Our Collection

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.

Rhode Island An Act relative to a convention ratifying the Constitution

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC03609 Author/Creator: Rhode Island Place Written: Providence Type: Broadside Date: September 1789 Pagination: 1 p. + docket 35 x 22 cm Order a Copy

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