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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.

Bank of the United States Act to incorporate the subscribers to the Bank of the U.S.

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC08025 Author/Creator: Bank of the United States Place Written: Philadelphia Type: Object Date: 1816 Pagination: 56 p. 17.5 cm x 10.7 cm Order a Copy

"Be it enacted by the senate and house of representatives of the United States of America, in congress assembled, That a bank of the United States of America shall be established, with a capital of thirty-five millions of dollars, divided into three hundred and fifty shares, of one hundred dollars each share."

Livingston, Brockholst, fl. 1790-1816

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