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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.

Petersburgh Railroad Depot, Richmond, Va

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05137.271 Author/Creator: Place Written: New York Type: Photograph Date: 1861-1865 ca. Pagination: 1 stereocard Order a Copy

E. & H. T. Anthony & Co., publisher. Caption: "Ruins of a Locomotive in the Petersburgh railroad Depot, Richmond, Va." Inscription on verso: "Emma G. Griggs from my husband."

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