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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.

Underwood & Underwood Luncheon among the forest giants - Presidential Party at the Big Tree Grove, Santa Cruz, Cal.

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC06449.16 Author/Creator: Underwood & Underwood Place Written: Santa Cruz, Cal. Type: Photograph Date: 1901 Pagination: Stereoview. Order a Copy

Formal party al fresco. Dignitaries occupy the middle ground, against a backdrop of trees. A table decorated with fruits, flowers, and wheat sheaves is in the foreground.

Underwood & Underwood
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

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