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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.

Camp in the Woods at Cold Harbor, Va

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05137.176 Author/Creator: Place Written: New York Type: Photograph Date: 1864/06/06 Pagination: 1 stereocard Order a Copy

E. & H. T. Anthony & Co., publisher. The Gallery of Alex Gardner, Photographer to the Army of the Potomac, Washington, D.C. Negative by T.H. O'Sullivan. Taken June 6, 1864. Shows scared woods with two soldiers barely visible in the woods and clearing.

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