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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.

Gutekunst, Frederick, 1831-1917 Cabinet portrait of Ulysses S. Grant

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC01635 Author/Creator: Gutekunst, Frederick, 1831-1917 Place Written: Philadelphia ; New York Type: Photograph signed Date: November 21, 1883 Pagination: 1 photograph Height: 17 cm, Width: 11 cm Order a Copy

Image signed on mounted and dated (in a different hand November 21, 1883, New York. Image from Philadelphia.

Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885

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