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{{Information |Description=Advertisement for circulating library, New York, New York |Source=[http://books.google.com/books?id=tp7VAAAAMAAJ A.E. Wright's Boston, New York, Philadelphia & Baltimore, commercial directory]. 1840 |Date=1840 |Author=A.E. Wrigh
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