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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.

Lincoln and McClellan in McClellan's Tent

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05137.237 Author/Creator: Place Written: Hartford, Conn. Type: Photograph Date: 1861-1865 ca. Pagination: 1 stereocard Order a Copy

Taylor & Huntington, Sole owners of the Original War Views, Hartford, Conn. Caption on back: "After the battle of Antietam, Sept. 17, 1862, President Lincoln visited the Army of the Potomac and this view shows the president an 'Little Mac' in McClellan's tent at Headquarters Army of the Potomac, October 4, 1862."

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