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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.

Election campaign carte de visite of Ulysses S. Grant and Henry Wilson

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC06663.01 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Photograph Date: 1868 ca. Pagination: 1 carte de visite ; 10 x 6 cm. Order a Copy

Campaign carte depicting Grant and Vice-Presidential candidate Henry Wilson, with quotation about reducing taxation and national debt.

Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885
Wilson, Henry, 1812-1875

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