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Civil War photograph collection
[graphic].
1861-ca. 1900, bulk 1861-1865.
180 photographs :
112 albumen on carte de visite mount ; 44 albumen on stereograph mount ; 20 albumen ; 3 gelatin silver ; 1 albumen mounted on cardboard ;
various sizes, most 8 x 11 cm (2.75 x4 in.) or larger, some as large as 38 x 46 cm (18 x 14 in.)
Organized by size and within arranged by identified and unidentified photographers. Photographs by identified photographers arranged by negative number or alphabetically by title. Photographs by unidentified photographer arranged alphabetically by title.
Several images in the collection copyrighted by Barnard & Gibson, Mathew Brady, and Alexander Gardner.
Stamp of Philadelphia distributor, McAllister & Brother, 728 Chestnut Street, pasted on verso of two of the cartes de visite in collection.
Photographers include George Barnard, Mathew Brady, James Gibson, Alexander Gardner, Timothy O'Sullivan and Philadelphia photographers Levy & Cohen.
Publishers include E. & H. T. Anthony, Alexander Gardner, and Levy & Cohen.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Date inferred from content.
Collection of Civil War photographic views predominately of cartes de visite and stereographs from Levy & Cohen's "Views of the Rebel Capital and its Environs"; Mathew Brady's "Album Gallery" or "Photographic Views of the War"; Alexander Gardner's "Illustrations of the War"; and E. & H. T. Anthony's "War for the Union" series. Majority of the photographs depict battlefields; military camps, fortifications, headquarters, depots and ruins; historic sites in Washington D.C.; Virginia and Georgia during Sherman's Expedition to South Carolina; the Virginia campaign from the Battle of Bull Run to the evacuation of Manassas; General McClellan's 1862 campaign on the Virginia Peninsula; General Pope's 1862 Campaign in Virginia; General McClellan's 1862 Campaign in Maryland; General Burnside and Hooker's 1862-1863 Campaign in Virginia; and General Grant's 1864 Overland Campaign. Images also show hospitals, prisons, battle mortalities, and cemeteries. Collection also includes a small number of unidentified views showing ruins of a battery; portraits of soldiers in formation and at leisure; soldiers maintaining cannons at batteries; a birds-eye view of city ruins; views of warehouses occupied by the military, possibly used as hospitals; and a camp scene, including soldiers' laundry drying on a haystack.
Also contains a reproduction of a view of soldiers crossing a river by artist Alexander Lawrie; a carte de visite reproduction of a view of Camp Meigs, Philadelphia, Pa; and fourteen cartes de visite portraits of military officers issued as part of Brady's "National Portrait Gallery" as well as group and camp life portraits of officers, soldiers, and servants at Camp Cameron, D.C., Camp Winfield Scott, Foller's Farm, and Brandy Station in Va. One of Camp Cameron portraits includes an African American boy shining shoes. Three photographs of Civil War monuments in honor of the Battle of Gettysburg, including two monuments dedicated to the 28th PA. Regiment Infantry and a monument dedicated to C.S.A. Longstreet's Corps, Hood's Division, Law's Brigade Alabama infantries, also included with the collection.
Views show the Georgetown Aqueduct, National Soldiers Cemetery, and the March 5, 1865 second inauguration of President Lincoln in Washington D.C.; Fort Sumter during battle, in ruins, and during the April 14, 1865 flag raising in honor of its recapture by the Union; encampments at Aquia Creek, Va. and Fredericksburg, Va.; the tomb of Washington's mother at Fredericksburg, Va.; cityscape views, and Rappahannock Bridge during and after Burnside's 1862 expedition to N.C.; Union artillery batteries near Yorktown, Va. (1862); Belle Plain, Va., including the Camp of the 150th Pennsylvania Infantry (1863) and Quartermaster Depot (1864); North Anna River, Va. (1864) including Quarles Mill, Jericho Mill and 50th New York Infantry engineers building a road on the south bank; City Point, Va., the Union supply center during the command of General Grant, including Grant's headquarters, the railroad depot, docks, and landing; Union mortalities from the Battle of Antietam and Battle of Gettysburg; Georgia, including the ruins of Union Fort Pulaski (1862), Confederate Fort Atlanta under Union control (1864), and the dismantling of Fort McAllister following General Sherman's 1864 raid of Savannah; the 1865 ruins of Charleston, Va. including the South Battery and Cheeves Battery; the ruins of Richmond following the Siege of Petersburg (1865), including Ballard's Hotel, Mills Hall, Libby Prison, the residence of General Lee, the Irish neighborhood known as the Rockets, and the burnt district. Views also include soldiers; civilians; camp hands; refugees, including African American contraband; bridges, wagon caravans; cannons; tents; log cabins; naval vessels, including gunboats, steamers, and frigates; forestry; marshland; and horses.
Names of the photographers supplied by the original negatives in the Civil War Photographs Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Majority of collection originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War Views, Places, and Events. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886.
Barnard & Gibson and Brady negative numbers include 1; 100; 102?; 268; 279; 282; 289; 295; 297; 302-305; 307; 308; 309(variant); 311-312; 314(variant); 317-319; 321; 323; 326; 329; 351; 355; 356(variant); 357(variant); 359?; 360-361; 363-372; 377-380; 382-384; 388; 423-424; 427; 449; 481; 553; 584; 637; 676; 679; 700; 753; 794; 795?; and 941.
Levy & Cohen negative numbers include 453-459; 461(variant); 462; 464-469; and 488.
Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War.
Description revised 2021.
Access points revised 2021.
Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Lincoln, Abraham,
1809-1865
Inauguration.
African American children.
67117
African American men.
67138
African American women.
67170
African Americans.
67175
Antietam, Battle of, Md., 1862.
67617
Burnside's Expedition to North Carolina, 1862.
Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863.
72919
Mills
Virginia.
lctgm
North Anna River, Battle of, Va., 1864.
Sherman's March to the Sea.
79965
Fort Sumter (Charleston, S. C.)
72354
Georgia
Pictorial works.
Petersburg (Va.)
History
Siege, 1864-1865
84389
United States
History
Civil War, 1861-1865
Battlefields.
81765
United States
History
Civil War, 1861-1865
Casualties
Union.
United States
History
Civil War, 1861-1865
Cemeteries.
United States
History
Civil War, 1861-1865
Destruction & pillage.
United States
History
Civil War, 1861-1865
Equipment & supplies.
United States
History
Civil War, 1861-1865
Military facilities.
United States
History
Civil War, 1861-1865
Military life.
United States
History
Civil War, 1861-1865
Military personnel.
United States
History
Civil War, 1861-1865
Monuments.
United States
History
Civil War, 1861-1865
Transportation.
81810
Virginia
Pictorial works.
Washington (D.C.)
Pictorial works.
Albumen prints
1860-1870.
gmgpc
Cartes de visite
1860-1870.
gmgpc
Gelatin silver prints
1890-1900.
gmgpc
Group portraits
1860-1870.
gmgpc
Stereographs
1860-1870.
gmgpc
Women.
82663
SP3
African American History
SP10
Philadelphia artists.
Barnard, George N.,
1819-1902,
photographer.
29261
Brady, Mathew B.,
approximately 1823-1896,
photographer.
Gardner, Alexander,
1821-1882,
photographer.
5452
Gibson, James F.,
1828-,
photographer.
O'Sullivan, Timothy H.
1840-1882,
photographer.
Levy & Cohen,
photographer.
Printer
Barnard & Gibson,
copyright holder.
Printer
Brady, Mathew,
approximately 1823-1896,
copyright holder.
Printer
Gardner, Alexander,
1821-1882,
copyright holder.
Printer
McAllister & Brother,
distributor.
Printer
Gardner, Alexander,
1821-1882,
publisher.
Printer
E. & H. T. Anthony,
publisher.
Printer
Levy & Cohen,
publisher.
Provenance
McAllister, John A.
(John Allister),
1822-1896,
collector.
Imprint
UNITED STATES.
1861-1900.
Library Company of Philadelphia
PRINT
PRINT
Small Civil War Photograph Collection [(11)1540.F.(various); (12)1540.F.(various); 5779.F.(various); P.2006.1 & 28; P.8532.1-26; P.9877.1-29; P.9878.1-14]
Library Company of Philadelphia
PRINT
PRINT
Civil War photograph collection [5779.F.(various)]
(11)1540.F.(various)
(12)1540.F.(various)
P.2006.1
P.2006.28
5779.F.(various)
P.8532.1-29
P.9877.1-29
P.9878.1-14
11-1540-f-11b
11-1540-f-21c
11-1540-f-21d
11-1540-f-22d
12-1540-f-4c
5779-f-2c
5779-f-2f
5779-f-2i
5779-f-4i
5779-f-4j
5779-f-4n
5779-f-6a
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5779-f-8q
5779-f-10h
5779-f-10k
5779-f-10m
5779-f-12b
5779-f-12c
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p-9877-2
p-9877-3
p-9877-4
p-9877-5
p-9877-6
p-9877-7
p-9877-8
p-9877-9
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p-9877-13
p-9877-14
p-9877-15
p-9877-16
p-9877-17
p-9877-18
p-9877-19
p-9877-20
p-9877-21
p-9877-22
p-9877-23
p-9877-24
p-9877-25
p-9877-26
p-9877-27
p-9877-28
p-9877-29
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UNITED STATES.
1861-1900.
Imprint
Brady, Mathew,
approximately 1823-1896,
copyright holder.
Barnard & Gibson,
copyright holder.
Gardner, Alexander,
1821-1882,
copyright holder.
McAllister & Brother,
distributor.
Gardner, Alexander,
1821-1882,
publisher.
E. & H. T. Anthony,
publisher.
McAllister, John A.
1822-1896,
collector.
Levy & Cohen,
publisher.