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At the Institute’s core is the Gilder Lehrman Collection, one of the great archives in American history. More than 85,000 items cover five hundred years of American history, from Columbus’s 1493 letter describing the New World through the end of the twentieth century.

Gardner, Alexander (1821-1882) The Execution of Mrs. Surratt and the Lincoln assassination conspirators

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC06341 Author/Creator: Gardner, Alexander (1821-1882) Place Written: Hartford Conn. Type: Photograph Date: 1865 Pagination: 1 photograph ; 22.9 x 28 cm Order a Copy

Contemporary print of the famous Brady negative, showing the bodies hanging. Printed with red margin mounts by Taylor and Huntington. Brady photograph catalog list on back of the mount.

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