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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.

Adams Express Company mail receipt her husbands possessions

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02744.212 Author/Creator: Adams Express Company Place Written: Fortress, Monroe, Virginia Type: Autograph document Date: 6 July 1864 Pagination: 1 p. ; 24 x 15.5 cm. Order a Copy

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Burpee, Thomas F., fl. 1861-1865

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