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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.

Spirit of the age (Raleigh, NC)

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05959.33 Author/Creator: Place Written: Raleigh, Norht Carolina Type: Newspaper Date: 1861, 1862 Pagination: 7 issues 63 x 46 cm Order a Copy

Weekly. Vol. 12, no. 47; vol. 13, nos. 50-51; vol. 14 nos. 2, 7, 13 and 17. One very worn issue from 1861. Issues from 1862 use a smaller format of 49 x 33 cm. 7/17/1861; 8/4/1862, 8/11/1862, 9/1/1862, 10/6/1862, 11/17/1862 and 12/15/1862. "A weekly family journal; devoted to temperance, literature, education and news of the day." -Masthead.

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