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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.

Interior of Fort Marion, St. Augustine, Fla

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05137.182 Author/Creator: Place Written: Jacksonville, Florida Type: Photograph Date: 1861-1865 ca. Pagination: 1 stereocard Order a Copy

Florida Photographic Printing and Publishing Company, Jacksonville, Fla. Shows interior of a fort with several pyramids of cannonballs on the ground, men in the square and on the fort walls.

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