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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.

Composite carte de visite photograph of bearded man with hat

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC00241.19 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Photograph Date: circa 1861-1877 Pagination: 1 photograph 10 x 6 cm Order a Copy

Shows head of bearded man with hat and pipe superimposed over cartoon body of a man in a plaid suit holding a fishing pole.

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