Our Collection

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.

George C. Rockwood [Carte de visite portrait of Samuel F. B. Morse]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC01493 Author/Creator: George C. Rockwood Place Written: New York Type: Photograph signed Date: 1870 ca. Pagination: 1 carte de visite ; 11.2 x 7 cm. Order a Copy

Morse, Samuel Finley Breese, 1791-1872

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