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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 Basil Wilson Duke

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC03819 Author/Creator: Place Written: Delaware City, Delaware Type: Photograph signed Date: 06 May 1864 Pagination: 1 carte de visite Height: 11 cm, Width: 7 cm Order a Copy

Basil Duke as Confederate prisoner of war at Fort Delaware. Signed on mount.

Written at Fort Delaware

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