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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 Mint Resolution to establish the United States Mint

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC00885 Author/Creator: United States Mint Place Written: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Type: Broadside Date: 03 March 1791 Pagination: 1 broadside 34 x 21 cm Order a Copy

Printed broadside

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