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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.

To the free men of the North [election] [large cloth-backed lithographed map]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC06662 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Map Date: 1856 ca. Pagination: 1 large map Height: 144 cm, Width: 137 cm Order a Copy

Free Labor Party abolitionist map used during the 1856 presidential campaign, printed, with hand-coloring in red, black and green.

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