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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.

Confederate battery on James River above Dutch Gap. [Howlett House, Trent's Reach] [April 1865 ca.]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05111.01.0380 Author/Creator: Place Written: Dutch Gap, Virginia Type: Photograph Date: 1865/04 ca. Pagination: 1 photograph 10.8 x 12.7 cm Order a Copy

Title from inscription on verso. A man wearing a dark frock coat sits on the base of a large canon [Brooke rifle] mounted on a swivel base. Numeric notation "XII 31."

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