Show BEFORE 1800 I 1 1745 not a house in ay pane of glass in pennsylvania established tho first hospital in america in 1751 OLIVER bedstead has been sold by auction for fifty guineas A BANK known as the united states bank was established at philadelphia in 1791 together with the national mint which issued its first coin THE first book of any kind published in philadelphia was atkins Al manack for tho year it was an unpaged pamphlet of twenty pages only two copies of which are now to exist each being worth more than its weight in twenty collac notes j STOWED away in one of the rooms al tho capitol in her vt are tho remains of tho first printing press brought to this country upon it was printed tho freemanb freemans fre emans oath chu the first thing printe dj in british north america A of richmond va has como into possession of a revolutionary relic in tho shapo of general danial morgans mess chest which is as being one hundred and years old tho chest j made of atno heavily ribbed ron and is by an old sy roua jock |