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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.

Whitechurch, Robert (1814-ca. 1880) Engraving of George G. Meade

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02455.27 Author/Creator: Whitechurch, Robert (1814-ca. 1880) Place Written: s.l. Type: Print Date: 1861-1877 Pagination: 1 engraving : b&w ; 21 x 14 cm. Order a Copy

Photograph by F. Gutekunst. "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1866 by Rice Rutter & Co., in the clerks office of the District Court of the United States in the eastern district of Pennsylvania."

Meade, George Gordon, 1815-1872
Whitechurch, Robert, 1814-ca. 1880
Gutekunst, Frederick, 1831-1917

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