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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.

Happy New Year, 1869

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC08284.033 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Sketch Date: 1861-1877 Pagination: 1 sketch : b&w Height: 14.5 cm, Width: 8.5 cm Order a Copy

Man and woman at a party.

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