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At the Institute’s core is the Gilder Lehrman Collection, one of the great archives in American history. More than 85,000 items cover five hundred years of American history, from Columbus’s 1493 letter describing the New World through the end of the twentieth century.

United States. Department of Agriculture. [U. S. Department of Agriculture press release, Number output Worth More than Half Billion]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC00687.183.01 Author/Creator: United States. Department of Agriculture. Place Written: Washington, D.C. Type: Printed document Date: 14 September 1909 Pagination: 3 p. : envelope ; 26.7 x 20.3 cm. Order a Copy

A statistical report of the states with the highest lumber output and the states with the smallest is given, with the money spent on various timber items, and measuring types of wood used and where that wood is produced.

Powell was a Lincoln supporter and served as a statistician in the Treasury Department during the Civil War. Active in religious work as a young man, he was the secretary and manager of the Evangelistic Press Association and led a topographical corps through Egypt and North Africa to create Sunday School maps of Palestine and the Holy Land. Powell participated in the American Forestry Commission, the Grange and Patrons of Husbandry, the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, and the National Geographic Society. He was active in Sabbath reform work.

Powell, George May, 1835-1905

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