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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.

A general and four Federal officers posed in front of open tent.

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05111.01.0412 Author/Creator: Place Written: [s.l.] Type: Photograph Date: 1861-1865 ca. Pagination: 1 photograph 9.3 x 10.8 cm Order a Copy

A fifth man holding a mug poses in the tent's doorway. Inscription on verso: "Genl. Ordway Gardner Coll." Numeric notation: "280 VIII."

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