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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.

[receipt for Woodson Johnson]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09302.063 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Autograph document Date: 15 June 1829 Pagination: 1 p. : Height: 10 cm, Width: 20.5 cm Order a Copy

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