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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.

[Abraham Lincoln, carte de visite, bust view]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05136.04 Author/Creator: Place Written: Washington, District of Columbia Type: Photograph Date: 1815-1860 Pagination: 1 carte de visite Height: 11.3 cm, Width: 7.3 cm Order a Copy

Black mount. "15 cts." Penciled on verso. Bust view. [O-55].

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Brady, Mathew B., 1822-1896

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