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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.

Camp Life, Army of the Potomac -- Taking It Easy (copy 2)

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05137.216 Author/Creator: Place Written: New York Type: Photograph Date: 1861-1865 ca. Pagination: 1 stereocard Order a Copy

E. & H. T. Anthony & Co., publisher. A copy of GLC05137.202, but without label on front.

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