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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.

Fitchburg Railroad Company Composite images of railroad tracks going around a curve

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05235.09 Author/Creator: Fitchburg Railroad Company Place Written: East Deerfield, Mass. Type: Photograph Date: 1893 ca. Pagination: 5 cyanotypes. Order a Copy

Five copies (three double exposures) of a curve in the rail line near the Deerfield River.

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