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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.

[Photograph of Lil' Audrey Plane Art]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09620.286 Author/Creator: Place Written: Northern Mariana Islands Type: Photograph Date: 1945 Pagination: 1 photograph : b&w Height: 7.4 cm, Width: 10 cm Order a Copy

A photograph of the B-24 Bomber "Lil' Audrey" with the number of missions the plane has flown denoted by paintings of bombs.

A post-it note included with the collection notes these "snaps" are miscellaneous photos of crew/camps/places in the Pacific.

Stone, Robert L., 1921-2009

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