Our Collection

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.

wall paper bill for R.C. Bruce

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09400.613 Author/Creator: Place Written: Washington, District of Columbia Type: Autograph document Date: 8 December 1905 Pagination: 1 p. : Height: 22.5 cm, Width: 19 cm Order a Copy

Bruce, Blanche Kelso, 1841-1898
Junkerman, Julius, fl. 1877

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