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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.

[Carte de visite of Edmind K. Smith]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02406 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Photograph signed Date: 1865 ca. Pagination: 1 carte de visite Height: 11 cm, Width: 7 cm Order a Copy

Signed on mount as commander of the Trans-Mississippi Dept.

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