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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, Abraham (1809-1865) [President Abraham Lincoln appoints William W. Ross as an agent for the Pottowatomie Indians in Kansas]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC04206 Author/Creator: Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865) Place Written: Washington, D.C. Type: Printed document signed Date: 29 April 1861 Pagination: 1 p. ; 38 x 50.8 cm. Order a Copy

Countersigned by Caleb Blood Smith, Secretary of the Interior. Features embossed seal of the Department of the Interior.

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Smith, Caleb B. (Caleb Blood), 1808-1864
Ross, William Wallace, 1828-1889

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