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.

[A sailboat on a wide lake with a row of trees on the horizon]

Order a pdf of this item here.

Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC06698.08 Author/Creator: Place Written: Various Places Type: Photograph Date: 1880 ca. Pagination: 1 photograph Height: 24.5 cm, Width: 19.3 cm Order a Copy

Photograph of a sailboat on a wide lake with a row of trees on the horizon. An illegible note written near the top right of the photograph.

Citation Guidelines for Online Resources