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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.

Lookout Mountain, Tenn

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05137.050 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Photograph Date: 1861-1865 ca. Pagination: 1 stereocard Order a Copy

Inscription of verso: "Point Lookout & Lookout Valley Walstons [?] Ridge and battle field." A Union officer stands on a rocky outcropping, his sword at his side, his back to the river valley below. A second soldier is reading to his right.

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