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.

[Eleazer L. Sarsons]

Order a pdf of this item here.

Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC03953.21 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Photograph Date: 1890 Pagination: 1 tintype Height: 9 cm, Width: 6.7 cm Order a Copy

Post Civil War era photograph of Sarsons standing in a hat and Civil War uniform. He is clearly much older than in the Civil War tintypes of him (see GLC03953.18-.20).

Sarsons, Eleazer L.,1836-?

Citation Guidelines for Online Resources