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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 of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC06391.09 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Photograph Date: [n.d.] Pagination: carte de visite Height: 10.8 cm, Width: 6.3 cm Order a Copy

Half length seated portrait of an older man in civilian dress, facing proper left. White mount.

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