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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.

Cooke & LeCount [Scenes of California]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09234.08 Author/Creator: Cooke & LeCount Place Written: San Francisco California Type: Broadside Date: 1815-1860 Pagination: 2 p. ; 27 x 21 cm. Order a Copy

Printed cartoon panel ("This is a true Picture of Callifornia I have seen it And experienced it myself T. Baxter") notation on the bottom Possibly reads Published by Cooke & LeCount

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