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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.

Headquarters of General Porter.

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05111.01.0767 Author/Creator: Place Written: [s.l.] Type: Photograph Date: 1861-1865 ca. Pagination: 1 photograph 10.2 x 12.1 cm Order a Copy

Inscription on verso: "HQ-Genl Porter." Small house on left side of image with a group of soldiers out front. In the distance, there appears a large encampment. Numeric notation on verso: "41."

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