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.

Article: "New-York Tribune . . . For Fulton Monument." Re: elections of officers for the Robert Fulton Memorial Association.

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC06343.278 Author/Creator: Place Written: [s.l.] Type: Document Date: 1906/05/30 Pagination: 1 p. 36 cm x 25 cm Order a Copy

Executive committee includes, among others: W.H. Fletcher, John Jacob Astor, General F.D. Grant, Samuel L. Clemens [Mark Twain], and Colonel H.O.S. Heistand [pictured].

Ward, John Quincy Adams, 1830-1910
Dewey, George, 1837-1917
Fletcher, W.H., fl. 1906
Grant, Frederick Dent, 1850-1912
Clemens, Samuel Langhorne, 1835-1910
Heistand, Colonel H.O.S
Astor, John Jacob, 1864-1912

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