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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.

Lincoln When President-Elect

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC08878.1212 Author/Creator: Place Written: Springfield, Illinois Type: Print Date: 1894 Pagination: 1 print : b&w Order a Copy

One print of a portrait of Abraham Lincoln from the H.W. Fay Collection. Photographer is unknown.

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

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