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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.

[carte de visite, The Belle of Winter]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC00919.24.55 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Photograph Date: 1861-1877 Pagination: Height: 11.2 cm, Width: 7.1 cm Order a Copy

White mount. Caption on image: "The Belle of Winter." Profile view of a woman ice skating in fur-trimmed clothes. Photo from painting or engraving.

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