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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.

"Sculpture Proposed in Connection with Ethnological Building Pan-American Exposition of 1901, Buffalo, N.Y." [Carbon Copy]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC06343.321 Author/Creator: Place Written: Buffalo, NY Type: Typed document Date: 1901/06/01 Pagination: 1 p. : Height: 24.7 cm, Width: 18.8 cm Order a Copy

A detailed proposal with a justification and a cost-breakdown analysis.

Ward, John Quincy Adams, 1830-1910

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