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.

Stereographs & cartes, including Lincoln, McClellan, Gettysburg [decimalized]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC00242 Author/Creator: Place Written: Various Places Type: Header Record Date: 1865, 1890s Pagination: 21 photographs Order a Copy

Including the famous Brady posed image of Lincoln and McClellan having a conference at Antietam. At least one of the Gettysburg views is similar to GL# 244 and 2435, showing corpses.

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