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  <titleInfo>
    <title>United States Articles of Confederation collection, circa 1775-1778</title>
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  <typeOfResource collection="yes" manuscript="yes">mixed material</typeOfResource>
  <originInfo>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <language>
    <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm>
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  <physicalDescription>
    <extent>4</extent>
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  <abstract>Contemporary handwritten transcript of an early version of the Articles of Confederation presented to the Continental Congress by Benjamin Franklin but withdrawn (1775 July 21); and positive and negative photocopies of printed copies of the articles that took effect in 1781 and facsimile version of same.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Handwritten transcript. [S.l.].</note>
  <note>Positive and negative photocopies reproduced with permission of Mabel Zahm. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1941-1945.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
  <note>Forms part of: Miscellaneous Manuscripts collection.</note>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Franklin, Benjamin</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1706-1790</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>United States.</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>United States.</namePart>
      <namePart>Continental Congress.</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>Politics and government</topic>
    <temporal>1775-1783</temporal>
  </subject>
  <identifier type="lccn">mm 80004922</identifier>
  <accessCondition type="restrictionOnAccess">Open to research.</accessCondition>
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    <recordCreationDate encoding="marc">800115</recordCreationDate>
    <recordChangeDate encoding="iso8601">20260227111703.0</recordChangeDate>
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