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.

Album of abolitionist cartes de visite

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC06391 Author/Creator: Place Written: [s.l.] Type: Photograph Date: 1864 ca. Pagination: 1 v. (46 carte de visites) Order a Copy

Includes Sojourner Truth, H. B. Stowe, John Brown and William L. Garrison.

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