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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.

Interior View Showing the Northeast Angle

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05137.086 Author/Creator: Place Written: Charleston, South Carolina Type: Photograph Date: 1861/04/14 Pagination: 1 stereocard Order a Copy

Quinby & Co.,Charleston, S.C., publisher. Extensive caption describes Gen. Wade Hampton and Rev. Bishop Lynch and others standing by a 10-inch Columbiad gun.

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