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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.

View of homes and tent.

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05111.01.0406 Author/Creator: Place Written: [s.l.] Type: Photograph Date: 1861-1865 ca. Pagination: 1 photograph 9.2 x 11.3 cm Order a Copy

Image taken from an elevation. Trees in the foreground with buildings behind them. A large, two story building in the center of the image has a balcony above the entryway. A tent is visible on the far right side of the image near what appears to be railroad tracks. Other buildings are behind or to either side of the large two story building. Numeric notation: "834 I"

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