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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.

Moore, Henry P., 1833-1911 Live Oak & Palmetto trees at Elliott's, Hilton Head, S.C

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05140.01.06 Author/Creator: Moore, Henry P., 1833-1911 Place Written: Hilton Head, South Carolina Type: Photograph Date: 1862-1863 Pagination: 1 photograph ; 26.6 x 34.5 cm. Order a Copy

Four military men posed around a house. One man leaning on tree in foreground, two men leaning against the side of the house and one man seated on the stoop.

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