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.

Civil War Union patriotic covers

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC08414 Author/Creator: Place Written: Various Places Type: Header Record Date: 1861-1865 Pagination: 8 envelopes Order a Copy

Including Ellsworth, Anderson and Baltimore

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