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.

Bureau of Printing and Engraving [Steel-plate engraving of Ulysses S. Grant]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC07808.047 Author/Creator: Bureau of Printing and Engraving Place Written: Washington, D.C. Type: Photograph Date: no date Pagination: 1 engraving ; 20.3 x 15.2 cm. Order a Copy

Engraving of Grant as he appears on a version of the $50 bill.

Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885

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