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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.

55 unidentified miscellaneous cartes de visite [decimalized]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC00919.24 Author/Creator: Place Written: Various Places Type: Header Record Date: 1861-1865 ca. Pagination: 55 photographs Order a Copy

Collection consists of 55 photographs, largely dating from the Civil War period, and primarily connected with the N.Y. Volunteer Engineers. The majority of the images are carte de visite portraits, although the collection also includes several tintype portraits in carte de visite mounts, as well as images of structures (houses, churches, etc.) and artwork.
The collection is organized according to subject into five series:
I. Portraits: Men (Identified)
II. Portraits: Men (Unidientified)
III. Portraits: Women (Unidentified)
IV. Structures
V. Miscellaneous Scenes.

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