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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.

Collection of fifteen documents signed by eleven of the signers of 1836 Texas Declaration of Independence [Decimalized GLC06624.01-.15]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC06624 Author/Creator: Place Written: Various Places Type: Header Record Date: 1836 Pagination: 15 items Order a Copy

Most documents pertain to land or legal matters in Texas in the 1830s and 1840s.

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