![Platter depicting the "Landing of Gen. Lafayette At Castle Garden New York, 16th August 1824."](https://pastispresent.org/wp-content/uploads/Lafayette-platter-1024x828.png)
In his 1913 “Report of the Librarian” published in the AAS Proceedings, Clarence Brigham concludes with an account of “one of the most valuable gifts ever received by the Society.” It was a collection of some 300 pieces of Staffordshire with American scenes. “It is particularly appropriate,” noted Brigham, “that the Society, which already possesses ...