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.

Cartes de visite of Civil War era members of the U.S. Senate [decimalized]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05597 Author/Creator: Place Written: [various places] Type: Photograph signed Date: 1861-1865 ca. Pagination: 27 photographs 10 x 6.2 cm Order a Copy

(Additional congressional portraits in GLC 558, 7 cartes; and GLC 5111, cartes.)

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