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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.

Unknown Order of excercises, at the celebration of the fifty-first anniversary of American independence

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC06143.23 Author/Creator: Unknown Place Written: Haverhill, Massachusetts Type: Broadside Date: 4 July 1827 Pagination: 1 sheet ; 28 x 24.5 cm. Order a Copy

Inlcudes a reading of the Declaration of Independence along with hymns and prayer.

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