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- Senate Historian's Office
- Records of the Committee on Patents and the Patent Office, 1837-69 and the Committee on Patents, 1869-1946, Records of the Committee on the Judiciary and Related Committees, 1816–1968, Guide to the Records of the U.S. House of Representatives at the National Archives, 1789-1989 (Record Group 46), National Archives and Records Administration