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English: First contract of inventor Eli Whitney as a gun manufacturer. Copy of contract with the United States government, signed by Oliver Wolcott, Jr., Secretary of the United States Treasury. Courtesy of the Yale University Manuscripts & Archives Digital Images Database, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. Retouched by MarmadukePercy.
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Author Eli Whitney, Oliver Wolcott, Jr., (on behalf of the United States government)

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