Our Collection

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.

Ruins of former headquarters of Gen. John Magruder's with seven men standing in road and a pile of rubble in immediate foreground.

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05111.01.0794 Author/Creator: Place Written: [s.l.] Type: Photograph Date: 1863-1865 ca. Pagination: 1 photograph 9.5 x 12.1 cm Order a Copy

Inscription on verso: "Genl McGruder's H.Q." Numeric notation on verso: "146."

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