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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.

Gibson and Staff Burnside Bridge at Antietam

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05111.01.0853 Author/Creator: Gibson and Staff Place Written: Sharpsburg, Md. Type: Photograph Date: 1862 Pagination: 8.6 x 17.8 cm Order a Copy

Image of a bridge over a stream with barrels floating in it. Inscription on verso: "Photographic Incidents of the War. No. 584. Burnside Bridge, Antietam, Looking up stream."

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