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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.

O'Sullivan Horse carcasses on Cedar Mountain battlefield, Virginia, with two Federal soldiers surveying the carnage.

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05111.01.0773 Author/Creator: O'Sullivan Place Written: Cedar Mountain, Virginia Type: Photograph Date: 9 August 1862 ca. Pagination: 1 photograph 9.5 x 12.1 cm Order a Copy

Inscription on verso: "dead horses-Cedar Mountain Battlefield." Numeric notation on verso: "94."

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