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.

Various [Five cartes de visite and one miniature albumen portrait of Lincoln]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC07739 Author/Creator: Various Place Written: [s.l.] Type: Photograph Date: 1865-1880's ca. Pagination: 5 carte de visites + 1 stamp ; 10.1 x 6.1 cm. Order a Copy

Includes photos by Alexander Gardner, Mathew Brady, and Anthony Berger. Four of the photographs are from engravings. Miniature portrait measures 2.5 x 1.8 cm.

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