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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.

Unknown [Braxton Bragg]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC03918 Author/Creator: Unknown Place Written: [s.l.] Type: Photograph signed Date: 1861 Pagination: 1 photograph : b&w ; 25.5 x 20.5 cm Order a Copy

Signed on mount and trimmed at top of oval (affecting photograph paper but not touching image). Hair on top of head and on face has been badly retouched. Previously owned by General Joseph Wheeler

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