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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.

Burnet, David G. Galveston Bay & Texas Land Company Certificate no. 12075

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02568 Author/Creator: Burnet, David G. Place Written: New York Type: Document signed Date: 1830/10/16 Pagination: 1 sheet 32 x 20 cm Order a Copy

Signed by Anthony Dey, William H. Sumner and George Curtis as trustees for Burnett, Lorenzo De Zavala and Joseph Vehlein, granting a parcel to J.R. Poinsett. Illustrated with map at bottom left. Streeter 117.

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