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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.

Robert Anderson button with his tintype portrait [fastener has fallen off]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05111.01.0507 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Photograph Date: 1861 ca. Pagination: 1 coin Height: 2 cm, Width: 2 cm Order a Copy

Measure is diameter of the button. A youthful portrait of Anderson. The raised inscription on the button around the image reads: "Stand by the stars and stripes."

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