Benjamin Rush was an American revolutionary, a Founding Father of the United States and signatory to the U.S. Declaration of Independence, and a civic leader in Philadelphia, where he was a physician,
Rush's birthplace in the Byberry section of Philadelphia, photographed in 1959
The Death of General Mercer at the Battle of Princeton, January 3, 1777 a portrait by John Trumbull depicting Rush and General George Washington entering from the background with Captain William Leslie, shown on the right, mortally wounded
Ticket to an 1807 lecture given by Rush, then a University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine professor
A c. 1818 portrait of Rush by Charles Willson Peale
Richard Allen was an American minister, educator, writer, and one of the United States' most active and influential black leaders. In 1794, he founded the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the first
Painting of Allen on display at the World Methodist Museum, Lake Junaluska, North Carolina