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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.

View of pontoon bridge across stream, in the rear of a group of Federal soldiers posed in forground looking across bridge.

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05111.01.0400 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Photograph Date: circa 1861-1865 Pagination: 1 photograph 10.7 x 12.7 cm Order a Copy

Three additional men pose in the middle of the bridge on the left side. The men all appear to be watching a group on the far side of the bridge, but it is unclear what this group is doing. Numeric notation: "V 3476." Stamp of the Century Co.

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