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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.

Wade, Benjamin Vignette Bust Portrait of Pall bearer for Lincoln

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05111.02.0046d Author/Creator: Wade, Benjamin Place Written: s.l. Type: Photograph Date: Pagination: 1 carte de visite 10.2 x 6.2 cm Order a Copy

Ink signature on recto "B.F. Wade" Imprint on recto "Brady Washington." Graphite inscription on verso "**Book." Photographers imprint on verso "Brady's National Photographic Portrait Galleries, Broadway & Tenth Street, New York, & No 352 Pennsylvania Av Washington D.C."

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