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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.

[hospital record]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02750.173 Author/Creator: Place Written: Washington, District of Columbia Type: Printed document signed Date: 17 April 1865 Pagination: 1 p. : Height: 20.6 cm, Width: 12.4 cm Order a Copy

A surgeon requests the Descriptive List for Edwin Taylor from the Commander of the Seventh Regiment, Rhode Island Volunteers

Jenks, Ethan A., fl. 1828-1901

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