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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.

Catlett Rail Station, Virginia, with Federal soldiers lounging on top of box cars next to a building with a group of soldiers on porch.

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05111.01.0771 Author/Creator: Place Written: [s.l.] Type: Photograph Date: 1862 ca. Pagination: 1 photograph 9.5 x 12.1 cm Order a Copy

Inscription on verso: "Catlett Station, Va." Numeric notation on verso: "54."

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