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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.

[Patent for Jacob Bromwell's improvement of the wheat fan, or winnowing machine and J.Q. Adams and Engraving of James Monroe and James Monroe]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC04823 Author/Creator: Place Written: Washington, D.C. Type: Header Record Date: Pagination: 4 items. Order a Copy

Document signed by John Quincy Adams and James Monroe, 1 engraving of John Quincy Adams, and 3 engravings of James Monroe.

Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848
Bromwell, Jacob, fl. 1818-1829
Elliot, William, 1773-1837
Monroe, James, 1758-1831
Thornton, William, 1759-1828
Wirt, William, 1772-1834

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