Our Collection

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.

Unidentified union officer rank obscured, standing full-length portrait

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05111.02.1086 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Photograph Date: Pagination: 1 carte de visite 9.7 x 6.2 cm Order a Copy

Thin red border on recto. The subject is standing alongside a window scene. Photographers imprint on verso: "From Fobell General Hospital, U.S.A. Portsmouth Grove, R. I. Address, 'J.A. Williams, Post Office Box 507, Newport, R.I.' The Negative of this Picure is preserved for two years."

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