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Title
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We the People: Commemorating 250 Years of the Declaration of Independence
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Semicenquintennial exhibit
Description
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<p>As we mark 250 years since the signing of the <em>Declaration of Independence</em>, this exhibit considers our region and our nation as a <em>quilt of democracy </em>— consisting of many communities, histories, and identities joined and shaped by many hands.</p>
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Grosvenor Room of B&ECPL (repository)/Rare Book Room of B&ECPL (repository)
Date Created
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2026
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Digital image copyright 2026 by the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library. Images in this collection are not to be used for any commercial purposes without the expressed written permission of the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library. Users of this website are free to utilize material from this collection for non-commercial and educational purposes.
Type
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Collection, Dataset, Event, Image, Interactive Resource, Moving Image, Physica l Object, Service, Software, Sound, Still Image, Text
Language
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eng
Coverage
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1757-2026
Identifier
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Grosvenor Room Collections
Text
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Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Description
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Written just two days before delivering the Gettysburg address on November 19, 863, President Abraham Lincoln expresses surprise that Secretary of the Treasury Salmon P. Chase missed a Cabinet meeting convened to discuss the planned trip to Pennsylvania.
Contributor
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Grosvenor Room of B&ECPL (repository)/Rare Book Room of B&ECPL (repository)
Date Created
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1863
Subject
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Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865. Gettysburg address.
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Digital image copyright 2026 by the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library. Images in this collection are not to be used for any commercial purposes without the expressed written permission of the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library. Users of this website are free to utilize material from this collection for non-commercial and educational purposes.
Type
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Text
Language
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eng
Identifier
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Gluck Collection: Lincoln, Abraham 1863
Title
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[Letter from Abraham Lincoln to the Secretary of the Treasury November 1863 ]