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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.

City Point, VA, as it appeared when captured

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05111.01.0341 Author/Creator: Place Written: City Point, Virginia Type: Photograph Date: 1864/05 Pagination: 1 photograph 27.3 x 20.3 cm Order a Copy

Identified by inscription on recto. In the building in the immediate foreground shows heavy damage from shelling. A long line of wagons pass behind the building and are heading toward the wharves in the background. Several ships are visible in the background.

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