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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.

Image of Ulysses S. Grant, Julia Grant and others

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC04360.029 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Photograph Date: circa 1868-1876 Pagination: Order a Copy

General Grant, Julia Grant and five others sitting on the verandah of his house in Long Branch [see # 30].

Grant, Julia Dent, 1826-1902
Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885

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