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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.

[Hard Times tokens].

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC01994.03 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Object Date: circa 1832-1844 Pagination: 6 tokens Order a Copy

Tokens satirizing President Andrew Jackson. Issued after Jackson opposed re-chartering of the Bank of the United States, resulting in a depression.

Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845

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