Our Collection

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.

Manuscript map of Gettysburg battlefield

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09181 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Map Date: July 1863 Pagination: Order a Copy

With annotations describing the battle and its aftermath. "Perfect desolation everything shot away dead reables [sic] & horse trees bushes & fence & posts all gone a perfect valley of death."

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