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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 Young slave girl seated in white dress with black lace

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05111.02.1047 Author/Creator: Unknown Place Written: s.l. Type: Photograph Date: Pagination: 1 carte de visite 9.8 x 6.1 cm Order a Copy

Graphite inscription on verso "Cora Born Jun 25 1861" "slave girl." Cancelled orange two-cent tax stamp on verso.

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