Charles F. and Kane, Patricia E. (general eds.). American Art: 1750-1800, Towards Independence. Boston, 1976.

Musgrave, Clifford. "Architecture," The Late Georgian Period 1760-1810. The Connoisseur Period Guides. London, 1961.

Prime, Alfred Coxe. The Arts and Crafts in Philadelphia, Maryland and South Carolina, 1721-1785. Topsfield, Mass., 1929.

Richardson, Joseph. Iconology. London, 1779.

Roth, Rodris. Floor Coverings in 18th Century America (Paper 59, in "Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology," U.S. National Museum Bulletin, 250). Washington, 1967.

Wansey, Henry. Henry Wansey and his American Journal. Philadelphia, 1970. Edited by David J. Jeremy.

Ware, Isaac. A Complete Body of Architecture. London, 1767.

Warren, Charles. The Making of the Constitution. Cambridge, Mass., 1947.

Washington, George. Diaries. Boston, 1925. Edited by John C. Fitzpatrick.

______. Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Source. Washington, 1931-34. Edited by John C. Fitzpatrick.

Watson, John Fanning. Annals of Philadelphia. Philadelphia, 1898. Edited by Willis P. Hazard.

Werner, Edgar A. Civil List and Constitutional History of the Colony and State of New York. Albany, 1884.

Wolcott, Oliver. Memoirs of the Administrations of Washington and John Adams. New York, 1846. Edited by George Gibbs.

Wood, Gordon S. The Rising Glory of America. New York, 1971.

PERIODICALS

Avery, Charles. "Antwerp, August 1577," Connoisseur, Vol. 195, no. 786 (August, 1977), 252-263.

Brown, Margaret L. "Mr. and Mrs. William Bingham, Rulers of the Republican Court," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, LXI (1937), 286-324.

"Extracts from the Diary of Jacob Hiltzheimer, 1768-1798," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, XVI (1892), 412-422.

Frangiamore, Catherine Lynn. "Landscape Wallpaper in the Jeremiah Lee Mansion," Antiques, CXII, 6 (December, 1977), pp. 1174-1179.

Hefford, Wendy. "Thomas Moore of Moorfields," Burlington Magazine, 897, CXIX (December, 1977), 840-848.

Sommer, Frank H. "Emblem and Device: The Origin of the Great Seal of the United States," The Art Quarterly, Vol. 24 (Spring, 1961), 56-76.

UNPUBLISHED MATERIALS

"Amount of Disbursements paid by the Commissioners of the City and County of Philadelphia, for fitting the New County Court House, for the accommodation of Congress (1791)." Manuscript at the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, Harrisburg.

Burke, Bobbye. "The Liberty Cap in America and France," Master's Thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 1971.

"Campington Pew Acct. (1793-1794)." Manuscript at the Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia.

"Commissioners of County of Philadelphia for enlarging Congress Hall, 1793." Manuscript at the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, Harrisburg.

Miers Fisher Papers. Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

Milley, John C. "Furnishings Plan for the Second Floor of Congress Hall," (Part D), Oct. 1965. Report, Independence National Historical Park, Philadelphia.