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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.

Abraham Lincoln, vignette [ambrotype], Burleigh [cabinet card]. 1858 ca.

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05111.01.0637 Author/Creator: Place Written: [s.l.] Type: Photograph Date: 1858 ca. Pagination: 1 photograph 16.5 x 10.8 cm Order a Copy

Inscription on verso: "For Payces copied from ambrotype made at Pittsfield Ills 1858." Vignette portrait from 1858 ambryotype. Printed below image: "Burleigh Main St. Jerseyville, Ills."

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