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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.

Strohmeyer & Wyman Scene of the great Battle - the Hill, from below - San Juan, Cuba.

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC06449.13 Author/Creator: Strohmeyer & Wyman Place Written: San Juan, Cuba. Type: Photograph Date: 1899 Pagination: Stereoview. There is some publisher's printing on the right edge of the right image. Order a Copy

Four riders in a landscape of rough vegetation and scrubby trees. Two, immediately visible on dark horses, form a line from the left front to right midground of the picture. Two more, paler and harder to see, form an opposing diagonal.

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