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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.

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady Bible and church degrade women

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC06856 Author/Creator: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady Place Written: Chicago Type: Pamphlet signed Date: 1896 ca. Pagination: 22 p. 23.2 x 15.6 cm Order a Copy

Group of 3 essays dealing with women's status in church and suffrage. Inscribed to Rev. William Gannet (?) with quotation on the first page of the text: "Progress is the victory of a new thought over an old superstition" Printed by the Office of Free Thought Magazine

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