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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.

[Henry Slocum]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05065 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Photograph signed Date: 1861-1865 ca. Pagination: 1 carte de visite Height: 10.1 cm, Width: 6 cm Order a Copy

Signed on mount "Yours truly."

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