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{
"processId": 3866314,
"status": "FINISHED",
"content": {
"text": "Dear Sir, I hereby confirm\nthe delivery of 200 units.",
"regions": [
{
"id": "region_1",
"lines": [
{
"id": "line_1",
"text": "Dear Sir, I hereby confirm"
},
{
"id": "line_2",
"text": "the delivery of 200 units."
}
]
}
]
}
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Discover Published Sites
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Zürcher Ratsmanuale 1552-1798
The Zurich Council Manuals contain the minutes of the meetings of the authorities from the old city-state of Zurich until 1798. They represent the central se...

Regesta Pomeraniae Monastica
The "Hoogeweg'sche Regesten" on the charters of Pomeranian monasteries and convents consist of about 5000 pages of handwritten items concerning more than 700...

Stockholms Stadsarkivs sökbara handskrifter
This website makes historical handwritten documents from the Stockholm City Archives available with the help of public participation and Handwritten Text Rec...

Enlightenment Suppressed
This site contains manuscripts that document the successful efforts to stifle the Enlightenment in late eighteenth-century Germany.
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