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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.

United States House of Representatives, signed 3x by H. Livingston Constitution of the United States of America. . .

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC03107.05321 Author/Creator: United States House of Representatives, signed 3x by H. Livingston Place Written: Philadelphia, [Pa.] Type: Book Date: 1799 Pagination: 27p. 17.7 x 10.7 Order a Copy

. . . as proposed by the Convention held at Phildadelphia, September 17, 1787. The book was printed by John H. Oswald.

Oswald, John H., fl. 1799

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