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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.

Lincoln's Funeral parade at the Treasury Building, Washington D.C. April 19, 1865.

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05111.01.0703 Author/Creator: Place Written: Washington D.C. Type: Photograph Date: 1865/04/19 Pagination: 1 photograph 10.2 x 11.4 cm Order a Copy

Inscription of verso: "North end of Court of Review" [sic]. Numeric notation on verso: "167." Image taken from apparently a second-story height, as the roof of another building is in the foreground.

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