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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.

Livingston, John Inventory of items brought with John Livingston to school in New York

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC03107.00232 Author/Creator: Livingston, John Place Written: New York, New York Type: Autograph document Date: 1693/04/05 Pagination: 1p. + docket 30.4 x 20.1 cm Order a Copy

Inventory of the clothes taken to school with John Livingston, including "a Stuff morning gown," "a grey hatt & feather," "1 New testament Psalter and Primer," and "1 Bedd 1 Pillow 1 Red blanket & a green Rugg."

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