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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.

Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Company to Col. Lucien F. Burpee

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02744.371 Author/Creator: Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Company Place Written: Hartford Type: Envelope Date: 25 March 1913 Pagination: 1 envelope ; 25 x 11.2 cm. Order a Copy

Written in pencil: Execution of Dr. Wright.

Burpee, Thomas F., fl. 1861-1865

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