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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.

[Reproduction of a vignette bust portrait of Thomas A. McParlin]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02649.47 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Photograph Date: 1861-1865 Pagination: 1 bust portrait ; 25.1 x 20.2 cm. Order a Copy

Photographed closer up and at a more advanced age than in GLC02649.46.

McParlin, T. A. (Thomas Andrew), 1825-1897

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