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Autograph letter signed

to Tobias Lear re: recommending a man to work on canal locks

1795/12/02

Washington, George, 1732-1799

President Washington recommends an Englishman named Myers, whom he had interviewed.

GLC02794.040
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Autograph letter signed

to Tobias Lear re: transport of "Steam Jack" and visit to Philadelphia

1791/10/20

Lincoln, Benjamin, 1733-1810

Written as the Collector at the Port of Boston. Attached to GLC 2794.021. Docketed on address leaf.

GLC02794.018
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Autograph letter signed

to Tobias Lear re: "hoisting machine"

1795/07/25

Gardner, H.H., fl. 1777-1795

Gardner, a self-described millwright, explains the capabilities of his heavy load "hoisting machine."

GLC02794.038
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Document signed

[Appointment of A.M. Kimball as alternate commissioner for treaty anniversary]

March 15, 1881

Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881

Certificate appointing A.M. Kimball to act as Alternate Commissioner of an "international exhibition of arts, manufactures, and products of the soil and mine," to be held in New York City in 1883. The exhibition would mark the "one hundredth...

GLC02783.01
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Autograph letter signed

Invitation for the President of the National Agricultural Convention

June 24, 1852

McCormick, Cyrus Hall, 1809-1884

McCormick, inventor of the reaping machine, invites the President of the National Agriculture Convention to attend a demonstration of the machine. He indicates that the convention is assembled in Washington, D.C. Includes an initialed postscript...

GLC00974

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