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Professor Richard Sylla is interviewed about the history of the lottery
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Excerpt from Bloomberg -- "Lotteries have long been a form of public financing and the museum has tickets from the Revolutionary and early Federal era in its collections, said Richard Sylla, the [Museum of American Finance's] chairman. He said his dorm at Harvard was built in the early 1800s partly with lottery money."
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