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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 [Unidentified]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC06272.22 Author/Creator: Place Written: Kalamazoo, Michigan Type: Photograph Date: [1861] Pagination: 10 cm. x 6.1 cm. White mount with gold border. Order a Copy

Porter imprint and orange two-cent tax stamp on verso. "Felicity" inscribed in ink on recto. Seated three-quarter length portrait in uniform. M.H. Porter

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