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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.

Thomas Penington & Son Account of the owners of the Dover

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC03107.02780 Author/Creator: Thomas Penington & Son Place Written: [s.l.] Type: Manuscript document Date: 1751 Pagination: 3p. + docket 32.5 x 20.6 cm Order a Copy

Charges on the account are from December 1750 to May 1751.

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