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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.

Cartes de visite (signed): portraits of Congressmen by Gardner

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC00558 Author/Creator: Place Written: Washington, District of Columbia Type: Photograph signed Date: 1861-1865 ca. Pagination: 7 carte de visites Order a Copy

1=J. W. Patterson (Rep.-NH), 2=George Readroos (Rep.-DE), 3=A. H. Ceragin (Rep.), 4=Henry Lane (Sen.-Ind.), 5=William Stewart (Rep.-NE), 6=William B. Allison (Sen.), 7= E. H. Rollins (Sen.-NH)

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