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Lot 92
Sale 5657 - Books and Manuscripts
Sep 23, 2021
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Live / Philadelphia
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[Philadelphia] [Girard College] Biddle, N(icholas). Partially-Printed Document
Philadelphia, December, 7, 1837. One sheet, 7 1/4 x 6 3/4 in. (184 x 171 mm). Partially-printed Girard College for Orphans Treasury document made out to Joseph Cowperthwait, cashier at the Second U.S. Bank, for A.D. Bache (future president of Girard College), for $2,000; signed by Nicholas Biddle, as president of the Board of Trustees for Girard; two cancellations holes at center.
Girard College was founded three years prior to this document, in 1833.