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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 vignette bust portrait of Henry S. Lane

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05597.14 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Photograph signed Date: 1861 ca. Pagination: 1 carte de visite 10 x 6.2 cm Order a Copy

Signed on front: "H.S. Lane, Ind." Another signed portrait in GLC 558.04. (Autograph also available in GLC 4224, autograph album.)

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