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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.

[Man in civilian clothes]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC04546.136 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Photograph Date: circa 1900 Pagination: 1 cabinet card Height: 17 cm, Width: 11 cm Order a Copy

Inscription on verso reads "W. Keller. J.W. Customs. Henry(?)"

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