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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.

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05137.134 Author/Creator: Place Written: New York Type: Photograph Date: 1862 Pagination: 1 stereocard Order a Copy

E. & H. T. Anthony, publisher. Gardner's Gallery, Washington, D. C. Negative by James F. Gibson. Farnhold's house and the York River in the distance

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